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Reviews of Craglands Guest House

4 out of 5
Craglands Guest House
Penrith Road, Keswick, England

Reviews

9.2

Wonderful

Rating 10 - Excellent. 151 out of 222 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 56 out of 222 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 9 out of 222 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 222 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 222 reviews" "

9.6/10

Cleanliness

9.8/10

Staff & service

9.0/10

Amenities

9.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Colin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
My first time staying in Keswick.. this was a really affordable, and very close to walking routes. Great personal service, clean, and tidy. Loved some if the decor!
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ian

Traveled with family
Liked: Amenities
Superb stay, excellent host, comfy beds, lovely breakfast , great value for money good location, would definitely stay again.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Catherine

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Aldon, our host, was helpful and approachable. Our room had a great view of the mountains and the sunsets were beautiful. We had a bathroom in our room which was very convenient. Aldon prepars breakfast to suit the requests of the visitors staying with him and the meals were tasty and filling. I highly recommend this property.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Benjamin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great place, perfect location, cracking breakfast and a welcoming feel. Only 10 mins walk to Keswick with dedicated parking and at a great price, this was an excellent find. Host could not have done any more - superb! Highly recommended.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

John

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great host. Nice property. What more can I say.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Had everything I was looking for, made for a very easy enjoyable stay in the Lakes.
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2023

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Would not recommend
Wouldn’t recommend. Tired, old fashioned rooms.. with out of date biscuits. I found the owner intense and he insisted I pay cash, which caught me off guard as I like the guarantee my card brings. Owner insisted on an ETA first day and wanted to know my plans so he could decide where to park my car. Keys had to be left incase he needed to move it. Breakfast was poor. Cold bacon, old cereals, frozen bread I had to toast myself… I felt really let down. I left without breakfast the last day as I just couldn’t stomach it. Keswick is beautiful. This place isn’t.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

RICHARD

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2023

4/10 Poor

Dale

It was a last minute booking, so there wasn’t a lot of choice. The accommodation needs a severe update , carpets, wallpaper all 70’s…. Nothing matched , carpets….what your parents had in the 70’ . Breakfast was ok. Host was friendly & very informative.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

Charles

Traveled with family
I prepaid for the 2 x night stay, Owner refuse to check me in until I paid for 2 x nights in Cash as he stated he hadn't received payment, I had an email confirming payment and offer a credit but he refused, stating Cash Only I had to look for alternative accommodation as I felt it was a scam
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Helen

Liked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Single room review
Do check in around your eta given to Eldon, complications can arise I gather if this is not done. I booked on hotels.com and, believing I'd paid by card, arrived three days later...to find one of the first things I was told was that, 'you haven't been charged, we only take cash and there is an ATM at the nearest garage'. Just wondering what happened to my card details given over to Hotels.com. On arrival Eldon seemed brusque in welcome, this mellowed somewhat. OK - I'd agreed a single room with shared bathroom, but didn't expect it to be one and a half floors below my bedroom...3am visit not easiest... The bedroom was spotlessly clean, tho small and the breakfast was ok, lots of helpful laminated notes around to help use shower, breakfast booking system, car parking system. The carpark is very tight and exits onto two blind bends - I turned left and swung around the next bollards about 100m away if I wanted to go back down into Keswick. The outside look of the place is not helped by properties either side of it being renovated with all the usual builders materials and scaffolding etc. Other reviews of double rooms are more glowing, sorry I cant be more effusive about the single room at the top of the house.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hidden gem
Superb location just on the edge of town but with the old railway path on your doorstep..Eldon the host was amazing and couldn’t do enough for you and made sure my stay was trouble free..onsite parking which is a bonus but I didn’t need it and the breakfast was a 10/10..price was very competitive also, the property was spotless and the room I had was a single with shared facilities but it had everything I needed..would I stay here..definitely
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Mike

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Ideal for what I needed. Lovely host, great breakfast and comfortable enough
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

8/10 Good

Paul

Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jean

Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Wendy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great little B and B for a solo stay in Keswick. The host was super helpful and made a lovely breakfast. Great value for money!
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Felix

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2022

2/10 Terrible

Daniel

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2022

8/10 Good

Brian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Keswick Craglands
Eldon is an excellent host very friendly and very helpful - ideal position 15min walk into town very clean accommodation
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

2/10 Terrible

Stephen

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Anthony

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Friendly place to stay
Very friendly; good breakfast; single room was very clean (but quite small).
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Veronique

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A lovely place in a lovely location.
This cosy B&B lies just on the outskirts of town but is within easy access by foot by means of a path which is not far from the accommodation. The rooms are of a decent size and nicely decorated. Eldon, the owner, is an excellent host, giving us all the information we needed on arrival. Although parking is on site, this place is around a bend which means backing in. Eldon can move vehicles about for you to enable all guests to park up. The shared bathroom, and additional toilet was shared between two rooms, so no queuing up was needed and all were very clean and warm. Breakfasts were of good quality with ample sufficiency (you let Eldon know what you’d like the evening before).I would stay there again.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Mr J H

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Ajay

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Had a great stay at craglands for my weekend in Keswick, location is only 15 min walk from town centre, decent breakfast , clean and perfect location for exploring.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Tracey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Julie

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good place to stay
Very friendly and helpful staff, breakfast nicely cooked
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

David

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Graham

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Ruth

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Craglands was a comfortable and an oasis in the first two days of the stay when it was so hot.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Teresa

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The host is nice.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Marjorie and Keith

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Dean

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 20/6/22-23/6/22
Had a wonderful 3 night stay at Craglands and would definitely stay there again. Eldon was brilliant and very accommodating. We had a superior room which was very comfortable. The breakfast each morning was a great start to the day. Less than a mile from the town centre so never used the car unless we went out of Keswick. Would recommend to friends and family.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2022

8/10 Good

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Corrie

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

C

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice B&B
We had a lovely weekend. Eldon was very friendly and helpful. Breakfast was delicious. The room was comfortable (Skelling) but would benefit from curtains in addition to the blind.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Satyakanta

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2021

10/10 Excellent

Ruth

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2021

10/10 Excellent

Jack

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room was clean and had everything I needed. Very friendly service and tasty breakfast, also provided useful local knowledge. Couldn't ask for more really!
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2021

10/10 Excellent

brian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Richard

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Friendly B&B in Keswick, I'd definitely come back!
Great location on the edge of Keswick Town Centre. Private parking on site. Run by a really friendly family who give the place a personal touch. Definitely makes you want to come back. My room was very compact, fine for me as a solo traveller but no more than that. Shared bathroom but spotlessly clean whenever I used it. Also a separate shared toilet room. You have to order your breakfast (which was excellent) the night before (just fill out a card with what you want and pop it downstairs), and they will also make you packed lunch for a reasonable extra fee though I didn't take the option up this time. Plenty of maps and advice available for local walks. Derwentwater Lake is just up the road beyond the town, and I scaled Scafell Pike from Seathwaite Farm, which was a 20 minute drive away. Great value stay and I will look to come back if in the area again.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Lesley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Keswick Birthday Treat
Very friendly welcoming hosts who couldn’t be more helpful. Room was up two flights of stairs so a bit of a trek but it was clean and very comfortable. Breakfast was superb. Parking a bit tricky as situated on a bendy busy road and had to reverse in but better than having to reverse out. Wonderfully situated for all that Keswick and Cumbria offers. Lovely stay.
Kendal
Lodore Falls
Derwentwater
Stayed 3 nights in May 2021

10/10 Excellent

david

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent
Very convenient with regards to Bus and Taxi service
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2020

10/10 Excellent

sharon, yorkshire

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Looked after really well. The ensuite room was very clean. The breakfast was excellent. Made to feel very welcome. Parking no problem. Would definitely recommend.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Yvette

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Our stay overall was very nice! Staff were friendly and accommodating the breakfast was very nice!
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Angie, Teesside

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly and warm welcome, lovely clean room with wonderful wonderful excellent breakfast. Followed all Covid rules.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2020

10/10 Excellent

Kevin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed for my fiancee's birthday.
Great stay here last weekend (6th - 9th August). Close to Keswick, only a 10 minute walk. We liked being away from the noisy town centre. The breakfast was fantastic very enjoyable every morning. Absolutely recommend this place.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A great little stay. Walking distance to keswick. Everywhere was clean and tidy. Lovely hosts and a delicious breakfast every morning! We would stay here again.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2020