Village Hotel, Bristol

With a fabulous location just north of the city at Filton, this is a venue that combines the latest facilities with attentive service and upbeat modern interiors; it’s colourful, it’s funky and it’s proving popular with event spaces very well booked for weddings and private celebrations. Get in, snap this one up now for that next conference, training day, product launch, exhibition, networking reception, gala dinner, or smaller business meeting.

Village Hotel Bristol offers 6 flexible air-conditioned meeting rooms for events for up to 300 guests, with the Inspiration Suite being the biggest and having space for 300 delegates in theatre style, 180 for a banquet, or 130 in cabaret layout. This suite can be swiftly partitioned to give you Inspiration 1, seating 160 people in theatre style, 100 for dinner and 80 in classroom arrangement and VWorks/Hub which is smaller and has capacity for 80, 40 and 30 in the same respective layouts. There are 5 smaller rooms, with Motivation seating 30 in theatre style and 20 in boardroom layout, and sticking with the latter, Energy holds 8, Spark and Innovation seat 6 and Spirit has room for 4. Catch those funky motivational names!

You’ll find the right space for your event – some have private bars, dance floors and stages, and all rooms have use of the communal break out area. Par for the course is natural daylight and blackout facilities, free superfast wifi, up-to-the-minute audio-visual equipment, and a choice of catering options – canapes, three course dinners, barbecues, hog roasts, and buffets are all covered.

154 guest bedrooms offer a peaceful snooze space for overnight delegates; décor is colourful and trendy, beds super comfy, and you get a flatscreen TV, coffee machine, work desk, and complimentary wi-fi. There’s a very relaxed on-site Village Pub for all day pub fare, and a Village Grill restaurant for something fancier. Guests can keep up their fitness regime in the 20m indoor swimming pool or in the 24/7 fully-equipped gym with a steam room and sauna.

There are over 240 free parking at Village Hotel Bristol, and access to major routes (M5, M4 and M32) is good. Bristol Airport is just 13.3 miles away and the nearest train station at Filton Abbey Wood less than two miles.