Is The Crown & Horns pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much does it cost to stay at The Crown & Horns?

As of 2 Nov 2025, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at The Crown & Horns on 6 Nov 2025 start from €88.92, including taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

How much is parking at The Crown & Horns?

Self-parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at The Crown & Horns?

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; check-in end time: 9:00 PM.

Where is The Crown & Horns located?

Situated in Newbury, this inn is 0.3 mi (0.5 km) from East Ilsley and within 6 miles (10 km) of Chilton Field Wetland and Chilton Fields. The Library and Pickavance Lecture Theatre are also within 6 miles (10 km).

The Crown & Horns Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

10/10 Excellent

Lauren

19 Jun 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

A very warm welcome from a friendly team. The food here is great. Highly recommended to anyone walking the Ridgeway!

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

8/10 Good

Andrew

1 Jun 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

The Crown and Horns is a lovely little pub close to the Harwell Science & Innovation campus. Rooms are small, but clean and affordable. The pub itself is cosy and welcoming.

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025

8/10 Good

Mark

24 Jun 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

A quiet pub, one of two in the village ( no other shops) . If coming down from the north or west UK it would be a perfect final stop before dropping the car off at Heathrow Airport . Comfortable and clean rooms upstairs. The shower recess was a little tight for room. Very good food but eat early

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Sheran

13 Oct 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Over rated. Dangerous stairs. Very loud water pump in bathroom. Ordinary bed - ended up in the middle of the bed all night. Little light in the room. Only one bedside light. Badly placed furniture & no where to put anything. Cosy bar & dining room that was well laid out. Staff were very good.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

8/10 Good

Keith

22 Feb 2024

Liked: Staff & service

The property is and the game building work, so a lot of restriction of where you can walk. I’ve booked a double room ended up with a twin bedded room disabled there was no mugs or cups of coffee hadn’t been replenished. Went to put the rubbish in the bin and it is totally full. I don’t think the room has been cleaned properly. There was coffee stains on the bedside cabinet and running down the front would’ve been a nice place ivan least you problems

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

Philip

22 Jul 2024

Liked: Staff & service

I am going to be kind here, and take into account that the Manager, a very nice & polite young man (named Zak??), advised us upon our arrival that he had only just started running this pub in the past 2 weeks. Apparently his boss had just bought the place after it had been "run down for a while". With that in mind..... The good points were that the staff were very friendly and helpful. We were supposed to book in by 9pm, but because i finished work later than anticipated, and we had to drive from Essex, we didn't arrive at the pub until 22:30. The pub rang us just after 9pm to check if we were still coming, and said it was no problem if we arrived late. Once we finally got there, we were told that there was no breakfast available, despite us being advised on the website that cooked breakfast was available Zak said that in compensation for no breakfast, they had put small individual boxes of cereal out, on top of a bar fridge, with cold milk, orange & apple juice. The choice of cereal was limited to Corn Flakes, Rice Crispies & Special K. The room was smaller than i expected, but was ok for 1 night. The day we arrived was very very unseasonally hot. 32°! So, consequentially, our room was very hot. It was very warm in the room. Too hot to sleep. The addition of a fan would have helped. All the windows had wire stays fitted to them, to stop guests opening the windows too wide. Thankfully our window stay was broken, so we had our window wide open! No regular coffee in room.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Andrew

1 Jun 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

The Crown and Horns has always been a good choice for me to stay. Clean, friendly, affordable.

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Andrew

1 Jun 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

The Crown and Horns has always been a good choice for me to stay. Clean, friendly, affordable.

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

6/10 Okay

Matthew

21 May 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Crown & Horns

Wifi was shockingly bad. Only limited food available in the restaurant as in yku had a choice of about 4 meals. No cider on draft . My towel smelt like it had been dried with the kitchen exraction fan as it had a distinct amell of chip fryers...

Stayed 1 night in May 2025

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

28 Jan 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Disliked: Room comfort

A really lovely place with a few issues this time

I've stayed before and it's a really lovely pub, friendly service, nice grub and above all a really comfy bed. I was a bit disappointed this time though because a few things have slipped and whilst small they amounted to a slightly uncomfortable stay. Firstly the room was freezing cold, like a fridge on arrival as the radiator was off. It became apparent that this is because the windows have gaps around them even when closed (it's a lovely creaky old building so to be expected but this was extreme). I managed to whack the radiator on and tried clogging the gaps with the towel and a cushion which improved things. Some curtains would have helped rather than creaky blinds. Second issue was that whilst there were nice biccies and toiletries there was no milk! I remembered from before that you have to walk down the hallway and a flight of stairs to fill-up from the fridge but there was none here either. I was in my bedclothes by this point so not keen on going to the bar to request some which meant my evening cuppa was cancelled. No milk in the morning either. There is a cafetière to raise your hopes but no coffee to put in it. The rooms also have no cosy lighting, only the main light and some cold LED reading lights so it's a bit all or nothing. They have 'do not disturb' signs but nowhere to attach these to the outer door. It would be lovely if these issues could be resolved as it would really be a top-notch place with a bit more attention to detail. Thank you.

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

8/10 Good

Andrew

2 Nov 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Solid choice

Second time staying here. Rooms are clean and efficient, staff are friendly, and the pub is cozy.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

6/10 Okay

Jason

21 Jul 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice but no breakfast available!!

Nice place but we were advused tgere was a continbreakfast available tye following mornibg when we checked in, and ut also stated tgat breakfast was available for an additional charge. However, when we asked the foloowibg mornibg qe were told that there was no breakfast available. The room was nice but lots of spiders, maybe down to the time of year.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Clare

16 May 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

A bit noisy and very light

Just a little bit noisy from the beer garden. Need earplugs. Also need curtains at the window, it was very bright with just blinds.

Stayed 1 night in May 2024

8/10 Good

EMMANUEL

11 Mar 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Nice little place for a night

The staff is really nice and helpful, it is not the best hotel in the world, but it is clean, comfortable and welcoming for a night stop on business trip. The food is good, at pub standard, the only missing part is a breakfast more elaborate. It is the little place like that that makes you love the countryside of Britain

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Harald

27 Aug 2023

Liked: Staff & service

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Nice Staff, poor cleaning and loud neighbours

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

John

17 Jul 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good location

Great location, perfect for what we wanted, comfortable. and the chef went out of his way to cook a full breakfast, (boy was it full) on the first day, although they do not apparently offer this normally, on the second day we had to just have cereals and no service was offered, no coffee or toast, which was a shame as it took the edge off. But overall, good

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

23 Apr 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Lovely old inn with annex accommodation cosy and adequate. Bar and restaurant excellent in evening, but no breakfast available.

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

Paul

4 Apr 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

A couple of minor issues but otherwise very good.

Very friendly and helpful staff. High end Bosch coffee maker in my room but I needed a demonstration to learn how to make it work (it made excellent coffee for a machine). Breakfast is cereal they give you the evening before: there's no cooked breakfast. Small hotel and no one is on-site in the morning for check-out: you leave your key in the lock. Dinner was good. Took three attempts to get the wifi to work and you have to sign up with sky to get it (it's free but I dislike handing over an email address or setting up any kind of login).

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

22 Dec 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Pleasant rooms and a nice pub

I've stopped here before, a double room with the usual facilities attached to a busy, local rural village pub that does good food. The rooms I've stopped in had compact bathrooms, with nice walk in showers, on this occasion the bathroom was very cold (heating wasn't up to it). I would stop here again.

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

21 Dec 2021

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort

Overnight stay.

Cosy for a one night stay, excellent food. Powerful shower. Ceiling above shower could do with repainting. Coffee machines in rooms were good.

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

16 Oct 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Compact yet well presented

A compact yet well presented double room adjacent to a nice compact pub, with larger outside area, with a compact car park. Unfortunately, breakfast was only available from 09:00hrs onwards but the evening meal was excellent.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

17 Oct 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

The staff here are exceptional.

Very accommodating and friendly. The staff at this hotel are a credit to the industry.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

16 Jul 2020

Liked: Cleanliness

pleasant staff

Rooms were clean Small rooms shower For small people no room Would expect breakfast for £84 We travel all over UK Ireland It a £60 room Don’t go in room 4 cooler on and off all night

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2020

8/10 Good

Matthew

29 Jan 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice little pub

Nice little pub with few rooms attached. Will stay again if in the area.

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

8/10 Good

James

5 Jul 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice country hotel

Nice hotel friendly staff and good food. Narrow foot space on the bed, may be helpful to move around the room a bit? Would stay again.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

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