Ambleside bed and breakfast in the Lake District
| country: | England |
| location: | Ambleside, Lake District |
| price: | From £30 - £45 per person per night. When enquiring it would be helpful if you could let us know which dates / type of room you are interested in |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
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Ambleside bed and breakfast in the Lake District
This is a family-run guest house offering you wonderful bed and breakfast in Ambleside. The accommodation is warm and welcoming, making this bed and breakfast a fantastic location for your holiday or weekend break in the Lake District.
Run by Paul and Vicky, who have lived in the Lake District all their lives, this B&B has all you'll need for a relaxing stay in Ambleside. Accommodation is ideally suited to families, couples or those visiting the Lake District alone.
Our Victorian house offers you quality bed and breakfast accommodation, with 10 comfortable bedrooms, all en-suite with bath and shower, colour TV, hot drinks tray, radio and hair dryer.
Set in the heart of the Lake District, the B&B has easy access to the town of Ambleside, with the centre being only 5 minutes walk. Ambleside is ideal for access to other parts of the Lake District such as Keswick, Windermere and Coniston.
To start your day we put the 'breakfast' in bed and breakfast, giving you a choice of cooked breakfast or lighter bites from our Breakfast buffet. We think Paul's Breakfast is the best in Ambleside. Start your day with a hearty Cumbrian breakfast or a choice of lighter dishes, all prepared from fresh local produce and served in our Lakeland greenstone dining room. Relax in our comfortable lounge or quiet bar, with free broadband Internet, we have parking and are no-smoking.
New for 2008: A one bedroom ground floor flat offering, well equipped and spacious self catering accommodation, in a 17thC gentleman’s residence in Ambleside with parking.
This is a family-run guest house offering you wonderful bed and breakfast in Ambleside. The accommodation is warm and welcoming, making this bed and breakfast a fantastic location for your holiday or weekend break in the Lake District.
Run by Paul and Vicky, who have lived in the Lake District all their lives, this B&B has all you'll need for a relaxing stay in Ambleside. Accommodation is ideally suited to families, couples or those visiting the Lake District alone.
Our Victorian house offers you quality bed and breakfast accommodation, with 10 comfortable bedrooms, all en-suite with bath and shower, colour TV, hot drinks tray, radio and hair dryer.
Set in the heart of the Lake District, the B&B has easy access to the town of Ambleside, with the centre being only 5 minutes walk. Ambleside is ideal for access to other parts of the Lake District such as Keswick, Windermere and Coniston.
To start your day we put the 'breakfast' in bed and breakfast, giving you a choice of cooked breakfast or lighter bites from our Breakfast buffet. We think Paul's Breakfast is the best in Ambleside. Start your day with a hearty Cumbrian breakfast or a choice of lighter dishes, all prepared from fresh local produce and served in our Lakeland greenstone dining room. Relax in our comfortable lounge or quiet bar, with free broadband Internet, we have parking and are no-smoking.
New for 2008: A one bedroom ground floor flat offering, well equipped and spacious self catering accommodation, in a 17thC gentleman’s residence in Ambleside with parking.
rooms, food and facilities
We have 10 spacious en-suite bedrooms, each individually decorated with a homely touch. We have single, twin and double bedrooms. All rooms include bath/shower, hand basin, toilet, hot drinks tray, colour TV & radio, hairdryer, fans and information folders. All rooms have views over Ambleside, the rooms at the rear have views of the surrounding fells.
Friendly bar which is open through the day, serving local beer and free tea and coffee, lots of local information for your use whilst staying with us Family friendly: We welcome families and can provide a cot or folding bed added to one of our double rooms, or for older children we can provide a sofa bed in the superior room (maximum occupancy for 3). Our lounge has board games for guest use and TV with DVD player with a small library of films and play station with games. We have a cot/high chair and can store bottles.
Walking & cycling friendly: We have drying facilities just in case we get a spot of rain and cycle storage is available by arrangement.
how to find our Ambleside bed and breakfast in the Lake District
By car: From the North, leave the Motorway at Junction 40 (Penrith), follow the A66 West towards Keswick. At Threlkeld take the B5322 through St Johns in the Vale, this joins the A591 at Thirlspot (Kings Head Inn). Follow the A591 into Ambleside. From the South, leave the motorway at Junction 36 (South Lakes), take the A590/591 following signs for Stavely, Windermere & Ambleside, continue until you reach Ambleside.By train: Our nearest main line station is Oxenholme the Lake District. From here take a connection on the branch line to Windermere. Taxis and Buses leave from the station to Ambleside.
By bus: Buses travel through the Lake District on a regular time table. From the south Lancaster & Kendal have large bus stations and from the north Carlisle and Keswick the 555 service is the main bus through Ambleside. During the summer months a regular service runs every 20 minutes from Bowness Bay to Grasmere, stopping in Ambleside.
how this holiday makes a difference
 We were awarded the Gold Green Tourism Business Scheme Award in 2007. In the dinning room our jams and marmalade are homemade. The bacon, sausage and bread (except our homemade loaf) are produced in the village with ingredients sourced within Cumbria. Croissants are made in Staveley. Bees from Ambleside help produce the honey bought from a beekeeper from Kendal and our butter is handmade on a farm near Carlisle all helping reduce our “food miles”. In the community we use local tradesmen for all the maintenance that we don’t do ourselves.We reuse and recycle our paper, glass and tins. We also have compost bins for our compostable waste. Outside we harvest rainwater to water the flower tubs. We have bird boxes and tables and have an insect hotel by the compost bins. We have maps and timetables to encourage you to walk and use public transport. We have replaced 90% of the most used bulbs with low energy bulbs. Our office stationery is recycled or made from sustainable forests, as is our facial, toilet tissue and kitchen hand towels. We clean using environmentally friendly materials where we can and buy as much as we can in bulk and decant into reusable containers. In the laundry we wash on low temperatures using non-bio powder and special laundry balls. All our printer cartridges are recycled. We switch off lights when they are not needed; TV's are turned off as we clean rooms (not left on stand by). Used postage stamps go to the local brownie pack who collect them for the Local Children's Hospice. We sponsor Ambleside United junior football clubs under 8 side, joint sponsors of the children’s races at Ambleside Sports. We commit time to Guiding, the football club, and Sports committee, PSA at school and on the Production team for a local fundraising Pantomime. |
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