The Royal Hotel hosts conferences, training courses, exhibitions, wedding receptions, private parties and dinner dances, with five function rooms that take from 50 to 300 guests. It is an independent, family-run hotel on Ablewell Street in the center of Walsall, in the West Midlands, on the A34 that leads toward Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield.
Seminars and company events
The function rooms are hired for conferences, meetings, training courses and exhibitions. The smallest, the Churchill Room, seats 50 in conference layout, which suits a training day or a sales meeting. Larger groups move to the Oak Room for 100 or to Rooms 1 and 2 for 150. For a company conference, a product show or a corporate hospitality day, the Astor Room takes the largest numbers and has its own reception entrance, so delegates do not cross the hotel lobby. Hotel staff help plan the day, and delegates who travel from further away can stay in the 28 bedrooms upstairs.
Weddings and receptions
The Astor Room is the hotel's main room for wedding receptions, birthday parties, dinner dances and sports club events. It has a large dance floor and its own entrance. Smaller family celebrations fit in the Oak Room or the Churchill Room. Wedding guests who travel can book bedrooms in the same building, and the private car park makes arrivals and departures easy.
Rooms and capacities
The hotel publishes a table of its function rooms with exhibition, conference, banquet and buffet figures. The Churchill Room, about 15 by 40 feet, takes 50 in each layout. The Oak Room takes 100. Rooms 1 and 2 take 150. The Café Royal, about 36 by 42 feet, takes 80 to 150 depending on the layout. The Astor Room, about 43 by 60 feet, is listed at 200 in the table and described elsewhere on the site as a 300-person hall, the largest of the five.
Accommodation
There are 28 recently refurbished en-suite bedrooms, all double or twin, on site. The Oak Room lounge bar and the restaurant serve resident guests. Parking is available in the hotel car park and in the streets nearby.
Catering
The hotel runs its own restaurant and bar, and it also lets clients arrange their own catering for a function, which suits groups who want a particular menu or a family caterer for a wedding. Buffet and banquet figures are given for every room.
History and setting
The Royal Hotel is owned and run by a family who manage it day to day. The Astor Room pairs a traditional function hall with modern decoration, and the Oak Room bar keeps a more period character.
Getting there
The hotel stands on Ablewell Street in Walsall town center. By road it is about two miles from junctions 8 and 10 of the M6 and sits on the A34 toward Birmingham, so it is easy to reach from across the West Midlands and the rest of the country.
