Hotel

Macdonald Burlington Hotel

Name: Macdonald Burlington Hotel
Address: Burlington Arcade, Birmingham B2 4JQ, Birmingham, GB
Telephone: +44 344 879 9019
Rating: 8.0

Birmingham city centre, around 2 minutes on foot from New Street. What follows is the practical detail: distances, parking, who it suits and where it does not.

Birmingham city centre
8 from 4,700 reviews
Checked September 2026

Quick verdict

Best for: rail arrivals (2 min from New Street)
Main advantage: New Street is around 2 minutes on foot, which is about as short as a rail arrival in Birmingham gets.
Main trade-off: There is no hotel car park, so a driver needs one of the public garages around Burlington Arcade and the walk that comes with it.
Location: Birmingham city centre, around 2 minutes on foot from New Street.
Price position: Mid-range. Guide band from listing data, not a live rate.

Address: Burlington Arcade, Birmingham B2 4JQ
Telephone: +44 344 879 9019
Stay type: Hotel
Star rating: 4-star, as classified on its Booking listing
Review score: 8 out of 10 on Booking.com from 4,700 reviews
Parking: No hotel car park
Typical price band: Mid-range

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Our verdict

Macdonald Burlington Hotel sits on Burlington Arcade in Birmingham city centre, which puts it 120 metres from New Street. New Street is around 2 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 (2 min), the Bullring (6 min), Birmingham Hippodrome (8 min) and O2 Academy Birmingham (10 min). That combination is what you are really booking here.

It holds 8 out of 10 on Booking from 4,700 reviews, a normal sample for the city. That is 0.3 below the 8.3 average across the other 22 rated properties we compare in Birmingham city centre.

In the pricing snapshot behind this guide it listed at around £113 a night. That is about £15 above the £98 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 Premier Inn Birmingham City Centre (New St Station) hotel, 85 metres away, and the two are close enough on price and rating that the deciding factor is whichever is cheaper on your dates.

It qualifies for our best city centre hotels and last-minute hotels comparisons, which is a reasonable shorthand for what it is good at.

It is not the right answer for everyone, because there is no hotel car park, so a driver needs one of the public garages around Burlington Arcade and the walk that comes with it.

Practical details checked: September 2026

Parking at Macdonald Burlington Hotel

No hotel car park. The New Street garages are the nearest option.

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 Macdonald Burlington Hotel

Distances from Macdonald Burlington Hotel
Destination	Straight line	On foot
Birmingham New Street Station	0.07 miles0.12 km	around 2 minutes
Utilita Arena Birmingham	0.76 miles1.2 km	around 20 minutes
the Bullring	0.22 miles0.35 km	around 6 minutes
the ICC and Symphony Hall	0.51 miles0.82 km	around 15 minutes
the NEC Birmingham	7.8 miles12.6 km	Not a walk
Birmingham Airport	6.6 miles10.6 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, Daily housekeeping, Express check-in/check-out, Facilities for disabled guests, Family rooms, Free WiFi, Good breakfast, Luggage storage, Non-smoking rooms, Parking, Parking garage, Pets allowed, Restaurant, Room service, Safety deposit box
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: 1st of the 85 properties we compare, measured from coordinates
Closeness to Utilita Arena: 25th of 85
Guest rating within Birmingham city centre: 18th 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