The team at Linthwaite House, Bowness, in the Lake District, have just discovered (today 01st October) that they have received one of the UK’s first-ever Michelin Key awards.
Similar to Michelin stars, the new key award is a three-tiered award designed to highlight the best places to stay across the globe. Hotels can be rated as one key (a special place to stay), two keys (an exceptional place to stay or three keys (an extraordinary place to stay).
A total of 123 hotels in the UK and Ireland were recognised with key awards this year, with 72 hotels receiving one key, 27 receiving two keys and 14 receiving three keys.
The Michelin guide entry reports:
‘’The Lake District isn’t short of hotels or bed-and-breakfasts, but there are few that can compete on the level of Linthwaite House. Take a setting as striking as any (in this case an Edwardian manor house surrounded by fourteen acres of woodlands and gardens, looking out over the picturesque Lake Windermere), add the kind of style credentials many a city hotel would kill for, and what you’ve got is something special indeed.’’
But that’s not all, as Linthwaite House has also been recognised in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers Awards USA edition 2024, also announced today, with the hotel placed 12th in the top 20 hotels in the United Kingdom, with a satisfaction score of 96.25 out of possible 100.
The Condé Nast Readers Awards now in their 27th edition showcase the opinions of Conde Nast Traveler’s globetrotting audience who in casting their votes consider a wide variety of criteria and this year was no exception with a staggering 575,048 votes being cast in the USA Awards edition, which saw a raft of awards given to hotels, resorts, cruise lines, spas, cities and more.
Karen Irving, General Manager at Linthwaite House said:
‘’We’re all absolutely over the moon to have been awarded our first Michelin Key and to be ranked twelfth in the UK’s top 20 hotels in the USA edition of the 37th Condé Nast Traveler Readers Awards. Both awards are all the more special to the entire team because later this month (Wednesday 16th to Sunday 20th October) we’ll mark the half-decade milestone collaboration, between Linthwaite House owned and curated by the Leeu Collection, and Simon Rogan’s restaurant Henrock - which opened in the hotel in the autumn of 2019.’’
For more information about Linthwaite House please visit: https://leeucollection.com/UK/linthwaite-house