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Bulbs are strung above giant beanbags on rocking-chair frames, and there is a private firepit.Īnother Place was always designed to nudge you outside and into nature – each day, new activities go up on the blackboard, encouraging you to try archery, kayaking, walking or wild swimming together. There is Wi-Fi (but no telly), daily housekeeping and, outside, luxuries to turn herdsmen green.
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Farrow & Ball colour schemes reflect the fells outside and, in the small but sophisticated en-suite bathroom, there are fluffy robes, plus the hotel’s signature Land & Water toiletries. It is the adjoining hut that houses the real prizes, though: a cloud-soft king-size bed under a star-gazing window, covered in tasselled throws and an embarrassment of plump scatter cushions. A sliding door reveals a sweet sliver of a bunk room, which the kids loved (older, ganglier teenagers might have to fold themselves in, so the hotel recommends them for the under-10s). The first “hut” houses a bijou sitting room with a log burner, sofa seats, a kettle, enamel mugs and a mini fridge. On closer inspection, the huts are pairs of conjoined twins, attached by a glazed wedge, so that ours comfortably houses our family of four (five, with the dog). The same goes for an architectural new treehouse suite – soon to be completed, but already poles apart from the leaky, makeshift dens of my childhood memories – and the hotel’s six new shepherd’s huts, dotted around the grounds, overlooking the lake and built to solid sustainability standards. It is suddenly, very evidently, not for sheep.
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The free swimming togs remain (in all shapes and sizes), but the shed has been jazzed up with underfloor heating, luxurious showers and roomy changing cubicles. The first clue comes at the “sheep shed”, where, back in 2019, we squirmed into wetsuits hanging on racks and shivered our way down to the jetty. Now, though, it has had a monumental upgrade. So it has long had a comfortable place in the staycation shortlist I hand out to friends. Perched right on the fringes of epic Ullswater, it is possessed of a private jetty, canoes, paddleboards and, for the more sedate, an indoor infinity pool seemingly stretching, gloriously and glassily, into the operatic fells beyond.Īccording to my children, it also has one of Britain’s best buffet breakfasts (the waffle machines won it) and, in the excellent Rampsbeck restaurant, kids’ menus (including, impressively, a scallop starter).
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I have raved about Another Place, The Lake before. I have discovered the perfect family holiday – and it is right here in the UK. Have we all recovered from half term? Or are some of you reading this from under a coat in Alicante airport, having given up on easyJet ever rescheduling your flight and resolved to salvage what is left of your sanity by making peace with the situation and relocating permanently to gate 11?įor those of you who did make it home, I bring hope.