Portman Lodge
Location: Whitecliff Mill Street, Blandford Forum, gb
Star Rating: 9.2 Stars
Property Type: Guest houses
About this Property
Historic Building Accommodation:
Step into the charm of a historic building at Portman Lodge, where modern comforts blend seamlessly with old-world elegance.
Convenient Amenities:
Enjoy the convenience of free WiFi, private parking, and essential in-room amenities such as a flat-screen TV, wardrobe, and plush bed linens.
Explore Nearby Attractions:
Located within easy reach of Monkey World, Poole Harbour, Corfe Castle, and Salisbury Racecourse, our guest house serves as the perfect base for your adventures.
Experience a delightful stay at Portman Lodge - book now for a memorable getaway.
Policies
Check-in: N/A - Anytime
Check-out: N/A
Amenities & Facilities
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Non-smoking rooms
- Terrace
- Non-smoking throughout
- Shared lounge/TV area
- Board games/puzzles
- Shared kitchen
- Outdoor furniture
- Staff adhere to local safety protocols
- Cleaning standards that are effective against Coronavirus
- Hand sanitizer in guest room and key areas
- Cashless payment available
- Fire extinguishers
- First aid kit available
- Smoke alarms
- Shared stationery like menus, pens are removed
- Key access
- Process in place to check health of guests
- Face masks for guests available
- Free wired internet
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Internet access
- Reception hall
- Japanese garden
- Covered parking
Rooms Available
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Double Room
Offering free toiletries, this double room includes a private bathroom with a bath, a shower and a hairdryer. The double room offers a wardrobe, an electric kettle, a carpeted floor, heating, as well as a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. The unit offers 1 bed.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Fan
- Toilet
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Satellite channels
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Linen
- Upper floors accessible by stairs only
- Toilet paper
- Board games/puzzles
- Trash cans
- Cots
- Shampoo
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Smoke alarm
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Twin Room
Providing free toiletries, this twin room includes a private bathroom with a walk-in shower and a hairdryer. The twin room provides a wardrobe, an electric kettle, a carpeted floor, heating and a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. The unit offers 2 beds.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Fan
- Toilet
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Satellite channels
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Linen
- Upper floors accessible by stairs only
- Toilet paper
- Board games/puzzles
- Trash cans
- Shampoo
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Smoke alarm
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Superior King Room
Featuring free toiletries, this double room includes a private bathroom with a bath, a shower and a hairdryer. The double room features a wardrobe, an electric kettle, a carpeted floor, heating, as well as a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. The unit has 1 bed.
Max Occupancy: 3 (2 Adults)
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Toilet
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Satellite channels
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Linen
- Upper floors accessible by stairs only
- Toilet paper
- Board games/puzzles
- Trash cans
- Cots
- Shampoo
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Smoke alarm
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King Room
Providing free toiletries, this double room includes a private bathroom with a walk-in shower, a bath and a hairdryer. The double room provides a wardrobe, an electric kettle, a carpeted floor, heating, as well as a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. The unit offers 1 bed.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Fan
- Toilet
- Private bathroom
- Heating
- Satellite channels
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Linen
- Upper floors accessible by stairs only
- Toilet paper
- Board games/puzzles
- Trash cans
- Cots
- Shampoo
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Smoke alarm
Guest Reviews
- Jamie (10/5): -
- John (9/5): -
- Lorna (7/5): Lovely hotel in Blandford - Beautifully decorated hotel. Not getting email with code needed for entry until day of arrival /too late as driving & i had no time or wifi to be checking emails.
Unable to use shower as water too hot/ shower thermostat not working. However reported & no doubt owner will fix.
- Graham (10/5): A wonderful find! - Didn't have breakfast. The room and facilities were great.
- Lacey (10/5): -
- Alister (9/5): - Clean, comfortable and great breakfast!
- Neil (10/5): -
- Amanda (10/5): - Beautiful house, comfortable room, good breakfast, lovely host.
- Neil (10/5): Perfect stay - Great location Lovely room comfortable bed excellent breakfast friendly & helpful staff
We will definitely be back again
- Nicole (10/5): It was an amazing stay for the hole family just beautiful and well looked after - The property was will looked after and had a nice homely feel Nothing
- Diana (10/5): - Delicious full English breakfast very nicely presented!!
- Stephen (9/5): Excellent - A great property with plenty of room to relax.
- Stuart (10/5): - Excellent breakfast and friendly staff N/A
- Mark (10/5): Lovely stay will be back - Lovely property, very comfortable and perfect host’s Nothing
- Christopher (10/5): - Location, standard of accommodation
- Finlay (10/5): Couldn't recommend it more, we were very pleased. - The room was amazing, perfectly clean and very comfortable. Breakfast was fantastic and with lots of choice. The location was also excellent. Thank you very much for an incredible stay. Nothing.
- Khummy (9/5): Happy with overall service and experience - Very nice breakfast as service
- Simon (10/5): - Very convenient coded check in system. Quiet location. Well appointed room. Excellent breakfast. N/a
- Jasmine (9/5): -
- Charles (10/5): Great! - The owners gave me a great deal of help when I had problems with a painful knee and drove me to th bus stop on the morning of my departure.
- Mark (8/5): Good - Breakfast was excellent. The room was comfortable. Convenient location. Excellent provision of facilities for microwaving , eating takeway food etc. - very practical and well thought out. The shower.
Couldn`t figure out what the designer had in mind with this installation. Two circular recesses in the tray with the drain plug in between and shower screen covering one half -- strange ! Also controls difficult to figure out resulting in getting a cold spray from the overhead unit whilst trying to turn off the moveable head and figuring out how to turn off was tricky.
- IBD10 (10/5): Excellent! -
- IBD10 (10/5): Consistently exceptional stay with high quality Full English breakfast! -
- Vicky (10/5): - Beautiful house, friendly staff Nothing
- Christopher Pearce (9/5): -
- Bram (10/5): -
- Amy (9/5): Nice and clean and comfortable stay - The breakfast was very nice Stayed two nights. If the bed was made and tea/coffee cleared and bin empited this would have been great, as it is nice after a day out,to come back to a presentable room.
- Burford (10/5): A Real Find! - Very comfortable, clean, and quiet. Lovely breakfast. Friendly and helpful. A feeling of luxury. Good location for exploring the town. Parking available. A real find! Some parking spaces looked a little tight for longer vehicles, possibly?
- Stuart (10/5): Will definitely use again - Excellent
Plenty of choice N/A
- Raf (9/5): -
- Lorraine (8/5): - Location good.
Clean room
Bed comfortable
Good breakfast Confusing self entry system..
- jo (10/5): - We had 3 out of the 4 rooms which were all very well appointed with comfortable beds and lovely bathroom facilities . Would highly recommend
- Lisa (10/5): -
- Inder (10/5): Perfect Victorian B&B stay - Elegant Victorian house B&B with free parking. Comfortable room with Wi-Fi and spacious bathroom. Well-prepared Full English breakfast, all just a short walk from town amenities - perfect stay!
- Joanna (10/5): Wonderful stay, thank you. We were on the last day of a three day bike ride from Bath to Bournemouth and this was a grea - Beautiful house, nicely decorated ( we specially liked the David Hockney prints in the stairs).
Room for our bikes in the locked she’d.
Large, comfortable, cool bedroom
- Christine (10/5): Great stay in a beautiful house with plenty to explore! - Beautiful house, very comfortable room, great dining room. The hosts provided so much material relating to exploring Dorset, magazines, OS maps…
- Bannister (10/5): Exceptional -
- Neil (8/5): Very good - Excellent breakfast. Location very convenient to the centre of town. The hosts, Jerry and Liberty, were very welcoming and very knowledgeable about the local area. N/A
- Anna (7/5): Comfortable stay, very close to Blandford town centre. - The room was nicely decorated with thick curtains and blinds. Comfortable bed and bedding. There was a ceiling fan which was a bonus.
The breakfast was good and freshly cooked. The shower didn't work properly. Poor water flow and we weren't able to get the temperature right, either to hot or cold. The bathroom had mould in places. I also had to clean poo off the wall behind the toilet roll.
- Marc (8/5): Very good - We had a wonderful couple of nights at Portman Lodge.
It is situated in a great location, only a couple of minutes walk from the centre of Blandford Forum.
The hosts are welcoming and helpful.
Breakfast includes a variety of options and I can personally recommend the French Toast. The wife asked me to recreate it as soon as we returned home.
Portman Lodge with be a our first choice if we find ourselves in Blandford Forum again.
- Teresa (9/5): Lovely B & B with great facilities. Staff were very helpful and friendly. Would highly recommend. - Very nice room, although a little small, however, excellent communal rooms. Was really nice to have a kitchen area to eat our takeaway. It was a very hot weekend and our room was south facing. The ceiling fan was very efficient though and kept us cool.
- Nev (9/5): Superb -
- Janet (10/5): Clean and comfy and friendly -
- Louise (10/5): Would look to stay again if in the area. - Lovely quiet location. room very clean and conmfortable. Breakfast freshly cooked and served promptly. Host was very friendly. Nothing
- Pauline (8/5): Second time staying at Portman Lodge. Excellent facilities, friendly staff. - Great breakfast.
- Nigel (8/5): Nice place to stay for a few days, we were made to feel very welcome. - Excellent breakfast. Very convenient and simple system for getting into the house and room. Nicest have a guests kitchen upstairs. Plenty of parking space. Very friendly staff, thank you. We were there at a very hot time and although the ceiling fan worked, our room was still very hot. It would have been nice to have had flat sheets for the beds, rather than a duvet.
The stairs quite steep and it would have been nice to have a lift, since all the bedrooms are on the first floor.
- Argent (10/5): Exceptional - Lovely big vegetarian breakfast cooked early for me as I had to leave at certain time from a very welcoming friendly host.
- Thorman (8/5): Very good -
- Farrah (10/5): Exceptional -
- Alan (9/5): Very pleasant experience overall - First class catering! Sink in bathroom not main bedroom
- Alison (10/5): Welcoming, well-run bed and breakfast - Lovely Bed and Breakfast in a beautiful old building that has been lovingly renovated. Very attentive staff.
- Tony (10/5): Lovely Georgian house and very good breakfast - Nicely refurbished. Lovely old house which felt warm and welcoming. Breakfast was worth getting up for. Nothing to say here
- Susan (8/5): Very good - Comfortable bed, good location
- Robert (10/5): Exceptional -
- Rob (10/5): Very enjoyable - The whole thing was excellent. Friendly, clean , helpful. Couldn't ask for better
- Tom (9/5): A great stay for any occasion - Very friendly staff. Accommodated me arriving outside of usual hours. Great breakfast. Cobwebs in the room.
- Robert (8/5): Very good - I have already responded to an email request for a rating from the hotel. I'm not doing it twice.
- Hilary (8/5): Good value - Clean and welcoming. Nice spacious room
- Marina (9/5): Hidden Gem! - Beautiful house nestled in a lovely village just under half an hour from Poole/Bournemouth. The property has been thoughtfully decorated and finished to a high standard. Our bedroom was beautiful and had everything we needed.
The dining room was also lovely and we were very pleased with our breakfasts. There was a choice of yoghurt, fruit and cereals plus we ordered a full English and French Toast, both delicious.
The hosts were friendly and helpful.
We would definitely stay here again. Nothing.
- Michaela (10/5): Exceptional - The location.
The staff were very accommodating.
The breakfast was good. The room was very hot.
- Colin (9/5): Superb -
- Janine (9/5): Great accommodation and great value - Comfy bed and delicious breakfast! Would recommend.
- Susan (10/5): Very relaxed, ideal for single traveler with provision for larger groups with lounge and dining area - Excellent choice, well cooked
- Sebastian (10/5): Grandeur at an affordable price - Lovely architecture, wonderful hosts, excellent breakfast.
- Charles (10/5): Exceptional -
- Sarah (10/5): Great find - Friendly and helpful people. Lovely room and great facilities
- Matthew (10/5): Exceptional -
- Carly (9/5): Enjoysble - Breakfast was great, prepared to order and plenty of choice. Prepared to your liking. Location excellent for our family and friends visit.the kitchen area was a surprise and we enjoyed sitting in there to watch tv rather than having to be in your room. Able to eat a takeaway at a table instead of on bed. The hot water did take a while to come through but once knew that planned shower time.
- Gagan (1/5): Lacking comfort standards - Not much, breakfast was decent Wash basin didn’t have any hot water and no one fixed it for the entire duration of my stay even after I complained about it to the staff member,
Room was too small . radiator was not functioning after you move the settings
- Joan (10/5): Exceptional - Jerry and Liberty were so friendly, helpful and kind. Their place is clean, breakfast is great and location is perfect! I loved EVERYTHING about their B 'n B!!!
- Jacqui (10/5): Everything just perfect. - A wonderful property full of charm and character. Great facilities with an ultra comfy bed. The breakfast was amazing and the owners/staff were all very kind and attentive. I normally stay at another hotel in Blandford but this will always now be my chosen destination when visiting the town. Thank you for a lovely stay.
- John (8/5): Grand time in. - Excellent breakfast and good choice. Also, facility for dining in. This is a B&B only. You need to arrive at the time you have advised otherwise no one will be there.
- Sturmey (10/5): very comfortable and supper breakfast with plenty of choice - very good breakfast. nothing
- Robin (7/5): Good - Freshly cooked, filling, good veggie options The bed was comfortable but was a little small if it was meant for two.
TV was confusing to operate but no big deal.
- Ian (9/5): all good -
- Alasdair (10/5): Arrived late, left early, very thankful the place and people helped make my short stay as easy as I needed it to be. - Everything you’d want with a smile
- Nicholas (8/5): Really lovely stay - thanks - Very good room that suited our needs. Friendly staff. Good car parking. Within easy walking distance to where we needed to go in Blandford Nothing
- Anne (10/5): Comfortable, Clean, Great Facilities including Parking. Ideal accommodation for a base. - The accommodation was clean and ideally located to the town centre. The breakfast was lovely and freshly cooked to order. The facilities were over and above what we expected. This would make an ideal base for guests who are looking to explore the area. The size of the car park - But at least there is off road parking available.
- Eric (9/5): Superb -
- Lorraine (10/5): Exceptional - We were the only guest staying that weekend because our hosts had a family function. You'd never know it as everywhere was warm a d nothing was too much trouble
. 5*
- Christopher (9/5): Small friendly hotel with a great breakfast. - There was plenty of choice at breakfast all freshly made. Portman lodge was a 10 min walk from town, 10 min walk from the north Dorset Trailway.
Had a small kitchenette for residents to use.
Hosts were very friendly and gave good advice on local walks.
- Hokail (6/5): Good experience. Plenty of parking spaces. - Friendly staff good breakfast and comfortable rooms. None
- Neil (9/5): Superb -
- Evelyn (10/5): I was visiting family for the weekend which lived in Blandford - A lovely choice of food and plenty. the small kitchen a very good idea although I did not need to use it.
Comfortable lounge
- Andrew (8/5): Very good -
- Alyson (10/5): Exceptional -
- Edwin (10/5): Exceptional - Breakfast
- Lewis (10/5): Great stay - highly recommended! -
- Jean (10/5): Excellent stay , would certainly recommend - Welcoming, immaculate, comfortable and a wonderful breakfast, even an offer to take us back to our car if we couldn’t get a taxi, couldn’t ask for more , thank you. Nothing
- Tim (8/5): Very good -
- Sue (10/5): Exceptional -
- Mark (10/5): Exceptional -
- Jeff (10/5): Perfect base for a mid-Dorset stopover - Clean and stylish accommodation. Friendly owners and great breakfast.
- Kara (9/5): Very lovely bnb - comfy
- Cameron (10/5): Exceptional -
- Catherine (8/5): Great stay with smooth and helpful communication for a late check out. - All clean. Nothing to complain about Everything was perfect
- Roderick (9/5): Superb -
- Christina (10/5): Exceptional -
- Annie (10/5): Exceptional -
- Bryan (9/5): Very friendly and great breakfast - Nice and Handy for town with handy parking
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