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Flexible, design-led serviced apartments for film crews, production companies, and broadcasters filming in Bristol, walkable to Bottle Yard Studios and the city's production and post-production hubs.
Read our full guide below to Bristol film crew accommodation for everything you need to know about booking a crew stay in the city.
Bristol is one of the busiest production cities in the UK outside London, and one of the least served when it comes to accommodation actually built for crews rather than tourists or business travellers.
The city is home to over 190 production companies, including Plimsoll Productions, alongside significant Channel 4 and Netflix commissions. Bottle Yard Studios in South Bristol is the largest film and TV studio complex in the region, running 11 stages across two sites. BBC Natural History Unit, responsible for some of the best-known documentary work in the world, is headquartered here too.
Despite all of that, most crews travelling into Bristol end up in a cluster of city-centre hotel rooms with no kitchen, no proper workspace, and a nightly rate that punishes anything longer than a few days. For a six-week commission or a multi-month documentary shoot, that's the wrong tool for the job.
Booking crew housing in Bristol usually means solving for the same handful of things, shoot after shoot:
Proximity to Bottle Yard Studios and central broadcast locations. Nobody wants their crew commuting across the city before a 5am call time, and paying London-style day rates for the privilege isn't the answer either.
Enough units to house a full crew together. A two-person recce team can become an eight-person crew within days. Your accommodation needs to scale with the production, not lock you into a fixed block booked six weeks out.
Kitchens and laundry as standard, not an upgrade. Long shoot days don't leave time for a launderette run or a sit-down restaurant meal every night. A hob, oven, and washing machine change what a multi-week stay actually feels like.
Fast, reliable Wi-Fi. Dailies review, remote editing, and back-to-back calls with broadcasters or agencies need more than a hotel's guest network can reliably handle.
Flexible terms that move with the schedule. Shoot dates change. Crews scale up and down. Booking terms built around hotel-style cancellation penalties don't reflect how productions actually run.
Hotels are built for one-night stays, not a six-week commission or a three-month documentary shoot. Serviced apartments solve the parts of a long stay that hotels were never designed for:
Space to actually function. Separate living and working areas mean your crew isn't eating dinner where they slept or reviewing footage on a hotel bed. Room to work late, decompress, and be ready to go again the next morning.
Full kitchens, every time. Long shoots mean long days, and long days mean expensive restaurants or endless takeaway. A proper kitchen keeps costs down and crews fed properly.
Lower cost over time. Nightly hotel rates don't drop for longer stays. Serviced apartment pricing does, and it adds up fast across a multi-week production.
A home instead of a room. After a twelve-hour shoot day, there's a real difference between a hotel minibar and an apartment that actually feels like somewhere to live.
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10% off - 7+ nights
15% off - 14+ nights
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Our Bristol serviced apartments are design-led, centrally located, and fully equipped, with easy access to Bottle Yard Studios, the harbourside production and post-production cluster, and the broadcasters and agencies based across the city.
Every apartment includes, as standard:
- Fully furnished, individually designed interiors
- Fully equipped kitchen (hob, oven, fridge, microwave, cookware, crockery)
- Superfast Wi-Fi
- Smart TV
- Dedicated workspace with desk
- Washing machine (dryer in most properties)
- Linen and towels provided
- Flexible check-in and checkout
- Optional mid-stay cleaning
- TV production crews on location shoots, long-form documentary projects, and drama commissions.
- Broadcast and streaming professionals, including BBC, Channel 4, and Netflix production teams.
- Editors, directors, and post-production staff needing a quiet, functional base during long post-production cycles.
- Production company contractors, camera operators, sound technicians, lighting crews, who need flexible short-to-medium term accommodation near Bottle Yard Studios.
If you manage travel for a production filming in Bristol, we'd love to talk about how we can make the process easier.
Our Bristol locations are, on average, just a 15–20 minute drive from Bottle Yard Studios, making them a convenient accommodation option for cast, crew and production teams working at the studios.
Yes. We regularly house production teams that scale up or down as a shoot develops — a two-person recce team can become an eight-person crew within days. We can add apartments to an existing Bristol booking at short notice, subject to availability.
Yes. Alongside our standard long-stay discounts, we offer corporate rates and flexible invoicing for production houses and media businesses with regular or ongoing Bristol bookings. Get in touch at contact@yourapartment.com to discuss terms.
Yes. Superfast Wi-Fi is standard across every Bristol property, built to handle demanding day-to-day use like remote editing and back-to-back production or broadcaster calls.
Costs vary by apartment size and length of stay, but our long-stay discounts (10% off 7+ nights, 15% off 14+ nights, 25% off 30+ nights) mean Bristol stays typically work out cheaper per person than an equivalent block of city-centre hotel rooms, especially once kitchen access cuts down on meal spend. Get in touch with your crew size and dates for an exact quote.
We host teams from major broadcasters and streamers, including BBC, Channel 4, and Netflix productions based in and around Bristol, as well as independent production companies and freelance crew.
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