Relocation stays in Worcester
Relocation accommodation in Worcester
Somewhere proper to live in Worcester while you work out where you actually want to live. Furnished, bills included, no twelve month tenancy signed in a city you do not know yet.
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The short answer
Somewhere to land in Worcester before you commit to anywhere.
Relocation accommodation is a furnished whole property taken for a month or several while you find a permanent home. It exists because the alternative is signing a twelve month tenancy on a street you have never seen, from a photograph, before the job has even started. We let whole apartments and houses in Worcester on that basis: everything furnished, every bill included, no referencing and no deposit scheme, and you extend or leave when you are ready. Worcester is small, so the difference between the right street and the wrong one is larger here than it looks on a map, and worth a conversation before you book.
Called a few different things
This gets called relocation accommodation, relocation housing, temporary accommodation, interim accommodation, a serviced apartment, a short term let, corporate relocation housing, or simply somewhere to stay while you look. Employers relocating somebody usually call it relocation accommodation and pay for a fixed number of weeks.
The mistake worth avoiding
Signing for a year in a city you have been in for four days.
Everybody who has moved for work has a version of this story: the flat that looked fine online and turned out to be the wrong side of a dual carriageway, an hour from the office, on a twelve month agreement. A month or two somewhere decent, while you actually walk the areas and do the commute in the rain, costs less than the mistake does. It suits you if:
Where you would be
Working out where you actually want to live in Worcester.
Which side of the river to be on
This is the first real question in Worcester. There are only two road crossings and both feel it at peak times, so living west in St Johns or Lower Wick while working east at the hospital or out by the motorway means queueing twice a day. Being on the same side as your work counts for more here than the difference between one postcode and the next.
What the areas are actually like
Barbourne and the Arboretum are close in, period housing and a walk to town. Battenhall and Bath Road are quieter and dearer. St Johns is a proper neighbourhood with its own shops. Warndon Villages and the north east are newer estates built around the car. Ronkswood sits nearest the hospital and is more mixed. Nothing is far from anything, which is the appeal.
Commuting out of Worcester
Plenty of people here work somewhere else. Birmingham is a straightforward train from Foregate Street or Shrub Hill, the M5 puts the Black Country and Bristol within reach, and Worcestershire Parkway helps if you are heading south. What catches newcomers is the local leg: getting from your own street to the station or the motorway at eight is often the slowest part of the trip.
What people get wrong from a map
On a map Worcester looks like everywhere is fifteen minutes away, and in the middle of the day it is. Mornings are a different city, and the ring road and the bridges are why. The other blind spot is the river. Flood risk varies street by street rather than by district, so the specific address is what to check, not the area's general reputation.
The villages and the county towns
Plenty of people who move for a Worcester job end up living outside it. Malvern under the hills, Droitwich to the north, Pershore and Upton upon Severn to the south, each a straightforward drive and each with a character the city does not have. The trade is the same one everywhere: more space and a quieter street, paid for by driving to almost everything.
Committing to an area too early
The mistake is settling on where to live inside the first fortnight, from photographs and a map, before you have driven the commute at eight in the morning or seen the street on a Saturday night. Worcester is small enough that people assume it cannot go wrong. It can, mostly through traffic and the river. Somewhere temporary first is what tells you which side to be on.
Getting into the place properly
The settling in list is short and worth starting early: a GP and a dentist, both of which take longer to join than newcomers expect, and then whatever gets you out of the house. There is a Saturday morning parkrun, rowing crews on the Severn, running and cycling clubs that use the hills. In a city this size you start recognising faces fairly quickly.
Choosing an area for schools
If children are part of the move, the schools drive the decision and the decision needs an address, which is the loop everybody hits. Catchments in Worcester can turn on a single street, and the places people want fill up. Read the actual admission rules for the schools you care about rather than trusting an area's reputation, and do it before committing to anything long.
Booking direct
The same property, without the platform's cut.
Our properties are on Airbnb and Booking.com as well, and you are welcome to book there. Booking direct also avoids the guest service fee the big platforms add on top, which on a longer Worcester stay is not a small number. Booking with us direct also means you are talking to the people who actually run the property rather than a message thread inside an app, which matters when you need an early check-in or an extra week.
Message reservations rather than booking night by night. A month or more is priced differently from a run of nights, and if your employer is paying we will invoice them directly with a purchase order reference.
In every property
What is actually there when you arrive.
Worcester questions
What people ask about staying in Worcester.
Which part of Worcester should I be in?
Most of what you would need day to day sits in the city centre, the Cathedral end, Diglis and St Johns. Tell us where you need to be each morning rather than which postcode you fancy, and we will be honest about what is close to it and what only looks close.
Can I park in Worcester?
Worcester is small enough to walk but the hospital and the business parks are off the ring road, so most people here drive. Centre parking is paid, the riverside car parks flood in winter, and residential parking varies street by street. Worth asking before you arrive rather than circling.
How easy is it to get around Worcester without a car?
Foregate Street and Shrub Hill reach Birmingham in under an hour, and the Malverns and the southern Cotswolds are inside half an hour by car.
What is there to do in Worcester on a day off?
The Cathedral, the Severn path, New Road and the racecourse are all a walk from the centre, and the Malvern Hills and the southern Cotswolds are inside half an hour by car. It is a small city with a lot immediately outside it.
Questions we get asked
What people moving here ask us.
Can my employer be invoiced?
Yes, and it is common with a relocation package. We invoice the company for the agreed number of weeks with a purchase order reference, and you extend privately after that if you need longer.
How long do people usually stay?
Six to twelve weeks is the common shape: long enough to find somewhere permanent, do the referencing and wait out a notice period. The rate improves past the first month, so tell us your best guess and we will price it for that rather than for a fortnight.
Is there a tenancy or a credit check?
No. This is a booking, not a tenancy, so there is no referencing, no guarantor and no protected deposit. That is particularly useful if you have just moved country and have no UK credit history yet, which is the thing that stops most relocations dead.
Can the family come once I have found somewhere?
Yes, and it is worth telling us at the start. Whether you need two bedrooms from week one or from week five changes which property makes sense, and moving you twice helps nobody.
Check availability
Tell us when you land.
Message reservations with your start date, how many of you there are and roughly where you will be working, and we will tell you what makes sense.
Reservations, seven days a week, on 0333 880 7213