Austins Self Service Guest House
Self-catering base for an early kickoff
About this hotel
The pitch here is simple: a kitchen of your own on a weekend when hotel breakfast rooms fill up with the same crowd trying to beat a lunchtime kickoff. Fans travelling in a group can cook rather than queue, then walk out into the city centre loop with plenty of time before the road closures make the last stretch to the ground a slow shuffle. The rooms stay basic, no bar downstairs and no restaurant to fall back on, but the location inside the walkable core means the self-catering trade-off rarely costs you time on the walk in. It suits a group booking who cares more about flexibility than finish, arriving with their own food and leaving with the same short walk to the stadium that the pricier hotels nearby charge more for.
- Self-catering kitchen
- City centre location
- Group-friendly
Our take
This suits self-sufficient groups and families who would rather cook than queue for hotel breakfast on a Saturday morning before a lunchtime kickoff. Fans wanting a bar or restaurant on site should look elsewhere on this list, since Austins keeps to the basics of a kitchen and a bed. The 4.1 rating from over sixteen hundred reviews suggests the trade-off works for most who choose it.
- Bring your own breakfast supplies, there is no dining room to fall back on here.
- Book early for a group stay, self-catering rooms like this go fast on Six Nations weekends.
- Check in with time to spare before an early kickoff, there is no front desk shortcut here.
Why we love it
- Kitchen for your own pre-match breakfast
- Inside the walkable city centre loop
- Good value for a group booking
- Straightforward self-catering setup
Why guests love itWe booked this as a group of six travelling in for a Wales match and the kitchen meant nobody fought over the hotel breakfast room the next morning before an early kickoff. The rooms are basic, no getting around that, but the walk into the city centre loop was short enough that we did not mind trading polish for a place to cook and split the cost across the group.