Photos of the area


Around Limefitt Park - Near Jenkins CragAround Limefitt Park - WIndermere with rainbowAround Limefitt Park - View from Wansfell PikeAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck GardenAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck GardenAround Limefitt Park - UllswaterAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck ChurchyardAround Limefitt Park - TownendDSCF1561Around Limefitt Park - Troutbeck ChurchAround Limefitt Park - Cattle on the fellsAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck TongueAround Limefitt Park - View from WansfellAround Limefitt Park - View from Ill bellAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck ChurchyardAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck TongueAround Limefitt Park - WindermereAround Limefitt Park - UllswaterAround Limefitt Park - Limefiit from aboveAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck Churchyard

The Cottage Guru reviews our web site!

Last week Heather Bayer, (AKA the Cottage Guru), cast her eye on our web site and wrote a review on her highly respected blog

For those of you who don’t know of Heather she lives in Canada and writes on the subject of self-catering holiday lets. She is a highly respected international expert in the [...]

Happy guests again!

Well, we’ve just been through the Guest Survey responses from 2009 and I’m delighted to say that we’ve continued to get a great level of satisfaction. We’ve now been doing this for 3 years and we’ve made a point of trying to maintain and exceed the great start we got in 2007. Hopefully the results [...]

Government as bad as Foot & Mouth for UK Tourism!

To be serious for a moment, we self-catering operators are shortly to be shafted by the government when they repeal the Furnished Holiday Letting rules next year. This is being done to us just so that they don’t have to extend the FHL tax treatment to European based businesses owned by UK nationals.

Many of us [...]

Stars

I’m very relieved to be able to say that we retained our English Tourist Board four star rating at Windermere Lodge today. The guy who visited us pointed out that there are very few four star lodges around, but that our’s is “a good , solid 4 star”.  It shows that all the hard work [...]

Windermere Lodge wins an international award!

Rental Owners Website Awards 2009 Winner

ROWA Winner – Best content

The Windermere Lodge web site today won the “Content” category of the ROWA Awards 2009

The Windermere Lodges website beat off strong competition from 56 other holiday rental websites from all over the world and 5 other highly professional finalists from Germany, [...]

My Lake District Top 10

Troutbeck Village
The view of Windermere from Wansfell Pike
Sailing on Windermere
MTB ride round Kentmere
Go Ape – Grizedale forest
A canoe on Ulswater
Wordsworth’s daffodils at Glencoyne Bay
A pint at The Queen’s Head Troutbeck
A walk around Grasmere followed by dinner at Villa Columbina
Watching the colour of Buttermere change with the light.

Why not post yours here too – [...]

April – not the cruelest month! Official! (at least in the Lakes)

Did you know that your best chance of decent weather is in April. It is the driest month of the year: Kendal averages just over three inches of rain (compared with nearly five in August), and gets the same sunshine as in July and August, with [...]

Late availability deal – Windermere Lodge – Luxury Lake District Log Cabin

Come and stay in our Troutbeck Lodge at Limefitt Park. This could be the last late availability deal for a while as we are now booked up pretty solidly until the end of the Summer.

It’s only £199 + the cleaning charge for 4 nights from Monday 30th March – thats  only just over £10 per [...]

Red Arrows

The organisers of this year’s Windermere Air Show have confirmed that the Red Arrows will be headlining the event!

The airshow will be held on July 25th and 26th at The Glebe, Bowness, Windermere

Things to do this Easter in the Lake District

There’s a great list of things to do in the Lake District this Easter at:

http://www.golakes.co.uk/recommended/article-top-10-easter.aspx

Most of these are within very easy striking distance of our lodges at Limefitt Park.