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The Cartford Inn

5.0 star property
your current months are December, 2024 and January, 2025.
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January 2025

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Reviews

9.4 out of 10

Exceptional

Popular amenities

  • Bar
    Bar
  • Breakfast included
    Breakfast included
  • Housekeeping
    Housekeeping
  • Parking included
    Parking included
  • Free WiFi
    Free WiFi
  • Restaurant
    Restaurant

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Cartford Lane, Little Eccleston, Poulton, Preston, England, PR3 0YP
  • Victoria Hospital
    12 min drive
  • Blackpool Zoo
    14 min drive
  • Winter Gardens
    15 min drive
  • Blackpool (BLK-Blackpool Intl.)
    18 min drive

Room options

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Suite, Ensuite

Suite, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Executive Suite, Ensuite

Executive Suite, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Egyptian cotton sheets, individually decorated, individually furnished

Luxury Apartment, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Egyptian cotton sheets, individually decorated, individually furnished

Deluxe Apartment, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Superior Suite, Ensuite

Superior Suite, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Penthouse, Ensuite

Penthouse, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Double Room, Accessible

Double Room, Accessible

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Double Room, Ensuite

Double Room, Ensuite

  • 18 sq m
  • River view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Standard Double Room, Ensuite, River View

Standard Double Room, Ensuite, River View

  • River view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Deluxe Double Room, Ensuite

Deluxe Double Room, Ensuite

  • 18 sq m
  • River view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Suite, Ensuite

Suite, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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About the area

Preston

With a stay at The Cartford Inn in Preston, you'll be on the riverwalk, within a 15-minute drive of Winter Gardens and River Wyre. .This luxury inn is 8.5 mi (13.7 km) from Blackpool Illuminations and 9 mi (14.5 km) from Blackpool Tower.
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What's nearby

  • Blackpool Zoo - 14 min drive - 13.6 km
  • Winter Gardens - 15 min drive - 13.5 km
  • Blackpool Illuminations - 16 min drive - 13.7 km
  • Blackpool Tower - 16 min drive - 14.5 km
  • Blackpool Pleasure Beach - 18 min drive - 21.2 km

Getting around

  • Poulton-le-Fylde Station - 13 min drive
  • Manchester Airport (MAN) - 58 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Shovels Inn - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪Eagle & Child - ‬9 min drive
  • ‪Starbucks - ‬7 min drive
  • ‪Farmers Arms - ‬13 min walk
  • ‪White Bull Hotel - ‬12 min walk

About this property

The Cartford Inn

Edwardian inn with free breakfast and a restaurant
The Cartford Inn offers 14 accommodations with complimentary bottled water and coffee/tea makers. These individually decorated and furnished accommodations include desks. Beds feature Egyptian cotton sheets. Flat-screen televisions are featured in guestrooms.

Bathrooms include showers with rainfall showerheads, bathrobes, designer toiletries, and complimentary toiletries. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Stay in one of 14 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with showers feature rainfall showerheads and designer toiletries. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access.
You can enjoy a meal at River Lounge serving the guests of The Cartford Inn, or stop in at the snack bar/deli. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast is served daily from 7:30 AM to 10 AM.
A roundtrip airport shuttle and a train station pick-up service are provided for an additional charge.
A complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast is served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10 AM.
River Lounge - This restaurant specializes in British cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.

Awards and affiliations

Eco-Certified Property
This property participates in Green Tourism Program, a program that measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy.

Languages

Dutch, English, Filipino, French, Spanish

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Free extended parking on site
  • Return airport shuttle (surcharge)
  • Train station pick-up shuttle (surcharge)

Food and drink

  • Free cooked-to-order breakfast available daily 7:30 AM–10 AM
  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 bar

Restaurants on site

  • River Lounge

Things to do

  • Fishing

Family friendly

  • Snack bar/deli

Guest services

  • Daily housekeeping
  • Multilingual staff

Business services

  • A meeting room

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • This property does not have any lifts

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bed sheets
  • Egyptian cotton sheets
  • Heating

Bathroom

  • Dressing gowns
  • Designer toiletries
  • Hairdryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Rainfall showerhead
  • Shower
  • Towels

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Electric kettle
  • Free bottled water

More

  • Desk
  • Individually decorated
  • Individually furnished
  • Iron/ironing board (on request)

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 4 PM; Check-in end time: 8:30 PM
Early check-in subject to availability
Contactless check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 21

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

This property offers transfers from the train station (surcharges may apply); guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation
There is no front desk at this property
The host will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Host will greet you

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts major credit cards; cash is not accepted
Noise-free guestrooms cannot be guaranteed

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms

National rating

This establishment has received its official star rating from VisitEngland, the National Tourist Board for England.

Property is also known as

Cartford
Cartford Inn
Cartford Inn Preston
Cartford Preston
The Cartford Inn Inn
The Cartford Inn Preston
The Cartford Inn Inn Preston

The Cartford Inn Reviews

Reviews

9.4

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 46 out of 66 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 17 out of 66 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 2 out of 66 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 66 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 66 reviews" "

9.6/10

Cleanliness

9.6/10

Staff & service

9.0/10

Amenities

9.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Kevin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Looking for an excuse to stay again!
Absolutely wonderful stay. Friendly staff, beautiful setting and delicious restaurant.
The view from my room.
French onion soup was delicious!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Gary

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Sally

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
What a wonderful stay. Inn beautifully and unusually decorated. Very very clean and staff the very best.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Simon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Overpriced small room
We booked what was described as a "Luxury Double Room" at £200/night. Our room was very small, just enough to walk round the bed. The mattress on the bed has seen better days. The en-suite shower room was OK. I wouldn't describe this as luxury in any way! Breakfast was good. The location is peaceful with nice views. The staff were friendly. Due to the poor value i wouldn't recommend staying here
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Stewart

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Stephen

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect retreat
Very friendly and professional. The Cartford Inn is in a lovely setting with views over the river and fields. Good food and excellent service. One very minor issue, the bed was soft on one side and hard on the other, but apart from that everything was perfect and I'll definitely be back.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Tim

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellence in the river
What an excellent find. Cool, quirky, fun, great staff, excellent food, lovely room. Best place we have stayed in for a very long time.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Angus

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Cartford experience!
Very good food, comfortable room, friendly helpful staff. A very pleasant stay.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Suzie

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing stay as always. Lovely, individually designed rooms with great views of the river. Staff were very friendly and the food was lovely.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
everything great except the opera music in our ears at breakfast table nnnnnnnooooooo
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Anthony

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

rodney

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Alasdair

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Down by the river
From the welcome at the bar to Check-out this was a great stay. They had reserved a table for us ‘just in case ‘ , this on a busy Saturday night was very much appreciated. The room was lovely looking over the river, the bar was well stocked and the dinner excellent, as was breakfast. We will stay here again and visit the art gallery and deli.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Anthony

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The staff were just wonderful from the greeting to departure. The character of the Inn is outstanding together with its surroundings I highly recommend it
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Adrian, Kirkham, Lancashire

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cartford Inn.
Lived Lancashire for 16 years. Didnt know this amazing place existed. It is class. The staff are exceptional.
Stayed 1 night in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Colleen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
World-class food in a quaint country setting.
The Inn and food was outstanding.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Bart&Karen, Saskatoon, SK Canada

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Unique refurbished pub - with excellent restaurant facilities. Very charming!
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Had an excellent visit.would recommend no problem.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019

10/10 Excellent

Ann, Cheshire UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Relaxed friendly atmosphere
Upon arrival we were met by a young man with a welcoming smile who showed us to our rooms and very courteosly asked to carry our cases. This set the tone with all other members of staff we encountered during our stay. The rooms overlooked the river and surrounding countryside and are of a good size as are the bathroom and walk-in shower. The cleanliness of the room was of a very high standard. We'd gone there knowing the reputation it had for it's food and weren't disappointed. All four of us were more than pleased with our selections from the menu and hope to return in the not too distant future.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Nick

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
work stop over
been here many time, never fails to impress.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Nice country inn by a river, good for a pint.
The senior staff were very welcoming and charming and the room was clean with touches of luxury. The area is beautiful and the garden a delightful place to have a sundownder in high summer. Service in the restaurant was very very slow at dinner and rather inefficient at breakfast. The room was smartly appointed although the bed was very low and someone else in our party found her's uncomfortable and had to sleep on the floor. Two others struggled as their beds seemed to be uneven apparently. For a "Luxury" room the price was bizarrely high and that's why I wouldn't recommend the hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Elizabeth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Couldn’t fault it!
Beautiful setting, quirky rooms, excellent service and delicious food, would highly recommended! We loved breakfast overlooking the river too! We’ll be back.

10/10 Excellent

Graeme

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cartford riverside stay
Great stopover, quality food and drink, riverside walks/views, and a lovely room.