The Villa Express
Blackpool
📍 Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton, PR4 3HE
🚆 Nearest station: · 1.3 mi
Photo: Ian Greig (CC BY-SA 2.0)
- Convenient for business travellers and leisure seekers
- Located next to a pub/restaurant
- Complimentary hospitality tray with tea, coffee and biscuits
- Dog-friendly hotel with designated ground floor rooms
- Just off the M55 motorway for easy access
How far to…
- Blackpool
- 8 miles
- Preston city centre
- 10 miles
- Kirkham town centre
- 3 miles
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach
- 7 miles
- Kirkham train station
- 2 miles
- Blackpool Airport
- 8 miles
Practical details
- Check-in
- From 3.00pm
- Check-out
- 11.00am
- Pets
- Dog-friendly with charge per dog per night
Accommodation on site
- Rooms
Details taken from the operator's own website on 3 Oct 2026 — check current terms when you book.
Facilities
- ✓ Evening Entertainment
- ✓ Bar
- ✓ Restaurant
- ✓ Disabled Access
- ✓ Pet Friendly
- ✓ WiFi
- ✓ Parking
- 🚆 Near a Train Station
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