Guest house

The Old Crown

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.

Digbeth
8 from 1,037 reviews
Checked September 2026

Quick verdict

Best for: a smaller, owner-run stay
Main advantage: New Street is around 20 minutes on foot and the Bullring around 15 minutes on foot, so the centre is walkable without planning transport.
Main trade-off: There is no hotel car park, so a driver needs one of the public garages around High St and the walk that comes with it.
Location: Digbeth, around 20 minutes on foot from New Street.
Price position: Lower mid-range. Guide band from listing data, not a live rate.

Address: 188 High St, Deritend, Birmingham B12 0LD
Telephone: +44 121 248 1368
Stay type: Guest house
Review score: 8 out of 10 on Booking.com from 1,037 reviews
Parking: No hotel car park
Typical price band: Lower mid-range

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Our verdict

You will find The Old Crown on High St, Digbeth, 0.68 miles from New Street. New Street is around 20 minutes on foot and the Bullring around 15 minutes on foot, so the centre is walkable without planning transport.

Arriving by train, it is around 20 minutes on foot from the platforms.

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 8 out of 10 on Booking from 1,037 reviews, a small sample for a Birmingham hotel.

In the pricing snapshot behind this guide it listed at around £67 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 Birmingham Central Backpackers, 252 metres away. Against that one, this hotel rates 0.3 lower and usually costs more.

It qualifies for our cheap hotels and guest houses and b&bs comparisons, which is a reasonable shorthand for what it is good at.

Set against that, there is no hotel car park, so a driver needs one of the public garages around High St and the walk that comes with it.

Practical details checked: September 2026

Parking at The Old Crown

No hotel car park. In Digbeth, with public car parks nearby rather than hotel parking.

Distances from The Old Crown

Distances from The Old Crown
Destination	Straight line	On foot
Birmingham New Street Station	0.68 miles1.1 km	around 20 minutes
Utilita Arena Birmingham	1.5 miles2.4 km	around 40 minutes
the Bullring	0.48 miles0.78 km	around 15 minutes
the ICC and Symphony Hall	1.2 miles1.9 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

Listed on Booking: Bar, Family rooms, Free WiFi, Heating, Non-smoking rooms, Restaurant, Tea/coffee maker in all rooms
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: 32nd of the 85 properties we compare, measured from coordinates
Closeness to Utilita Arena: 45th of 85
Other properties within 500 metres: 2 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