Malmaison Oxford
3 New Road, Oxford, OX1 1AY
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A hotel inside the former HM Prison Oxford at the castle site, where guest rooms are converted cells, three cells knocked into one, with the original heavy doors and barred windows kept as features. The Chez Mal brasserie and bar fills the old prison's ground floor, and the castle mound and St George's Tower are on the doorstep, with the Westgate centre a minute away. A genuinely unusual stay rather than a gimmick: the prison held inmates until 1996, and the visitor attraction next door tells that story.
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