Hotel La Tour

Hotel La Tour is the penultimate stop on our Milton Keynes tour and trust us—this one’s a standout. By our measure, it’s the most luxurious hotel in the area and the newest too, having only opened in 2022. We’d heard that this was a fantastic venue, but it wasn’t until we visited this month that we really got to grasp just how fabulous it is.

Getting to the venue was a breeze, the ever drivable Milton Keynes saw us there in no time. We parked in the adjacent 1,200-space multi-storey car park, where the hotel has secured a special 24-hour rate of just £10 - not bad at all. We also spotted a few electric charging spaces on our way to the hotel too for delegates with an EV. Milton Keynes Central Train Station is less than 15 minutes’ walk down the road and thanks to it’s exceptional rail links, you can find trains to just about everywhere in the country. It’s also worth noting that you can be in London in around 30 minutes - which makes MK a fantastic base for day trips to the capital.

As soon as we entered the reception, we got a taste of just how stunning this venue is. We’re lucky enough to travel around the country and see some brilliant venues, week-in, week-out, but Hotel La Tour might just be up there with the very best designed venues we’ve visited. The Lobby is a gorgeous white expanse with bespoke lighting fixtures and marble flooring. The staff’s warm welcome made us feel like guests of honour here! Before we knew it our tour of this brilliant venue was underway.

Our first stop was the bedrooms, and even the journey up was impressive - the glass elevator offers sweeping views of the Milton Keynes countryside as you ascend. we’re not messing, this lift is fully transparent and boasts an incredible vista to look out over - Roald Dahl eat your heart out! When we entered the room itself, we were equally impressed with the views out of the floor to ceiling window, something the staff told us that each and every room features. The super king bed and rainfall showers were also fantastic touches - all of this along with some super premium finishes that set this many levels above your average hotel room. This is, like so many of the spaces here, whether for events or leisure, a room with real thought, love and attention put into its design.

Address: Hotel La Tour, 400 Marlborough Gate, Milton Keynes, MK9 3FP
Website: https://hotel-latour.co.uk/
Sales Contact: Jodie Price - Sales Director
Phone No: 01908 732400
Email address: Jodie.price@hotel-latour.co.uk

We didn’t know much about Fourteen, Hotel LaTour’s high-end restaurant, before our visit, but we left it desperate to go back. We love a great bite to eat at The Delegate Wranglers, and this dining space is really something special, situated on the top floor of the building with panoramic views of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. There’s no other way to describe this experience other than unforgettable - it’ll certainly linger in the mind of any delegates for a long, long time after dining here. On offer in this space are incredible seasonal dishes curated by a team of serious culinary experts. This was a true highlight of the venue - locally sourced produce matched with a view of blue skies and rolling green hills - call it a cliché but we literally felt on top of the world.

It’s also worth noting that Fourteen is also home to a Skyline bar, a really gorgeous lounge area that provides all the classics you’d expect from a sophisticated venue. There are fine wines, brilliant cocktails and some lovely little bites if you’re not in the mood for a feast at Fourteen Restaurant. There’s also a private dining room in this space that will seat about 20 guests - and boasts the same gorgeous views - no stuffy side rooms here! This is what we mean when we talk about the premium-ness on display at Hotel La Tour - there’s been no expense spared by the designers - let us tell you - they cooked.

On the leisure front, there’s that mighty fine gym we mentioned earlier. Decked out with NORHD equipment, this has to be up there when it comes to smart hotel gyms. It’s not the biggest, or the flashiest, but it’s a lovely airy space that never feels cramped and has everything you or your delegates might need for a pre-event pump. The equipment here has some really cool wood finishes that show off the responsible manufacturing processes used by NORHD.

Hotel La Tour’s motto is Stay, Dine, Work, Play. When work meets play, you get team building and there's some great options here for that. Campbell Park surrounds this hotel, and the venue has an arrangement with the Parks Trust to extend the option for event planners to hold team building activities. The multitude of team building companies that the team at Hotel La Tour have built great relationships with, will come up with the perfect team building pairing to partner your event!

Hotel La Tour boasts an impressive ten meeting spaces in total. All across one brilliant, purpose built conference floor that knocked our socks off. This is an event planner's heaven.

The space includes five high-spec boardrooms equipped with some very high tech Samsung Flip TVs and full video conferencing capabilities making the spaces perfect for hybrid meetings. Then there’s the flexible suite made up of Rooms 1–4, which can be used as individual spaces or combined into a much larger room ideal for everything from workshops to private dinners.

The breakout area used for coffee breaks, registration etc was so inviting, this writer wanted to open the laptop and get to work! Trust us on this one, this space was super cool.

The entire events floor covers a generous 14,000 square feet and is flooded with natural light thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows all over the space. Beyond the meeting rooms themselves, delegates have access to a spacious lounge area, a stylish outdoor terrace, and a decadent refreshment station stocked with homemade treats from morning through to late afternoon. This whole floor is just brimming with an elevated, homely atmosphere for your delegates to relish working within!

For larger events, the hotel offers flexible registration options, either at the dedicated desk in the 400 Lounge or at reception. There’s also a separate loading entrance at the back of the hotel with access to a service lift, making setup and breakdown straightforward and discreet.

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Meeting Space Highlight: Rooms 1-4

What a cool space this is. High-tech with built in projector, screen and PA system, this wonderfully welcoming and flexible space (rooms1-4) can be one room or, well… four, depending on your requirements. There’s nothing clunky about the partitioning of this room; in every one of its many flexible layouts, the space feels complete, and perfect for productivity. The rooms also overlook the aforementioned private outdoor terrace with its floor-to-ceiling windows. This outdoor space comes into its own in the summertime, beautifully sun-drenched, it is the perfect space to host networking events, informal BBQ’s or even a new car launch due to being built with weight bearing capabilities, you can load the vehicle onto the terrace and drive into our event space. This versatile event space can transform even further, becoming perfect for a private dinner or awards ceremony, with the 400-lounge transitioning into a functioning bar area to accommodate welcome drinks.

Location: Floor 1
Room size: 8.8mW x 26mL x 3mH
Theatre style layout - capacity: 250
Cabaret style layout - capacity: 144
Dinner - capacity: 160 with dancefloor and DJ
Drinks reception - capacity: 160, through business lounge and lounge 400
AV equipment included: Built in PA system, microphone, drop down screen and Laser Phosphor projector

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Meeting Space Highlight: Meeting Room 1

Meeting Room 1 at Hotel La Tour is part of the venue’s flexible event suite and offers a sleek, modern space that we felt would be best used for board meetings, maybe some workshops, training days or even exhibitions. This space complements the other suites' really well and could be used as its own breakout room if needed.

Location: Floor 1, Hotel La Tour
Natural daylight: Yes, Floor to ceiling windows overlooking terrace.
Room size: 5.8mW x 8.8mL x3mH
Theatre style layout - capacity: 50
Cabaret style layout - capacity: 24
Dinner - capacity: N/A
Drinks reception - capacity: Click or tap here to enter text.
AV equipment included: Built in PA system, microphone, drop down screen and Laser Phosphor projector

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Meeting Space Highlight: Meeting Rooms 2-4

Meeting Rooms 2-4 at Hotel La Tour continue the theme of flexibility and modern design. These rooms can be used individually for smaller meetings, or breakout sessions or seamlessly joined together - with Room 1 as well -to create a large, open-plan event space. The integrated AV was a real knockout for us, as well as the same gorgeous furnishings you’ll find all over the hotel (seriously, we need to meet this interior designer!) making them ideal for everything from team sessions to stylish private functions.

Location: Floor 1, Hotel La Tour
Natural daylight: Yes, Floor to ceiling windows overlooking terrace.
Room size: 6.8mW x 8.8mL x 3mH
Theatre style layout - capacity: 60
Cabaret style layout - capacity: 32
Dinner - capacity: 40
Drinks reception - capacity: Click or tap here to enter text.
AV equipment included: Built in PA system, microphone, drop down screen and Laser Phosphor projector

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Summary

Our main takeaway from Hotel La Tour was that despite what all the fancy furnishings and gorgeous designs might have you think, this isn’t just a beautiful hotel - it’s a purpose-built powerhouse for events. Every inch of the venue, from the glass lift with countryside views to the top-floor dining experience and flexible meeting spaces, feels like it’s been designed with thought, care, and ambition by a team of genuinely passionate event professionals.

And as an independent hotel, they can even offer customers the option of complete event buy-out of the hotel for one-off events where guests want to meet, dine with skyline views and celebrate in style!

So, whether you're planning a high-end corporate gathering, an away-day with team building or simply want to impress your delegates with a venue that goes above and beyond, Hotel La Tour delivered for us in every way. Milton Keynes has a new gold standard, and it’s right here.