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Such a shame. Venue excellent - food extremely poor. Our meals were ‘aired’ and very tough. Needless to say we will not be returning.

Do not book this place for an event, a shambles of a day. I booked the mothers day Abba event for me, my mum and sister. People walked out of the event due to not eating or having to wait more than an hour for food before Abba came on and when Abba did - they did 40 minutes after coming on late due to people still waiting for food.. We did not bo enough food after a 30+ minute wait in which half of the food was not available and the food was nowhere near hot. People tried to gather as much on their plates after waiting so long. We have been told by Chris that it was operational challenges which is why there was chaos. I would be interested to know given there were 300+ guests, how many staff were supposed to work on that day because having 7 members of staff including serving, the bar and hostesses is nowhere near a situation where a few people called in sick resulting in few staff. I stand by that they clearly wanted to make a significant amount of money whilst cutting corners in food and staff. They also placed your staff in a terrible position, where some individuals were shouted at and in one case, resulted in your hostess being in tears. There was no manager around and it's ridiculous that management left it for staff on the day to deal with the fall out. I bet they don't have operational issues when they have a 300+ wedding. Whilst the act went ahead, the bitter taste in everyone's mouth from the chaos that was the food situation resulted in no one enjoying themselves during the act and even resulted in a boo from everyone when the act asked us to thank the staff. I have never visited Stanley House, even though I live in the Blackburn area, and i'll be honest, this experience has left a sour taste in mine and my families mouth to be offered a voucher to use at your establishment is nothing more than offensive for what took place that day.

Warm welcome from the Team, booking in for our stay was seamless, lovely room well appointed with all our needs catered for. Excellent food, in lovely surroundings served by pleasant staff, what's not to like.

It makes a refreshing change to find somewhere that is well run. My check-in was efficiently handled and my room was a good size with a large well appointed bathroom with a large walk-in shower. I was advised at check-in that they had a largish party coming in for dinner so, ideally, to make a reservation in the restaurant to avoid 7pm. The bar and restaurant was very busy but the staff were charming and efficient. Food was a little overcooked but still extremely hot and tasty. Negatives would be the road noise although, by the middle of the evening, this had dissipated. The mobile phone signal is awful which isn't the fault of the Bluebird Inn. I would stay here again.

Service was VERY slow, steak was cold then reheated in the microwave and pizza looked and tasted like a store brought frozen one.

Excellent Christmas dinners had by all, juicy turkey, goose fat roasties and the veg was cooked perfectly. Had the creamy garlic mushrooms with vol-au-vent pastry to start, delicious and as always excellent service.

A dump. Only a single toilet worked in the Gents. All urinals out of order. Urine on floor Oh. Central Heating not working. One couple who had booked accommodation walked out All this, for a friend’s 70 th. Such a shame.