Cranleigh Hotel
Windermere, Cumbria

Located a one-minute walk from Lake Windermere with incredible brand new room facilities in all new luxury and superior rooms. Perfectly situated with restaurants, bars and shops also only one minute walk from the doors.

Recently taken over, this 1890s Art and Crafts period property has gone through extensive refurbishment. All new luxury and superior rooms have been designed to the highest of standards by a professional interior designer, creating style and taste with a homely and friendly atmosphere.

These fantastic rooms include all of, or most of, the following: 32 to 42-inch LCD TVs, goose-down duvets with pure cotton sheets, air spare baths, 17-inch mirrored TVs in bathrooms, DVD recorders, iPod docking stations, free internet access, designer Villeroy and Boch bathrooms, mood lighting in showers, heated tiled floors in bathrooms, bathrobes, quality towels and accessories and much more.

The hotel also offers a fantastic locally sourced breakfast using the finest produce, along with free use of leisure facilities located 200 metres away. Free parking available for up to 14 vehicles. The Cranleigh is licensed to sell quality wines, champagnes, largers and locally brewed award-winning beers.

Please note there is a strict non-smoking policy throughout The Cranleigh. Some of the standard older rooms are located in the annexe building on the same site. Standard rooms are due for refurbishment in 2008.

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Windermere is a town in Cumbria, England, lying about one kilometre away from the lake of the same name. Although Windermere confusingly does not touch the lake, it has now grown together with the older lakeside town of Bowness-on-Windermere, though the two retain distinguishable town centres. There are a number of museums, but the main draw for its many tourists is the lake. Boats from the piers in Bowness (about a fifteen-minute walk from the top of Windermere town) sail around the lake, many calling at Ambleside or at Lakeside where there is a restored railway. Windermere town was known as Birthwaite prior to the arrival of the Kendal and Windermere Railway, which stimulated its development. Windermere station offers train and bus connections to the surrounding area, Manchester, Manchester Airport, and the West Coast Main Line. The geological formations around the area take their name from the town. They are called the Windermere Group of sedimentary rocks. The town's name is also given to the Rt. Hon. Dr David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere, who now lives in Windermere.