The Kingfisher Pub and Hotel

4.0 star property
your current months are January, 2025 and February, 2025.
January 2025
February 2025

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Exterior
Serves breakfast, dinner and brunch
Front of property - evening/night
Superior Double Room | Bathroom
Junior Double Room

Reviews

8.6 out of 10

Excellent

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Room service
  • Pet-friendly
  • Breakfast available
  • 24/7 front desk
  • Parking included

Explore the area

Map
Cardington Road, Bedford, England, MK44 3SA
  • Priory Country Park
    20 min walk
  • A1 Foods
    9 min walk
  • St Johns Station
    9 min drive
  • London (LTN-Luton)
    37 min drive

Room options

Standard Double Room

  • 22 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed OR 1 Twin Bed

Junior Double Room

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed

Executive Double or Twin Room, 1 King Bed

  • 22 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

Luxury Double Room

  • River view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

Superior Double Room

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

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About the area

Bedford

With a stay at The Kingfisher Pub and Hotel in Bedford, you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Woburn Safari Park and Priory Country Park. .This hotel is 1.1 mi (1.8 km) from Oasis Beach Pool and 2.2 mi (3.6 km) from St. Paul's Church.

What's nearby

  • Priory Country Park - 20 min walk
  • Bedford Park - 6 min drive
  • Shuttleworth Collection - 13 min drive
  • Wrest Park - 18 min drive
  • Santa Pod Raceway - 29 min drive

Getting around

  • Kempston Hardwick Station - 7 min drive
  • Luton Airport (LTN) - 37 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪McDonald's - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪Pizza Hut - ‬3 min drive
  • ‪Toby Carvery - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Wendover Caffe - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪Costa Coffee - ‬3 min drive

About this property

The Kingfisher Pub and Hotel

Hotel in Bedford with a 24-hour front desk and a restaurant
The Kingfisher Pub and Hotel offers 49 accommodations with safes and coffee/tea makers. This Bedford hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access, with a speed of 50+ Mbps.

Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones.

Make yourself at home in one of the 49 guestrooms. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access. This hotel also features a picnic area and a banquet hall.
Satisfy your appetite for dinner or brunch at the hotel's bar/lounge, Kingfisher Pub, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Continental breakfasts are served on weekdays from 6:30 AM to 10:00 AM and on weekends from 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM for a fee.
Featured amenities include express check-out, a 24-hour front desk, and a library. This hotel has 3 meeting rooms available for events. Free self parking is available onsite.
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge on weekdays between 6:30 AM and 10:00 AM and on weekends between 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Kingfisher Pub - This pub serves breakfast, brunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Languages

English, French, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • In-room WiFi speed: 50+ Mbps
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking and van parking available

Food and drink

  • Continental breakfast available for a fee 6:30 AM–10:00 AM on weekdays and 7:30 AM–10:30 AM on weekends: GBP 15 per person
  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 bar
  • Room service available
  • Coffee/tea in a common area

Restaurants on site

  • Kingfisher Pub

Things to do

  • Golf

Family friendly

  • Soundproofed rooms
  • Travel cot

Conveniences

  • Banquet hall
  • Library

Guest services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • No housekeeping

Business services

  • Meeting rooms - 3

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • Picnic area
  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have any requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • This property does not have any lifts
  • Assistive listening devices available
  • Step-free path to entrance
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Well-lit path to entrance
  • Wheelchair-accessible lounge
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking
  • 8 on-site accessible parking spaces
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
  • Wheelchair-accessible public bathroom
  • Wheelchair-accessible restaurant
  • Wheelchair-accessible van parking

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bed sheets
  • Heating

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hairdryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shampoo
  • Shower/bath combination
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels
  • Toothbrush and toothpaste (on request)

Entertainment

  • TV

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Electric kettle

More

  • Desk
  • Iron/ironing board
  • Phone
  • Safe
  • Soundproofing

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: anytime
Early check-in subject to availability
Early check-in is available for a fee
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM
Express check-out available

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets allowed for an extra charge of GBP 15.00 per pet, per night
Service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees
Welcoming dogs and cats only
Specific rooms only; pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
Food and water bowls are available

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for continental breakfast: approximately GBP 15 per person
  • Pet fee: GBP 15.00 per pet, per night
  • Service animals are exempt from fees
  • Early check-in is available for a fee (subject to availability)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property; the policies listed are provided by the property

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

Barns Hotel Bedford
Barns Bedford
The Barns Hotel
Barns Hotel
The Kingfisher Pub And
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The Kingfisher Pub and Hotel Hotel
The Kingfisher Pub and Hotel Bedford
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The Kingfisher Pub and Hotel Reviews

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 132 out of 277 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 104 out of 277 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 25 out of 277 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 10 out of 277 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 6 out of 277 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Jack

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Chrys

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
1) A convenient location. 2) Clean and comfortable room. 3) Good restaurant.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Pete

Business traveller, Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Pete

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

4/10 Poor

David

Dynamic pricing rip off for a shabby room.
I was in Bedford to clear my late parent's house, as I didn't know how long it would take, I booked into several hotels during my stay. Having noticed that the bigger hotels were indulging in dynamic pricing on one evening I booked into the Kingfisher (at about 6pm, so I can't imagine there would be massive amounts of people searching for a room at that time), assuming that as it was an independent hotel they must be offering something special for the exorbitant room rate,I am not allowed to mention otherwise my review is not allowed to be posted especially as the photographs would indicate that it was a very nice hotel, with bright and airy rooms. What I got was a dingy room with no air con, no mini fridge and tired decor which quite frankly was below the standards of what you'd find in a premier inn. It was quite galling to note that a couple of days later they were charging almost fifty per cent less . So I guess that dynamic pricing practices aren't just for the big boys. Frankly even £89 would still be too much for what you get. They promise "views over our grounds " well, I suppose that technically, the car park is within the grounds so the view of the car park I got would be covered by that statement, but it isn't what you'd really imagine from the website. Once bitten, twice shy. i won't be staying there again.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

8/10 Good

Steven

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jack

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

8/10 Good

Caroline

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Louise

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Daniel

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Malcohm

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Philip

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Gary

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

ANDREW

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely gardens and hotel, in a quaint position next to the river.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

6/10 Okay

Ben

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Rooms at let down
Staff, restaurant and surroundings all very nice. Room was tired and expensive (£170/night!). Double room was just two singles pushed together with no mattress topper so you could feel the whole gap where the beds joined. Noisy when people got up (5.30am) as water pipes are loud and doors banging all over the place. Won't stay again
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

P W H

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
as expected: your usual excellence
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Carl

Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

6/10 Okay

Shirley

Liked: Cleanliness
The room was disappointing no view overlooked a flat roof to other buildings. Window security broken. Lock on bathroom door broken if you closed it you were locked in!! Room 26. Considering we booked this room in January for 2 nights would have thought they could have done better. Breakfast staff slow and not attentive.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Bruce

Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Yes I’d stay again
It’s was pretty good food was amazing but small portions !! With a big price tag
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

6/10 Okay

William

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024