Lovely building, friendly and helpful staff

Location. Community active welcoming history

Such a beautiful building in wonderful grounds. Very peaceful inside and out. Great breakfast; friendly helpful member of staff, nothing too much trouble. Highly recommend.

The breakfast under heated lights was OK, however we would have preferred a freshly cooked breakfast. The venue is first class and very peaceful.

The setting The peace & quiet

No flexibility with breakfast time

Lovely location, within 3min walk into town (which was pretty upmarket and busy). The hotel is literally in the old abbey buildings and is full of historic features, paneling everywhere and stone work any stonemason would be proud of. Staff very helpful, I was in the room 3 hours early.

This is absolutely minor, but no TV, I see the reason (the hotel's main business is acting as a retreat, and lets rooms to the public when available). As a single traveller I like the company of a TV.

Excellent breakfast, friendly staff and great location. Incidentally very good WiFi. Whalley is a busy village with lots going on, besides walking in the Abbey grounds.

No TV, but considering it’s also billed as a religious retreat then that was not a surprise; and to be honest the lack of a TV was not a big deal.

Set in an extremely beautiful abbey converted to a Manor House. This is a Christian retreat that offers Bed and Breakfast to all. But it mainly serves people attending the religious retreat. The accommodation is very basic. No television in the room and a simple set of furniture. This B&B is quite open about its target audience and does not pretend to compete with a leisure hotel. The staff are simply lovely, but the are obviously part of the retreat team. No bar and no restaurant of the type you would expect in a hotel. Booking.com is quite wrong in describing this venue as a hotel, it isn’t and doesn’t pretend to be one. If you are looking for a hotel, this is not for you. A very simple and honest B&B with no frills. We actually drove away saying that was different, but not unpleasant. Excellent for a very quiet and contemplative retreat.

That Booking.com were not honest about the description. NOT a hotel, despite calling it one.