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Excellent staff and service. The room is good size , nw, fresh and clean. Breakfast is buffet style with nice view, one of the best I ever had.

Staying at the Wild Boar was a mixed experience. It is comfortable and well-decorated but there are issues. The rooms are a good size, clean and comfortable (particularly nice bedding!) with good quality shampoo etc, However, the bathroom was cold and the extractor fan was the noisiest I have heard in a while: worse still you can hear the fans from the next door rooms as well as your own. Wi-fi is good throughout the hotel. The restaurant food was fine, although the fish was overcooked. Breakfast was particularly good. The bar service was really slow: when we were staying there was one poor lad on duty dealing with conference guests, a wedding party and regular guests both in the bar and restaurant and he was overwhelmed. Management should have stepped in to provide more staff.

We have been going to Gilpin Lodge since 2010 and it is our favourite hotel for the the accommodation, ambiance and delicious food. However, this time our stay at the Gilpin Lodge has been quite disappointing mainly due to the inadequate dining experience. While we were very happy with our room which was warm and spacious (and opens into the garden although it was upstairs) the food left much to be desired and significatly impacted our overall enjoyment. I so looked forward to the breakfast as on previous occasions I had the best ever vegetarian breakfast with their vegetable potatoes cake for many years! (I am not a vegetarian, I just love the Gilpin vegetarian breakfast). This time the breakfast was so disappointing , both the vegetarian and non vegetarian sausages were so hard you could practically knock someone with them! For dinner we had the tasting menu on the first night. Although this is a Michelin starred restaurant the chef did not produce Michelin star quality food, one dish featured a slither of turbot served on a bed of unseasoned hard bartolini beans which did not complement the fish at all. On the second night we went for the Origin menu which consist of the usual starter main & dessert from the same tasting menu but without the precourses. As this is more like ala-carte menu I expected a normal portions one usually get, this is not so, the portions were so small the same as the tasting menu. It seeemed the chef got 3 portions of main course from one single duck breast leaving us with a couple of mouthful for the main dish and the skin was not rendered probably and not edible. No side dishes were offered making the meal incomplete and unsatisfying. Desserts were similaly disappointing , lacking creativity & excitement. I woke up hungry about 2AM and ate all the shortbreads in the room! While the staffs remain friendly and helpful they are rather chaotic and we needed to request 4 times to bring an extra portion of bread during dinner. The main dining room was pleasant but without the white crisp tableclothes and fresh flowers the dining area feels more like a casual cafe rather then the fine dining establishment it once was. This combined with the lackluster meals has left us feeling disheartened and sadly the prospect of returning no longer excites us. Overall, despite being happy with the room and helpful friendly staffs the dining experience fell far short, and given the price we paid we expected much more specially for the Source Origin menu.

Disappointing trip overall. We was due to check in at 3pm, when we arrived the staff informed us that our room wasn’t clean and ready for us. We eventually got into our room at 4.45pm, shocking really when we had a baby and spent £300 for one night. The room looked tired, also had no curtain on the window. When we raised our concerns to the deputy manager, she gave attitude and didn’t seem to handle the situation correctly. We come to the lakes every year and stay at the Beech Hill however I’m afraid this will be our last stay. However, even though are stay wasn’t great, I would like to mention the restaurant manager and restaurant staff who was very friendly and delivered a great 3 course meal.

I especially recommend this hotel, a old English villa, which is newly renovated and British style. It is very clean and full of toiletries. It is 3 minutes away from the town by car. The room can see part of the lake view and the surrounding environment. Very good, I especially like their afternoon tea, the tea set is very exquisite, and I look at it with great care! Part of the breakfast is buffet, and the main meal is à la carte, with a large portion and enough to eat! If you have children staying with you, you must tell the hotel in advance that the children need to charge a fee of £28.50/piece/night! This fee includes breakfast and extra bed. If it is not stated in advance, the fee will still be charged, but there will be no extra bed! Expresso capsule coffee is provided free of charge in the room, which is my favorite. Those who like coffee are very surprised!

From the moment we arrived we were made to feel special and welcomed. We had drinks in the lounge area and veranda enjoying the spectacular views. The staff were all dressed smartly, and I got the impression they all loved working there. I had booked for my wife’s birthday and had also booked a table in the Henrock restaurant inside the hotel. The food was amazing, delicious and perfectly presented and served. Each delicious course was the lead up to the most amazing dessert I have ever eaten, and it was a rhubarb based dessert, which under normal circumstances is a contradiction where desserts are concerned normally, however this was an explosion of delicious tastes and textures. Would highly recommend this hotel and restaurant and we both hope to return, sooner rather than later.

The environment is great. You can see the lake when you go out. It is the hotel's private lake view. The room is also large and the hygiene is good in all aspects. There is no elevator, but staff can carry luggage. But it is more suitable for self-driving friends. There are very few bus trips and you can only take a taxi. In the Lake District, there are only local taxis and no Uber.

There is a pool, but there is no pool. The front desk service is not good, I feel that I am too lazy to take care of you, and seeing the child will force the extra bed to charge 35 fat one night, a bit arrogant. The room attendant was very nice and the waiter in the restaurant was very good.