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3 out of 5
Punch Bowl Inn
Askham, Penrith, England

Reviews

9.0

Wonderful

Rating 10 - Excellent. 47 out of 78 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 23 out of 78 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 5 out of 78 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 78 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 78 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

9.4/10

Staff & service

9.2/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

John, Skelmersdale

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Superb staff and food rooms comfy and modern. Had a really good night's sleep. Shower and bathroom exceptionally clean and modern. Staff friendly, helpful. Lovely ares
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ciara

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful little Inn within a picturesque village. No phone signal, just a lovely quiet weekend for me and my partner! It was lovely and just what we needed! Staff couldn’t do enough for you. Good food, service, advice and location! Thank you!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Adam

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Highly recommended!
Amazing location! Friendly staff! Lovely locals! Great stay!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Rebecca

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable
The room was comfortable. The staff were friendly and helpful. The breakfast was delicious. Overall it was clean however there were a few hairs in the bathroom.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

6/10 Okay

julie

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Caitlin

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Jackie

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We stayed in the static caravan behind the pub. 3 friends doing the trek 26 it was perfect. Well kitted out and comfortable. Had a meal in the pub on the Friday night a little pricey but food was excellent. Would recommend and return.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Keith

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Steve

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
North lakes? Give it a try.
Random choice en route to Carlisle from Sussex. Cracking pub in a beautiful village. Very friendly and helpful team.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Robin

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great stay, great food, polite staff and great service.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Brilliant Hotel ....
Excellent hotel. Very very friendly. Lovely evening meals and breakfasts. Top class.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Siobhan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A Gem
Great find in a beautiful area, very quiet and peaceful village. Food was amazing. Room's were small but lovely and clean and had everything we needed
Stayed 1 night in May 2021

10/10 Excellent

Alison Cowie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really super - great food and the most comfortable bed! Very peaceful and lovely views. We would happily return.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Outstanding
Excellent Pub and Hotel, food superb. Staff all attentive and welcoming, room was clean and tidy and bed comfortable. Askham as a village a beautiful place and we will be back in warmer weather to do some walking round here. This was our second visit to this property.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lvly clean comfortable room. Very friendly helpful staff . Beautiful location . Internal decor a bit tired
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed here to attend a wedding at Askham Hall, fabulous location, easy walking to venue and close to the Lowther Castle if you had time to explore. Staff were warm and welcoming, and breakfast was delicious!
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Jeanne, Vancouver

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved the location. The place oozed old world charm. The staff were friendly and cheerful. The dinner was delicious with the best chips I've had in a long time. The steak and ale pie was very tasty.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely walks in the area and great food. They staff were very friendly
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Broken showerhead - accused of breaking it!
The caravan was pretty good overall. Comfortable beds, lots of cupboard space. Mostly clean, apart from the plates in the kitchen, which were all dirty. The big issue was that the showerhead had been broken. When told, staff said "it wasn't like that before you arrived", which is extremely rude. Plus it was left in such a way that someone clearly knew it was broken. We were paying £100 per night to stay in a caravan and they seriously thought that we'd break a showerhead 2 hours before we needed to leave before our friends wedding?! Luckily they had a spare room that we could shower in. One staff member was appologetic fortunately. The showerhead in the other room looked like it was about to snap off as well! Yet they had the cheek to blame us. They did fix the shower while they were out at the wedding, which is great, but there was no offer of a free breakfast/drink or money off the bill for inconvenience. Bad customer service if you ask me. They did, however, check our room before we left for any damage, which I've never experienced before! Usually you can just check out straight away.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

James

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Lynn

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place in a great location.
Professional, friendly service. Great food and drinks.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Joe

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellant.
Booked for family of 4 for one night. The stay was comfortable and clean and the staff very friendly. Would definitely recommend and would certainly stay again.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Tim

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The rooms were very comfortable, and the pub food was excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Christopher

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Our stay at Punch Bowl Inn. June 2019
Staff were really pleasant, helpful and friendly.Two different staff members took time out to oblige my friend with Pool challenges. Had a very sociable evening with owners, staff and locals on our second evening. Food and ales excellent.Quaint touch was the dress makers mannequin in the room which it turned out was for guests for wedding parties to use to get creases out of their outfits.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great food, comfortable and bright accommodation and a fantastic, polite, welcoming staff.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2019

8/10 Good

Sally

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place to stay.Close to interesting places, great food and very dog friendly.Would have stayed longer if I could .
Stayed 1 night in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Sharon, Ashton under lyne

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed in one of the caravans and it was lovely very modern had everything you needed staff were very nice would definitely come back and stay in the caravans
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Diane

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Staying at the punch bowl was just great
Lovely location x brilliant for dogs
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Karen

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
More than met expectations for priced paid
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Exceptionally good. Don’t want to add anything else thanks
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Graham

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Kathleen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019

8/10 Good

Susan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed for 1 night. The accommodation was good and fine for a 1 night stay. Would recommend. Clean and adequate accommodation.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

6/10 Okay

graham

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
the staff were friendly but the food was ok but I felt was over priced for the what you got breakfast didn't start til 0800 and we had to be away by 0730 room was dated and cold and needed re decorating the price was ok wont be staying there again
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Philip

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

6/10 Okay

Conor

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Could be better.
TV was broken. Complimentary Bottled water turned out to be reused bottles of water filled up. Nice Cooked Breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

6/10 Okay

Bev, Bournemouth

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
"Cosy and comfortable accommodation" maybe not!
Very poor value at £90 for a double en-suite with breakfast. The rooms, whilst spacious, are badly in need of total re-decoration and upgrading, have single glazing and limited heating. The least said about the en-suite the better. Breakfast, which had to be selected the night prior, was adequate. At least the bed was comfortable, the staff friendly and our evening meal was good, but on the whole the experience was disappointing.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

Barry, Morley, West Yorkshire

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Hotel, with good road links for Northern Lakes.
Friendly, helpful staff, food of good standard at fair prices. Room was clean & bed comfortable with new carpet, however some parts of the room were looking a little tired; windows, curtains & sink in en-suite bathroom but overall a comfortable 2 night stay. Location was key for us as we had friends staying in nearby Pooley Bridge and we had good road links a mile or two from the quiet village of Askham, Cumbria.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Nicola

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely little find.
We had a great couple of days at the Punchbowl. We were attending a wedding at Askham Hall and couldn't have picked a better place to stay it took us 1 minute to walk there! The room was fine, a little bit outdated compared to some of the more modern and swanky hotels, no air con and all the stuff like that but it had a quirky charm that we loved and the bed was so comfy. The food in the pub is outstanding we had one excellent evening meal and two fabulous cooked breakfasts. The staff were absolutely delightful, nothing was too much trouble and they always had the time for a chat and a smile!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018

8/10 Good

Daniel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Relax and enjoy
Great professional service with a smile .lovely traditional pub in a relaxing country area.good food well cooked and great gin choice !

10/10 Excellent

Shawna, United States

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect blend of fancy and homey
I would travel back to the Lake District just to stay here again! The staff was the epitome of friendly, helpful, and professional. The room was clean, well furnished, well stocked, and exactly what we wanted when staying in a historic coaching inn. The dining area was comfortable and warm on a cold evening and the service for dinner and breakfast was impeccable. The food was many notches above the pub menus we'd found throughout England. Handmade flavors made British menu standards feel like they'd been prepared in a gourmet kitchen. As great as all that sounds, it was really the people that made our stay so exceptional. They treated guests with courtesy and propriety, yet at the same time, every new person was a friend they hadn't previously met. We booked our room as simply a place to stay for the night, but left with some of our best memories during our time in the country.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

8/10 Good

Plum, England

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good situation & very good food.
Have stayed here from time to time over the past 34 years. Fortunately the place doesn't change! Log fires, good beers & excellent breakfasts (mini packet cereals excluded - more than made up for by the eggs benedict on 30.11.17 as the kippers hadn't arrived). Currently a very good chef in post. My only reservation is that like a lot of the stone built inns around the lakes, the heating in the bathrooms often under-performs & this was the case with my bedroom on my recent 2 nights visit. A minor gripe.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2017

10/10 Excellent

james

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Yes it was a good stay apart from weather.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2017

8/10 Good

John, Auchmuir Bridge, Scotland

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel in the country
This is our second stay at the Punchbowl and on both occasions we've had a fabulous stay. The inn is located in a charming wee village and is very welcoming. The staff are very friendly & helpful, the room is comfortable, spacious & warm... the food is amazing! There's a great choice of dishes, portions are generous and the standard is 5 star.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

10/10 Excellent

Gary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

8/10 Good

Sean

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location for Lowther show
Comfy beds and great room. Great that there was a pool table too ! Although food was average !
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Simon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
A problem dealt with well...
Whilst staying there we had a problem with the plumbing in the bathroom (hence the 'condition' mark). The staff handled this professionally and courteously. As a result, they turned something that could have been a major problem into a demonstration of their customer skills. Hotels/Inns will have problems from time to time outside of their control and it is how they handle these issues that is a true mark of their customer skills; the Punch Bowl was not found wanting. I was impressed!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2017