VR Hire Reading
The densest technology corridor outside London runs through this town, and it has the venues to match — a stadium with 32 event spaces, a purpose-built business-park centre, and a Victorian concert hall seating 700.
We know Reading's venues
Reading Festival over the August bank holiday is the date to know. It gridlocks the A33 and the Caversham approaches and fills every hotel bed in the town, so a corporate event that week is fighting for road space with 100,000 people heading to a field. We flag it immediately. Outside that week the town is straightforward: no charging zone, generous business-park parking, and an M4 junction 11 approach that behaves itself outside peak.
The Select Car Leasing Stadium carries the bulk of the larger bookings with 32 event spaces and the Princess Suite taking 500. Green Park's conference centre out on Longwater Avenue serves the surrounding tech campuses, and the Town Hall's concert hall gives you a Victorian room for something more formal. De Vere Wokefield sits about six miles south with 39 event spaces and 376 bedrooms for anything residential — a genuine estate rather than a hotel with a function room.
32 event spaces, Princess Suite to 500
Longwater Avenue, up to 200
Victorian concert hall seating 700
39 event spaces, 376 bedrooms, six miles south
Grade II listed, central away-day rooms
Green Park and Thames Valley Park floors fit us
Rooms we work in around Reading and the Thames Valley. The stadium was the Madejski until its rename, which still confuses a fair number of listings and satnavs. The Museum of English Rural Life is the surprise on this list — a listed building minutes from the centre, with rooms that read nothing like a hotel, and a favourite for away days wanting a change of scene.
What we bring to Reading events
VR Drone Racing
FPV gate-running for the M4 tech corridor — this crowd optimise their racing line.
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VR Golf
Famous fairways for a client night that outclasses another Thames-side dinner.
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Virtual Sports Day
Heats followed by a final — the stadium's larger suites take the full build.
Explore Virtual Sports Day →Team building, Christmas parties and celebrations in Reading
Team building in Reading
The Thames Valley tech corridor runs on away-days, and most of the campuses out along the A33 and Green Park have the floor space to host one without booking anything. Software teams take to the timing data immediately.
Team building →Christmas parties in Reading
Reading's December fills from the business parks outward, so the town-centre rooms go first and the park venues hold on longer. Worth knowing if your date slipped past October.
Christmas parties →Birthdays & parties in Reading
Family homes across Caversham and Earley generally have the through-room this needs, and the town's scout huts and sports pavilions handle the larger guest lists cheaply.
Birthdays & parties →The practical bit
Travel
We include travel throughout Reading and the surrounding Thames Valley. Late-August dates get checked against the festival calendar first, since that week reshapes the town's roads more thoroughly than anything else in the year.
Booking
The corporate calendar governs this diary: dense autumn, fierce December, quiet August apart from festival week. Six weeks for December, a fortnight for most else.
Good questions, straight answers
Is Reading Festival week really a problem?
Where's the easiest build?
What suits a technology guest list?
Do you cover Newbury, Bracknell and the wider valley?
Any clean-air charges here?
Is De Vere Wokefield worth the six miles?
We also cover
Planning a Reading event?
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day, with Reading travel and logistics already priced in.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 020 3411 1264 — lines answered seven days a week.
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