Name: Glaramara
Address: Seatoller Borrowdale, Keswick, CA12 5XQ, GB

10/10

Exceptional

03 Aug 2026

James

Excellent hotel in a great location. The staff were very friendly and welcoming. I was not able to have breakfast as I needed to leave early, but the staff were great and sent me on my way with a packed lunch.
Couldn't recommend highly enough!

10/10

Exceptional

31 Jul 2026

Devpura

Excellent breakfast buffet!

10/10

Exceptional

25 Jul 2026

Anthony

A stay at The Glaramara is one of my annual “guilty pleasures”! It is not a cheap option but it is an excellent hotel. High quality rooms, friendly & efficient staff, great cuisine and plenty of parking. The location, overlooking some of the great fells of The Lakes is breathtaking.

10/10

Exceptional

08 Jul 2026

Iain

Great choice as always, such a peaceful location with hotel in its own grounds.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

04 Jul 2026

Antonio

We stayed only 1 overnight on the way down from scotland. We could see lot of people staying for visiting the lakes. The hotel is in a very nice location. They are also pet friendly and they provided us a towel and a bowl for the dog. We highly recommend both breakfast and set menù dinner which was very nice. Room was clean and bathroom looked recently renewed.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

01 Jul 2026

Muriel

Lovely setting for walks, staff helpful and friendly. Food was excellent

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jun 2026

Richard

Enjoyed my stay, everything as you would expect from a good hotel 👍

Self

10/10

Exceptional

03 Jun 2026

Daniel

Great hotel, clean, staff was friendly. beautiful views around

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

31 May 2026

IMOGENE

Lovely place, great room with an excellent view. Staff friendly and helpful.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 May 2026

Christopher

Nice room & great location. Dinner was excellent although, strangely, they only offer a “single sitting at 19:30.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

15 May 2026

John

Great breakfast, awesome for hikers with dry room and packed lunches. We messed up hiking without reception and they'd thoughtfully left out keys for a late checl in.

10/10

Exceptional

18 Apr 2026

Clare

Great to have a drying room , lovely good , clean spacious room

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

17 Apr 2026

jane

Beds super comfy , both dinner and breakfast were fabulous large portions at dinner, for me one course would have been enough

Family

10/10

Exceptional

05 Apr 2026

Jeffrey

Hotel was lovely. Great location. Amazing views and friendly staff.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

27 Mar 2026

Daniel

Friendly staff, nice breakfast buffet, clean room

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Mar 2026

Pamela

I would highly recommend, overall my stay was excellent, I could not fault the place or the staff they were lovely.

Pet

10/10

Exceptional

06 Feb 2026

James

Really nice staff and the cosy room was spotless

Self

10/10

Exceptional

26 Jan 2026

Amanda

Lovely hotel in a beautiful location. Staff are very friendly and helpful. Would highly recommend

Self

10/10

Exceptional

31 Dec 2025

Val

Beautiful hotel in a lovely quiet location with great views. All the staff are so friendly and helpful. The food is amazing. Can definitely recommend and I’m sure we will visit again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Dec 2025

Jeni

Modern hotel with sizeable rooms, in a great location for walking

10/10

Exceptional

06 Nov 2025

Michelle Louise

This was my first trip solo with the pooch, and it was brilliant. The staff were amazing and helped me every step of the way. Upgraded on arrival, rooms very clean and food incredible.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

22 Oct 2025

Martyn

Lovely

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

21 Oct 2025

Lindsey

Excellent hotel

Excellent hotel beautiful location.
The rooms are clean and beds very comfortable.
Would definitely recommend

4/10

Poor

07 Sep 2025

Darren

Posh nosh but no good

Over priced bland food

Self

6/10

Pleasant

30 Aug 2025

Thimmegowda

It was more on the budget side kind of hotel but with the price of a star hotel! Don't get me wrong it was decent but not worth the price tag.

Friends_and_family Family

2/10

Poor

30 Aug 2025

Eyhab Ab H

Full of spiders, bad mattresses, boiling in summer

Self

10/10

Exceptional

28 Aug 2025

Verified traveler

Great hotel. I would stay again

Plenty of free parking. Good breakfast. Excellent powerful shower. Beautiful setting. Very quiet and clean.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

27 Aug 2025

Stephen

Notably prompt service at breakfast, high standard fit and finish of rooms and building

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

09 Aug 2025

Dave

Excellent location

The single sitting dinner is a little eccentric given the number of guests, but the food is good

Self

10/10

Exceptional

08 Aug 2025

DAWN

Gorgeous hotel in stunning location. Very clean. Would definitely go back.

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

09 Jul 2025

Conrad

Don‘t book room 314. It looks out onto the kitchen or laundry in the back with just a sliver of the mountain above the roof as a „view.“. The real problem is the noise. A compressor goes off intermittently all day and into the night and early morning. Super annoying. In addition, at 6:30 am the work evidently starts because there is a loud racket outside the window as carts are shoved about. There are nice solo rooms in the front, so beware if they assign you 314.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

22 May 2025

David

Excellent

Outstanding hotel. friendly and helpful staff, very clean and fresh decor. Comfortable well equipped room. Excellent meal and breakfast.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

06 May 2025

Mark

FabulousHotel

We have been staying in hotels around Derwentwater for in excess of 20 years.
The Glaramara experience tops the lot! We will not be looking for an alternative hotel in future.
The accommodation was spacious and well laid out. Much thought has gone into furnishing and decoration of the hotel interior. Everywhere was bright and spotlessly clean.
But above all was the standard of service and friendliness of the staff.
A fabulous hotel.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

05 May 2025

Verified traveler

Excellent hotel, with superb breakfast

Excellent hotel. Clean, comfortable and friendly. Breakfasts are superb. Location (Seatoller) is perfect for fellwalkers. I've stayed twice in the last couple of months.

Self

8/10

Excellent

03 May 2025

Richard

Very clean Hotel, with an exellent local produce breakfast.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

23 Apr 2025

Nicholas

Tranquility and Peace

very peaceful, considering it was a business trip, I felt relaxed

Business

10/10

Exceptional

24 Mar 2025

Verified traveler

Amazing hotel, great location, great staff.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

19 Mar 2025

john

Fabulously professional and relaxing

Professional service with an informal, friendly approach. Relaxed environment for customers throughout the hotel, which is not an easy art to implement… kudos to senior management and the operational team!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

08 Mar 2025

David

Great price. Friendly staff. Good breakfast…

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

18 Feb 2025

Kathryn

Lovely place and great location for walking scafell pike

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

06 Feb 2025

Jay

Beautiful and lovely service

The hotel is beautiful with stunning Field and mountains surrounding the hotel. Very open with a good carpark. All the staff were fantastic and accommodated for my medical needs without any issues. I will be coming back here next time I'm in the lakes

Business Family

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jan 2025

Joanne

Lovely Hotel

We really enjoyed our stay at the Glaramara and this was especially due to the lovely staff who could not have been more helpful. Had an excellent meal in the hotel restaurant.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

07 Nov 2024

Tim

A great value stay in a beautiful location with great food and great service; I will be coming back!😊👍

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

04 Nov 2024

Paul

Lovely hotel staff amazing food was out of this world and the location took my breath away beautiful place to stay

Business

10/10

Exceptional

08 Oct 2024

Dean

Great hotel lovely breakfast no problem

Self

10/10

Exceptional

06 Sep 2024

Isaac

Great views and exceptional staff!

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

05 Sep 2024

Robert

Very good staff. Nice room & breakfast.

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

27 Jul 2024

Nicola

Very clean, comfortable hotel in a beautiful remote setting. Local eating options without driving are very limited to the Hotel, the Yew Tree Pub (excellent food and atmosphere) or campsite cafe which is only open during day and early Saturday evenings. Hotel does breakfast which starts late 7.45 am and ends 9.15, light lunch and one dinner session at 7.30 pm. Dinner is very expensive with very limited options. Ate dinner once. It was ok. Dinning room staff at breakfast could be more customer friendly.

Leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

26 Jul 2024

Timothy

Not brilliant, to be honest. The setting is stunning, the staff perfectly friendly and helpful. The single room I had was a little travel lodge like. From photos, the doubles look a little more worthy of the price. The main issue I had was the dinner. Firstly, the regimented 7.30pm dining time is something I've never experienced in the many i've stayed in in my life. It felt a little school-like, congregating at the dining-room and taking our seats for a meal chosen that morning at breakfast. Very strange. Secondly, the food was ok, not brilliant, but main quibble was, every evening i was there, it was something with mash. Always. Mash mash mash. No choice of any other potato. Additionally, no choice of what vegetable side. The same snap peas every night, with either broccoli or carrots, plain. For what would normally be £45 for a three course meal, you'd think we could choose our sides and what potato we would like. Now, if you book dinner over a week in advance you get a £10 discount. Ok. But still, I had mash for three consecutive nights. All this suspiciously suggests it is alleviating as much work for the chef as possible. Doesn't happen at the Bridge Hotel, which I would certainly recommend over this I'm afraid. Staff and everyone excellent as I say. Clean, gorgeous setting, just wish it were a little more like a hotel when it comes to meal. Oh, and flies. A hell of a lot of flies kept us company in the dining room, lounge and foyer.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

01 Jul 2024

Andrew

Brilliant location

Visited solo for some fell walking. The location is unbeatable for whole day walks direct from the hotel up to nearby fells like Dale Head, Great Gable, or Newlands Valley to Cat Bells. Hotel was all good, comfortable modern room, well run, amazing views from the room. Food was excellent.

Self

8/10

Excellent

10 Jun 2024

Clive

Large hotel offering good sized rooms, comfortable beds and complimentary breakfast. There's a restaurant on site as well as a bar along with lounge areas. The views are amazing especially when the sun shines. There are plenty of opportunities for walking, a large carpark and a bus stop only a 2 minute walk away.

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

28 May 2024

Wen Wei

Beautiful place. Downside is the heater doesn’t work all the time, or at all some days. Wifi is almost nonexistent if you are not close to the common area. And the hot water is not really “hot” lukewarm at best.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

27 May 2024

Sandeep

Good stay with newly renovated rooms.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

22 May 2024

David

Outstanding in all respects!

Outstanding Hospitality. Outstanding Accommodation. Outstanding Location. Was made to feel very welcome and this is a real favourite place to come to, surrounded by mountains, and the perfect escape from the stresses of life!

Self

10/10

Exceptional

06 May 2024

Holly

10/10 Bank Holiday Weekend

Absolutely loved our stay here for bank holiday weekend. Such a clean hotel with lovely staff and a really beautiful hotel right in the heart of the mountains. It is dog friendly too which was perfect. We walked into Seatoller for dinner which was 5 minutes away and dined in the Yew Tree pub which was delicious and spent the rest of the night at the hotel outside with a wine. Only downside for us was that the hotel room was very hot during the night despite the radiator being off! But overall we would definitely stay again

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jan 2024

John

Blustery weekend

1st class from the moment you walked through door.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

28 Jan 2024

Verified traveler

Great place

Very friendly staff, great food, great location for walking

Partner

8/10

Excellent

29 Dec 2023

Paul

Good stay

Self

10/10

Exceptional

15 Dec 2023

David

Big hills all around.
Hourly bus to Keswick, even in December.
Superb heating and chef !

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

13 Nov 2023

Verified traveler

From reception to checking out staff were pleasant and professional, hotel was spotless and very well maintained. Food was lovely, especially the breakfast. Only small criticism was size of room for a twin , which was a little cramp although the bathroom was a good size.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

30 Oct 2023

MIKE

hiking and more

Love this place, out of the way and they really look after you. Top notch food, rooms very good. You will not be disapointed to stay here.

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

26 Oct 2023

Jim

Beautiful setting for a lovely hotel

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

15 Oct 2023

Julie

Perfect location. All staff extremely friendly and helpful from bar to waiting staff in restaurant. Marta on reception was absolutely lovely and helpful she added son to our booking for evening meal on last minute with no hesitation. Evening meal was one of the nicest meals we have ever had. Taste and presentation exemplary. We will certainly be recommending this hotel to friends and family and we hope to visit again soon.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Aug 2023

Debanjali

Pleasant stay

Glaramara is located in a beautiful location surrounded by hills. The location is secluded yet it is just 15mins drive from the keswick centre. The facilities and amenities are very good. Rooms have nice and very clean with view of the green hills surrounding it. Totally worth the money.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

27 Aug 2023

Chen

Everything is fab but lots of rules

Leisure Pet

10/10

Exceptional

26 Aug 2023

K

Just right.

Lovely hotel with excellent facilities and staff in a superb setting.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

22 Aug 2023

Naomi

Another great trip to the Glaramara. The location is superb and the staff were very friendly as ever.

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

17 Aug 2023

steven

Too loud, bright and hot

This was the most expensive hotel of my trip to date, i expected more. It looked really nice but the finish wasnt top notch. You couldnt hear the loud music due to the racket made from something that sounded like it was about to blowup. That did finally quieten down however i couldnt block the light from everywhere including under the door which i dont think meets fire regs but the worst thing was it was so hot. Oh and you have to eat at a certain time so dont be late.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

12 Aug 2023

dawn

Excellent hotel, superb views

Lovely hotel, stunning scenery. Staff excellent. Food great.
We loved our stay .

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

01 Aug 2023

Susan

Great hotrl

The staff were really helpful and friendly. I’m gluten and dairy intolerant and the restaurant went out of its way to accommodate my requirements. The food was amazing.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Jul 2023

Frank

The road to the property from Keswick was narrow and in one or two places only one vehicle could pass. Once there, the scenery was magnificent, the hotel was exceptionally clean throughout, our room was large (as was the very comfortable bed) and the en-suite shower room was sparkling. The breakfast was very good and each room`s table had a place name on it. Coffee and/or tea and toast were individually served to your table though the remainder of the breakfast was help yourself from a buffet bar. Altogether an excellent and enjoyable stay.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jul 2023

Peter

Where it is sited AMAZING

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

22 Jul 2023

Colin

Excellent location for lakes getaway

Excellent location for getting away from it all with superb walks from hotel. Views from hotel are to die for. Hotel recently renovated and rooms well thought out.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

21 Jul 2023

Andrew

Great place, all good.

Perfect location in Borrowdale with great Mountain views from the lounge and patio. The hotel runs like clockwork, everything was clean and worked well. Breakfast was excellent, especially the perfect poached eggs. Very good choices for dinner. Very reasonable room rates - brilliant value for money. Nothing negative to say.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

16 Jul 2023

Paul

Excellent

Excellent location and hotel. Amazing food and presentation.

Partner