The Old Crown
Digbeth
0.21 miles from The
Best for: Consider it as a comparable option in the same part of the city
8/101,037 reviewsLower mid-range
Inn with rooms
The Fountain Inn Digbeth
Digbeth, around 20 minutes on foot from New Street. What follows is the practical detail: distances, parking, who it suits and where it does not.
Our verdict
The Fountain Inn Digbeth stands on Cheapside in Digbeth, 0.73 miles from New Street. It is a pub with rooms rather than a hotel, with the food and the bar downstairs.
Arriving by train, it is around 20 minutes on foot from the platforms.
Guests report code entry with access around the clock.
Within about fifteen minutes on foot: the Bullring (15 min), O2 Academy Birmingham (15 min) and Birmingham Hippodrome (15 min). That combination is what you are really booking here.
It holds 7.8 out of 10 on Booking from 630 reviews, a small sample for a Birmingham hotel.
In the pricing snapshot behind this guide it listed at around £85 a night. It is a snapshot rather than a live rate, and it will not match your dates.
Its closest neighbour in our selection is The Old Crown, 345 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 cheap hotels and hostels and budget stays comparisons, which is a reasonable shorthand for what it is good at.
The main trade-off is that we could not establish a parking arrangement, and this part of the city has very little of it. Confirm before you drive in.
Practical details checked: September 2026
Parking at The Fountain Inn Digbeth
We could not establish a parking arrangement for this property from a source we trust, so this page does not claim one. A blank here means unknown, not none.
Distances from The Fountain Inn Digbeth
| Destination | Straight line | On foot |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham New Street Station | 0.73 miles1.2 km | around 20 minutes |
| Utilita Arena Birmingham | 1.5 miles2.4 km | around 40 minutes |
| the Bullring | 0.57 miles0.92 km | around 15 minutes |
| the ICC and Symphony Hall | 1.2 miles2.0 km | around 30 minutes |
| the NEC Birmingham | 7.2 miles11.5 km | Not a walk |
| Birmingham Airport | 5.9 miles9.5 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
- Check-in
- Guests report code entry with access around the clock.
- Listed on Booking
- Bar, Family rooms, Flat-screen TV, Free WiFi, Non-smoking rooms, Private bathroom, Shower, Washing machine
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
- 36th of the 85 properties we compare, measured from coordinates
- Closeness to Utilita Arena
- 46th of 85
- Other properties within 500 metres
- 1 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
The Fountain Inn DigbethHotels 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
Holiday Inn Express Birmingham - Star City by IHG
The wider West Midlands
2.4 miles from The
Best for: Consider it if you need the hotel's own car park
7.7/102,650 reviewsLower mid-range
ibis Birmingham New Street Station
Birmingham city centre
0.55 miles from The
Best for: Consider it for a shorter walk to New Street
7.6/106,041 reviewsLower mid-range
Common questions
Does The Fountain Inn Digbeth have parking?
We could not establish a parking arrangement for this property from a source we trust, so we are not going to guess. If you are driving, ask the hotel directly before you book.
How far is it from Birmingham New Street Station?
0.73 miles in a straight line, around 20 minutes on foot.
Can I walk to Utilita Arena from here?
1.5 miles in a straight line, around 40 minutes on foot. For an event night that works in both directions.
Is there anything to know about checking in?
Guests report code entry with access around the clock.
Where this hotel appears on the site
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