Romantic Hotels – Lake District, United Kingdom
The 2008 British Travel Awards saw the Lake District voted Britain’s Favorite Place to Visit. Lake District hotels are among the best in the UK, offering a wide choice in each hotel category to suit different travel budgets and individual requirements. English lakes are the most popular choice for romantic getaways and weddings. Romantic Lake District hotels range from castles, country houses, lakeside inns, cutting-edge boutique hotels, luxury suites and spa hotels.
Cumbria is the home county of the Lake District National Park, the largest in England. Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England located in the western Wasdale valley. The entire area of the National Park, approximately 880 square miles, is hilly with some of the deepest and longest lakes in England located in the valleys. The landscape is staggeringly impressive and continues to inspire poets, artists, writers, and photographers alike.
Some of the most romantic hotels in the Lake District are located around Windermere, the largest lake. An ideal setting for couples to spend a good time relaxing and enjoying together. Miller Howe Hotel sits high above Windermere and is one of the most romantic hotels in the Lake District. With your own private terrace, overlooking gently meandering gardens that stretch out towards the majestic lake, you can sit back and admire the breathtaking view that changes in the evening to spectacular sunsets. Some rooms have French doors with their own private balcony offering these beautiful views, as do all public rooms facing the lake.
If your idea of romance is sitting on your own private jetty, feet in the water on the shores of Lake Windermere, The Lakeside Hotel has private houseboats for rent for the day, complete with their own rowing boat, picnic basket and your favorite cold drinks in the fridge.
Aphrodites Boutique Hotel is located just away from the bustling town of Bowness-on-Windermere, a luxury Lake District hotel with a different romantic theme, with colorful dancing fountains in the gardens and luxuriously appointed suites, such as the Suite Aphrodite’s Log Cabin which has a private patio with its own outdoor hot tub and Cleopatra suite with its sunken hot tub big enough for two!
If you’re looking for hotels in the Lake District, you’ll be spoiled for choice and there are many great ones, but equally there are some that fall short to one degree or another in terms of what they claim to be, just like everywhere else in the but particularly in any popular tourist area where hotel rooms are very expensive. A less-than-perfect hotel can spoil a getaway, no matter how beautiful the area.
