Novotel Birmingham Centre
Birmingham city centre
0.59 miles from Holiday
Best for: Consider it if you need the hotel's own car park
8.1/104,588 reviewsMid-range
Hotel
Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre by IHG
Birmingham city centre, around 4 minutes on foot from New Street. What follows is the practical detail: distances, parking, who it suits and where it does not.
Our verdict
On Smallbrook Queensway in Birmingham city centre, 240 metres from New Street: that is where Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre by IHG sits. New Street is around 4 minutes on foot, which is about as short as a rail arrival in Birmingham gets.
For an arena night it is around 20 minutes on foot.
Within about fifteen minutes on foot: Birmingham New Street Station (4 min), Birmingham Hippodrome (4 min), O2 Academy Birmingham (6 min) and the Bullring (7 min). That combination is what you are really booking here.
It holds 8.2 out of 10 on Booking from 4,205 reviews, a normal sample for the city. That sits almost exactly on the average of 8.3 across the other 22 rated properties we compare in Birmingham city centre.
In the pricing snapshot behind this guide it listed at around £96 a night. That is about £7 below the £103 median across the other 23 priced properties we compare in Birmingham city centre. It is a snapshot rather than a live rate, and it will not match your dates.
Its closest neighbour in our selection is Radisson Blu Hotel, Birmingham, 63 metres away. Against that one, this hotel rates 0.5 higher.
Its nearest rival is the Radisson Blu tower on Holloway Circus, and the choice between them is straightforward. This one is the cheaper of the two in the pricing snapshot, on the Southside edge by the Hippodrome and the Chinese Quarter. The Radisson trades higher for height and the view that comes with it.
It qualifies for our best city centre hotels and last-minute hotels comparisons, which is a reasonable shorthand for what it is good at.
Where it is weaker: there is no hotel car park, so a driver needs one of the public garages around Smallbrook Queensway and the walk that comes with it.
Practical details checked: September 2026
Parking at Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre by IHG
No hotel car park. Next to Grand Central, using the public garages there.
Parking is one of the most searched questions about this hotel, which is why it has its own section rather than a line in a facilities list.
Distances from Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre by IHG
| Destination | Straight line | On foot |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham New Street Station | 0.15 miles0.24 km | around 4 minutes |
| Utilita Arena Birmingham | 0.83 miles1.3 km | around 20 minutes |
| the Bullring | 0.27 miles0.44 km | around 7 minutes |
| the ICC and Symphony Hall | 0.54 miles0.87 km | around 15 minutes |
| the NEC Birmingham | 7.8 miles12.6 km | Not a walk |
| Birmingham Airport | 6.5 miles10.5 km | Not a walk |
Distances are straight-line, calculated from each property's own coordinates. Walking times are derived from those distances with an allowance for street routing, so treat them as indicative for comparing hotels against each other rather than as measured route times.
What we could establish
- Listed on Booking
- 24-hour front desk, Bar, Facilities for disabled guests, Free WiFi, Luggage storage, Non-smoking rooms, Parking, Parking garage, Pets allowed, Private parking, Restaurant, Room service, Very good breakfast
Booking’s own amenity list for this property, recorded as published. It is not part of what we verified above.
A facility missing from this list means we did not establish it, not that the hotel lacks it. We do not fill gaps with assumptions.
In context
How it compares with the rest of the selection
- Closeness to New Street
- 4th of the 85 properties we compare, measured from coordinates
- Closeness to Utilita Arena
- 30th of 85
- Guest rating within Birmingham city centre
- 14th of 23 rated properties in the area
- Price within Birmingham city centre
- 7 of 24 properties in the area sit in a lower band
- Other properties within 500 metres
- 10 in our selection
Positions are worked out across all 85 properties we compare, using straight-line distance from coordinates and the price band each property normally sits in.
Where it sits
On the map
Holiday Inn Birmingham CitHotels on this pageRailway stationsThis hotel
Roads, canals, parks and stations from OpenStreetMap. The steel dot is this hotel, the darker dots are other properties we compare, and the named points are New Street and the five landmarks closest to this address.
Compare it with these
Macdonald Burlington Hotel
Birmingham city centre
0.22 miles from Holiday
Best for: Consider it as a comparable option in the same part of the city
8/104,700 reviewsMid-range
Crowne Plaza Birmingham City Centre, an IHG Hotel
Birmingham city centre
0.34 miles from Holiday
Best for: Consider it for a stronger guest rating close by
8.8/102,828 reviewsMid-range
Common questions
Does Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre by IHG have parking?
No. There is no hotel car park here, so a driver needs a nearby public garage. In this part of Birmingham that is normal rather than unusual.
How far is it from Birmingham New Street Station?
0.15 miles in a straight line, around 4 minutes on foot.
Can I walk to Utilita Arena from here?
0.83 miles in a straight line, around 20 minutes on foot. For an event night that works in both directions.
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