We had a five night stay here in June 2025, in a “garden suite” room called Haystacks. Gilpin Lodge is a couple of miles from Lake Windermere and its thirty rooms are spread out over a hillside, with pretty gardens and a paddock with alpacas, llamas and a trio of pet pigs. The Haystack room is in a small block of half a dozen rooms, each with a little terrace and hot tub and a shared sauna. The room was large with a particularly big bathroom, with a walk in shower as well as separate bath. There was WiFi which I measured at 37 Mbps download and 40 Mbps upload, perfectly adequate for normal usage. By the way, there is a separate accommodation called the Lake House, 2km away and with eight bedrooms, its own dedicated swimming pool and a lake set in a hundred acres of grounds. The main hotel has two restaurants: Spice is a pan Asian casual restaurant set in a stone building on the hillside, and Source is a Michelin starred restaurant in the main building. Source doubles in the morning as the breakfast venue. Breakfasts are made to order and were very good, featuring for example exceptionally high quality sausages. The staff that we encountered were lovely, helpful and friendly. If you have mobility issues then bear in mind that the hotel buildings are spread out and on a slope, but there is a hotel buggy service offered to whisk you between your room and the main buildings. All the staff were excellent, but Charlotte in particular was superb.
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