Ashland · Hotel shortlist
The best hotels near Shakespeare Festival
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These are my five favourites in Ashland, out of the 17 that qualified. I read what other travellers scored them before I picked, so the order follows the guests, all five scoring 4.6.
All five are inside 1.0 km of Shakespeare Festival, so you can walk it.
Highest rated of the five
Winchester Inn
★★★★★4.6 from 219 reviews
Winchester Inn comes out on top of this list, and not narrowly: 4.6 from 219 guest reviews is a score that holds up at that volume, which is the whole test here. A perfect ten from nine people does not beat it.
It is a 5 star property, found under poi and around $490 a night on the dates we checked.
17 hotels in Ashland qualified for this list and five made it. The McCall House Boutique Hotel is the one I would book if the first is full.
Why it works for this trip
- Air conditioningthe one that decides a summer trip
- Restaurantdinner downstairs on the night you land
- Bara drink without going back out
- Family roomscots and larger rooms rather than a squeeze
- Parkinga real consideration if you are driving in
All five, ranked
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1
Winchester Inn
★★★★★4.6 from 219 reviews
300 m from Shakespeare Festival, about a 4 minute walk
- Restaurant
- Bar
- Parking
- Pet friendly
- Kid friendly
- Air conditioning
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2The McCall House Boutique Hotel
★★★★★4.8 from 123 reviews
200 m from Shakespeare Festival, about a 2 minute walk
- Parking
- Air conditioning
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3Abigail's Bed and Breakfast Inn
★★★★★4.9 from 100 reviews
1.0 km from Shakespeare Festival, about a 12 minute walk
- Parking
- Air conditioning
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4Chanticleer Inn
★★★★★4.9 from 110 reviews
600 m from Shakespeare Festival, about a 8 minute walk
- Parking
- Pet friendly
- Air conditioning
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5Ashland Creek Inn
★★★★★4.8 from 58 reviews
300 m from Shakespeare Festival, about a 4 minute walk
- Parking
- Kid friendly
- Accessible
How this list was put together
17 Ashland hotels qualify for this list. We ranked them on guest rating first and on how close they are to Shakespeare Festival second, then took the top five.
Two things decide these lists. The first is my own time in the city: every hotel on this page is one I have stayed in, walked into and looked at, or gone back to check. That is where the shortlist starts, and it is why some well reviewed places are not on it.
The second is the numbers, and those are what set the order. The rating and review count come from the big travel sites, pooled through Google, so a score here reflects Expedia, Booking, Hotels.com and the rest together rather than any one of them. I also read the review breakdown by topic, which is where the figures on service, breakfast and location come from. Hotels with fewer than forty reviews are left out altogether, because a rating that thin is not a rating. No more than two come from one neighbourhood.
What I do not do is move anyone up the order. The ranking is the guest score, highest first, and nobody pays to be on the list.
Distances are straight lines from published coordinates, so the real walk is a little longer. Amenities are as recorded by Google Hotels and can change without notice. Rates are an indicative nightly figure for a midweek autumn stay, not a quote. Check the booking page before you commit.
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