Broad Oaks Review

Stunning hidden away gem in the lakes. Fantastic afternoon tea . Excellent rooms and hearty breakfast . We will be back

Attended a wedding hear. Really nice cosy venue in a beautiful location.

We first found Broadoaks when we were searching for a wedding venue. The thing that drew us to Broadoaks was not only it being a beautiful venue, but the fact we could have exclusive use for a relatively small wedding party, plus it s dog friendly too!
Whilst we had visited other places, as soon as we saw the hotel we knew it was the place for us!
Our wedding was always intended to be small (note to other vendors - 50 isn t intimate!!) and we booked for late October 2020 prior to the pandemic taking over everything.

In the months leading to the wedding, the team at Broadoaks were brilliant, what should have been a small and simple wedding planning process for us, was repeatedly complicated by ever-changing government restrictions. The team were endlessly patient and helpful throughout, ensuring our day could happen without too many changes whilst remaining covid compliant.
When we finally made it to our big day - we couldn t have asked for better! The team were fantastic and made sure every aspect of our day was was truly special - even the sunshine came out for us!
Special thanks go to Mel for all the planning and support in the run up, Little Jo for making sure our wedding day went smoothly, and Dan and Stellian for perfect evening service (especially the second gong!!)

Before the wedding we had stayed in January, twice in August, and have since stayed after the wedding in December. We have now stayed in a variety of different rooms, and experienced the fantastic service offered by Broadoaks on a number of occasions.

Broadoaks will always be a special place for us, and we look forward to more stays here, for many more years. Our only disappointment is that we have heard they will be very busy in 2021 catching up on all the postponed weddings - so we won t be able to stay quite as often as we would like!! :)

Had an afternoon tea... great value ..excellent scones

Expensive. A little tired and dated. Lots of alcohol restrictions.

Very friendly, clean, beautiful surroundings, exquisite food and very central to some lovely sight seeing, would definitely visit again.

Had a Fantastic afternoon tea with my daughter. Lovely mixed tea and the cakes were to die for. Lots of hot fresh coffee and even some bubbly. Lovely quaint crockery and second to none views. Friendly staff who couldn't have been more helpful and pleasant. Can't wait to go back.

Stunning building and grounds, nice rooms, friendly staff and AMAZING food!

Loved loved loved the afternoon tea. Staff were delightful and couldn't help enough

Friendly staff, efficient and great food at fair prices.

This hotel is absolutely outstanding and exceded our expectations . It is dog friendly and the owners have put a lot of effort in welcoming dog owners and non dog owners alike. The hotel has great character , it is very clean and the staff are friendly and helpful. The food is excellent . And finally the bath was great after walking the fells !

A lovely and peaceful venue for a wedding and as a place to stay.
The staff are very friendly and can't do enough for you.
Can't recommend Broadoaks enough.

Excellent experience from arriving to leaving. Attentive staff, incredible food, fantastic room with a comfy bed and a lovely bathroom. If your looking for somewhere to stay in the area look no further. Will definitely return in the future.
Thank you to all the staff that made our stay so enjoyable.

Beautiful stay at this hotel everything was perfection!

My fiancee booked us a room for my birthday. Well it was an amazing experience thank you to the staff we was in Rowan could not fault anything unbelievable service and they were always happy to help. The 4 coarse meal was amazing and we are looking at having our wedding their in 2020 realy cant wait

The Lakes to me always meant traffic everywhere, people everywhere, packed bars and shops and really not relaxing at all unless you are prepared to climb to the top of a hill. How wrong I was. 3 years ago we discovered Broadoaks and have just returned from our 5th break there.

The hotel is located just 5 minutes drive from Windermere and is tucked away in the quietest corner imaginable. The only sounds to disturb you will be the babbling brook at the bottom of the garden or the occasional sheep or eagle. I can cope with that!!

There is a great choice of rooms either in the main hotel, the adjacent coach house or the new lodges tucked away just off the drive. Each room is individual and you can choose exactly the room you wish. Many are large and have jacuzzi baths. This time we stayed in a room with a very posh B&O TV system. Did I like it? Looks fantastic but far too complicated for me - and with the wonderful gardens, great walks and amazing beauty all round WHY would you want to watch the TV anyway!

The food is excellent and well served and the drinks before dinner in the bar or piano room are a great start to the evening. Sometimes dinner is served a little fast but a quick word to the staff to slow it down a bit is all that's needed.

I think the current owners have had the hotel for about 10 years and every time we visit we see improvements to the decor, the staff and the food. It's the little things that count here and it's the little things the staff here are great with. The staff are all so friendly that you soon find yourselves treated like friends. The Chef Sharon comes out of the kitchen to speak to you, the restaurant manager Richard (after the appropriate amount of sympathy) teased me relentlessly after I fell over in the bar! The gardener Marc insisted on carrying my bag from the hotel to the car and the manager Jane was everywhere all the time.

This is not a big corporate soulless hotel. This is a fine, smal,l independent hotel whose owners and staff care about their guests and seem to really enjoy looking after us. Are we getting boring going back to the same place? Well perhaps but we love it so much why shouldn't we?

Fantastic stay over for a friend's weekend, excellent staff and facilities

Beautiful hotel. Lovely grounds and fantastic staff. Food is very good. Rooms are clean with lots of space and views.

Beautiful hotel in a stunning location!
The morning view over the valley was quite simply breathtaking.

Food was excellent and a lot of attention has gone into creating the menu, breakfast was of course the Cumbrian Breakfast.
The staff were really friendly and very, very helpful when we realised we had forgotten one of our waterproof coats just as the heavens opened ready for our 'big' walk on Saturday!

Pre dinner drinks in the Music Room were accompanied by canapes which was a lovely touch.

The hotel is also dog friendly and they have ensured all bases have been covered from the treats to the cleaning station.
The staff at reception suggested a pleasant local walk for the Sunday morning and also organised some boat trip tickets for us.

All in all we have had a wonderful weekend at Broakoaks and look forward to returning very soon.

Highly recommend

Fantastic wedding venue with friendly staff. We attended an exclusive use wedding here and it was very well executed. Typically I am very sceptical of the food you get at these sort of places but I have to give them credit here, all dishes were superb. Special mention to the sticky toffee pudding.

All aspects of Broadoaks country house, thank you for a fantastic weekend

My wife and I came here for a weekend for my birthday. The staff were so nice and welcoming. It is in a lovely area with a lovely stream running near it. The food was amazing and so posh. We had afternoon tea when we arrived and an amazing meal at dinner. We thoroughly enjoyed our time here.

Excellent Summer Break with all the trimmings...Took the kids this week to Broadoaks Country House for a family summer break and we were not disappointed. We received a personal service from the moment we checked in to the very last second we departed. We also brought our two dogs with us and they also enjoyed being pampered in their own way :)

Each of our rooms were stunning and unique and the kids loved their own space and especially loved the home touches like cookies and milk at bedtime..

Our trip was made even better by the hot weather and we enjoyed the amazing views of Windermere on our dog walks.

Thanks to all the Broadoaks staff, we will be back soon...

Recently attended a wedding here, friendly staff, good food, amazing hotel. Jacuzi baths in the room, what more do you want to end/start your day? :) will be revisiting again.

What a fantastic place to relax and spend a few nights. Very welcoming. Nice room in the old house, with home made biscuits. Set in gorgeous surroundings. The spa down the road has nice new facilities free to use. Register your car in the spa for free parking, don't pay like I did. Each of the breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner where outstanding. Local beer on tap very nice.

We came here for a weekend away. We booked a package that included the room; cream tea; evening meal and breakfast the next day. The staff were brilliant, we re extremely attentive. The food was also all very nice and tasted very fresh!
The bedroom was lovely. All in all perfect weekend, a nice relaxing break!

Rooms are spacious and plentiful in facilities, the grounds are fantastic and the staff are great! The weather was nice too.

Fantastic room. Staff were really friendly and helpful. The food was amazing too. Only down side was the weather but that can't be helped!

Visited last year. Beautiful afternoon tea one of the best we have had. Lovely setting and very welcoming staff. Hope to return soon to donate some China.

Stunning hotel, very fancy traditional rooms while still providing all modern conveniences. Gorgeous location, with plenty to do in the local area. Dinner was divine, the best meal I have ever enjoyed, and breakfast was delicious too . The team were all lovely and helped to make my birthday very special.

Lovely traditional afternoon tea, with friendly helpful staff

A beautiful place, in a beautiful location! The retreat was a lovely place to stay and my best friend's wedding was amazing!

Beautiful venue super accomodation very good service

Beautiful location and very friendly and helpful staff

Lovely hotel, fantastic meal. Enjoyed our stay very much.

I could really write an essay or book about this place. The food, staff and rooms are all first class and amazing

Amazing, the staff are all lovely, welcoming and are happy to help with all needs, just had a lovely stress free break here, and when I say the price dosent reflect the food quality i mean it is so high quality they could charge alot more, it is the highest quality food with amazing flavour design and service, it was devine, I couldn't be more happy and i will 100% be coming back, there luxury facilities make you sad to leave, lovely views from all areas, plenty of space. It is a place with lots of character and picturesque infinity. Thankyou to all the broadoaks staff. Luv from yasmin hakan and June

We made our vows here. We had 30 guests and took 15 rooms. The food was terrific. Dinner and breakfast. All guests had a great time and the staff were very attentive.

Visited here for a wedding fayre, a lovely little house

Couldn't fault it. The bed was comfy (barring a hard pillow) and the room was above and beyond what we expected. The food was unbelievable and was very hard to pick off the menu as it all looked so good.

Best afternoon tea! Lovely place, excellent service. Will come again!

Beautiful place, amazing scenery, very peaceful and relaxing, kind friendly staff, excellent food, highly recommend

ALL the staff were very attentive, the scenery, rooms and interior were nothing less than grand. Food is incredibly rich and flavoursome.

Would recommend this for couples of any age group looking for a quiet weekend away and being treated like royalty.

Beautiful scenery. Took grandsons and they played happily in gardens for hours. Great service and fantastic food

Attended for a wedding. Perfect location. Peaceful, calm and beautiful. Staff were welcoming and helpful and the food was delicious.

Stayed here for a wedding do a few months ago. Excellent location with great views, although the view from my room was the carpark ! Not 5 star but ok. I was not impressed with the staff who were just going through the motions. I was nearly ripped off at the bar with some jokers putting their drinks on my tab, so be careful. The worst thing was the hotel tried to close off part of the room that was used for the evening entertainment. They did open it after the bride and groom pleaded with them. Not recommended.

Fantastic experience, rooms exellent, food gorgeous. Genuine 5*

Stayed at this lovely hotel a few weeks ago for a wedding. The room was really nice and breakfast the next morning was very good. They were happy to cater for my GF diet. The service was also excellent. Its a 5-10 minute drive into Windermere. Would stay here again.

The staff go the extra mile and are brilliant. Quirky little touches in the hotel really give the place charm. The 4 course evening meal and wine pairing was fantastic. Highly recommended

Lovely hotel. All staff very friendly and helpful, food delicious and well presented. Room very clean and well furnished. Boutique hotel meets Country house hotel is there statement couldn't agree more.

Beautiful building and grounds
Cannot wait until our Wedding here !

The stay was good, room and grounds were nice, food was excellent. A little greedy in my opinion, charging for a bread roll or ice bucket! Our stay was spoiled by wasps crawling over the food at breakfast, we complained to the hotel but they fail to reply. Definitely better choices out there for the price.

Built the fantastic conservatory for the fab ladies who looked after all our work force the rooms were the best lovely hotel fab

A wonderful hotel, my wife and I were married here, and it was so perfect we've returned for each anniversary (just had our fifth).
The rooms are lovely, the food is great, and the staff create a warm, welcoming atmosphere that it's a pleasure to return to.
Highly recommended.

Was here for a wedding - lovely intimate venue, will definitely revisit

Bueatiful place with great staff. A bit old fashioned in some ways, but not in a bad way. Nice place to stay, but a bit far for a walk in to town.

Superb staff offering us a warm welcome. Our bags were carried upstairs to our room, lovely service. Whilst our bedroom was one of the smaller the hotel has to offer it was charming and well appointed. Great selection teas and coffee in room plus home made biscuit and kendal mint cake. We would have liked a larger shower en-suite but warmed fluffy towels, robe and . gorgeous bathroom products made up for it. Only real niggle was the ceiling shower with no hand held shower attachment and we couldn't locate a shower cap. Bed was comfy linen great. Food was high standard across breakfast, afternoon tea and evening meal. Beautiful grounds. Free Car parking on site. Stay includes use of gym and spa facilities, however these were located separately a few minutes down the road. Certainly would recommend a stay.

Top quality hotel. Beautiful room, great food and excellent service. Will definitely be going again.

We stayed a night here, it is a beautiful hotel in a lovely setting. The staff were friendly and we were made to feel very much at home. We arrived early and had afternoon tea, then a four course evening meal. The room was lovely, warm and extremely comfortable so we had a great nights sleep. We then had a leisurely breakfast before sadly having to leave. I have to say that the food was fabulous. In fact we couldn't find any fault with this hotel and will definitely return.

I attended a wedding here and I was pleasantly surprised at how nice it was!

The place in general has lots of character and is situated in a lovely location with, pretty much, clear land around it.

Inside there is character for days! A couple big function room and, however, one small bar that does serve local booze.

The staff were friendly and the food was banging! And it's in the middle of the lakes!

Would definitely recommend

We had afternoon tea and it was absolutely fantastic. Every thing was nice and freshly made, and of coarse the Bubbles.

Fantastic location, opulent rooms, superb food. Thoroughly recommended.

Everything top to bottom was perfect. Clean, beautiful room, amazing food and wonderful staff. 10/10 would stay again any time :)

A really lovely, quaint and cosy hotel. We visited for a meal so cannot comment on the rooms etc but the service was brilliant and each course of the food was absolutely delicious. Would definitely recommend and visit again

Food was amazing!!! But I'd say the room quality was not 5 star. The staff were lovely and very helpful, even giving us a complimentary tea when our car wouldn't start in the morning!

Lovely venue and excellent food I would definitely recommend this hotel.

Had a family wedding, apart from the unexpected snow which brings its own bad things the staff were really helpful in every way possible and the wedding went on with no other mishaps, great staff, great place, lovely food, overall excellent

Broakoaks is absolutely perfection in every way. Wonderful surroundings, beautiful rooms, fantastic food and lovely staff. What more could you want!

Visited for a wedding fair.wonderful location,beautiful building,booking system silly.

Absolutely beautiful location, food, staff and rooms. Would highly recommend for couples looking for that special place to stay when visiting the lakes!

Stunning gardens, beautiful boutique rooms and a commitment to excellence for customer service

Called in for afternoon tea.
Highly recommended, what a beautiful day.

An independant beautiful hotel set in a stunning location. I stayed here recently with my wife and we had a fantastic weekend break. The room was immaculate and provided gorgeous views of the lake district. Food was top notch and well worth staying in for. We particularly liked the breakfast which was 10/10 ! The staff were very warm and welcoming and we would definately recommend a stay here. We will definately be coming back - Paul & Susan Robertson