The Blog

Emily Jupp of Milly J Shoes has delivered her special Easter Shoe to the Maids Head. The shoe will be on display in hotel  reception throughout the Easter period.

Emily is a shoe artist and is creating a series of shoes, linked to key events in the Norwich and Norfolk calendar, for display at the hotel. She crafts her handmade shoes and clips in her shop and studio in Tombland, just across the road from the Maids Head.Read more »

Celebrate English Tourism Week from Saturday, March 30 to Sunday, April 7 at the historic Maids Head Hotel, winner of Best Independent Hotel and the Investing in the Future award at the Norfolk and Suffolk Tourism Awards 2019. Read more »

We were very pleased to welcome 85 members of The 74 (F) Tiger Squadron Association to the Maids Head over the weekend of Friday 1 to Sunday 3 March, on their first visit to Norwich for a reunion.

The reunion included a special dinner in the Minstrel Suite at the hotel and a trip to City of Norwich Aviation Museum, where a new display about Tiger Squadron’s time based at RAF Horsham St Faith (now Norwich International Airport), has just been opened. Read more »

We are celebrating today, having won two awards at the 2019 Norfolk and Suffolk Tourism Awards staged last night at Open in Norwich.Read more »

We are very pleased to announce that the Maids Head Hotel is an accommodation partner with the new English National Park Experience Collection, which has been supported by Visit Britain and Visit England through the Discover England Fund. Read more »

We have completed work on our new suite, which has been named Catherine of Aragon.  Louise Norfolk won a competition on our Facebook page to name the suite and suggested Catherine of Aragon. Her prize is a night’s stay in the suite.Read more »

We are finalists in three categories of the Norfolk and Suffolk Tourism Awards 2019.

• Best Independent Hotel,
• Investing in the Future
• Customers at the Heart of Everything.

The awards evening is on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at Open, Norwich – keep your fingers crossed for us!

We are very pleased to be taking part in the Christmas Tree Festival at St Peter Mancroft Church. The event has been organised by the Rotary Club of Norwich St Edmund and runs until Monday 3 December. Read more »

We are delighted to announce that the Maids Head won the Best Employer category at the Norfolk Business Awards 2018 on Thursday, November 22. The hotel was the only hospitality business to pick up an award.
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Guests enjoyed a a special dinner party at the Maids Head, hosted by ‘John Paston’ on Thursday, November 22, to mark the first mention of the the hotel’s name in a Paston letter dated November 22, 1472.Read more »