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The Crafty Cow

2.5 star property

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Standard Twin Room, Private Bathroom (Separate Private Bathroom)
Bar (on property)
Standard Suite, Ensuite | Bathroom
Standard Suite, Ensuite
Miscellaneous

Reviews

8.4 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Restaurant
  • Business services
  • Bar
  • Housekeeping

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635 Gloucester Road, Bristol, England, BS7 0BJ
  • Place, Memorial Stadium
    ‪8 min walk‬
  • Place, Southmead Hospital
    ‪12 min walk‬
  • Place, UWE Bristol
    ‪6 min drive‬
  • Airport, Bristol (BRS-Bristol Intl.)
    ‪32 min drive‬

Room options

Standard Suite, Ensuite

8.4 out of 10
Very good
(6 reviews)
  • 18 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

Comfort Double Room, Ensuite

  • 15 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

Standard Twin Room, Private Bathroom (Separate Private Bathroom)

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful
(7 reviews)
  • 12 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Single Beds

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About the area

Bristol

With a stay at The Crafty Cow in Bristol (Horfield), you'll be within a 10-minute drive of The Mall at Cribbs Causeway and University of Bristol. .This inn is 14.1 mi (22.7 km) from Thermae Bath Spa and 0.5 mi (0.7 km) from Memorial Stadium.

What's nearby

  • Horfield Leisure Centre - 2 min walk - 0.2 km
  • Memorial Stadium - 8 min walk - 0.7 km
  • Southmead Hospital - 12 min walk - 1.1 km
  • Elm Park Leisure Centre - 6 min drive - 2.0 km
  • UWE Bristol - 6 min drive - 2.3 km

Getting around

  • Montpelier Station - 6 min drive
  • Bristol International Airport (BRS) - 37 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪The Crafty Cow - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪Favourite Grill - ‬13 min walk
  • ‪Inn on the Green - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪The Beehive - ‬10 min walk
  • ‪Costa Coffee - ‬10 min walk

About this property

The Crafty Cow

The Crafty Cow offers 4 accommodations. Housekeeping is provided daily.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 4 guestrooms.
Take in the views from a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access.
At The Crafty Cow, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include complimentary wired internet access, a computer station, and multilingual staff. Free self parking is available onsite.
The Crafty Cow has a restaurant on site.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi and wired internet

Parking and transport

  • Free self parking on site
  • Limited on-site self parking

Food and drink

  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Things to do

  • Playground

Family friendly

  • Playground

Conveniences

  • Luggage storage

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Multilingual staff

Business services

  • Computer station

Outdoors

  • Garden

Accessibility

  • No lift

More

  • Smoke-free property

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 10:00 PM
Early check-in subject to availability
Contactless check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

The host will greet guests on arrival
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Host will greet you

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Payment types

Important information

You need to know

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
This property is professionally cleaned

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties

Property is also known as

Duke York Hotel Bristol
Duke York Bristol
Duke York Inn Bristol
Crafty Cow Inn Bristol
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Inn The Crafty Cow Bristol
Bristol The Crafty Cow Inn
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The Duke of York
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The Crafty Cow Reviews

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 80 out of 177 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 60 out of 177 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 21 out of 177 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 9 out of 177 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 7 out of 177 reviews

8.6/10

Cleanliness

9.2/10

Staff & service

7.0/10

Amenities

8.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

ANNE

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Bed so comfortable. Staff pleasant and helpful. Lovely hot water. Softest towels. Plenty of tea coffee etc.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2025

6/10 Okay

Cameron

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Friendly staff, although Hotel access seems a bit like a backup plan. Heading in behind the bar to get to the rooms. The showers also were iffy on temperature, solid temp for first few mins, then ice cold and steaming hot cycles.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

8/10 Good

Louise

Comfortable, spacious room. No fuss check in. Pub seemed nice, i had other plans
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

2/10 Terrible

Grace

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2025

4/10 Poor

Jennifer

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness
Staff very good, food not up to standard. Shower room needed a lot of attention cleaning wise. Shower too small
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

6/10 Okay

Heidi

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Kathrine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Lovely buzz , friendly staff and all you need in the room including a huge comfortable bed for 6ft 7in husband!
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Kim

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Perfect location to explore Bristol's Gloucester Road shops and restaurants. Friendly pub with good food options and beer selections. Room was large and bed was comfy. Bathroom is small, but you get use to it.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Christopher

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Gary

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Clean rooms but surprised my room was not en suite, with a private bathroom up the corridor. Excellent staff. Dodgy door for access after 11pm. I was locked out and had to knock on the window. Also no breakfast available. Good beer in the pub itself.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Isaac

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Nice room, above a popular pub. Made me feel welcome
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Stuart

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

Pleasant enough

The bathroom was shared and along the corridor - just as well we weren'f shy as we had only towels to wear!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

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

Avoid pub quiz night!

Pleasant, spacious room, friendly staff on arrival, however no parking available so had to park on the road outside. It was pub quiz night and my room was directly above the bar, so it was very noisy (suggest avoiding Tuesdays or arriving in time to get a parking space and joining in the quiz!). Other than this a pleasant stay.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Sharon

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Janet

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great one night stay, staff at Crafty Cow superb, room was great; bar served great food and choice of beers!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Good pub food
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

8/10 Good

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Parking isn’t great but other than that, a lovely venue
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Christopher

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

suzanne

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Aaron

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
All good except struggled with tv operation took ages to get tv channel
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

martin

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

A friendly place to stay

We stayed one night during the week. Staff were friendly and helpful and our room was clean with two comfy single beds. Tasty food in the bar downstairs, seems popular with local folks. Plenty of eating tables. An interesting 30 minute walk down the famous trendy Gloucester Road will get you to the centre.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

richard

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Would use again.

Would stay again. Good evening food and great entertainment. Staff are decent people. Heads up, no breakie in the morning.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Beverly

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

Fab on a busy Pride weekend!

Really friendly at check in and throughout. Free parking a bonus. Room was great for what we needed with good facilities. Loved the fact there was a bar downstairs - very convenient for a nightcap. Not noisy at all. Room very hot (weather was extreme) and only one window to open but there was a fan. Would definitely stay again when in the area,
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025