Linthwaite House Hotel

A most beautiful find! Overlooking Lake Windermere, very scenic. Super friendly staff particularly the Guest Service Manager! Gorgeous setting / beautiful room, great food, lovely outdoor seating / setting to have a martini or two! All in all a great experience 10/10

Penny Irvine, who is a traveling masseuse and often does massage at linwaithe house was fantastic. She gave me a really great, relaxing massage. Would highly recommend her! The staff at linwaithe house were also very helpful kind and attentive.

Linthwaite House is an exceptionally well-appointed hotel in beautiful grounds, overlooking Lake Windermere. The rooms are luxurious and the staff are warm, friendly and attentive. Absolutely nothing was too much trouble during our stay, and because of this, we thoroughly enjoyed our two night residence over New Year. Breakfast was extremely well presented and utterly delicious and we enjoyed a wonderful view of the garden on both mornings. The bartenders are able to conjure some exciting, unique cocktails, which can be enjoyed in an extremely comfortable conservatory, along with tasty snacks. All in all, we had a wonderful time and we will definitely revisit in the future.

Beautiful hotel & afternoon, amazing location & attentive staff, cannot fault this at all. What does disappoint me is that we were charged £22 per glass of 250ml of rosé, yet a schooner of lager was only £5. Don’t mind paying extra for such an amazing hotel & location but feel this is extortionate! ‘Rip off Britain’ comes to mind, such a shame as such a beautiful hotel.

We paid £960 (excluding dinner and the bar bill) for 2 nights B&B for a 'view room'. The view was nice. The room (3) was fairly small. The en-suite was large. Hot water took a very long while to arrive... a really long time! Information about the hotel's facilities is non existent. For example, we discovered a picnic could have been arranged when we saw a notice to that affect in the summerhouse by their tarn on a walk around their quite stunning grounds. It would have been nice if this information was available prior to arrival. Other information was similarly missing, It is a lovely hotel. There is some fabulous, if somewhat quirky artwork and the staff are mostly genuinely interested in you and invested in making sure you have a good time. I say 'mostly'. Breakfast service is dreadful. We weren't aware they could provide more coffee options than a very (very) weak cafetiere until our 2nd morning, when, upon asking for an additional spoon of coffee in said pot I was told they couldn't do that because the coffee pots were all pre-prepared...but I might get lucky if someone was a bit heavy handed. Anyway, we were then told x, y and z coffees were available. We ordered two: 20 mins later one arrived, along with a pot of tea. A random plate of grapefruit arrived, as did juice we didn't order, but our breakfast took a bloody long time. Overnight oats had been prepared some 20mins before serving: gritty and runny (I'd had them the day before... beautifully creamy and soft). Breakfast mains didn't arrive. We asked when it was coming. Soon, they said. Some 40mins after asking and nearly an hour since ordering, it turned up (scrambled egg and salmon on one plate, scrambled egg and bacon on the other). Unfortunately the waitress put my plate down resting on the edge of my coffee cup and saucer, which totally upended as soon as I put fork to plate... breakfast was ruined in a pool of poor quality coffee. The replacement came out in less than 5 minutes. Microwaved fatty bacon and a miniscule portion of sloppy scrambled egg. The waiter came over to explain the very lengthy wait... apparently another table preffered to have their breakfast order served at the same time. So, despite being seated and ordering first, we were made to wait. When I said that I really did not care about another table's preference, and would just have liked our breakfast to have been served in a timely manner, the waiter looked shocked and exclaimed that I should care. My husband, who was less than halfway through his breakfast asked if I wanted to leave. I did. I took my abysmal breakfast plate to reception to complain. I was so upset. This had been a treat for my 65th birthday and my lasting memory is of that man giving preferential treatment to people who were staying in a more expensive room. The cost of breakfast... £70 ...was knocked off the bill. Apologies were given. The manager rang the next day... we should let her know when we next planned to stay; she would personally look after us, and we would be given a special upgrade. She would give us her email address. A week on and she hasn't. But even if she had, I wouldn't stay there again. The way that man spoke to me is unforgivable and the way we were placed in some sort of 'pecking order' was really quite disgraceful for a hotel of any quality, let alone the standing of Linthwaite House. It is interesting to note that Linthwaite House doesn't respond to reviews. Also interesting to note that given the very many negative comments about breakfast service, it does nothing to improve. Or perhaps it just doesn't give a toss.