Places to stay in the Lake District - anyone recommend please?

jude_s

Am contemplating the lakes for a few days with a family group. Have looked at some hotels and self catering places but wondered if anyone could recommend from experience please? Needs to be level access.

Many thanks in advance,
Jude S

InsideInsurance

What are your priorities outside of level access? Price? Views? Restaurant/Bar?

We decided to stay at the Travelodge just outside of Kendal. Obviously just a basic travelodge but well situated for most the areas we wanted to be. Pleasant drive into the lakes and was as cheap as chips (even more so when they only charged for 1 night).

Saving money on the hotel we were then able to spend more eating/ drinking at the more luxury hotels in the evenings and just came back to the hotel to crash.

Was certainly all on the level and we were given a disabled room, guess they'd run out of other types, so had a wet room with shower if your mobility is that restricted

Floozie

I cannot comment from experience as I live in Cumbria on the doorstep to the Lake District but "Inside insurance" is spot on about asking what are your priorities. If it is price there are not many chain hotels in the Lake District where you could get special offers. Travelodge and Premier Lodge operate around the Kendal area and Kendal itself is a pleasant town with plenty of cafes to eat at. There is a McDonald Old England hotel in Bowness on Windermere which I call "the Blackpool of the Lake District" which is situated near the launch pad for all the lake cruises, I don't know if they have ground floor bedrooms.
Up at Penrith which is better located for the Keswick and Lake Ullswater locations there is a Travelodge. If you want leisure facilities there is the North Lakes Hotel and Spa which is situated just off the M6, it will be more expensive than the Travelodge but there are leisure facilities if the weather is lousy and you can't do much sightseeing which should suit the younger members of the group. A few miles out of Penrith if you want a luxury country house overlooking Ullswater lake there is the Sharrow Bay country house hotel but this is very pricey!

gingerdad

You've also got premier inns/travelogdes in Cockermouth, Barrow & Whitehaven

Some great independent hotels and self catering it all comes down to budget.

fufu_banterwaite

We’ve been going up to the Lake District for the past 25 years at Christmas with our family and we always booked a house through Cumbrian Cottages – I would recommend them.

InsideInsurance

fufu_banterwaite wrote: »

We’ve been going up to the Lake District for the past 25 years at Christmas with our family and we always booked a house through Cumbrian Cottages – I would recommend them.

If you always use the same place how do you know if they are better or worse than others? :A

House.buyer.sarah

We live 20 minute drive from Windermere, there's lots of very expensive hotels in the lakes , but some lovely hotels just outside towards barrow in Furness there's abbey house hotel, roughly £80 a night or if you prefer to stay in the lakes I would advise guest houses rather than the large hotels and try booking nearer the time using later rooms .. As someone said Kendal is a lovely town and well placed for lakes and m6.. Have fun but bring a brolly lol x

fufu_banterwaite

InsideInsurance wrote: »

If you always use the same place how do you know if they are better or worse than others? :A

I don't hence why I never said I did.

InsideInsurance

fufu_banterwaite wrote: »

we always booked a house through Cumbrian Cottages – I would recommend them.

fufu_banterwaite wrote: »

I don't hence why I never said I did.

Yeah you did

marksmith99

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Yeah you did

But they didn't say they were better or worse than anyone else....

PompeyPete

If you've got wheels, then have a look at a Lake District 'gateway' town in North Lancashire, like Lancaster, or even Morecambe.