Relocation stays in Stratford-upon-Avon
Relocation accommodation in Stratford-upon-Avon
Somewhere proper to live in Stratford-upon-Avon while you work out where you actually want to live. Furnished, bills included, no twelve month tenancy signed in a city you do not know yet.
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The short answer
Somewhere to land in Stratford-upon-Avon before you commit to anywhere.
Relocation accommodation is a furnished whole property taken for a month or several while you find a permanent home. It exists because the alternative is signing a twelve month tenancy on a street you have never seen, from a photograph, before the job has even started. We let whole apartments and houses in Stratford-upon-Avon on that basis: everything furnished, every bill included, no referencing and no deposit scheme, and you extend or leave when you are ready. Stratford is a town rather than a city, so a central property is genuinely central: everything is a walk.
Called a few different things
This gets called relocation accommodation, relocation housing, temporary accommodation, interim accommodation, a serviced apartment, a short term let, corporate relocation housing, or simply somewhere to stay while you look. Employers relocating somebody usually call it relocation accommodation and pay for a fixed number of weeks.
The mistake worth avoiding
Signing for a year in a city you have been in for four days.
Everybody who has moved for work has a version of this story: the flat that looked fine online and turned out to be the wrong side of a dual carriageway, an hour from the office, on a twelve month agreement. A month or two somewhere decent, while you actually walk the areas and do the commute in the rain, costs less than the mistake does. It suits you if:
Where you would be
Working out where you actually want to live in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Stratford, Warwick or Leamington
These three get treated as interchangeable and they are not. Stratford is a small town with a visitor economy attached to it. Warwick is smaller again and quieter, built around the castle and the county offices. Leamington has the bars, the restaurants, the Regency terraces and direct trains to London. Spend an evening in each of them before you commit to a postcode.
Villages look better on a map
Alcester, Henley-in-Arden, Shipston-on-Stour, Wellesbourne and the Avon villages are genuinely good places, and the mistake is choosing one in your first month. Rural bus services here are thin, so a village usually means a second car, and a lane that is charming in June is a different drive in January. Village life rewards people who already know where they work.
Test the commute, not the mileage
Almost everything in this area is close on paper. What varies is the road. The A46 and the M40 move well until they do not, the Clopton Bridge crossing backs up, and the roads out towards Gaydon and Wellesbourne are single carriageway with farm traffic on them. Drive your actual route at your actual start time once, before you sign anything.
Living in a tourist town
Visiting Stratford and living in it are two different experiences. In summer the centre belongs to visitors, the car parks fill by mid morning and the riverside is not somewhere you casually wander to. In February it is a quiet market town and part of it shuts. Neither version is the real one, and you want to have seen both before deciding.
If you want to commute by train
Be realistic about the railway. Stratford sits on the line up to Birmingham and that part works. For fast trains to London, most people drive to Warwick Parkway or to Leamington rather than starting from here. Very little in this area is well served east to west. If the job is somewhere the train does not reach, you are driving, and that should shape the search.
The parts of Stratford itself
Old Town, south towards Holy Trinity, is the quiet historic end. North of the centre, the streets off the Birmingham and Alcester roads are more ordinary and nearer the retail and the Parkway station. Shottery lies west, Tiddington and Alveston east along the river road, and newer estates ring the edges. These are genuinely different places to live in, not variations.
Renting first is not a waste
People arrive certain they know which town they want and change their minds by month three. The difference between Stratford, Warwick, Leamington and a village only becomes obvious once you have driven the commute in the dark and done a weekly shop somewhere. A few months of something temporary costs a great deal less than buying into the wrong postcode.
Nights out happen somewhere else
The evening economy here is built around visitors and theatre audiences rather than around residents in their twenties. There are good pubs and decent restaurants, and then it stops. Anyone after a proper night out drives or takes a taxi to Leamington, and plenty do. If that matters to you, better to hear it now than to work it out in a second winter.
Booking direct
The same property, without the platform's cut.
Our properties are on Airbnb and Booking.com as well, and you are welcome to book there. Booking direct also avoids the guest service fee the big platforms add on top, which on a longer Stratford-upon-Avon stay is not a small number. Booking with us direct also means you are talking to the people who actually run the property rather than a message thread inside an app, which matters when you need an early check-in or an extra week.
Message reservations rather than booking night by night. A month or more is priced differently from a run of nights, and if your employer is paying we will invoice them directly with a purchase order reference.
In every property
What is actually there when you arrive.
Stratford-upon-Avon questions
What people ask about staying in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Which part of Stratford-upon-Avon should I be in?
Most of what you would need day to day sits in the town centre, the riverside and the streets around the theatres. Tell us where you need to be each morning rather than which postcode you fancy, and we will be honest about what is close to it and what only looks close.
Can I park in Stratford-upon-Avon?
Parking is the one genuinely awkward thing about Stratford. The town centre car parks fill with visitors from mid morning in summer, the one way system is unforgiving, and a property with its own space is worth considerably more here than the same property in a city.
How easy is it to get around Stratford-upon-Avon without a car?
Birmingham is fifty minutes by train, the M40 puts Oxford at an hour and London at two, and the Cotswolds start immediately south.
What is there to do in Stratford-upon-Avon on a day off?
The theatres, the river and the town itself fill an evening, and the Cotswolds, Warwick, Leamington and the National Trust properties nearby fill a weekend. On a long stay the surrounding area matters more than the town, because you will have seen the town by week two.
Questions we get asked
What people moving here ask us.
Can my employer be invoiced?
Yes, and it is common with a relocation package. We invoice the company for the agreed number of weeks with a purchase order reference, and you extend privately after that if you need longer.
How long do people usually stay?
Six to twelve weeks is the common shape: long enough to find somewhere permanent, do the referencing and wait out a notice period. The rate improves past the first month, so tell us your best guess and we will price it for that rather than for a fortnight.
Is there a tenancy or a credit check?
No. This is a booking, not a tenancy, so there is no referencing, no guarantor and no protected deposit. That is particularly useful if you have just moved country and have no UK credit history yet, which is the thing that stops most relocations dead.
Can the family come once I have found somewhere?
Yes, and it is worth telling us at the start. Whether you need two bedrooms from week one or from week five changes which property makes sense, and moving you twice helps nobody.
Check availability
Tell us when you land.
Message reservations with your start date, how many of you there are and roughly where you will be working, and we will tell you what makes sense.
Reservations, seven days a week, on 0333 880 7213