The Green House Hotel

You can run a meeting of 10 to 84 people in central Bournemouth with room hire, AV, lunch and parking in one per-person price, and put your delegates up in the same building. The Green House is a 32-bedroom hotel in a Grade II listed Victorian villa on Grove Road, an 18-minute walk from Bournemouth station by the hotel’s own estimate. Its events space is one Private Events Room that splits into two, and its in-house restaurant, Arbor, holds two AA Rosettes.

Event spaces and capacities

You get one room that works three ways, so a plenary and two breakouts can stay on one floor plan without hiring extra space. Used whole, the Private Events Room seats 84 theatre style and 84 for a banquet, which is the hotel’s largest published capacity; its 2025 brochure gives 100 for a standing reception. Split, it becomes Private Events Room One and Two, joined by a central area the hotel offers for refreshments or informal breakouts. The hotel publishes no floor areas or exhibition space.

Whole-room figures are from the hotel’s meetings page (boardroom 30), except the reception figure; the reception figure and the split-room figures are from its 2025 business brochure (boardroom 28 for the whole room, 20 for Room One, 12 for Room Two), checked 10 November 2026. The meetings page gives the split rooms as up to 40 and 30 theatre style and up to 24 boardroom each, without naming which room is which, so confirm the layout figures for your date. One room has direct lift access and the other has its own external entrance.

Getting there and parking

Delegates who drive can park on site, and the day packages include parking with direct access to the events room. The hotel’s getting here page lists a 32-space car park with three EV charging points; parking is free for guests who book direct, and a £10 per night charge applies to bookings made through a third party. Bournemouth station is about 18 minutes on foot or 3 minutes by car, with direct trains from London, and the nearest bus stop, on Bath Road, is a minute’s walk. The 2025 brochure also mentions a Beryl bike-sharing station at the hotel. No airport or motorway guidance is published.

Catering, AV and accommodation

You get catering, kit and rooms from one team, priced per head. The Day Delegate Rate is £32 per person for at least 10 delegates and covers room hire, unlimited Dorset tea, water, three snacks, a hot buffet or sandwich lunch, wifi and wired internet, an LCD projector and screen, mood lighting, a flipchart and a PA system. A half-day meeting is £20 per person, a breakfast meeting £25 and the 24-hour rate starts at £170, adding dinner in Arbor or the events room, a bedroom and a full English breakfast. Groups under 10 can hire half the room for £150 or the whole room for £300 and add food by the head. The brochure lists a wine tasting at £45 and a corporate dining package at £50 per person, each for at least 10.

All food comes from the hotel kitchen led by Executive Chef Andy Hilton, and the hotel says it sources from local farmers, growers and fishermen. The rooms page lists 32 bedrooms in four categories, from small double to master double, and the brochure offers exclusive use of the house for up to 60 guests with the 24-hour bar, restaurant, events rooms and garden. On sustainability, the hotel’s principles page says it holds Green Tourism Gold, and its green changes page says it heats the building with rooftop solar thermal panels and a combined heat and power unit.

What to ask before you book

• The meetings page and the 2025 brochure give different split-room capacities (40 and 30 theatre against 35 and 20), so ask which figures apply to your layout and which room has the lift.
• Reception capacity of 100 appears only in the 2025 brochure; confirm it still stands if you plan a standing drinks event.
• Free parking applies to direct bookings, so check that delegates booked through an agency or booking site will not pay the £10 per night charge, and how many of the 32 spaces your event can hold.
• If speakers or staff will arrive by electric car, ask whether one of the three charging points can be held for them, as the hotel says they are subject to availability.
• The green changes page says the hotel is undergoing ISO 14001 accreditation; if your sustainability policy needs it, ask for the current certificate status and the date of the Green Tourism award.
• For exclusive use, ask how 60 guests map onto the 32 bedrooms and whether accessible bedrooms are available, which the hotel asks guests to arrange with reception.

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Sources: meetings and conferences, meeting rooms, 2025 business brochure (PDF), getting here, rooms, about, principles and green changes on thegreenhousehotel.co.uk, checked 10 November 2026.