Accommodation

The Winchester Hotel offers 96 tastefully designed and comfortably furnished, air conditioned bedrooms all with flat screen freeview TVs, high speed complimentary Wi-Fi, spacious work desks, refrigerator, laptop safes, and iron / ironing board. All rooms are en-suite (private bathroom facilities) and are either double or twin rooms (2 single beds). A limited number of family rooms are available for children under 12.

Accommodation is included in the residential fee from Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 September. Evening meals are also included. If you require additional nights' accommodation, please e-mail claire.garland@iop.org.  

Winchester's central location ensures there are a wide variety of bed and breakfasts, self-catering and other hotels close by for any participants wishing to stay off site. Please e-mail claire.garland@iop.org to discuss a non-residential fee.

Information for residential participants

For residential participants, accommodation is included from Tuesday 3-Friday 6 September (3 nights) on a dinner, bed and breakfast basis at Winchester Hotel and Spa. Accommodation is on a single occupancy basis, unless double occupancy has been booked.

Check-in is available from 14:00 on the scheduled day of arrival from the main reception. Reception is manned 24 hours a day. On the day of departure, please vacate your room by 11:00 ensuring all personal items are removed. Luggage can be stored in Chaucer room 2 located on the ground floor. Please collect a label from reception as you will need to return this to reclaim your luggage.

On arrival, the hotel will ask for a credit or debit card to take an authorisation for any extras. This will allow you to charge items to your room. If you do not wish to leave a credit card, please notify the hotel.

In order to ensure check in to the hotel is as smooth as possible, please email conferences@iop.org confirming your expected arrival time at the hotel.

During the conference, breakfast will be served in the Hutton's brassiere from 07:00-09:30. Breakfast is either continental or a full English breakfast with tea and coffee. If you want breakfast delivered to your room, there is a tray service charge of £3.50. For participants extending their stay, breakfast on Saturday and Sunday is from 08:00-10:30.

Each bedroom is air conditioned and all come with flat screen freeview TVs, high speed complimentary Wi-Fi, spacious work desks, refrigerator, laptop safes, and iron / ironing board. All rooms are en-suite (private bathroom facilities) and are either double or twin rooms (2 single beds).

The hotel is generally very secure; however, we would recommend you lock your bedroom door when leaving your room and use the safe in the room to store personal items.