Plan the Best Awards Ceremony in Berkshire! All Top Venues, Lowest Rates

The Briar Barn is a beautifully restored 17th-century barn that once served as the stables to our main house. Today, it offers a unique and atmospheric setting, full of character and charm. Original oak beams, exposed rafters, and a working fireplace create a quintessentially English backdrop—perfect for both formal and informal gatherings.

This versatile venue is ideal for meetings and events of all sizes. The Briar Barn features a private bar—perfect for serving refreshments throughout the day—a concealed dance floor, modern restroom facilities, ground-floor access, and its own private entrance. Guests can also enjoy access to a tranquil courtyard, ideal for breaks or informal networking.

Combining rustic elegance with practical amenities, The Briar Barn is a function space that seamlessly blends historic charm with modern convenience.

The Oak Room is a stunning Georgian addition to our main house, offering a flexible and elegant space ideal for meetings and private dining. Suitable for groups of 6 to 30 delegates, it provides an intimate yet professional setting for a variety of events.

Rich in character, The Oak Room features original oak paneling, an ornate fireplace, ground-floor access, and elegant bay windows that fill the space with natural light. French doors open onto a semi-private terrace—perfect for breakout sessions, informal networking, or team-building activities—while offering some of the finest views of our beautifully landscaped country gardens.

By day, The Oak Room serves as a refined meeting space; by evening, it transforms seamlessly into an atmospheric venue for private dining, blending timeless charm with modern functionality.

The Garden Room is located within our Victorian Manor House and is a popular choice for small to medium-sized meetings and events. Situated on the ground floor, it reflects the timeless character of the property, featuring elegant Victorian touches such as high ceilings, an original fireplace, and expansive bay windows that flood the space with natural light and offer beautiful views of the surrounding grounds.

With direct access to the gardens, it’s an ideal setting for summer events or breakout sessions in the open air. The Garden Room can also be hired as a syndicate space for larger conferences, perfectly complementing events that require multiple meeting rooms.

The Drawing Room offers an elegant and inviting setting for small to medium-sized meetings, comfortably accommodating up to 24 delegates. Formerly the dining room of the main house, this bright and characterful space retains many original features, including a decorative cream and white ornate ceiling, a classic stone Victorian fireplace, and generous bay windows that flood the room with natural daylight.

The suite also provides direct access to the adjacent Vault Bar & Lounge, making it ideal for events that require both formal and relaxed spaces. The two areas can be hired together to create a seamless experience for meetings, networking, or social gatherings.

Our state-of-the-art heated marquee is available to hire for festive celebrations from mid-November to mid-January. Designed to host private parties for groups of 50 to 500 guests, it offers a flexible and atmospheric space ideal for Christmas events of all sizes.

The marquee features a dedicated arrival drinks area, a fully equipped bar, on-site toilets, and a robust three-phase power system—ensuring comfort, convenience, and seamless event delivery throughout the winter season.

Pioneer Suite is capable of accommodating up to 100 delegates. This adaptable space can also be divided into breakout rooms 1 and 2, offering flexibility for various meeting formats and training sessions. Enjoy the abundance of natural daylight that fills the room, creating a bright and energizing atmosphere for your event. With its private entrance, attendees can access the suite easily and discreetly. Additionally, the suite features a private bar, perfect for networking and refreshments during breaks. A dedicated registration desk ensures smooth check-in and coordination for all attendees. Whether you're hosting a conference, seminar, workshop, or training session, the Pioneer Suite at Holiday Inn Reading South provides the perfect blend of functionality and comfort for your event needs.

A versatile meeting room capable of accommodating up to 180 delegates. Whether you're hosting a conference, seminar, workshop, gala dinner, networking event, or training session, this flexible space offers the ideal setting for productive gatherings. Enjoy ample natural daylight, creating an energizing atmosphere for your event. With its private entrance, attendees can easily access the suite without disruption. Additionally, the suite features an exclusive bar, perfect for networking and refreshments during breaks. A dedicated registration desk ensures smooth check-in and coordination for all attendees. Elevate your next event at Holiday Inn Reading South with the Grenadier Suite, where sophistication meets functionality.

The Buckingham Suite is our largest conference and meeting space. Benefiting from natural daylight with blackout curtains, multiple built-in electronic screens, high-speed wi-fi, and air-conditioning. With a maximum capacity of 260 and licensed for civil ceremonies the Buckingham Suite is extremely popular for all events.

The stunning Terrace Suite is our main conference and event space. Situated in our 17th-century Mansion House with its own private terrace, you can expect impressive views both inside and out.

Ideal for large conferences and banqueting events, this space is light, airy and inviting. With its adjoining outside terrace, guests are offered a place to break out and take in the views that surround them. One of our most impressive spaces, and one that's certain to add a sense of sophistication to any event.

Native River boasts the latest technology, perfect for business meetings, team workshops, client presentations, and training sessions. Whether you’re hosting a team brainstorming session, client presentation, training workshop, or board meeting, Native River offers a fully equipped modern meeting room overlooking the stunning Racecourse grounds.

An elegantly restored 16th Century Tudor Barn with original beams and rafters. This is the ideal venue for large meetings, events and product launches with its separate private bar area and terrace garden. The barn can accommodate up to 180 delegates and has 5 bedrooms leading out to the courtyard.

The Drawing Room is located in the Malt House running the full length of the building. It has its own private bar and is fully licensed for civil ceremonies. The French doors lead onto the private walled gardens and there are two further syndicate rooms – Garden Room & Music Room.

The Eden is located on the ground floor is fully air conditioned, with good natural daylight from three large windows and a magnificent fireplace. A completely private setting for your business meeting and private dining events.

Our cinema has 30 beautiful Italian leather seats with ample space to stretch out and enjoy yourself. With full cinematic capability and blackout, this room offers a multitude of possibilities for corporate and private use from business presentations to private film viewings or a new product launch. It provides the very best in sound and projection, creating an experience that transports you into the film.

Meadow Suite is a multi-functional room that can be customised to meet your requirements and is suitable for all types of events. Fully equipped with AV & presenting technology including laptop connections and large screens. It has a versatile room layout with two levels; the upper level seating 100 guests for dining allowing the lower level to be the perfect stage for evening entertainment or for additional dining. A fully equipped and licensed bar is available within the room.

The Great Hall has a fixed stage with a magnificent organ and grand piano, ample space for a choir and orchestra, and can seat audiences of 350 to 500. Multiple dressing rooms are available back stage along with toilet facilities for the performers to use during the concert.

72-seat, high-definition screening space with 7.1 surround sound, ideal for premieres, private screenings, and corporate presentations.

The Bulmershe Theatre is one of three professionally-equipped black box theatres and rehearsal studios, adaptable for both experimental and traditional productions and seats up to 100 guests for both experimental and traditional productions and a great rehearsal studio

This space is located off our main restaurant, on the lower ground floor. We can accommodate up to 30 guests seated or 35 standing.
The Embassy doesn’t have its own bar, but we offer full table service for your party. 

There is no hire cost to use this area, we just ask that you meet a minimum spend. This can be confirmed upon enquiry.

The Floyd Suite is our most spacious meeting room, able to take up to 100 in a theatre style and up to 30 in a boardroom style. It is fully air conditioned and offers the plenty of natural light through the large French windows. Coupled with the advantage of having direct access to its own glass room, a large patio and the Hotel gardens, the Floyd Suite is able to provide the perfect space for your meeting.

We're all about being social and creating moments of unexpected, ridiculous, joy, whether that's for your next teambuilding social, exclusive hire, or Christmas party.

With expert Gamesmasters, fantastic food and drink packages to enjoy while you play, and Action Replay technology to capture your best moments, our Social Darts Tournaments will be the ultimate destination for your next work social.

We have dedicated event hosts committed to handling every detail so you can relax and enjoy. Reach out to us today or check our FAQs to learn more. We're excited to hear from you!

The Glebelands Suite is our smallest meeting room; perfect for those events where an intimate atmosphere is desirable. The Glebelands Suite is light and airy and benefits from many original features such as an open stone fireplace, ornate ceiling and tall bay windows that let in heaps of natural daylight. The Glebelands Suite offers direct access onto our grounds and a secluded terrace area. The Glebelands Suite can also be hired as a syndicate room for larger conferences where a number of meeting rooms are required. In the evening The Glebelands can be transformed into a cosy private dining room.

22 x 29m Lawn area available for hire for team building events & activities. With additional 195m x 115m lawn area available to hire alongside hotel lawn area. 

New self contained event space set in grounds

Large suite in main house with natural daylight

Adjoins Downshire for refreshments + bar

Conference room on 1st floor, natural daylight

Conference room on 1st floor, natural daylight

Conference room on 1st floor, natural daylight

Conference room on 1st floor, natural daylight

Conference room on 1st floor, natural daylight

Conference room on 1st floor, natural daylight

Conference room on 1st floor, natural daylight

Conference room on 1st floor, natural daylight

Our Private Dining Room is suited for up to 40 guests. Ideal for VIP management meetings and small conferences. This room offers that intimate feel and traditional elegance.

Our beautiful Garden marquee can host up to 200 guests for Conferences, Corporate Dinners, Summer Parties and Charity Balls. This permanent structure is the ideal space to have your daytime meeting with lots of natural daylight and beautiful surroundings. The marquee then transforms into the perfect event venue in the evening with ample space for dinner and dancing.

The impressive star lit Grand Marquee can host up to 600 guests, with the option to extend this if needed. This is the perfect space to host your glamourous Dinner Dances, Team Building, Roadshows and Exhibitions with its own reception area for pre-dinner drinks, canapes and bar facilities.

Combine the benefits of our highly-flexible, contemporary Castle Suite with the attention to detail of our event co-ordinators and your event will be both unique and memorable.

Fully air-conditioned, with natural daylight and excellent WiFi coverage, the Castle Suite can be sub-divided into two separate suites. The room can accommodate 110 for theatre-style events or 80 guests in cabaret. A dropdown screen and LCD projector provide facilities for speakers and presentations.

Set on the ground floor, our St George's Suite is the perfect meeting & small conference room to seat up to 50 guests in theatre layout or 35 guests in a cabaret or classroom setting.

This elegant room also acts as a superb private dining venue.

With plenty of natural daylight and superb views across Windsor's rooftops, the first-floor boardrooms at Macdonald Windsor Hotel are an unrivalled executive venue. You can invite up to 21 colleagues or partners to gather around a stylish boardroom table with comfortable leather chairs. Technology is taken care of by a large-screen TV with LCD connections for laptops, and free WiFi.

With original charm, natural light in abundance and stunning lakeside views, this is one space with plenty to offer.

The historic Lincoln Suite has been lovingly rejuvenated, combining exquisite features with the latest audio-visual technology. It's a space perfect for conferences and private dining alike. We cater for everything, from elegant afternoon teas to exquisite barbecues, thanks to the easily accessible lakeside lawns just outside.

Equipped with a large built-in screen, ceiling projector and the latest in AV systems, this flexible space has everything a successful event needs and more.

This fresh and contemporary space is situated on the ground floor of the newly-refurbished Wokefield Place. Air-conditioning and natural light fills the room creating a bright and positive atmosphere, and guests can be led straight in from The Avenue where we serve tea and coffee on arrival. It's a space that's ideal for conferences.

If you're looking for a space that will make an impression, it doesn't get much better than beautiful ceilings, incredible lakeside views and traditional fireplaces.

Filled with natural light and exquisite features, The Old Lounge gives any meeting a sense of gravitas. When guests are ready to re-energise, we host breakout sessions. This space has as much to offer outside as it does inside; with easy access to the lakeside, guests can enjoy a break with a view.