Mercure Blackburn Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa

Mercure Blackburn Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa Hotel in Ribble Valley District

About this hotel

Set in 17 acres of Lancashire parkland the 4-star Mercure Blackburn Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa is a 700-year old country manor. Mercure boasts an indoor swimming pool and a restaurant.

Amenities

Pool

Internet / Wifi

Smoking allowed

Parking

Laundry

Balcony / Patio

Hot Tub / Spa

Wheelchair accessible

Gym / Fitness Center

Garden

Family friendly

Map of Ribble Valley District

Nearby attractions

Malham Cove

23.08 miles

Ingleton Waterfalls Trail

Hotel in Ribble Valley District

Reasons to book

Includes essentialsGarden, Pool, Internet / Wifi and more

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Mercure Blackburn Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa

Hotel in Ribble Valley District

Reasons to book

Includes essentialsGarden, Pool, Internet / Wifi and more

Book with confidenceWe partner with the top travel sites so you know you're getting a great deal on the perfect rental

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About this hotel

Set in 17 acres of Lancashire parkland the 4-star Mercure Blackburn Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa is a 700-year old country manor. Mercure boasts an indoor swimming pool and a restaurant.

Amenities

Pool

Internet / Wifi

Smoking allowed

Parking

Laundry

Balcony / Patio

Hot Tub / Spa

Wheelchair accessible

Gym / Fitness Center

Garden

Family friendly

Map of Ribble Valley District

Nearby attractions

Malham Cove

23.08 miles

Ingleton Waterfalls Trail

Reviews

3.6/5.0

Good(2,286 Reviews)

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3.0

Jun 2024

Sadly this was not value for money. Came for an evening meal a few weeks earlier and wasn't impresse

Room was superior room and was spacious but looked similar to a Premier Inn room

Shower was tepid and felt like it was on a timer. Bathroom small for a superior room Had to ask for extra towels Breakfast was awful quality. Price was extortionate (+100) - we paid just 62.50 for a room the next night at a pub in dunham massey that was far superior and felt luxurious. With a double walk in shower, jet bath and individual cooked breakfast with local quality produce.

10.0

Jun 2024

Perfect Break

The hotel seemed like a country manor. The staff were exceedingly friendly, personable, and helpful. The room was spacious, clean, and quiet. The swimming pool was divine, and the laconicum (a body temp sauna) was pretty amazing.

Nothing at all.

8.0

May 2024

As usual excellent staff and service

Olde Worldy

Nothing

8.0

May 2024

Yeh it was nice. I’d stay again. No doubt.

Lovely room. Very clean. Loved the court yard.

Someone had smashed glass in the pool and the facilities were shut. It was the main reason we went there.

10.0

May 2024

brilliant stay, the best hotel in the region

we’ve never had a bad stay at the dunkenhalgh, the rooms are beautiful and spotlessly clean, the leisure centre is amazing and the restaurant fantastic

that we had to pay for the pool

1.0

May 2024

Avoid

Hotel must be closed for renovation, dirty and aged. In one night had to change three rooms - first time due to stuck room door, second time due to faulty shower, third room was ok’ish, but no hairdryer available, so had to ask for one, despite advertising hairdryer available in every room. Food in restaurant is awful, breakfast very limited with not a lot of healthy options. Reception ladies are nice and helpful, so no issues there, but management must be very poor if such customer experience can actually take place. Never will return and would highly recommend to avoid. Traveling around the country for work all the time, so not new to hotels, but can say never experienced something as bad.

8.0

Apr 2024

Excellent value for money. Good 4 star hotel.

The building is stunning. Grounds are lovely. Huge spacious room with two big double beds and a 65 inch TV. The lamb shanks were brilliant!! Very comfy and quiet.

Could do with some paint in the communal areas of the room corridors. The shower was incredibly hot and was impossible to adjust.

9.0

Mar 2024

Lovely

Bedrooms are clean and the breakfast is very nice, room service was really good. Was given spa vouchers due to it being my birthday which was really nice given that you now have to pay extra

Card machine didn’t work properly for room service so kept getting phone calls about the payment whilst we were eating our food. Also you now have to pay for the spa, extra £10 each which is expensive given the price you pay for the room

4.0

Mar 2024

Lovely hotel 25 years ago !!

Reception staff and the duty manager were polite and friendly. Breakfast was really good.

They stopped meals at 8pm and there was no room service. No Wifi available in the room I had despite the managers efforts to connect me and I did request a room on an upper floor in a quiet area I ended up on the ground floor more like the basement. The hotel is tired and seriously needs upgrading is not a 4 star hotel.

5.0

Mar 2024

Happy enough for one night whilst we attended a party (elsewhere). Would not have stayed longer

Reception was quick and proffessional.

Room was not really prepared for the visit, there was no heating on (room was very cold), only one hand towel provided, second bath towel was found in the wardrobe. Given we had booked weeks in advance this indicated a lack of care for their clientelle. The room was kitted out for a disabled person so plenty of space but nowhere to sit and sparsely furnished. After a long journey we wanted a snack, the bar was advertised as serving food, however apparently the chef was "tired" and we were refused any food before 18:00, contrary to the advertised times. Ridiculous in a hotel of this size.

8.0

Dec 2023

had a lovely time other than the breakfast being a disappointment

very clean, staff very friendly

breakfast wasn’t great and wasn’t worth the price

8.0

Dec 2023

we had a thoroughly nice time for my husbands 60th birthday

we enjoyed the experience with spa facilities

meal on the menu stated it was gluten free and it was not

3.0

Nov 2023

Potential but not quite met. The poolside is better but not warm enough

I think the hotel needs a massive upgrade. The age of the hotel presents problems no thermostats in the room. No key cards. Room wasn’t cleaned for three out of the four days dishes that I put outside the door remained there until I moved them. It’s definitely not worth £100 a night.

Staff being kinder to guests overall

4.0

Nov 2023

Have stayed before and thoroughly enjoyed, however won’t return after this experience.

Mattress was very comfortable and the fact you get spa access ass part of the stay is a plus (although we didn’t use this). Very clean and the morning cleaning staff were very friendly.

Food at the Cameo was a big let down, felt like we had eaten food from a Whetherspoons. Pillows were very hard to the point where being uncomfortable woke us both up multiple times in the night. We chose to have ‘breakfast in bed’ however the card on the door wasn’t collected by the morning so we didn’t get to do this. Breakfast downstairs was more ‘£60 a night premier inn’ vibes than ‘£160 hotel’ vibe. No bottled water or biscuits to have with a brew in the room either (again, for what we paid would expect more attention to the little details)

5.0

Nov 2023

Pool facilities

Breakfast was very poor , Raw tomatoes, cheap sausages , just cooked back no colour undercooked danish - just not very good for the amount we paid to stay I expect a better standard of food Cold water in the shower

6.0

Nov 2023

Good and the bad

Love the spacious room. Staff were.lovely. breakfast was on point.

Mould in shower and.shower power and heat of water

6.0

Oct 2023

It was ok but expensive. Glad we were only staying for 1 night

Breakfast was ok, no black pudding and fruit flies on table

Room was a long way from main bit of hotel and for some reason was a room for disabled. No bath , large , dark wet room with a light bulb that was out and a door handle falling off. The bathroom sink stank and was at nose height when using the loo.

3.0

Oct 2023

Check no events on at time of your stay!

Size of the room. Welcoming staff. Location and setting perfect.

Disrespectful guests: Noise of guests from earlier Charity event. Rowdy at 1am. Doors banging. Bedroom hopping from 5am and arguing at 7am.

6.0

Oct 2023

Lovely stay but few issues.

The room we had was beautiful, bed was comfy and room was spacious and very clean! On arrival the reception staff where lovely, kind and caring. We were celebrating our anniversary so the staff kindly gave us a free drink from the bar. We also payed the extra for the swan package which included a beautiful Swan made out of towels, rose petals all on the bed and a lovely message written on the mirror, also some lovely cakes on a decorated plate. Couldn't fault the room at all, we slept like babies!

We had breakfast and payed over £16 each and was very disappointed by the quality of the food, we kept seeing flies everywhere too which just puts you off completely, after that we went out for breakfast instead as it was cheaper and better quality. Bar staff don't really know what they are doing, waiting ages for a drink then when you get your drink it's made incorrectly which is disappointing, Also the prices where ridiculous, £18 for two drinks one being a double JD and coke, the other being a double arches and lemonade. We decided it was cheaper and better value to make our own drinks in the room instead.

9.0

Aug 2023

Superb

A free welcome drink was very unexpected and a lovely touch when we arrived too early for check-in

All was good

9.0

Aug 2023

Super family friendly and lovely characterful building 😀

The staff went the extra mile for kids. Our wee girl loved her balloons on arrival and the animal treasure hunt. Dinner and breakfast was lovely. Dinner especially! Pool was lovely and I loved the building and grounds

Some of the furniture in room was showing its age....but to be fair the hotel was being done up and effort was apparent in this area.

6.0

May 2023

short business stay fine for location and a one night stay

great location for my business meeting

Tired hotel very plain

1.0

May 2023

want to sleep? don’t bother

ridiculous loud mechanical noise ALL night meant we didn’t get a second of sleep

4.0

May 2023

good, if not receptionist

historical building, good food

terrible receptionist, one particular, rude and hostile

6.0

May 2023

Average, if not a little less.

I liked how quickly we learnt how to open our doors - scan and wait for the green light

I didn't like how I couldn't get my wheelchair through doors alone, or how on each morning, when I went for breakfast (I have to have something to eat before I take my medication), myself and a woman in my party were told off for wearing pj's, even though we wore our own dressing gowns and modest pj's. I even got told off for taking my dressing gown off just to make myself a brew and get some cooked breakfast.

8.0

May 2023

Overall stay was pleasant

Lovely big room for 4 adults. Quality bathing products. Older parts of the building are beautiful and charming. The restaurant and bar are well decorated. Breakfast food options and quality was really good. The swimming pool area is nice.

It’s quite tired and smells quite damp in some areas, especially when you first entered the bedroom until the windows were opened for a while. The restaurant food doesn’t live up to the decor or how it’s described on the menu. The breakfast hot drink station just doesn’t work. Tiny cups and the slowest machine for coffee/hot water. The changing rooms for the swimming pool aren’t exactly relaxing. Lots of doors/steps/ramps and tired decor.

7.0

May 2023

Good

Breakfast was great, swimming pool was nice.

My room was above the swimming pool, very hot and somewhat uncomfortable to sleep until the heat settles.

9.0

May 2023

Great. will stay again next time I am in the area.

Nice large clean room. Good drinks at the bar. Good breakfast. Nice swimming pool.

There was some confusion about breakfast, I had paid for breakfast but it didn't appear on the checklist in the dining room.

3.0

May 2023

Lovely staff but very tired and poor spa

Booked especially for the swimming pool and spa but was advised they had over subscribed and we could only use the pool after 6pm even though we had a dinner booked for 19.30

8.0

May 2023

A nice stay friendly staff ( bar prices too high )

Very good breakfast & easy to reach off the motorway

The evening meal and menu .. poor value for money we went out on the second night to a restaurant because of this

FAQs

How much does this hotel cost compared to others in Ribble Valley District?

The average price for a rental in Ribble Valley District is $114 per night. This rental is $52 less expensive than the average.

Is parking included with this hotel?

Yes, parking is listed as an amenity at Mercure Blackburn Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa. For more information, we encourage you to contact the property about where to park.