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OYO The Rivenhall Hotel in Witham, Chelmsford

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Standard Double Room, 1 Double Bed | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets
Standard Double Room, 1 Double Bed | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets
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Reviews

6.6 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • 24/7 front desk
  • Housekeeping
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi

Explore the area

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Rivenhall End, London Rd, Witham, England, CM8 3HB
  • Place, Blackwater Rail Trail Country Park
    ‪2 min drive‬
  • Place, University of Essex
    ‪20 min drive‬
  • Place, Lakeside Shopping Centre
    ‪40 min drive‬
  • Airport, London (STN-Stansted)
    ‪28 min drive‬

Room options

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Standard Double Room, 1 Double Bed | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

Standard Double Room, 1 Double Bed

  • 10 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Family Room, Multiple Beds | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

Family Room, Multiple Beds

  • 10 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 Double Bed and 2 Single Beds

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Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

Standard Family Room For 4

  • Sleeps 4

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Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

Standard Double Room

  • Sleeps 2

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About this property

OYO The Rivenhall Hotel in Witham, Chelmsford

Hotel in Witham with free parking
A 24-hour front desk, wedding services and free self-parking are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free.
OYO The Rivenhall Hotel in Witham, Chelmsford offers 59 accommodations with a hairdryer and free toiletries. 32-inch flat-screen televisions come with digital channels.

Bathrooms include baths or showers. This Witham hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is offered on a daily basis and an iron/ironing board can be requested.

During your stay at OYO The Rivenhall Hotel in Witham, Chelmsford, you'll be close to Blackwater Rail Trail Country Park. Features include free WiFi in public areas and free self-parking.
  • Free WiFi
  • Free self-parking
  • Services include wedding services
  • Just a 2-minute drive from Blackwater Rail Trail Country Park and 5 minutes from Benton Hall Golf and Country Club
WiFi is free in public spaces. Free self parking is available.

This 3-star Witham hotel is smoke free.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • Free self parking on site

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Wedding services

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Thin carpet in room
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only

More

  • 3 floors
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Bathtub or shower
  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • 32-inch flat-screen TV with digital channels

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle

More

  • Desk
  • Heating
  • Iron/ironing board on request

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; check-in end time: 11:00 PM
Minimum check-in age - 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM

Special check-in instructions

Guests will receive an email within 24 hours before arrival with check-in instructions; front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in
To make arrangements for check-in please contact the property at least 24 hours before arrival using the information on the booking confirmation
This property's restaurant closes at 6 PM on Sunday.

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • No pets allowed

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
  • Cots (infant beds) are not available.

Payment types at the property

Important information

You need to know

This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business or profession.
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards and debit cards; cash is not accepted
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector and a first aid kit
Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property; the policies listed are provided by the property
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in. To arrange for check-in, guests must contact the property at least 24 hours prior to arrival using the information on the booking confirmation. Guests will receive an email 24 hours before arrival with check-in information. Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property.

Property is also known as

Rivenhall Hotel Witham, Nr. Chelmsford
Rivenhall Witham, Nr. Chelmsford
Rivenhall
Rivenhall Hotel Witham
Rivenhall Witham
Rivenhall Hotel
OYO The Rivenhall Hotel
OYO The Rivenhall Hotel in Witham, Chelmsford Hotel
OYO The Rivenhall Hotel in Witham, Chelmsford Witham
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Reviews

OYO The Rivenhall Hotel in Witham, Chelmsford Reviews

6.6

6.8/10

Cleanliness

7.4/10

Staff & service

5.6/10

Amenities

5.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

5.6/10

Eco-friendliness
Rating 10 - Excellent. 35 out of 220 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 64 out of 220 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 64 out of 220 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 28 out of 220 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 29 out of 220 reviews

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Sharon

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
What a place. The construction work is massive and all over the property. No bar, room has damp. It’s the sort of place you don’t want to take your shoes off
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

6/10 Okay

John

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Helpful and friendly staff. Going through refurbishment so I accepted things wouldn’t be as expected until finished
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

6/10 Okay

Marie

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

4/10 Poor

Andrew

Business traveller
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

SO SO BAD

Place is a building site / total misrepresentation . Don’t stay here it’s dangerous and ait is run badly by this company
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

john-paul

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cold room - 1 wall mounted electric heater that looked like it would fail any electrical safety inspection (half of the knobs missing). Shower in the morning had no temperature control, it was so hot you couldn't stand it under and nothing made it cooler. Evidently no cold feed to the shower and boiler temp set too hot. It['s cheap but it's rough.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

I do not reccommend staying here

No bar or restaurant. Very dated. No air-con, so had to keep the windows open and could hear constant traffic from the A12. Hotel was a building site. Some rooms have been refurbished but to a very low quality and unfinished. I have stayed in better hotels for less money than I paid for this one. Didn't feel safe. Anyone could walk on-site and around the hotel. No locks on corridors walkways or stairwells. No security.
Exposed cables
Bathroom - Towel raditor fitted wrong. Hard to use mirror
Broken Light
Construction Site
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

4/10 Poor

david

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Odd place, lick the main gate late at night and kids running around the place
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

4/10 Poor

Amanda

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service

Ok to get your head down.

No on site facilities no bar or restaurant no vending machines Only 1 bath towel for a double room Room was clean but dated as was the surroundings.. like a building site. No key drop off or anyone on reception when leaving. Tea making facilities very basic and not enough for 2 people.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Horrendous

Just awful. The bathroom door wouldn't shut. A weird window to the front of the room had no blinds or curtains so light was streaming in all night. The view was a derelict building on one side and the other a demolished part of the original hotel. At night they padlock the car park gates...no mention of this at reception when checking in. You had to call the hotel to be let in. Just glad i had my phone with me. No restauarant, no bar, no vending machine for water. This was a mix of Batea Motel and Hotel California. Do not waste your money. How they can charge £80 for one night is beyond me. How they can even advertise this place as a hotel is shocking enough. Just awful!
Hotel Entrance...
Derelict rooms facing the car park
Derelict part of the property, view from the room
Demolished part of the hotel...view from the entrance to the room. The corridor access to the room was via stairs from the outside...no door
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

Peter

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This hotel was a complete disgrace in everyway the adverisement did not match what we found. I suggestt you take it off your website it is totally misleading.The owners are doing a complete update according to them and until they meet the minimum standards required i suggest they should not be taking the money from any further fooledcustomers.zOur room was a disgrace end of.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Keith

Travelled with family
Liked: Room comfort

Good, but room for improvement

Staff friendly enough. Room was clean & tidy & bathroom was really nice. Hotel is having maintenance with building works outside. Room had recently been painted & had a very strong smell. Understand maintenance is required, but drilling at 8am on any day, especially a Sunday was unacceptable, also without any notice.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

4/10 Poor

Claire

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Would not recommend

Didn’t get there until 1am as at an event in Chelmsford. Got in the room and the window was open and there was a horrible smell of weed and sewage but the room was so hot we needed the window open. There were mouse traps in the room. Tried putting the tv on but didn’t work. The door didn’t lock from the inside, no plug by the bed just went to sleep as so tired. This morning went to have a shower and had no water at all couldn’t even brush our teeth. Would not recommend.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Everything was as i expected
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

4/10 Poor

Ian

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Cheap

Cheap hotel so you get what you pay for.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Ok but no hot water

Their was no hot water in the shower in the morning. Room was ok and clean.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

andrea

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
I arrived at the hotel. There are two black gates as you enter, extermley tall grass and it looked very baron. I work away alot with work so am used to travelling on my own. My car was the only car in the car park. It didn't feel that safe. I entered the hotel and noticed curtains that did not cover the window entirely and some of the curtains looked like they had fallen off the rail. The main hotel sign was not burgundy, as it shows in all the pictures, it was discoloured all over. On entering the reception it was really dark and nothing like the photos on Expedia. There was a gentleman sitting behind a desk and I advised him that I didn't feel safe at the hotel. The gentleman assured me I was although so far it didn't look at all like any photo's on the Expedia website and it was making me feel anxious ( not normally an anxious person). The gentleman said did I want to check in and see my room. At this point, I want to run as far as I could. He showed me about 5-7 cars in another car park, this still didn't inspire me to stay. I would not recommend this hotel nor would I stay here again. I left and found a lovely hotel where I did feel safe and the staff were friendly.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

Rachel

Travelled with family
Liked: Room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

4/10 Poor

Donald

Disliked: Staff & service
No bar . No food . Second rate room . Noisy.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Please don't book this hotel it was so bad.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

david

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

Charlotte

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

Anthony

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The hotel is in really bad condition, the room was large but very very basic and beds comfortable but the carpet was threadbare, there was no hot water, the wardrobe was infested with moths, no remote for the TV woken up every hour by noises guests and I have woken up this morning with bites on my legs and arms. I really don’t expect to have an experience like this when I book through Hotels.com!
Tatty carpet
?!
Exposed wires
Moth infestation in wardrobe
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

4/10 Poor

Claire

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
This basic type hotel seems to be just starting up? I expect it will be much better in the future. Staff are very nice and seemed very enthusiastic Bathroom very nice in the room I was in, which was small but nicely decorated and the beds very comfortable. On the downside it was thick with building dust which I cleaned from the air as well as the surfaces before I could sleep there - this was back in March 2025. They seemed to welcome my suggestion that they next get a good cleaner. I hope they did. Paper thin walls.
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Convenient, but with limitations.

Reception was friendly and check-in quick. The room itself was fine, although the bed sheets did have a strange aroma, almost like smoke! I stayed for 3 nights and the first two (Friday and Saturday) there was a lot of noise from neighbouring guests, going on until 3 in the morning! The location was convenient for the visits I needed to make, but you do need a car! Only food available was a nearby service station or delivered takeaway. Having said all that, I would probably use it again in the future.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2025