Crow How Country Guest House

Rydal Road (Ambleside) LA22 9PN

Breakfast is served between 08:30 and 09:00. You can choose from a selection of cereals and fruits, before enjoying a traditional Cumbrian-style cooked breakfast, made with locally sourced produce. Breakfast is freshly cooked to order and you can choose as much or as little as you like. The guest house is fully licensed, with drinks available to purchase from reception.

Crow How has central heating throughout, to ensure you remain warm in the coldest of weathers. We have two lounges for the guests use, a drying room and downstairs loo along with a spacious dining area.
The main lounge has a wood burning stove that is lit when we are serving dinner in the winter months. We are fully licensed should you require any drinks.

The lounge areas and bedrooms have access to wi fi.

Our bedrooms are located off the second floor with most rooms having no shared walls. This makes for a quieter stay with us.

We have over 2 acres of woodland garden for the guests use, with seating areas. There is private parking at the front of the hotel.

Children under the age of 13 cannot be accommodated. Check-in outside of 14:30 - 22:00 is possible with prior arrangement only.

Located in the heart of the Lake District, we are in a peaceful and secluded position, surrounded by mountains and fells but only 10 minutes walk away from Ambleside with its shops, cafes and restaurants. Grasmere is only 10 minutes drive away, with Keswick a further 10 minutes away. Windermere, Kendal , Coniston and Hawkshead are also easily accessed within half an hour. Waterhead is only 20 minutes walk away where you can catch frequent boat trips to Bowness and Lakeside, where the Aquarium is situated. We have complete timetables for both the boats and for buses.

Surrounded by fells and mountains and with three beautiful lakes virtually on your doorstep you are spoilt for choice with walks and hikes to suit all abilities.

We are ideally located for all the major mountains and walks with good walking books and leaflets to help you in your choice of walk and we have good undercover storage facilities for Mountain Bikes. There are five golf courses within half an hour drive, from the long and demanding Keswick Golf Course to the tight and tricky Windermere Golf Course.

Crow How Country Guest House offers accommodation in Ambleside. A flat-screen TV and blu-ray player, as well as an iPod docking station and a CD player are offered. Some units feature a seating area where you can relax. Each room has a private bathroom. For your comfort, you will find free toiletries and a hair dryer. Crow How Guest House features free WiFi throughout the property. There is a shared lounge at the property. The nearest airport is Blackpool Airport, 74 km from the property.

All bedrooms are furnished to a high standard. All have views of the countryside and seating areas, with most having chairs / sofas (some bedrooms have window seats only).

From the South - Leave M6 motorway at Junction 36, turn left onto the A591 & follow this road for approximately 18 miles, until you reach the traffic lights on the outskirts of Ambleside. At the lights, take the left fork and follow this road for approximately 1.5 miles until it becomes a two-lane, one-way street. Remain in the left hand lane and follow the road round. The road then becomes two lanes as you reach the shops, you need to be in the left hand lane. Turn left at the top and follow this road for about a mile and you will see the sign for Crow How on the left hand side of the road. We are at the bottom of this driveway.

From the North - Junction 40, M6 motorway. Follow signs for Keswick, then the B5322 (St. Johns in the Vale) to Thirlmere and Grasmere and then Rydal. Shortly after passing Rydal Water you will see the sign for Crow How on the right hand side of the road. By Public Transport - Windermere is the closest station (5 miles). At Windermere station you can either take the '555' bus heading towards Keswick, or you can take a taxi through to Crow How Country House.