England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Bolton
Bolton is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 285,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Bolton, with about 64 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Nearest airport
- MAN27 km · Manchester Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Bolton
Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury and Salford.
Bolton grew rapidly as a textile and metal-bashing town during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Spinning Mule was invented here: it spun yarn into cotton thread faster and more efficiently than earlier processes, to feed the great hungry looms, and in its heyday there were 50 million Mules in Lancashire alone. A few were still in use for specialist fine yarns until the 1980s, but the Lancashire cotton trade collapsed in the 1950s, unable to compete with cheap imports. Bolton and similar towns slumped.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Bolton
See
- Bolton Town Hall
- Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive
- Bolton Steam Museum
- Hall i' th' Wood
- Prestolee Aqueduct
- Turton Tower
- Holy Trinity Church
Do
- Eatock Lodge
- St Gregory's Social Club
- Bolton Wanderers
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Bolton
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 Bolton Central River Street hotel | 64 | 4.3/5 1,707 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Bolton
4 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| The Swan Hotel | 0.3 km | |
| The Daisy Hill | 7.5 km | |
| Bolton Whites Hotel | 6.9 km | |
| Last Drop Village Hotel and Spa | 4.8 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Bolton
Bolton has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 19 °C; October is the wettest, with about 156 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 Bolton: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Manchester Airport (MAN), about 27 km from the city centre in a straight line; Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL, 39 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 60 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
By road for town centre exit M60 / M61 onto A666. For the football stadium stay on M61 to jcn 6. Trains to Bolton run every 20 min from the airport via Manchester Oxford Road and Piccadilly, taking 35 min. The quickest trains continue north to Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and either Glasgow or Edinburgh. Slower trains stop at Horwich Parkway and Chorley on their way to Preston, and continue to Kirkham and Blackpool. Trains from Manchester Victoria run every 30 min via Salford. From Bolton they either head west via Wigan to Southport or east via Blackburn to Clitheroe.
Getting around
Bolton is not on the Greater Manchester tram network, so use the bus for outlying places. Bus 525 runs to Hall i' th' Wood. Buses passing near Bolton Wanderers football ground are the 505, 575, 915, 918 and 996, or you can take the train to Horwich Parkway. A dozen taxi firms ply in town centre.
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MAN · Manchester Airport
LPL · Liverpool John Lennon Airport
LBA · Leeds Bradford Airport
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Bolton
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Bolton: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Bolton?
By published guest score: Travelodge Bolton Central River Street (4.3 / 5 · 1,707 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Bolton?
Bolton has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 19 °C; October is the wettest, with about 156 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Bolton?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Manchester Airport (MAN), about 27 km from the city centre in a straight line; Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL, 39 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 60 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Bolton?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Bolton
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.