Young and old love coming to stay at Elterwater and we are close to some of the best activities for families that the Lake District has to offer. Here’s our […]

An Easter egg treasure hunt on the lower hills around our hostel will start in Easter week. Starting Monday April 15, on every day leading up to Easter Sunday, we […]

Christmas is a magical time of year. People tend to be a bit nicer to each other, families reunite and it’s generally acceptable to eat amounts of chocolate that at […]

When a speed limit was brought in on Windermere in 2005, the critics – those who had power boats and wanted high speed water ski-ing – predicted gloom and doom […]

The long summer school holidays are  here and it’s time to think about the freedom to roam…especially for children. And even if this glorious weather doesn’t last all summer, we’ll […]

Book Review They say that history repeats itself. When William Wordsworth published his Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England it was a publishing phenomenon. […]

And we mean it, literally, adventures IN the Lakes. After a long winter when the ice climbers were in their element, it’s time for some equally hardy folk to plunge […]