Claremont Hotel Blackpool England Review
Located on the seafront near the Victorian North Pier, the Claremont Hotel, Blackpool, offers comfortable, affordable accommodation to visitors to this ever-popular Lancashire seaside resort. In our review, which follows, we take a look at the facilities at the Claremont.
The Claremont occupies an imposing 19th century building right on the Blackpool seafront adjacent to the promenade. Despite its age, the hotel has been adapted and remodeled internally so as to provide good quality modern facilities to guests at surprisingly cheap prices. There are upwards of 150 rooms, all en-suite, and many with delightfully unrestricted sea views. All rooms are equipped with telephones, color TVs and tea/coffee making facilities. Irons and hairdryers are not supplied to guests as standard but may be obtained by request. A range of room sizes are available, from singles to those large enough to comfortably sleep five guests.
The Claremont Hotel has a large, spacious restaurant serving breakfasts, lunches and evening meals. Guests may choose from a continental or cooked ‘full English’ breakfast. Augmenting the restaurant is a beautiful sun lounge, which during the summer months offers al fresco dining with splendid sea views and spectacular sunsets.
In addition to its main restaurant, the Claremont also has a licensed cafe bar offering drinks, sandwiches and other light meals, plus the Adam Bar, which is a separate bar on an upper floor of the hotel, where a full range of drinks is served in an elegant marble-floored setting. The view from the windows of the Adam Bar takes in an expanse of northern England and beyond, stretching as far as the Lake District and the Isle of Man.
Also a feature of the Adam Bar at the Claremont is regular, top class live entertainment. The well-attended cabaret shows, feature bands, comedians and other show-people, along with dancing to all hours. However, children and younger folk are not neglected, as the hotel offers a basement kids’ area called The Base. This includes supervised play activities for younger children, as well as a high-tech entertainment room for teenagers, which is packed with the latest game consoles and computers, along with a giant screen blasting out music, not to mention a pool table. Entry to The Base is free to all young people whose families are staying at the Claremont.
Apart from all the great facilities at their disposal within the hotel, guests have at their fingertips all of the other wonderful things that Blackpool has to offer. Without reservation, it may be said that Blackpool is the most exciting, buzzing holiday resort in the United Kingdom. No other resort can boast three piers and a 500 foot tall tower, along with the Pleasure Beach amusement park, and the most impressive display of seafront illuminations to be seen anywhere.
It is possible, of course, to come to Blackpool and stay in a basic, no-frills B&B, but when you a book a stay at the Claremont Hotel, Blackpool, you will enjoy seafront luxury at little more than guest house prices.