The Lakehouse Rooms at The Waterhead Inn, Ambleside

Friendly staff. Good location. Food mediocre

Lack of choice of draught beers, there was no Madrid on arrival, ran out of staropraman and another draught lager which only left coors!

Hotel was well positioned. We stayed in the Lakehouse Superior room. Very comfortable. Staff were all very friendly and accommodating.

The parking is not guaranteed, so caused us some angst prior to arriving as Booking . Com had said there was parking. In the end we did get Parked ok by booking and paying extra for early arrival. The house keepers had not been told about early arrival so we could park, but not get into our room at 1pm. As it happened we chose to have lunch first so it was ok in the end. We were told half way through our meal that we could go to our room. Crossing the busy road from the gateway of the Lakehouse garden was tricky! Also it was good that we didn’t meet anyone on the drive as we couldn’t have reversed back onto a main road and the space outside the house was tricky to manoeuvre in. Other guests also discussed this with us. Room was great but no ledge in the bathroom apart from the top of the toilet! So nowhere to put toiletries, sink area was small so couldn’t leave them there. Also no where to hang towels - only one hook on the back of the door.

Clean room, great size family room.

Smell of cannabis through the chimney in the evenings. Road difficult to cross to get to the pub.

The view good car parking and the Australian team member at breakfast

No elevator if you’ve got top floor it’s extremely hard to take luggage Poor directions for check in No fan for hot days