With a stay at Dancenter East Midlands Airport in Derby, you'll be within a 10-minute walk of Derbion and Derbion. .This hotel is 12.1 mi (19.4 km) from Donington Park Racing Circuit and 12.8 mi (20.6 km) from University of Nottingham.
What's nearby
Derby Theatre - 8 min walk - 0.7 km
Pride Park Stadium - 15 min walk - 1.3 km
Derbyshire County Cricket Club - 18 min walk - 1.5 km
Derby Cathedral - 18 min walk - 1.6 km
Kedleston Hall - 4 min drive - 3.1 km
Getting around
Derby Station - 2 min walk
East Midlands Airport (EMA) - 29 min drive
Restaurants
Costa Coffee - 2 min walk
Alexandra Hotel - 5 min walk
Shalimar - 2 min walk
The Victoria Inn - 2 min walk
Station Fish Bar - 2 min walk
About this property
Dancenter East Midlands Airport
Hotel in Derby with a 24-hour front desk and a bar
Dancenter East Midlands Airport offers 58 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and irons/ironing boards. Accommodations offer separate sitting areas and include desks. 32-inch flat-screen televisions come with digital channels and Netflix.
Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers and complimentary toiletries. This Derby hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access, with a speed of 25+ Mbps. Housekeeping is provided on weekends only.
Stay in one of 58 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have bathtubs or showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include desks and separate sitting areas, and housekeeping is provided on weekends only.
Take in the views from a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access.
Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include a business center, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
Property amenities
Internet
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
In-room WiFi speed: 25+ Mbps
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Parking and transport
Parking on site (GBP 8 per night)
Food and drink
A bar/lounge
Conveniences
24-hour front desk
Luggage storage
Guest services
Housekeeping (weekends only)
Business services
Business centre
Meeting rooms
Outdoors
Garden
Accessibility
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 11:00 PM
Minimum check-in age: 18
Check-out
Check-out before 11:00 AM
Special check-in instructions
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in
Access methods
Staffed front desk
Pets
Pets not allowed
Children and extra beds
Children are welcome
Payment types
Important information
Optional extras
Self parking fee: GBP 8 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, and a security system
Property is also known as
Dancenter East Midlands Derby
Dancenter East Midlands Airport Hotel
Dancenter East Midlands Airport Derby
Dancenter East Midlands Airport Hotel Derby
Dancenter East Midlands Airport Reviews
Reviews
6.8
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Rating 8 - Good. 6 out of 30 reviews
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Rating 6 - Okay. 5 out of 30 reviews
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7.4/10
Cleanliness
7.2/10
Staff & service
5.8/10
Amenities
6.6/10
Property conditions & facilities
6.4/10
Eco-friendliness
Reviews
10/10 Excellent
Dean
2 Aug 2025
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
Accomodating they offered us a free upgrade due to a problem with our original room. Good breakfast, friendly staff, great location next to railway station
Absolute shambles! Arrived and tried to check in, only to be told that our booking had been cancelled and we’d been told (obviously we hadn’t been, or we wouldn’t have tried to check in!!). Told it was cancelled by hotels.com, and the hotel was now fully booked, with no rooms available. Had to find another hotel, otherwise we were stranded in Derby. Had no choice but to pay significantly more for the night at another hotel.
Spoke to hotels.com who confirmed they didn’t cancel the booking, and it was still live on their system. It was still showing as booked on my account as well. Clearly the hotel is cancelling bookings for more lucrative ones.
We weren’t the only ones with complaints, as the guests checking in before us came back down to complain whilst we were trying to sort something out, as there was someone getting changed in their room! They’d also been told that their booking was cancelled when trying to check in.
Avoid at all costs.
John
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025
6/10 Okay
Verified traveller
19 Jul 2025
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Okay for short stay
Located near railway station, drinks and biscuits in room, small TV, and reception staff friendly.
Parking available at £8 per day.
Noisy at night with other guests in corridors, tired communal carpets, dust on skirting boards, dirty mirror in main room, grubby sink and shower, fan in bottom of wardrobe covered with dust discovered after hanging clothes up then noticing thick clumps of dust on them.
Some standard UK plug sockets, ones nearest bed were for 3 pin round plugs.
I booked initially for one night, which I extended to two nights after I arrived.
In the 48 hours I was there someone from the hotel staff came into the room on day one when I was dozing late afternoon, I had the manager knocking at 12pm the next day (day two) asking why I was still there (I'd extended remember), then house keeping tried to get in early afternoon on day two, and someone again tried to get in around 5pm on day two.
The bathroom is so small I could not sit on the toilet at the 'normal' angle as my knees were jammed against the shower cubicle. (I'm 5'9" by the way). So, your backside and front end are just about nestled within the toilet seat, that you straddle at a 45 degree angle.
When you want to dry yourself after a shower you'll need to do this in the bedroom otherwise you'll have a multitude of bruises from shower cubicle, door-frame and wall within, well, bent arms reach.
Since OYO Rooms have taken over it's sadly dropped in quality of service.
James
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025
6/10 Okay
Gregory
29 Jun 2025
Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Good value for the price
The hotel is not called Dancenter Midlands airport, it's Aston Court Hotel. There's a small poster on the door that mentions the babe but it's been walking around the area for 20+ minutes before realising where the hotel was. There was no mention of this when booking, I'd known it would have saved a lot of time and confusion, it should be made clear on the booking websites. Other than that, the room was decent, good value for money and friendly staff
I would honestly not recommend this hotel to a single person. I am in the process of making a formal complaint about the customer service I have received throughout my stay and I would urge everyone and anyone to avoid this place.
My bed had a broken frame that actually cut me due to nails sticking out of it. The curtains did not close. They did not provide evening meal or facilities to get something for evening meal and after telling me via a website that they offered free parking I was in forced to pay £40.
Nice single room, hotels seem to put the single beds on the top floors...car park now charges and the toilet didnt want to flush.bed was creeky. Tv was very small. Otherwise good stay.
Properly was dirty, rooms smelt of cigarette smoke, beds were very uncomfortable. The shower stopped while using it and when come back on scalded you and ver noisy from other rooms. The staff were no help at all and quite rood giving me wrong information about car ark resulting in a £100 fine.