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Centre of Town, 3 bedrooms, sleeps 6, own parking and patio close to The Oracle

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A modern kitchen with white cabinets, a stainless steel range hood, a toaster, and a sink.
A bedroom with a bed, a window with curtains, a radiator, a small table with a plant, and a mirror.
A patio with a table and chairs, surrounded by greenery and a wooden fence.
A two-story brick house with a white door, numbered 19, and a small garden area with hedges.
A staircase with white balusters and carpeted steps leading to a dark doorway.

Reviews

9.6 out of 10, Loved by Guests
Top 10% of guest reviews in this area

Highlights

  • Made for relaxation
    Top-rated for comfort — guests feel right at home here.
  • Private garden
    A rare find — relax in the peaceful, private garden space.
  • Centrally-located
    You're never far from where you need to be with this convenient location.
  • Discover nearby landmarks
    Walk to River Thames

Popular amenities

  • Patio
  • Toys
  • Barbecue grill
  • Refrigerator
  • Internet
  • Dryer

Explore the area

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Reading, England
  • Place, Oracle
    ‪2 min walk‬
  • Place, Hexagon
    ‪6 min walk‬
  • Place, Reading Museum and Town Hall
    ‪9 min walk‬
  • Airport, London (LHR-Heathrow)
    ‪43 min drive‬

Rooms & beds

4 bedrooms (sleeps 6)

Bedroom 1

1 King Bed

Bedroom 2

2 Single Beds

Bedroom 2

1 Single Bed and 1 Crib

Lounge

1 Double Futon

1 bathroom, 1 half bathroom

Bathroom 1

Bathroom 1

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Spaces

Deck or patio
Kitchen
Garden
Dining area

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About the area

Reading

Located in Reading City Centre, a neighbourhood in Reading, this holiday home is near theme parks and near a water park. Nirvana Spa and Predator Assault, Laser Combat are worth checking out if an activity is on the agenda, while those wishing to experience the area's natural beauty can explore River Thames and Chiltern Hills. Travelling with kids? Consider Lapland UK, or check out an event or a game at Madejski Stadium. Enjoy the area's slopes with skiing, and don't miss out on the sledging and ice skating.
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Reading, England

What's nearby

  • Oracle - 2 min walk - 0.2 km
  • Broad Street Mall - 5 min walk - 0.4 km
  • Hexagon - 6 min walk - 0.6 km
  • Reading Abbey Ruins - 9 min walk - 0.8 km
  • Reading Museum and Town Hall - 9 min walk - 0.8 km

Getting around

  • Reading Station - 10 min walk
  • Farnborough (FAB) - 46 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Osaka - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪Joe & The Juice Reading - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪Coconut Bar & Kitchen - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪Ori Cafe - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪The Rising Sun - ‬4 min walk

Frequently asked questions

Is Centre of Town, 3 bedrooms, sleeps 6, own parking and patio close to The Oracle pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at Centre of Town, 3 bedrooms, sleeps 6, own parking and patio close to The Oracle?

On-site parking is available at the property.

What time is check-in at Centre of Town, 3 bedrooms, sleeps 6, own parking and patio close to The Oracle?

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Centre of Town, 3 bedrooms, sleeps 6, own parking and patio close to The Oracle?

Checkout is at 10:00 AM.

Where is Centre of Town, 3 bedrooms, sleeps 6, own parking and patio close to The Oracle located?

This family-friendly holiday home is located in the city centre, within 1 mi (2 km) of Kennet & Avon Canal and River Thames. Oracle and Broad Street Mall are also within 5 minutes. Reading Station is 10 minutes by foot and Reading (XRE-Reading Train Station) is 10 minutes.

Reviews

9.6

Exceptional

Reviews are presented in chronological order, subject to a moderation process, and verified unless otherwise labelled.
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Rating 10 - Excellent. 32 out of 38 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 4 out of 38 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 1 out of 38 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 1 out of 38 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 38 reviews

9.6/10

Cleanliness

10/10

Check-in

10/10

Communication

10/10

Location

10/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Perfect location. Short walk to the train station. Clean. Easy parking. We had a great stay.
Front of house with parking
Kitchen - had enough room and was well enough equipped for us to cook quick meals.
Primary bedroom - had plenty of closet space
Upstairs bathroom
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family visit in Reading

Great location. Good hosts
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Very comfortable

Perfect for a short stay
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

5 Star Location and Communication

The facility was very clean and in an exceptional Readin location.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great week in Reading

We spent a week in this wonderful house. Enough room for the four of us, private parking and walking distance to Reading city centre, the Oracle and Reading station. An ideal base for trips to London and Oxford.
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2024
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great house

The house was great, I would definitely stay again. The only frustrating thing about the house is how the hot water is preset to turn off during certain times of the day.
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2020
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

A delightful home!

Perfectly clean and well-appointed home near the Oracle. Easy walking to all parts of Reading including the train station. The home is bright and extremely comfortable. Tessa and Charles are perfect hosts - very responsive and easy to communicate with. We will be back!
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2024
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Brilliant

Words cannot emphasize just how perfect this place is for a family of five who want quick and easy access to the sights of southern Britain. Just 12 minutes walk to the train station it was easy to get to and from London and Bath for our day trips. The home was clean, warm and cozy. The power strip for foreign plugs and toys for kids in the closet show the extra touches the place has for a traveling family. Driveway parking was great, Tessa was very quick in responding to all questions and queries we had. We will stay there again if in the area. Probably one of the best VRBO experiences we’ve had.
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2023
Archival

8/10 Good

Modern Home & Super Clean

Having stayed at Tessa McLeod home with my family the service and level of communication was always professional. The home is super clean, conveniently located and walking distance to all public transport, shopping centres & restaurants. Tessa was aways available to answer any queries and offer advice when required. I would definitely recommend Tessa's modern home with new kitchen appliances especially for long term stays, as has all the trimmings for both a family or corporate professional. Regards, Sean
Stayed 31 nights in Dec 2016
Response from VrboOwner on 31 Mar, 2020
Thank you so much for your lovely review, glad you enjoyed staying in my house, hope to see you back in the UK soon! All the best, Tessa
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Could easily be 10/10 but needs a little attention.

Good: Comfy beds, generally well equipped, handy for reading station, 25 minute trains to london. Wifi / TV accounts all worked fine. Bad: Paintwork and carpets looking quite tired in places. Missing curtain in master bedroom? We had to hang the towels up! Numerous blown light bulbs etc. Ugly: Shower curtain was disgusting. House stank of cooking smells from previous guests. Not really the hosts fault but there didn't seem to have been much effort to air it or neutralise it. Could be a great house with a little TLC.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
We had a wonderful stay! The house has everything you need. The fans helped to keep things cool during this hot summer. The kitchen was well equipped.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Great house.Very close to shops, pubs etc. but super quiet day and night.It has everything you need.Very modern and clean.Beds and pillows very comfortable.Large tv in sitting room with live tv and all the apps, tv in main bedroom also.Kitchen has all the appliances.There are electric fans upstairs if you need them but we didn’t use them as it didn’t feel too hot even though it was in the mid twenties outside.Good communication and instructions for check in from Tessa.Highly recommended this property.
Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location!

House is in a great location! Property was clean and had everything we needed! We were able to walk to shops, the train and bus station within a few minutes. It was perfect for us to visit with family while allowing the teens to get some shopping in. Thank you so much for allowing us to stay!
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2022
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Very good location for city centre. Comfortable property.

Easy booking process. Good communication from owner.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2022
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Excellent

Perfect base for everything
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2022
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Exceptional location, well appointed, responsive host

This lovely property has 3 bedrooms upstairs. along with a full bath, Downstairs is a large kitchen with breakfast bar, combined living/dining room, and a half bath. There is a cute courtyard in the year that we enjoyed spending time in every evening. The location is superb with easy access to the Oracle upscale mall as well as the pedestrian only outside shopping area that had many entertainers. The unit was very clean, tastefully decorated and had everything needed from kitchen utensils to power adapters. The host, Tessa answered any and all questions in a very timely fashion. As we now have family in the area we will try to rent this property on subsequent visits.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2022
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Close to city center

Really nice property and very close to train!
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 29 May, 2022
Thank you for your review Amy! All the best Tess
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Romantic and authentic English house

This is a wonderful English house with a lovely back garden. We had good communication with the hosts. They even helped us by providing faster internet that we needed to do our work. The house is just like the pictures, and it's a great place to stay. Perfect location if you want to live in the centre of Reading. It is also fairly close to the Themes and a large playground, we went there quite some times with our 2-year old son. The house is well equipped for children and has toys, a baby chair, and a safety gate. It's also a travel bed for children in the house, but if you have a longer stay as we did (we lived there for two months) I would recommend buying your own bed for your infant. We will definitely stay in this house again if the whole family return to Reading. And if you want the "English feeling" with the romantic houses and small back yards, this is perfect!
Stayed 52 nights in May 2021
Response from VrboOwner on 26 May, 2022
Thank you so much for your wonderful review Julie! All the best Tess
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Very nice property, clean and tidy

This property was ver nice and clean, spacious
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2020
Response from VrboOwner on 28 May, 2022
Thank you for your review Gurdeep
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great

Excellent property to rent..had no problems at all..great hosts
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2020
Response from VrboOwner on 23 May, 2022
Thank you for your review Gary, glad your like the house
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location, very nice house and would stay again.

Very good, clean and great communication
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2020
Response from VrboOwner on 23 May, 2022
Thank you for your review Karl
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Awesome hosts

The house was nice, well located and have everything we needed, but the outstanding were the hosts. They were really kind and very supportive.
Stayed 29 nights in May 2020
Response from VrboOwner on 28 May, 2022
Thank you so much for your glowing review Marcelo. All the best Tess
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great Stay

Great Stay, Good communication with owner. No Issues. Great Location.
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Perfect house, brilliant location, great landlady!

Tessa’s house was just right. Well equipped, clean and beautifully maintained. Communication was A1! Thank you Tessa, we will stay again!
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2019
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Nice location, cold water

This is a nice place for an affordable price with a great location. However, there is a "neSt" thermostat that turns off the hot water and heat for much of the time. We were catching excursions and air planes and were up early, forced to take freezing cold showers. Even those that tried to shower the night before had cold showers. Mildly annoying was the fact that the owner sent an email stating there would be cereal, milk and orange juice and in fact there was none.
Stayed 8 nights in Mar 2019
Response from VrboOwner on 31 Mar, 2020
Hi Amy, so sorry to hear you had issues with the NEST control on the wall, I wish you had contacted me during your stay and I could have explained how it works, the hot water and heating is good at the house and definitely in this day and age with a modern Google system like NEST there is no need for freezing cold showers! Please do contact a host in future during your stay with things like this instead of remaining silent and suffering - what a shame! I'm so sorry to hear there was no cereal or milk that is odd as usually my cleaner replenishes the supplies before every guest so I'll look into this. We don't provide orange juice any more as we found when we did we were invariably throwing loads away as guests didn't manage to drink it all and it seemed wasteful - so that shouldn't be in the Welcome email, I will check, sorry if it was. We do however provide plenty of different teas, coffee, sugar, hot chocolate, butter, jam, honey marmite, marmalade, porridge, cereal and milk for our guests. I'm glad you liked the house and fabulous location and found it to be a very competitive price. All the best for the future, Tessa
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