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Old Palace Lodge Hotel

3.0 star property

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Garden
Standard Double Room
Garden
Garden
Fireplace

Reviews

7.8 out of 10
Good

Popular amenities

  • 24/7 front desk
  • Housekeeping
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi

Explore the area

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Church Street, Dunstable, England, LU5 4RT
  • Place, Dunstable Downs
    ‪3 min drive‬
  • Place, ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
    ‪7 min drive‬
  • Place, Kenilworth Road Stadium
    ‪9 min drive‬
  • Airport, London (LHR-Heathrow)
    ‪49 min drive‬

Room options

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1 bedroom, desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi

Standard Double Room

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Executive Twin Room

Executive Twin Room

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(1 review)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds

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1 bedroom, desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi

Executive Double Room

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Honeymoon Suite

Honeymoon Suite

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Deluxe Room

Deluxe Room

7.6 out of 10
Good
(4 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Basic Quadruple Room | Living area

Basic Quadruple Room

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(1 review)
  • Sleeps 4
  • 4 Twin Beds

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About the area

Dunstable

With a stay at Old Palace Lodge Hotel in Dunstable, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo and Dunstable Downs. .This hotel is 10.7 mi (17.2 km) from Woburn Safari Park and 14.2 mi (22.9 km) from Bletchley Park.

What's nearby

  • Dunstable Downs - 3 min drive - 2.0 km
  • ZSL Whipsnade Zoo - 7 min drive - 6.9 km
  • Kenilworth Road Stadium - 9 min drive - 6.9 km
  • Luton Mall - 10 min drive - 8.2 km
  • University of Bedfordshire - 10 min drive - 8.6 km

Getting around

  • Luton Station - 10 min drive
  • Heathrow Airport (LHR) - 61 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪McDonald's - ‬7 min walk
  • ‪Greggs - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Mother Hubbard’s Dunstable - ‬5 min walk
  • ‪The Gary Cooper (Wetherspoon) - ‬8 min walk
  • ‪Hoi Wan - ‬9 min walk

About this property

Old Palace Lodge Hotel

Hotel in Dunstable with free parking
Old Palace Lodge Hotel offers 85 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. Flat-screen televisions come with satellite channels.

Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Stay in one of 85 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have bathtubs or showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
This hotel has 3 floors in 1 building and offers designated smoking areas.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, luggage storage, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Free self parking is available onsite.

Property amenities

Internet

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

Parking and transport

  • Free self parking on site
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • 2 accessible parking spaces
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible lounge
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking

More

  • 1 building
  • 3 floors
  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Bathtub or shower
  • Hair dryer
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV with satellite channels

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker

More

  • Connecting rooms available
  • Desk
  • Iron/ironing board

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: anytime
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property

Renovations and closures

The following facilities are closed on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday:
  • Dining venue(s)
  • Fitness facility
The following facilities are closed on Saturday and Sunday:
  • Dining venue(s)
  • Fitness facility

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra 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 credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Cashless transactions are available

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation

National rating

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

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Old Palace Lodge Hotel Reviews

Reviews

7.8

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 175 out of 465 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 151 out of 465 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 80 out of 465 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 30 out of 465 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 29 out of 465 reviews

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.4/10

Staff & service

7.0/10

Amenities

7.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

6/10 Okay

Candice

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
It’s clean and the room was in good shape. Front desk person was nice helpful. That said, it looks like a lot of the rooms are longer-term rentals. There were several children playing in the parking lot and running around in the lobby area. I also saw toys in some of the ground floor windows, indicating that people were living there. While the room we stayed in looked recently updated, the lobby is pretty rundown. And the restaurant and lounge are closed (with refrigerators and microwaves in what I assume was previously the dining room—probably for the tenants). It’s too bad because it looked like it was a really cool hotel/tavern/restaurant at a previous point in the past. Not planning on ever being back in this area, but I wouldn’t stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

4/10 Poor

Donna

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Angela

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Tony

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was a good room for the price
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Mercy

Travelled with group
Spacious
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Muhammad

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

Leon

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Old and not value for money
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Tracy

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I know we have had a heat wave but room was so hot i barely slept. The windows barely open. The fan was just blowing warm air around. Also am not sure but felt they are now using hotel for single mums. Although not a problem as i was there once. But i feel people should be aware if this is the case. Didnt have a problem with this as was hardly there. I had clumps of hair over our carpet not mine i hasten to add. Was disappointed as have stayed here before a few years ago but has gone downhill
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Belinda

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

Patrick

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Not as fancy as it looks.

Stayed four nights. Two of those were interrupted by noise next door. Walls are very thin and it doesn't help that TV is mounted onto party wall. No air conditioning, slow or intermittent internet, soap not replenished for two days. An endless walk to the car park and exit. The room was big though.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Basic

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Seamus

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

Joanne

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed here a number of times before bee
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

Ben

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Daren

Business traveller
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

Gillian

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nothing to like. Its so wrongly advertised as an upmarket hotel, no restaurant or bar as advertised? Rooms are less then basic, dirty, felt more like someones bedroom or being in a hostel and the reasons for this are (which you aren't informed about prior) is that its now being used as temporary accommodation. Information which should be disclosed ??? Whole reason for our stay was completely ruined because of all of the above issues and wrong advertising and information. Rooms are worth £30 if that so there will an incoming complaint and refund expected
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

Patrick

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Property used for immigration. Dark dingy save your money
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

john

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Lots of children running around the corridors and crying and screaming. Woman sobbing all night I couldn't sleep.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2025

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Not a great hot

Hotel was boiling hot, room was very hot and basic, for an executive room. Just a bar of soap in the bathroom, although reception gave me a shower gel when I asked and supplied a fan for the room. Shower was awful would only adjust to boiling hot or freezing cold. Front of house staff were friendly
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

4/10 Poor

Anth

1 towel Only 2 small pillows Toilet barely flushed No toilet brush No glasses
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

Lee

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Can honestly say this was one of the grimmest hotels? I’ve had the misfortune to stay in in a long time. Despite apparently being a four star hotel, what they don’t tell you is this hotel appears to be a migrant hotel which also allows paying guests. Both the restaurant and bar are permanently shut, everywhere you go all you hear is screaming children, rubbish thrown everywhere, facilities all closed and the externals haven’t been cleaned in a long time. Our room not only had a waterfall shower that didn’t work, but the makeshift showerhead that was fitted was both broken and didn’t allow the mixing of cold and hot and therefore it was either freezing or scolding and no in between. The toilet you had to flush six times to get it working. The room was so hot that we literally couldn’t sleep in it and ended up having to spend time sitting in our car outside with the air-conditioning on just a cool back down. When we got into the room, there was one towel between the two of us when we asked for another towel we got the smallest bath towel possible which has stain stains on it, there was a very poor fan in the room however all the plug sockets were so badly positioned. We ended up having to move the bed so that we could actually get some air from this fan. Upon moving the bed we found half a packet of nuts left across the floor that hadn’t been cleaned and dust that I’ve been there for ages. This hotel is at best a two star and is an absolute lie that it’s a four. Avoid!!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

8/10 Good

usman

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

4/10 Poor

Andrew

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Room was dirty with toe nail clippings across the floor. Cabinets in the room were broken. No fan or air conditioning Website stated there was a gym and well maintained garden area. No gym and the garden was completely run down. Windows in the hotel were covered with sheets. Dark and smelly.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

6/10 Okay

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Room size was good and clean but pretty dated. No electric points nor light switch near bed. Electric points were in odd places. Drawers in room instead of desk to sit at. Bed was comfortable enough but walls pretty thin - could here music and snoring from rooms next to me. Walk to room was pretty long and lifts out of order. Made for a tiring trip from car to room with baggage. Staff were warm and friendly.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

4/10 Poor

Mark

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Gone drastically down hill since the last time i stayed there , the place is very dirty The room was clean enough but very tired Still housing a lot of homeless people
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025