Overall a nice hotel

The location is perfect however the room was very small. I did not receive my complimentary drink on arrival even though I asked. i was told that they would sort it out which they never did. this is one of the reasons for booking with Off Peak Luxury

Lovely hotel in a lovely location. Very nice room, friendly and efficient staff and very good food..

I have always wanted to stay at this hotel, having driven past so many times heading for the mountains. We had an excellent room with views of the lake both to the north and the south. The restaurant provided an excellent dinner, the staff were very friendly and professional. It was a great pleasure to end the Lock down here. We used the ferry to visit Hawkeshead, walk round Tarn Hows and walk around in Ambleside. Just up the road is Holehird, a Cheshire Home with wonderful gardens carefully looked after by the local Horticultural Society.

A pleasure to stay at this hotel.
Staff were were 1st class could not do enough for you

Old England Hotel

Lovely overnight stay with warm and welcoming staff from the moment we arrived

Relaxing night away

Have stayed here once before with friend 3 years ago. My husband had wanted to stay as we go to Bowness at least once a year. Arrival welcome was good, we decided to use the car parking service, 20, as it wasn't the best weather and we would have only saved about 6 parking nearby car park. We had superior double room, facing the lake. Amazing views from large windows. 2 comfortable chairs by window. Comfortable bed, pillows. Furniture bit dark and dated, but not shabby. Good wardrobe space, full length mirror, dressing gowns and slippers. Large shower, not great water pressure though! We used the pool and sauna, given towels and locker token, nice and relaxing. The 3 course meal was good choice, supplements for some items, but as you'd expect. Couldn't fault anything we ordered. To me after having previously stayed, the breakfast wasn't as good as it had been. Was decent choice of help yourself, fruit, yogurts, pastries, etc. Hot was ordered. One sausage, have had tastier, bacon, choice of egg, and half a tomato, the black pudding tasted and looked as if been cooked in loads of oil and not the best taste. Enough tea or coffee and toast. Drink prices from bar typical hotel prices. All in all a nice stay but as not a cheap place to stay we would probably not return, as have stayed in cheaper priced hotels which are equally as nice.

Overall we enjoyed our three day stay at the hotel. We were very disappointed with the meals served in the dining room, The breakfasts were poor and we found it difficult to believe that a full English could be cooked so badly. Complaints to the staff about this were dismissed as they thought we were joking!
Anyway we thought the hotel was letting itself down by not addressing this properly