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L'EnclumevsThe Daffodil Hotel & Spa
Both The Daffodil Hotel & Spa and L'Enclume are praised by expert reviewers. On balance, L'Enclume scores slightly better than The Daffodil Hotel & Spa. L'Enclume comes in at #6 in Lake District with praise from 3 reviews such as Travel + Leisure, Michelin Guide and The Telegraph.
L'Enclume
Michelin Guide
Travel + Leisure
The Telegraph
Independent
Cavendish St, Cartmel LA11 6PZ
From $0/night
- Free Internet
- Free Breakfast
- Restaurant
- Accessible
- Bathrobes
- Flatscreen TV
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"Inventive, modern cooking uses top quality produce to create dishes with a pleasing lightness and a superb balance of flavours. Home-grown and foraged ingredients feature highly." Full review
Travel + Leisure "Since the opening of this great value hotel in 2002, chef-owner Simon Rogan’s inventive cooking has quietly grown in acclaim, culminating in a Michelin star for the restaurant in 2005." Full review
The Telegraph9.0
"Simon Rogan's two-Michelin-starred restaurant plus handful of rooms stay true both to the simple village location and rich surrounding land." Full review
Independent "This is a wonderfully higgledy-piggledy sort of place, actually a restaurant with a smattering of cottage rooms dotted around the village of Cartmel"
The Daffodil Hotel & Spa The Telegraph Independent
Lonely Planet
Keswick Road, Grasmere LA22 9PR
From $175/night
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
- Restaurant
The Telegraph9.0
"This luxury hotel on the outskirts of Grasmere sits in peaceful seclusion surrounded by craggy fells and bottle-green fields, with a superb outlook over the village’s namesake lake." Full review
Independent "With candle lanterns, fibre-optic lighting, brushed concrete walls and pops of abstract art, the spa at The Daffodil – on the shores of Grasmere, across the road from Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage – is modern and slinky"
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"Opened in 2012, this upscale hotel occupies a Victorian building but the 78 rooms zing with modern style: swirly carpets, art prints and bold shades of lime, purple and turquoise." Full review
