Lake District, United Kingdom

Langdale Chase

Price per night from$245.00

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (GBP195.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

View-blessed Victorian home

Setting

Lake Windermere’s waterfront

Let’s cut to the chase, Langdale Chase to be precise, a very fine point of interest by Lake Windermere. This manor’s revamped Victorian good looks (carved oak panelling, stained glass, turrets, gables…) have been made all the more swoon-worthy with contemporary country-chic suites, from which there are the lacustrine views that continue to a water-facing dining room and private pier – but a sweet-stocked cinema might grab your attention too. And with seductive alfresco bath tubs, a sultry bar and fireplace-lit nooks too, you’ll take to this debonair Lake District den like a duck to water.

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Facilities

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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.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Lap up uninterrupted lakeside views from one of the windowside tables, or cosy up in a banquette.

Dress Code

No need for petticoats and corsets, but add a Victorian touch to your evening dress with décolletage-skimming necklines, voluminous sleeves and fine tailoring.

Hotel restaurant

The dining room is wrapped with floor-to-ceiling windows, showcasing Lake Windermere as its jaw-dropping backdrop. Yet, despite views as distracting as this, your gaze will be held by chef Michael Cole’s creations, which take the district’s contours and coastlines as inspiration. The ever-changing dinner menu is guided by what fresh produce is delivered that day, and sublime Sunday lunches follow suit. Sweet tooths can indulge in afternoon tea too, where traditional offerings are playfully presented in geometric and colourful forms.

Hotel bar

After muddy romps or lakeside lolling, thaw out in the bar with its roaring fireplace and aromatic cocktails. An all-day dining menu of pub classics (we’re eyeing the club sandwich, burger and lobster roll) will line your stomach for sommelier-picked wines, local ales and mixologist-made tipples. 

Last orders

Breakfast is 8am to 10am; afternoon tea is available from noon until 4pm; dinner is served from 6.30pm to 8.45pm, and Sunday lunch is 12.30pm to 2.30pm. The bar pours and serves from 11am until 11pm.

Room service

Dine in your room during restaurant hours; just note, there’s an additional charge.

Location

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Address
Langdale Chase
Ambleside Road Ecclerigg
Windermere
LA23 1LW
United Kingdom

Langdale Chase hotel perches above the lapping shores of Lake Windermere, in the heart of the Lake District.

Planes

Manchester Airport is a 90-minute drive; Newcastle International and Leeds Bradford airports are just over two hours away by car. The hotel can arrange local taxis for transfers on request.

Trains

Arriva runs one-hour rail services from Manchester to Windermere station, which is a five-minute drive from the hotel. There’s an under-three-hour Avanti West Coast service from London Euston to Oxenholme; from here, take a 20-minute rail connection to Windermere or it’s a half an hour drive to the hotel.

Automobiles

You’ll want a set of wheels for cruising around Windermere and reaching more rugged corners of the district; there’s free parking at the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

With the Lake District on your doorstep, you’ll get your fresh-air and bracing-water fill in no time. At the hotel, channel Wim Hof as you dip in for some cold-water swimming; or if you’d rather admire the water from above, the concierge can arrange watersports, sailing and yacht trips on Lake Windermere. You could also take a garden tour through the pristine grounds; or for something more wild, the area’s hair-raising trails can be tackled by foot or by bike. The always-adventurous can also book archery, clay pigeon shooting, off-roading excursions or axe-throwing.

Local restaurants

This corner of Cumbria has become a bit of a dining destination in recent years, and putting it on the culinary map are two award-accoladed restaurants in Ambleside. Helmed by two brothers, the Old Stamp House is an intimate space where tasting menus are inspired by the region’s sea-faring history, and at dinner-only Lake Road Kitchen, fine hyper-local produce is delivered in artful platings and accompanied by carefully considered wine pairings.

Local cafés

Don’t let the queues at Homeground Coffee + Kitchen deter you, the latte-art-adorned brews and Aussie-inspired brunches are worth the wait. True to its name, Toast delivers well-stuffed toasties, loaded with all the good stuff (tangy cheese, black-garlic ketchup, sharp pickles) alongside frothy flat whites.

Local bars

Garlanded with flags, fairy lights and other knick-knacks, the Crafty Baa Windermere is as quintessential a pub as they come. Take your pint to the sun-kissed patio along with charcuterie and cheese platters to soak it all up.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this waterside hotel in northern England and unpacked their well-worn walking boots and locally distilled whisky, a full account of their bucolic break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Langdale Chase in the Lake District…

Making waves on Lake Windermere’s waterfront, Langdale Chase is a revamped Victorian residence poised in a woodland-shrouded estate. Lake District-based days typically centre around walking boots and waterproofs, and traversing thigh-toning trails up fells and along ridges; and sure, your visit to Langdale could follow in these well-trodden (and muddy) footsteps. But this refined refuge is a mid-way point for those wanting to bask in the region’s natural splendour, with a bon vivant twist. For a start, you can tick bucket-list sights off without venturing away from the estate: swim, sail or run laps around Lake Windermere; ooh and aah at beauty spots Langdale Pike and Low Wray from certain suites, and stroll through hotel gardens cultivated by noted landscape architect Thomas Mawson. But if you do spend days at large in the Lakes, you can soothe achy arms and lethargic legs in the suites’ copper bath tubs, kick back in the cosy cinema or refuel at the all-local restaurant ahead of another active day (or night).

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Price per night from $245.00