Description
1 Park Road
Boutique luxury hotel accommodation in the peaceful heart of Windermere village featuring newly refurbished contemporary rooms complete with wi-fi, Ipod docking stations, digital TV and radio, DVD/CD player and cafetieres of fresh coffee!
All you would expect from one of the finest small boutique hotels in the Lake District.
After parking in the private car park, walk into the guest house (that was once a gentleman's residence), where the blend between modern and traditional is apparent: the tiled floors in the hall, the original stained glass windows on the landing and the original staircase boasting fresh flowers.
The overall feeling of this luxury bed and breakfast is one of tranquillity.
At our luxury bed and breakfast we have a lounge that has that "wow" factor. You can sit in the lounge and lose yourself in the piles of magazines, books, CDs, puzzles or play the grand piano at one of the best luxury hotels in the Lake District. Read your newspaper, access your lap top whilst drinking a glass of wine or continental beer, from our extensive collection.
Accommodation
1 Park Road has 6 en-suite bedrooms and all have modern French and Art Nouveau pictures or drapes from Morocco.
The rooms are newly refurbished in a contemporary style and come complete with wi-fi, Ipod docking stations, digital TV and radio, DVD/CD player and cafetieres of fresh coffee plus hot chocolate, tea and fresh milk.
There are three room types: Luxury Double, Superior Double and Standard Double with prices from as little as £40 per person per night.
The house also has a family room with a double bed, two single beds or a
travelling cot as well as books, puzzles- even a treasure hunt on one
of the local 1 Park Road walks- or crayons and pencils from the Keswick
Pencil factory
Dining
We also go that a little bit extra and offer a few extra goodies that you can take full advantage of during your stay with us.
There are many very good local restaurants in the areas from excellent bistros to 2 star Michelin places. We have a book of restaurants we recommend. For that special night out why not visit the local Michelin restaurant at Holbeck Ghyll for dinner and a free glass of champagne?
Breakfast
Breakfast is a culinary experience and offers a wide range of choice to suit all tastes - seasonal fresh fruit, omelettes, yoghurts and fruit smoothies or prunes soaked in syrup, earl grey tea, vanilla pod and a cinnamon stick.For those with a heartier appetite, our freshly cooked English breakfast boasts award winning sausages from Huddlestones butchers, bacon from Cheshire and smoked in Bowness and free range eggs from Bannerigg Farm. You could try one of the specials such as Eggs Benedict, Kedgeree with a mild curry sauce, Scottish smoked kippers or smoked haddock. Vegetarians are also well looked after, as are people on special diets, such as gluten free menus.We service often croissants, home made blue berry muffins, sometimes home made baked beans, or banana and other fruit smoothies and a prunes soaked in Earl Grey tea, vanilla pod, syrup and cinnamon
Dinner
2 or 3 course dinners all freshly made from local produce are served on a Friday, Saturday and often during the week.
The menu is tasty, wholesome and unpretentious, and changes weekly.
Starters include a variety of home made soups served to suit the time of year (and our British weather!) with favourites like chilled gazpacho, mushroom with a hint of truffle oil and tarragon, Mrs Kirkhams Cheese Souffle, Morecambe Bay Shrimps, home made chicken liver and organic patè, classic French onion soup or haddock chowder. Our main courses include Lamb Shanks (braised for 2 or 3 hours), salmon cooked in a grapefruit hollandaise sauce, Beef Daube, pork cooked in a gorgonzola wine sauce, Vegan Lancashire Hot pot and lemon or linguine served with lemon, mushroom and thymeTo end a lazy evening, our dessert menu range from chocolate soufflé, summer Eton mess with Cassis, White Chocolate Ice Cream served with Grasmere Ginger bread, a revealing Venetian rice pudding, home made ginger parkin or raspberries with mascarpone cream.
Drink and be merry!
Mary’s love of fine wines and Philip’s interest in beer means there is always a wide choice of wines and beers available. 1 Park Road is fully licensed so you can enjoy a drink in your room whilst settling down to watch a DVD. Fancy an aperitif in the lounge? How about partaking of a gin and tonic or glass of Pimms before you go out, or treat yourself to a cool beer to recover from that long day’s walking in the hills?
What a great location, tucked away in the quiet residential streets of Windermere village but close to the shops and restaurants.
Hosts Mary and Philip are lovely and interesting people and clearly have a passion to make guests as welcome as possible.The house is impressive and beautifully decorated. Some nice touches here such as cafetieres for coffee and fresh milk instead of the little cartons of UHT!The guest lounge is lovely,bright, peaceful and the perfect place for a post prandial snifter or read of the papers in the morning.
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