England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Derby
Derby is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 255,000 people. This guide covers 5 hotels in Derby, with about 539 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 5
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- EMA14 km · East Midlands Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Derby
Derby is a cathedral city and unitary authority area on the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. Derbyshire is named after Derby, which was its original county town.
Derby was the site of Lombe's Mill, the first fully mechanised factory in the world, built in 1721. Railway engineering starting in 1840 in Derby, and continued with the Derby Carriage and Wagon Works. The city is now the site of the UK's only remaining locomotive manufacturer. Rolls-Royce opened a car and aircraft factory in the town in 1907; today the aero-engine manufacturer is the largest engineering employer in the area. Car maker Toyota has a manufacturing and assembly plant in Burnaston, just south of Derby.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Derby
See
- Derby Market Hall
- Royal Crown Derby
- Museum of Making
- Derby Museum and Art Gallery
- Pickford's House
- Derby Cathedral
- St Mary's Chapel
- Derby Gaol
- Kedleston Hall
- Banks Mill Studios
- Artcore
- Craftcore
Do
- Darley Park walk
- Derby Arboretum
- Elvaston Castle Country Park
- Derby County FC
- Derbyshire County Cricket Club
- Derby LIVE
- QUAD
- Derby Theatre
- Markeaton Park
- Derby Riverboat
- Allestree Park
- Derby Arena
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Derby
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 | Leonardo Hotel Derby hotel | 213 | 85/100 5,197 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Derby Pride Park hotel | 84 | 4.3/5 1,314 reviews |
| 3 | Travelodge Derby Cricket Ground hotel | 96 | 4.2/5 821 reviews |
| 4 | Travelodge Nottingham EM Airport Donington Park M1 hotel | 92 | 4.1/5 1,301 reviews |
| 5 | Travelodge Derby Chaddesden hotel | 54 | 4.2/5 389 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Derby
25 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Breadsall Priory | 1201 | 6.0 km |
| St Helen's House | 1767 | 0.7 km |
| Holly Bush Inn | 8.5 km | |
| Midland Hotel | 1.1 km | |
| Bell And Castle Inn | 0.7 km | |
| Friary Hotel | 0.5 km | |
| Green Man Inn | 0.2 km | |
| Kedleston Hotel | 5.2 km | |
| Pack Horse Inn | 10.5 km | |
| Queens Head Inn And Attached Coach House | 5.4 km | |
| Seven Stars Inn | 0.7 km | |
| The Dog And Duck Inn | 9.9 km | |
| The Georgian House Hotel | 1.2 km | |
| The Shakespeare Inn | 10.2 km | |
| The White Swan Inn | 11.5 km | |
| 4 and 4A, Ashbourne Road | 1.0 km | |
| Aston Court Hotel | 1.0 km | |
| Carlton Hotel | 1.0 km | |
| Derby Mickleover Hotel, BW Signature Collection | 5.4 km | |
| Holiday Inn Derby Riverlights | 0.2 km | |
| Meynell Arms Hotel | 7.1 km | |
| Morley Hayes Hotel | 7.7 km | |
| OYO Tyger Inn, Derby OYO Rooms | 4.2 km | |
| The Coach House | 11.1 km | |
| The Priest House Hotel | 10.8 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Derby
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Derby are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 67 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 Derby: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is East Midlands Airport (EMA), about 14 km from the city centre in a straight line; Birmingham Airport (BHX, 55 km) and Manchester Airport (MAN, 72 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
The nearest airport is East Midlands Airport (EMA). The Skylink Derby bus runs from the airport to Derby and is operated by Kinchbus. The Skylink service runs every 20 minutes during the daytime and half-hourly at other times (with a 24-hour service), and also serves Leicester. Derby Station has good rail links. East Midlands Railways operates express trains from London St Pancras, Leicester and Sheffield. It also runs local services to destinations including Nottingham, Matlock, Stoke-on-Trent and to parts of Lincolnshire.
Getting around
Most local bus services are operated by Arriva and Trent Barton. See the Derbyshire County Council public transport website for timetables and information for all buses. Public transport in the city is not particularly good value, especially compared to similar cities. There are two park and ride services running from Meteor Centre in the north and Pride Park in the east. Derby is a compact city making it very approachable for pedestrians.
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EMA · East Midlands Airport
BHX · Birmingham Airport
MAN · Manchester Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Derby
Eat
Derby is an excellent place to get an Indian curry. Obviously plenty of great fish & chips shops, but don't miss the steak-and-kidney pie and mushy peas. Another local staple is a cob -; no, not the horse but a filled bread roll.
Drink
Derby's nightlife is among the safest in the country, having won multiple Purple Flags. Pub crawls are often organized by the real ale campaign, or if all night raves are your thing, Derby boasts some exciting clubs open until 4AM. The majority of bars in Derby are found on Friar Gate, Sadler Gate and Iron Gate. Derby is noted for pubs serving a range of real ales and is home to about a dozen microbreweries (small breweries).
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Derby
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
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Questions
Derby: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Derby?
By published guest score: Leonardo Hotel Derby (85 / 100 · 5,197 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Derby Pride Park (4.3 / 5 · 1,314 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Derby Cricket Ground (4.2 / 5 · 821 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Derby?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Derby are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 67 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Derby?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is East Midlands Airport (EMA), about 14 km from the city centre in a straight line; Birmingham Airport (BHX, 55 km) and Manchester Airport (MAN, 72 km) are also within reach.
Are there accessible hotels in Derby?
1 place in this guide list accessible rooms.
What currency is used in Derby?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Derby
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.