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Lion & Swan Hotel

4.0 star property

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Exterior
Reception
Signature Room
Signature Room
3 bars/lounges, cocktail bar, gastropub

Reviews

9.4 out of 10
Exceptional

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Housekeeping

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Swan Bank, Congleton, England, CW12 1AH
  • Place, Victoria Mill Arts Centre
    ‪7 min walk‬
  • Place, Astbury Mere County Park
    ‪9 min walk‬
  • Place, Peak District National Park
    ‪20 min drive‬
  • Airport, Liverpool (LPL-John Lennon)
    ‪58 min drive‬

Room options

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Executive Single Room

Executive Single Room

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful
(20 reviews)
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Single Bed

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Executive Double Room

Executive Double Room

9.2 out of 10
Wonderful
(11 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Superior Room

Superior Room

8.8 out of 10
Excellent
(11 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Deluxe Room

Deluxe Room

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(2 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Single Beds

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Luxury Room

Luxury Room

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(2 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Single Beds

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Signature Room

Signature Room

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(2 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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About the area

Congleton

With a stay at Lion & Swan Hotel in Congleton, you'll be within a 15-minute walk of Victoria Mill Arts Centre and Astbury Mere County Park. .This hotel is 11.5 mi (18.5 km) from Peak District National Park and 4.1 mi (6.5 km) from Brereton Heath Country Park.

What's nearby

  • Victoria Mill Arts Centre - 7 min walk - 0.7 km
  • Astbury Mere County Park - 9 min walk - 0.8 km
  • Peak District National Park - 20 min drive - 19.2 km
  • Alton Towers - 43 min drive - 42.7 km
  • Old Trafford - 44 min drive - 47.1 km

Getting around

  • Congleton Station - 3 min drive
  • Manchester Airport (MAN) - 40 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Barleyhops - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪R&G's Tap House - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪The Lion and Swan Hotel - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪The Counting House (Wetherspoon) - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪Beartown Spices - ‬2 min walk

About this property

Lion & Swan Hotel

Hotel in Congleton with free breakfast and bars
Lion & Swan Hotel offers 21 accommodations with laptop-compatible safes. Televisions come with cable channels. Bathrooms include showers.

This Congleton hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include phones along with free local calls (restrictions may apply). Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested.

Make yourself at home in one of the 21 guestrooms. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms with showers are provided. Conveniences include laptop-compatible safes, as well as phones with free local calls.
Enjoy a satisfying meal at Leone Ristorante serving guests of Lion & Swan Hotel. Relax with a refreshing drink at one of the 3 bars/lounges. A complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast is served on weekdays from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
Free self parking is available onsite.
A complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast is served between 7:00 AM and 11:00 AM on weekdays.
Leone Ristorante - Onsite restaurant.
Radleys & Co - Onsite cocktail bar. Open daily.
Lion & Swan - Onsite gastropub. Open daily.

Property amenities

Internet

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

Parking and transport

  • Free self parking on site
  • Limited on-site self parking

Food and drink

  • Free cooked-to-order breakfast available 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM on weekdays and 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM on weekends
  • 3 bars/lounges
  • A restaurant

Restaurants on site

  • Leone Ristorante
  • Lion & Swan
  • Radleys & Co

Family friendly

  • Soundproofed rooms

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)

Accessibility

  • No lift

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Cable channels

More

  • Free local calls
  • Iron/ironing board on request
  • Laptop-compatible safe
  • Phone
  • Soundproofed rooms

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:30 PM; Check-in end time: anytime
Contactless check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

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

Property is also known as

Lion & Swan Hotel Hotel
Lion & Swan Hotel Congleton
Lion & Swan Hotel Hotel Congleton

Lion & Swan Hotel Reviews

Reviews

9.4

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 260 out of 358 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 71 out of 358 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 20 out of 358 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 358 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 358 reviews

9.8/10

Cleanliness

9.2/10

Staff & service

9.2/10

Amenities

9.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

8/10 Good

Michael

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff were very attentive and helpful. The menu was a bit limited but the cooking was good. Little Morton Hall and Jodrell Bank are both nearby. We were in the annex (room 22) which was a bit on the small side with no chair though the decor was fine and the room well serviced.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Visiting family

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Josh

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

6/10 Okay

Paul

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Best days are behind it

Staff are great. Hotel in decline. Breakfast chef needs to learn how to fry eggs.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Harry

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
All the staff were very pleasant and helpful. Limited menu but the food was freshly cooked and good. Good breakfast menu again freshly cooked. Well placed for visits to Jodrell Bank and Little Moreton Hall. A good wifi connection which was free to use.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Alan

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

6/10 Okay

Helen

Liked: Cleanliness
Negatives: The key card would not work on my room. They provided me either a key in the end. The room was very stuffy. It needs airing more regularly. It was a room over the bar and so it was noisy. They provided earplugs in the room...so that was a bit of a clue! The cooked breakfast was lukewarm. Positives: The bed was comfortable and the bathroom was good.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Pete

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Really excellent hotel, staff, food and room
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Lynn

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Lack of personal touch

On arrival nobody on reception, but Hotel busy doing Sunday Lunch. When we found somebody we were shown to our room, which we were not keen on, as no window, just skylight. So we were shown 2 other rooms and chose room 3. Exceptionally clean. Asked about food for an evening meal, but nothing was made clear as to what we could get to eat or when, just told plenty of places to eat out and about. Nobody about next morning at breakfast had to search again for staff,definitely a lack of staff. No orange juice had to ask for some, this happened on 2 occasions. Breakfast ok. Key stopped working, found somebody to re set it,still did not work, so cleaner offered to get it sorted. Cleaners were exceptional. Very efficient and polite. After staying for 4 nights, we checked out, but nobody asked us at anytime about our stay. Nobody was interested, we requested a telephone number as we left, in case there was a problem with the car parking, as the gentleman that did it for us said, if we got a problem, when we got home to ring, but we were told to ring the number on the website, when I explained that we tried that to book the hotel and we had no option to speak with anybody, just book online. Only small niggles, but for the price of our stay, would have liked to have felt a bit like a valued Customer and had anybody asked us about our stay, we could have given them the chance to respond, instead of having to write this review.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

hylton

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Little diamond staff brilliant. Spotless warm and very comfortable. Great breakfast loads of free parking.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great Place to Stay

Very nicely refurbished since my last visit. We had a great stay made particularly nice by the pleasnt and efficient staff
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Glynn

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

8/10 Good

Jo

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Overall a really nice place to stay, it’s a bit of a maze getting to the rooms, could be because I was tired. The Rio Was lovely, as was breakfast but the coffee machine find t work properly (nightmare for me) and the hairdryer with really poor. May seem insignificant to some but important to me.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Steven

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

A mixed bag. Could be exceptional

We had a bit of trouble finding anyone when we arrived so stood like lemons at the bar for ages waiting for someone. At breakfast there was one poor person trying to do everything and the only tables free had dirty dishes on from the previous guests. The evening meal in the bar area was fairly nice but not amazing. My pie was lukewarm rather than hot but the vegetables were really nicely cooked. The taster menu in the restaurant at the back was really good and nice that you could take your own drinks. The room we had was beautiful and felt really luxurious but it was a shame there was a really strong smell of drains! We mentioned it and was told the drains had been clogged so they had recently cleared them and the smell was gradually going but it did linger for the whole of our stay. The street outside was quite noisy when the windows were open but it was really quiet once we shut them at night. The beds were very very comfortable and we slept really well. The location is great for visiting the potteries, Trentham Gardens, Jodrell Bank.... so there is plenty to do in the area
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Graeme

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

10/10 Excellent

Sarah

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Clare

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

COLIN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very good quality hotel with free onsite parking
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Christie

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Sian

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Alison

Business traveller, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Pleasant stay. Lovely old building.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Alan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely hotel. Stayed in a luxury room; fitted the description. Well appointed room, modern, comfortable, large bathroom with his & hers sinks, and open walk in shower. Exceptionally comfortable bed. Breakfast was absolutely perfection. Excellent hotel, would definitely return if I was in the area.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Boyd

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice hotel, slow breakfast

Nice hotel with good rooms. Evening meal ok. Breakfast service is still very poor with nothing being ready for the advertised 7am service start. Why it tales until 7.10 to put fresh milk out is a mystery. When there on business, with a bisy day ahead you want to start the day quickly and for 2 years this hasnt been possible. If don't need an early breakfast it is fine
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Wendy

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely hotel, central to town
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

8/10 Good

Jacqui

Travelled with group
Liked: Amenities
Great parking. Rooms in the main building are clean, spacious and very comfy beds. No air con but they have fans available to use.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025