Christmas Day lunch near Staines costs £60.95 to £140 a head at nine pubs and hotels, from the Swan to Great Fosters. 2026 prices, child rates and deposits.

For Christmas Day in Staines, most people look first at the two town pubs: the Swan Hotel on the river at the Hythe (£110 a head) and the Bells on Church Street (£100). For a grander lunch, Great Fosters in Egham charges £140 in its Tithe Barn, and the lowest prices are at the Ashford pubs, from £60.95 at the Freeman Arms. Every entry was checked against the venue’s own site on 2 November 2026.

We have not eaten at any of these for this guide, and nothing here is a review. Each entry gives the price on the venue’s own 2026 Christmas page or menu, what it includes, and what it says about deposits and booking, plus its Food Standards Agency (FSA) hygiene rating. Prices are per person and exclude any service charge unless we say otherwise. Christmas Day 2026 is a Friday, and no trains run from Staines, Ashford, Sunbury or Shepperton that day, so plan a lift or a taxi (Christmas trains).

Some tables have already gone. The Three Horseshoes at Laleham says its restaurant is fully booked for Christmas Day, though the bar opens from 12pm to 2.30pm for drinks. The Kingfisher on Chertsey Bridge Road has a Christmas Day menu and opens from 11.30am to 6pm, but its menu does not print a price, so it is not listed below.

Staines and Egham

1. The Swan Hotel, The Hythe

The Swan is the Fuller’s pub and hotel on the south bank of the Thames by Staines Bridge, with a riverside terrace. Its Christmas Day menu is £110 a head and opens with a glass of English sparkling wine and two canapés each, a cauliflower, hazelnut and Wookey Hole cheese croquette and a smoked salmon blini.

Starters include a prawn and queen scallop ravioli with an English sparkling wine sauce and a whipped chicken liver parfait. The children’s Christmas Day menu, for 12 and under, is £55.

Through December the Swan also runs a Christmas dining menu at £43 for two courses or £47 for three.

Price Christmas Day £110, children 12 and under £55; Christmas dining menu £43 to £47
Booking online or by phone; party bookings through the Christmas page
Call 01784 452494
Address The Hythe, Staines-upon-Thames, TW18 3JB
Hygiene rating 3, Food Standards Agency, 16 January 2026
Website swanstaines.co.uk/christmas
Good for riverside, children's prices, hotel rooms, sparkling wine and canapés

2. The Bells, Church Street

The Bells is the pub at 124 Church Street, at the western end of the town. Its Christmas Day menu is three courses for £100 with a glass of champagne on arrival, served from midday.

The pub says the menu gives “the classic turkey and traditional trimmings the respect they deserve”, alongside Gressingham duck breast, pan-roasted hake with chorizo and bean cassoulet, slow-roasted lamb shoulder, a sirloin steak with garlic king prawns and a butternut squash and lentil filo wellington. Children’s three courses are £50.

The festive menu (£33 for two courses, £38 for three) runs from 18 November to 31 December, excluding Christmas Day. The pub’s OpenTable listing asks for a £25 non-refundable deposit on Christmas Day bookings and full payment by 4 December.

Price Christmas Day £100, children £50; festive menu £33 to £38
Booking online; deposit and pre-order for tables of six or more on festive menus
Call 01784 918029
Address 124 Church Street, Staines-upon-Thames, TW18 4ZB
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 1 September 2026
Website thebellspub.co.uk/event/christmas
Good for champagne on arrival, children's prices, vegan main, steak option

3. Great Fosters, Stroude Road, Egham

Great Fosters is the Tudor country house hotel off Stroude Road in Egham, run by the Alexander Hotel Collection. Christmas lunch is served in what the hotel calls its “Grade II Listed Tithe Barn”, a traditional lunch “complete with all the trimmings”, at £140 for adults and £70 for children aged 5 to 12.

The hotel’s fine-dining restaurant, the Tudor Pass, serves a five-course festive tasting menu on Christmas Day only, at £195, which the hotel says runs from a hand-dived Orkney scallop with caviar to chef Stefano Di Giosia’s take on the Christmas turkey. A festive afternoon tea (£52, or £64 with Champagne) runs from 1 December to 2 January.

Price Christmas Day £140, children 5 to 12 £70 (Tithe Barn); Tudor Pass tasting menu £195
Booking online through the hotel's festive dining page
Call 01784 433822
Address Stroude Road, Egham, TW20 9UR
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 27 June 2025
Website alexanderhotels.co.uk/great-fosters/great-fosters-christmas-dining
Good for listed building, children's prices, tasting menu, festive afternoon tea

Shepperton and Laleham

4. The Thames Court, Shepperton

The Thames Court is the Vintage Inns pub on the towpath above Shepperton Lock, a large riverside house. Its 2026 Christmas Day menu is three courses for £92.95, and the children’s Christmas Day menu is £40.50.

Vintage Inns asks for a £10 deposit per person on every Christmas Day table, with full payment and the pre-order due by 8 December. A 10% discretionary service charge applies to tables of seven or more.

The pub’s own pages say it is dog friendly.

Price Christmas Day £92.95, children £40.50
Booking £10 deposit per person; pay in full and pre-order by 8 December
Call 01932 221957
Address Towpath, Shepperton, TW17 9LJ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 23 April 2025
Website vintageinn.co.uk/restaurants/south-east/thethamescourtshepperton/christmas-day-menu
Good for riverside, dogs welcome, children's prices

5. Warren Lodge Hotel, Church Square

Warren Lodge is the small hotel on Church Square in Old Shepperton. Its 2026 Christmas brochure prices Christmas Day at £82 for adults and £41 for children, with a glass of Prosecco on arrival, a four-course lunch, crackers, hats and novelties.

Festive lunches and dinners through December are £32 for two courses or £36 for three, and a festive afternoon tea is £29.95. The brochure asks for a 50% non-refundable deposit per person within seven days of booking, and offers 12% off bed and breakfast for guests staying over.

Price Christmas Day £82, children £41; festive menu £32 to £36
Booking 50% non-refundable deposit within seven days of booking
Call 01932 242972
Address Church Square, Shepperton, TW17 9JZ
Hygiene rating 3, Food Standards Agency, 10 June 2026
Website warrenlodgehotel.co.uk/christmas
Good for four courses, Prosecco on arrival, children's prices, hotel rooms

6. The Goat, Upper Halliford Road

The Goat is a Stonehouse Pizza and Carvery pub on Upper Halliford Road, between Shepperton and Sunbury. Its Christmas Day menu is “from just £62.99 per adult”, built around its festive carvery “with all the trimmings”, with a mushroom bourguignon suet pudding as the meat-free main and Christmas pudding or a chocolate and cherry ganache torte to finish.

Stonehouse asks for a £10 deposit per person, adults and children, with full payment and the pre-order by 1 December; deposits are refunded if you cancel at least 14 days ahead.

Price Christmas Day from £62.99
Booking £10 deposit per person; pay in full and pre-order by 1 December
Call 01932 782415
Address 47 Upper Halliford Road, Shepperton, TW17 8RX
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 6 May 2025
Website stonehouserestaurants.co.uk/nationalsearch/southeast/thegoatshepperton/christmas-day-menu
Good for carvery, families, meat-free main

Ashford

7. Harvester the Bulldog, London Road

The Bulldog is the Harvester on London Road, Ashford. Its Christmas Day menu is £72.99 an adult: bubble and squeak bon bons to start, then hand-carved turkey with all the trimmings, a festive pork tomahawk with crispy Christmas hash or a mushroom suet pudding, and Christmas pudding or a Baileys salted caramel profiterole sundae.

Harvester takes a £10 deposit per person whatever the party size, and asks for full payment and the pre-order by 1 December.

Price Christmas Day £72.99
Booking £10 deposit per person; pay in full and pre-order by 1 December
Call 01784 252386
Address 556 London Road, Ashford, TW15 3AF
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 6 May 2026
Website harvester.co.uk/restaurants/southeast/thebulldogashford/christmas-day-menu
Good for families, meat-free main

8. The King’s Fairway, Fordbridge Road

The King’s Fairway is the Ember Inns pub on Fordbridge Road. Its Christmas Day menu is three courses for £71.95 for adults and £35.95 for children.

Ember asks for a £10 deposit for every guest on Christmas Day, with full payment and the pre-order by 1 December; deposits are non-refundable within 14 days of the booking. Through December the pub also runs a festive set menu at £22.99 for two courses (£9.99 for children), a Boxing Day menu at £32.50, and breakfast with Santa at £12.99 a head.

Price Christmas Day £71.95, children £35.95; festive menu £22.99
Booking £10 deposit per person; pay in full and pre-order by 1 December
Call 01784 423575
Address 91 Fordbridge Road, Ashford, TW15 2SS
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 31 October 2024
Website emberinns.co.uk/nationalsearch/southeast/the-kings-fairway-ashford/christmas
Good for children's prices, Boxing Day menu, breakfast with Santa

9. The Freeman Arms, Feltham Road

The Freeman Arms is the Greene King pub on Feltham Road, Ashford. Its Christmas Day lunch is three courses for £60.95, the lowest Christmas Day price on this list.

The menu starts with smoked salmon on toasted ciabatta, a twice-baked Cheddar soufflé or a butternut squash and sweet potato soup, then roast turkey with pigs in blankets and Brussels sprouts, with meat-free mains. There is a separate children’s Christmas Day menu.

A £10 deposit per person secures the booking.

Price Christmas Day £60.95
Booking £10 deposit per person
Call 01784 252115
Address 77 Feltham Road, Ashford, TW15 1BS
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 2 July 2026
Website greeneking.co.uk/pubs/middlesex/freeman-arms/christmas/christmas-day
Good for lowest price, children's menu, meat-free mains

Christmas menus in December

10. The Phoenix, Thames Street, Sunbury

The Phoenix is the riverside pub on Thames Street in Lower Sunbury, which describes itself as a tapas restaurant on the river. It does not publish a Christmas Day menu, but its Christmas menu runs from 1 to 21 December at £39.50 a head: roast parsnip and Bramley apple soup or a crayfish and prawn Bloody Mary cocktail to start, roast Norfolk turkey, pan-fried sea trout, lamb leg steak or crab linguine, and Christmas pudding with brandy butter and cognac crème anglaise.

A £10 deposit per person holds the booking.

Price Christmas menu £39.50, 1 to 21 December
Booking £10 deposit per person
Call 01932 785358
Address 26 to 28 Thames Street, Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 6AF
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 3 September 2026
Website thephoenixsunbury.uk
Good for riverside, December menu, fish and vegetarian mains

How we chose

These are the pubs, hotels and restaurants in and around Staines that publish a 2026 Christmas price on their own website, checked on 2 November 2026. We read each venue’s Christmas page or menu and took the hygiene ratings from the Food Standards Agency register (Spelthorne for the Shepperton, Sunbury, Ashford and Church Street venues; Runnymede for the Swan and Great Fosters). Nothing rated below 3 is included. We left out places whose Christmas Day menu carries no price online, and hotels that only sell Christmas as a residential package. Prices can change and tables sell out, so check with the venue before you go.

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Frequently asked questions

Where can I have Christmas dinner in Staines on Christmas Day 2026?

Nine places on this list publish a Christmas Day 2026 price: Great Fosters in Egham (£140 in the Tithe Barn), the Swan Hotel at the Hythe (£110), the Bells on Church Street (£100), the Thames Court at Shepperton (£92.95), Warren Lodge in Shepperton (£82), Harvester the Bulldog in Ashford (£72.99), the King’s Fairway in Ashford (£71.95), the Goat at Upper Halliford (from £62.99) and the Freeman Arms in Ashford (£60.95). The Three Horseshoes at Laleham says its restaurant is fully booked.

How much is Christmas dinner in Staines in 2026?

Christmas Day lunch runs from £60.95 a head at the Freeman Arms on Feltham Road, Ashford, to £140 in the Tithe Barn at Great Fosters, Egham. The Staines town pubs, the Swan and the Bells, charge £110 and £100, and the chain pubs in Ashford and Shepperton sit between £60.95 and £92.95.

Are there children’s prices for Christmas Day near Staines?

Yes. The King’s Fairway charges £35.95 for children, the Thames Court £40.50, Warren Lodge £41, the Bells £50, the Swan £55 for children aged 12 and under, and Great Fosters £70 for ages 5 to 12.