Need to know
Rooms
30, including six suites.
Check–Out
11am; earliest check-in, 3pm.
More details
Rates include a Continental breakfast, with pastries, fruit, yoghurt, and hearty cooked options.
Also
You’ll find that two of the hotel’s rooms (a Panoramic Windermere and Lake House Double) have been adapted for wheelchair-users, as have all public areas except the wine-tasting room and the cinema.
At the hotel
Small private beach, cinema room, wine cellar, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, air-conditioning, minibar, tea- and coffee-making kit, and Bath House bath products.
Our favourite rooms
In most rooms Lake Windermere dominates the view, but some are more generous in their glimpses than others. Langdale Pikes Suite goes one step further and offers vistas of its namesake landmark alongside the water from its balcony – and has a dramatic curtain-draped octagonal turret. Or, push the boat out to stay in the secluded Victorian Boathouse, where you’ll have your own private pier for endorphin-raising dips. We also like the Lakehouse Garden Room Double – its alfresco copper bath tub calls for steamy soaks, plus a private garden and balcony let you survey the grounds.
Packing tips
You bet your boots you’ll need them (in rubber and hiking varieties), and perhaps chuck in a notebook – the Lakes’ lyrical landscape inspired William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter and John Ruskin, so it may inspire you to pen prose or poetry too.
Also
Hole up in one of the hotel’s many fire-lit corners: the literature-lined Reading Room, the dark-wood-clad Oak Room or the breezy bay-window-framed Sitting Room.
Children
Welcome, though there’s no specific kit. The restaurant has a children’s menu and there is a cinema room, which little Smiths can enjoy with supervision (the same should be said for the on-hand ice-cream and popcorn). Baby cots for under-twos are free.
Sustainability efforts
The hotel’s green-minded initiatives include avoiding single-use plastic, recycling rainwater for the grounds, sourcing produce for the restaurant from the kitchen garden or local suppliers, and relying on renewable energy where possible.