About The Kensington Hotel
This townhouse hotel offers choice comfort in the heart of Blackpool, featuring ballroom entertainment and sea views. Blackpool Tower and several other attractions are within walking distance.
Hotel The Kensington Hotel offers bright bedrooms featuring en-suite bathrooms, television, and tea making facilities. Rooms with views over the promenade and sea are available.
Guests can relax with a pint at the bar which features a games area. Alternatively, they may choose to sit and admire views of the Irish sea from the relaxing sun lounge.
Guests can pick from a choice of three roasts served every evening, along with a wide range of freshly prepared dishes. A full English breakfast is offered in the mornings.
Kensington Hotel is located within walking distance of Pleasure Beach, Sandcastle, and all three piers. Trams, buses, and railway stations are all within easy reach.
Positive Reviews
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A Friendly Staff Who Aim to Please.
Several guests mentioned having a wonderful stay in Blackpool, in large part thanks to the warm and friendly manner of The Kensington Hotel staff. As a result of their experience with this welcoming and accommodating staff, many visitors said they would g
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A Spotless Bedroom.
If you're looking for that crisp, clean hotel feel after a day of mucking it in Blackpool, the Kensington won't disappoint. Guests repeatedly reviewed this hotel's bedrooms and bathrooms as spotlessly clean and fresh.
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Wonderful Holiday Location.
Several guests reported their delight at being just a hop and a skip to the promenade strip, Blackpool beach, and to so many of other key attractions. Visitors were equally enchanted by the views offered from this hotel's great sea front location.
Negative Reviews
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Getting a Little Shabby.
Several guests mentioned the hotel appearing to be in need of some serious sprucing up. Descriptions included malfunctioning showers, holes in bathroom ceilings, and foul, musty smells in some of the bedrooms and tired looking corridors.
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Restricting Breakfast Hours.
Several guests balked at breakfast finishing too early. Some of those who made it in time weren't impressed anyway, calling the brekky offerings basic and sometimes arriving cold.
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Better off Without the Buffet.
Although many guests enjoyed the hotel's buffet restaurant, others had a very different experience Several diners reported not being able to identify unlabelled buffet offerings, which looked and tasted as if they'd been sitting there all day.