Macdonald Last Drop Village Hotel & Spa, Bolton

We received an email from Macdonald to say they had special offers on certain hotels so we looked into them further. We chose this one as it had a wide range of facilities and was only an hour away from where we live so was a nice weekend break.
When we arrived, the place was quaint. It is an old fashioned little village, complete with tea rooms, pub, bakery, and various other little shops.
We were told we could check in from 1 so we ...
...ready so we went into the tea rooms for afternoon tea. We went back to reception at 2 and were told that our room still wasn't ready so to wait in the lounge or have a wander round. There was no apology for the delay. We finally got into our room at 2.45. We had decided to get a four poster bed room as it was for a special occasion. The room was massive and the 4 poster bed looked amazing.
We decided to try their leisure facitlies out, a ... more

We received an email from Macdonald to say they had special offers on certain hotels so we looked into them further. We chose this one as it had a wide range of facilities and was only an hour away from where we live so was a nice weekend break.
When we arrived, the place was quaint. It is an old fashioned little village, complete with tea rooms, pub, bakery, and various other little shops.
We were told we could check in from 1 so we arrived for 1 and were told that the room wasn't ready so we went into the tea rooms for afternoon tea. We went back to reception at 2 and were told that our room still wasn't ready so to wait in the lounge or have a wander round. There was no apology for the delay. We finally got into our room at 2.45. We had decided to get a four poster bed room as it was for a special occasion. The room was massive and the 4 poster bed looked amazing.
We decided to try their leisure facitlies out, a pool, a jacuzzi with an infinity pool, a gym and 4 heat rooms. One was a sauna, one a steam room, an aromotherapy room and a lights room (can't remember what the actual name was). The jacuzzi was lovely and warm and then you swam through a plastic door and out into the cold to the infinity pool. It was so strange swimming from the warmth of inside into the outside. The pool was warm but your head was cold. The view was amazing over Pendle hill. This definately had the wow factor!
We went for tea to the pub on site and when we arrived we were told it wasn't open on a sunday. So the choices were a la carte or go out, we found a nice pub about 10 minutes away in the car. Would have been nice to have stayed on site though.
The breakfast was buffet style so you could help yourself to anything and everything.
The only thing that let us down with this hotel were how the reception staff dealt with us. I know that cleaning is out of their control but they could have apologised and made our visit great.

...less