Hunting for meeting rooms Hampshire businesses can actually book by the hour? Wezoo lists 11 buildings across the county with bookable meeting rooms, 25 separately listed rooms between them, and entry rates running from £29.48 to £96.76 an hour including VAT. Every figure below is read straight off the live listings.
This guide does something the listing pages do not. It reads the layout each of the meeting rooms Hampshire lists publishes, not just the headline capacity — because on the county’s two biggest rooms those are two different numbers, and the gap between them decides which room is actually the best value. If you want the wider picture first, our complete guide to meeting rooms covers how hourly hire works before you narrow down to a county.
One thing to be clear about up front. This guide covers the Hampshire county area, which is the set Wezoo returns for the county itself. Southampton and Portsmouth are unitary authorities with their own listings and their own guides — meeting rooms in Southampton and meeting rooms in Portsmouth — so every count, rate and comparison below is scoped to the buildings Wezoo returns for the county itself: 13 in all, 11 of them with meeting rooms.
Wezoo snapshot — meeting rooms Hampshire
- 11 buildings with bookable meeting rooms, across 9 towns
- 25 separately listed rooms, seating 4 to 20 people
- Entry rate range: £29.48 to £96.76 per hour including VAT
- Median entry rate: £46.86 per hour · median across all 25 rooms: £57.84 per hour
- Operators: Basepoint (6), Regus (3), HQ (1), Spaces (1)
Those figures cover the 25 meeting rooms Hampshire buildings publish on Wezoo, priced room by room rather than building by building.
Meeting rooms Hampshire pricing: what an hour actually costs
Between £29.48 and £96.76 including VAT, with a median entry rate of £46.86. That is a 3.28-times spread across 11 buildings sitting inside one county — and the cheapest and the dearest are both the opening rate of their own building.
The rate a building advertises is its entry rate: the price of its smallest room. It is not the price of its biggest one. At The Hub Farnborough Business Park the entry rate of £39.60 buys a four-person room, while the twelve-person room in the same building is £72.60. Read the entry rate as a starting point and nothing more. All prices here include VAT at the standard UK rate of 20%.
Why “seats 20” is not the number to divide by
Every one of the meeting rooms Hampshire lists carries a headline capacity. That number is not necessarily the number of people who can sit round the table — it is the best case across every layout the room publishes, and for the biggest rooms that best case is a row of chairs with no tables at all.
The listing carries a second field alongside the price: the set of layouts the room can be arranged into, each with its own capacity, one of them flagged as the default. Across all 25 rooms in the county set the headline capacity is exactly the largest layout capacity — 25 times out of 25, no exceptions. So when a room says it seats 20, that is its theatre count.
Only 2 of the 25 meeting rooms Hampshire lists have a gap like that between headline and default.
22 of the 25 rooms publish exactly one layout, always boardroom, and for those the headline capacity is honest: the room seats what it says. Three rooms publish more than one. Two of those three publish a theatre layout — and those two are the only rooms in this eleven-building set where the headline number and the seated number come apart.
| Room | Headline | Per hour | Per headline seat | Boardroom seats | Per seated place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harts Farm Way, Havant | 16 | £68.46 | £4.28 | 12 | £5.71 |
| Waterbury Drive, Waterlooville | 20 | £96.76 | £4.84 | 12 | £8.06 |
| East Portway Business Park, Andover | 10 | £46.20 | £4.62 | 10 | £4.62 |
Sort all 25 meeting rooms Hampshire lists by price per headline seat and the picture changes.
On that headline sort, Harts Farm Way in Havant comes first at £4.28 a seat and Waterbury Drive in Waterlooville comes third at £4.84. Re-sort on the default boardroom layout — the arrangement you get unless you ask for something else — and Harts Farm Way drops to 4 of 25 at £5.71, while Waterbury Drive falls to 16 at £8.06. The room that looked like the county set’s third-cheapest headline seat is now mid-table.
The winner on the seated sort is the 10-person room at East Portway Business Park in Andover at £4.62 a place — a room whose headline and default capacity are the same number, so nothing is lost in translation.
Two practical rules come out of this. If you are running a presentation, a training session or an all-hands, the headline number is the right one, and on that sort those two theatre rooms come 1st and 3rd of 25. If people need to sit round a table with laptops open, divide by the boardroom figure instead, and check it before you book.
The layout field is a meeting-room field, and only a meeting-room field. Across the 683 hot desk, day office and private office listings the same 13 Hampshire buildings publish, the layout list is empty every single time. Hampshire publishes what a meeting room can be re-arranged into and publishes nothing of the kind for anything else.
Five meeting rooms Hampshire buildings worth booking first
Five of the meeting rooms Hampshire buildings publish, ordered by the point they make rather than by price. Each one lists every room the building publishes, so you can see the ladder rather than the opening rate.
Waterbury Drive — Waterlooville
The county’s most expensive hour, and the room the whole layout question turns on. Waterbury Drive publishes a single meeting room at £96.76 an hour, and it is one of only two rooms in the county set that can be laid out four ways: theatre for 20, classroom for 16, a U-shape for 15 and a boardroom for 12. Around a table it is a twelve-person room carrying a twenty-person headline.
That makes it a workshop and training-day room at full size rather than a twenty-seat boardroom — there is no other room in the county set that will take twenty people in rows. Cancellation runs to 23 days here, the longer of the two windows Hampshire uses. The building also lists a day office at £42.00 a day, which costs less than half an hour in its own meeting room.
- 20 people — £96.76 per hour · theatre 20, classroom 16, u-shape 15, boardroom 12
Harts Farm Way — Havant
The cheapest entry rate in the county set, and three rooms that between them cover most team sizes: £29.48 for four people, £42.48 for eight, £68.46 for sixteen. The sixteen-person room is the county set’s other four-way room — theatre for 16, classroom and boardroom for 12, U-shape for 10 — and on a headline per-seat sort it is the cheapest seat in the county set at £4.28.
Read it on the boardroom figure and it is £5.71 a place, which is still good value and no longer remarkable. The four-person room at £29.48 is the honest bargain here: one layout, one capacity, nothing to reinterpret. Every room lists video-conference kit, a whiteboard and a flip chart. For the desk-by-the-day version of the same building, our Hampshire coworking guide covers hot desks across the county.
- 4 people — £29.48 per hour · boardroom 4
- 8 people — £42.48 per hour · boardroom 8, classroom 6
- 16 people — £68.46 per hour · theatre 16, boardroom 12, classroom 12, u-shape 10
East Portway Business Park — Andover
The best seated rate in the county set. Andover publishes two rooms — eight people at £41.58 and ten at £46.20 — and the ten-person room works out at £4.62 a place, the lowest figure in the county set once you sort on the layout you will actually sit in. Both rooms publish a single boardroom layout at their headline capacity, so there is no gap to allow for.
Note what that pricing does: going from eight seats to ten costs £4.62 more an hour — £2.31 per extra seat, exactly half what the average seat in that ten-person room costs. The building also lists a day office at £54.00 a day and hot desks from £22.80.
- 8 people — £41.58 per hour · boardroom 8
- 10 people — £46.20 per hour · boardroom 10
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The Hub Farnborough Business Park — Farnborough
The deepest ladder in the county set — four rooms at four different sizes: £39.60, £47.86, £56.10 and £72.60 an hour for four, six, eight and twelve people. If you book meetings of varying sizes from one building, this is the one that will not force you into the wrong room. The twelve-person room carries the longer 23-day cancellation window; the three smaller ones sit on the shorter one.
Every room here publishes a boardroom layout only, at exactly its headline capacity. Three of the four do not list natural light, which is worth knowing before a long session. The building lists nine on-site services including catering, a coffee and tea bar, a restaurant and wheelchair access.
- 4 people — £39.60 per hour · boardroom 4
- 6 people — £47.86 per hour · boardroom 6
- 8 people — £56.10 per hour · boardroom 8
- 12 people — £72.60 per hour · boardroom 12
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Ancells Business Park — Fleet
Three rooms — £40.48 for four people, £57.84 for eight, £75.22 for twelve — and the same clean structure as Farnborough: one boardroom layout each, capacity as advertised. On the seated sort the twelve-person room comes in at £6.27 a place, 6 of 25 in the county set.
Fleet is the northernmost of the five profiled here. All three rooms list video-conference equipment, a large display, a whiteboard and a flip chart; the eight- and twelve-person rooms add natural light. The building’s day office is £66.00 a day, about 1.63 hours of its own cheapest meeting room.
- 4 people — £40.48 per hour · boardroom 4
- 8 people — £57.84 per hour · boardroom 8
- 12 people — £75.22 per hour · boardroom 12
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Every building with meeting rooms in Hampshire
All 11 meeting rooms Hampshire buildings, sorted by entry rate. Three of these towns already have their own Wezoo guide, linked in the table.
| Building | Town | Operator | Rooms | From (per hour) | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harts Farm Way | Havant | Basepoint | 3 | £29.48 | 4–16 |
| The Hub Farnborough Business Park | Farnborough | Regus | 4 | £39.60 | 4–12 |
| Ancells Business Park | Fleet | Regus | 3 | £40.48 | 4–12 |
| East Portway Business Park | Andover | Basepoint | 2 | £41.58 | 8–10 |
| Stroudley Road | Basingstoke · meeting room hire Basingstoke | Basepoint | 2 | £44.57 | 4–8 |
| Solent Business Park | Fareham | Spaces | 4 | £46.86 | 4–10 |
The remaining five meeting rooms Hampshire buildings, continuing up the price ladder.
| Building | Town | Operator | Rooms | From (per hour) | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Walk | Winchester · meeting room hire Winchester | Regus | 2 | £47.30 | 4–6 |
| 1 Winnal Valley Road | Winchester | Basepoint | 1 | £59.42 | 8 |
| Castle Court | Fareham · meeting room hire Fareham | HQ | 2 | £70.62 | 8–10 |
| Premier Way | Romsey | Basepoint | 1 | £77.90 | 8 |
| Waterbury Drive | Waterlooville | Basepoint | 1 | £96.76 | 20 |
Every one of the 25 rooms lists Wi-Fi, a whiteboard, a flip chart and video-conference equipment. Those four are not the variable here; price, layout, natural light and a large display are — 8 of the 25 rooms do not list natural light and 2 do not list a large display.
Meeting rooms Hampshire vs a day office: which works out cheaper?
The day office wins sooner than you would think. The median building crosses over at 1.30 hours, but the range runs from 26 minutes to 2 hours 24 minutes. Every building holding meeting rooms Hampshire wide also lists a day office, and the day office is a flat daily rate no matter how many people it holds.
That flatness is the striking part. Across all 205 day office listings the county set publishes, every building charges one price — and at Solent Business Park in Fareham that single price covers listings for anywhere between 1 and 65 people. Capacity is a priced attribute on the meeting-room list and a free one on the day-office list.
Across all 11 buildings the median crossover is 1.30 hours, and at 3 of them the day office is already the cheaper buy before the first hour of a meeting room is up: Waterbury Drive in Waterlooville (26 minutes), Premier Way in Romsey (36 minutes), 1 Winnal Valley Road in Winchester (47 minutes).
- Waterlooville — day office £42.00 a day against a £96.76 meeting-room hour: break-even at 0.43 hours
- Havant — day office £46.80 a day against a £29.48 meeting-room hour: break-even at 1.59 hours
- Andover — day office £54.00 a day against a £41.58 meeting-room hour: break-even at 1.30 hours
- Farnborough — day office £94.80 a day against a £39.60 meeting-room hour: break-even at 2.39 hours
- Fleet — day office £66.00 a day against a £40.48 meeting-room hour: break-even at 1.63 hours
The catch is kit. Hampshire day offices do not list the whiteboard, flip chart and video-conference equipment that every one of the meeting rooms Hampshire publishes carries. The day office buys you space and hours; the meeting room buys you the kit.
For longer commitments the same buildings list private offices, covered in our Hampshire office space guide, and the whole range sits inside our flexible workspace guide.
Why meeting rooms Hampshire prices one room at a time
Strip the VAT off and the pattern is hard to miss. Across the 13 buildings in the county set, hot desks come in 5 distinct rates and every one is a round pound: £15, £19, £25, £29, £35. Day offices come in 8 rates, all round pounds: £35, £39, £45, £55, £65, £75, £79, £89. Meeting rooms? 22 distinct rates across 25 rooms, and only 2 of them land on a round pound.
Desks and day offices are sold off a rate card. Meeting rooms are priced one room at a time — which is also why the layout field exists for rooms and for nothing else.
Meeting rooms Hampshire booking rules: notice and opening hours
Further than you would expect, and how much further depends entirely on room size. Every one of the meeting rooms Hampshire lists has a minimum booking of one hour and free cancellation up to a fixed window — but that window is set by capacity, not by operator.
Rooms seating fewer than twelve people cancel free up to 13 days ahead. Rooms seating twelve or more need 23 days. There are 4 rooms in the second group: the 12-person room at Ancells Business Park, the 12-person room at The Hub Farnborough Business Park, the 16-person room at Harts Farm Way, the 20-person room at Waterbury Drive. The rule holds across both operators that run them, with no exceptions in the county set.
Opening hours are the other constraint. Every one of the 25 rooms opens at 08:30 and closes between 17:00 and 17:30, Monday to Friday. Not one Hampshire building publishes weekend or evening hours for a meeting room, so a Saturday workshop is not something this county lists.
Which Hampshire buildings have no meeting rooms?
Two of the 13 Wezoo buildings in the county set sit outside the meeting rooms Hampshire list entirely. Basepoint’s Aerodrome Road in Gosport (PO13) and the Regus at Southampton Airport (SO18, a Southampton address that Wezoo still returns in the county set) both publish desks, day offices and private offices, and neither publishes a bookable meeting room.
If you are searching either of those, the nearest bookable room is Castle Court in Fareham, 2.4 miles from Aerodrome Road, and Premier Way in Romsey, 5.0 miles from Southampton Airport. Both buildings are well stocked on everything else: Aerodrome Road lists 16 hot desk listings, 10 day offices and 22 private offices; Southampton Airport lists 12, 11 and 33.
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Prices update as operators change them, so treat the figures above as a snapshot and check live rates on the Hampshire landing page.
Meeting rooms Hampshire: frequently asked questions
How much do meeting rooms Hampshire businesses book cost per hour?
Entry rates run from £29.48 to £96.76 an hour including VAT, with a median of £46.86. Across all 25 separately listed rooms the median is £57.84. The cheapest is the four-person room at Harts Farm Way in Havant; the dearest is the 20-person room at Waterbury Drive in Waterlooville.
Which towns have meeting rooms Hampshire wide on Wezoo?
9 towns: Andover, Basingstoke, Fareham, Farnborough, Fleet, Havant, Romsey, Waterlooville and Winchester. Fareham and Winchester have two buildings each; the other seven have one apiece.
Do meeting rooms Hampshire advertises as seating 20 really seat 20?
Only in a theatre layout. The headline capacity on a Wezoo listing is the largest layout the room publishes, which for the 20-person room at Waterbury Drive means rows of chairs. Its default boardroom layout seats 12. Only 2 of the 25 rooms in the county set have any gap at all between the two figures — for the rest, the headline number is what you get round the table.
Which meeting rooms Hampshire lists are best for a training day?
The 16-person room at Harts Farm Way in Havant and the 20-person room at Waterbury Drive in Waterlooville. They are the only two rooms in the county set that publish a theatre layout, so they are the only two that will take a full group in rows rather than round a table.
How far ahead do meeting rooms Hampshire require you to cancel?
13 days for rooms seating fewer than twelve people, 23 days for rooms seating twelve or more. The window is set by capacity rather than by operator, and it holds for every room in the county set.
Can I book meeting rooms Hampshire lists for a single hour?
Yes. Every room in the county set has a minimum booking of one hour, with no membership and no subscription — you pay for the hours you book. Rooms are available Monday to Friday, opening at 08:30 and closing between 17:00 and 17:30.
Hampshire gives you 25 rooms in 11 buildings and one thing worth checking before every booking. The headline capacity tells you what the room can hold. The layout tells you what it can seat. On all but 2 of these rooms the two are the same number — but those 2 are the rooms a headline per-seat sort flatters most.
Booking runs a county over too. Our guide to meeting room hire in Essex runs the same room-by-room rate comparison on a different set of buildings, and the Hampshire business address guide covers all 13 county-set buildings for post rather than meetings.
