England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Blackpool
Blackpool is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 139,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels in Blackpool, with about 154 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 2
- Best months
- June to August
- Nearest airport
- LPL55 km · Liverpool John Lennon Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately 27 miles (43 km) north of Liverpool and 14 miles (23 km) west of Preston.
The Black Pool was a large peat-stained lake and wetland. West of it along the coast were sandhills and rough grazing: the main village was Poulton-le-Fylde ("pool town") and other tiny settlements were Thornton, Cleveleys, Norbreck and Bispham. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the wetland was drained for agriculture, so nowadays Marton Mere is its only remnant. Drainage made road access easier just as the fashion for sea-bathing took off, but getting here involved a lumbering expensive stagecoach ride so few visited.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Blackpool
See
- Blackpool Tower
- St Johns Anglican parish church
- North Pier
- Central Pier
- South Pier
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach
- Blackpool Zoo
- Marton Mere
- Grundy Art Gallery
Do
- Heritage trams
- Winter Gardens
- Funny Girls
- Grand Theatre
- Sea Life
- Blackpool FC
- Blackpool Illuminations
- Blackpool Park GC
- Viva
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Blackpool
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Blackpool South Shore hotel | 62 | 4.0/5 3,443 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Blackpool South Promenade hotel | 92 | 4.0/5 2,091 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Blackpool
56 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata; the 40 best known are shown, by the number of Wikipedia editions that cover them. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| The Imperial Hotel Blackpool | 1867 | 1.2 km |
| Grand Metropole Hotel | 0.5 km | |
| Norbreck Castle Hotel Britannia Hotels | 4.6 km | |
| North Euston Hotel | 1841 | 12.7 km |
| Shard Riverside Inn | 7.9 km | |
| The Bull | 5.0 km | |
| The Cartford Inn | 12.1 km | |
| The Cliffs Hotel | 2.1 km | |
| The River House | 6.9 km | |
| The Royal Oak Hotel | 5.5 km | |
| Black Bull | 12.4 km | |
| Prince Arthur Hotel | 12.1 km | |
| Saracens Head | 12.5 km | |
| The Mount | 12.2 km | |
| Atlantis Hotel | 0.3 km | |
| Beeches Hotel | 0.3 km | |
| Big Blue Hotel | 3.2 km | |
| Bradburys of Blackpool | 0.4 km | |
| Clifton Hotel | 0.4 km | |
| DJ Suites Blackpool | 0.3 km | |
| Fairhaven Hotel | 0.5 km | |
| Friends Hotel | 0.4 km | |
| Gabrielles | 0.8 km | |
| Hampton by Hilton Blackpool | 2018 | 3.5 km |
| Heritage House Apartments | 0.3 km | |
| Kenley Hotel | 1.6 km | |
| Kings Boutique Hotel | 3.2 km | |
| Kingscliff | 0.3 km | |
| Lynbar Hotel | 0.3 km | |
| North Crest | 2.1 km | |
| Number One South Beach | 3.6 km | |
| Number One St Lukes | 3.2 km | |
| OYO Galaxy Apartments Blackpool OYO Rooms | 2.3 km | |
| OYO High Tide Hotel OYO Rooms | 0.2 km | |
| ParkRoyal Blackpool | 2.3 km | |
| Pelham Lodge | 0.6 km | |
| Raikes Hall Hotel | 0.6 km | |
| Reads Court Holiday Apartments | 0.4 km | |
| Redstone Guest House | 1.7 km | |
| Rossdene House | 1.7 km |
All 58 hotels in Blackpool, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Blackpool
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Blackpool are June to August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; October is the wettest, with about 102 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Blackpool: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL), about 55 km from the city centre in a straight line; Manchester Airport (MAN, 73 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 91 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Blackpool can be reached via the M55 from the M6, the UK's main motorway through the North West of England. Blackpool has many car parks available to visitors, several of which are very close the town's main attractions and promenade. Long distance buses don't run to Blackpool - change in Preston. Stagecoach Bus 61 runs hourly from Preston taking 75 min. Bus 42 runs hourly from Lancaster via the university, Galgate, Garstang, Churchtown, St Michael's, Great Eccleston and Poulton-le-Fylde.
Getting around
The seafront is a flat walk, but even the central promenade between Pleasure Beach and Bispham is 4 miles (6.4 km); the entire strip is 17 miles (27 km). Trams run the length of the sea front from Starr Gate in the south near the airport to Fleetwood in the north. Trams run every 15 min from 6AM to 7PM then every 30 min to midnight. In 2022 a single fare is £2.90 and a return is £5, pay on board by cash or card. If arriving by train, a "Plusbus" ticket allows travel on trams within Blackpool but not Fleetwood.
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LPL · Liverpool John Lennon Airport
MAN · Manchester Airport
LBA · Leeds Bradford Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Blackpool
Stay safe
Blackpool is generally a friendly and outgoing place, but exercise the usual caution over traffic, care of valuables, and children in the cold sea. Visits are generally incident-free. During Friday and Saturday nights, the busiest areas of the town centre such as Talbot Square and Queen Street can become very crowded and somewhat rowdy, but there is a large and generally good-natured police presence. The seafront and piers are usually crowded so are generally safe. Town centre becomes raucous at night with less-than-sober crowds, but it's all good-natured. Swerve clear of the occasional aggressive drunk.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Blackpool
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
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Questions
Blackpool: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Blackpool?
By published guest score: Travelodge Blackpool South Shore (4.0 / 5 · 3,443 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Blackpool South Promenade (4.0 / 5 · 2,091 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Blackpool?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Blackpool are June to August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; October is the wettest, with about 102 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Blackpool?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL), about 55 km from the city centre in a straight line; Manchester Airport (MAN, 73 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 91 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Blackpool?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Blackpool
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.