Christmas and New Year at Dale Lodge

This year celebrate the festive season in style at the contemporary, boutique hotel in the country. With its 2 excellent restaurants and award winning Tweedies bar there can be no other place to bring in the New Year.

We also offer a special Christmas Day lunch in both Tweedies Bar and The Lodge Restaurant. For more details and to see our menus and prices for New Year please visit http://www.dalelodgehotel.co.uk/grasmerehotelsnewyearpackage.htm.

New Plans Unveiled

An impressive new re-development of Tweedies Bar is to begin in November. This well known pub, much loved by locals and tourists alike, is set to get bigger by moving the bar back into where the existing pool room is to make room for more tables and more room for people to enjoy our regular entertainment in the form of live music every Sunday night and the popular pub quiz on Thursday nights. Check our website for regular updates on the progress.

Special Offers

We have some great special offers available over the next 2 weeks.

3 nights bed and breakfast in a deluxe room for £300 (valid Sunday to Thursday)

2 Nights in a Deluxe Room including dinner on 1 Night, Champagne and Chocolates in your room on arrival and Bed & Breakfast.

£350 - Friday and Saturday - £320 - Sunday to Thursday (any 2 nights)

To take advantage of these offers, call the hotel directly on 015394 35300.

Poet Laureate Comes to Dale Lodge

Carol Ann Duffy, the highly acclaimed and newly appointed poet laureate is coming to Grasmere on Tuesday 2nd June for a reading of her work at St Oswald's church for The Wordsworth Trust. After the reading is a supper with the poet laureate present at Dale Lodge Hotel. Places are going fast, so to make a booking contact The Wordsworth Trust directly by following the link opposite.

April Showers in May?

I hope I've got this figured out correct, but if it rained all summer last year and was hot and sunny in April and May, does that mean the deal this year is that if it keeps on raining for another 3 weeks or so we are in for a scorching hot summer? With all the things going on at Dale Lodge that is what we need! Lots of couples will be tying the knot in style with a perfect wedding at Dale Lodge. With the beautiful gardens, elegant food and unbeatable service there can be no better place to hold a wedding.
Then in September we see the return of The Grasmere Guzzler Beer Festival for the third year of music, food and of course gallons and gallons of real ale, cider and perry.
With live music every Sunday night and a pub quiz every Thursday with a prize of a gallon of beer, a little sunshine is all we need for a perfect summer!

Guzzler Festival - music line up announced

Friday 4th September - Opening day of the 3rd Annual Grasmere Guzzler Beer Festival.
The frivolities kick off at 12 noon with over 30 real ales and ciders for you to savour. Afternoon entertainmant comes from local talent - Seth and The Sideburns, performing a mixture of covers and his own original material from around 4pm.
In the evening we have Kendal's finest - The Riffs. Check out their music at http://www.myspace.com/theriffsuk

Saturday 5th September sees the start of the culinary delights. To soak up some of the beer we have a delicious hog roast and barbecue. With the beer in full flow by now we also have music in the garden (weather permitting) from the foot-stomping 'Bag of Spanners' http://www.myspace.com/thebagofspanners.
In the evening we have a double whammy. Back by popular demand, we have 'The Mekitts' http://www.myspace.com/themekkits and local favourites 'The Witch and The Robot' http://www.myspace.com/thewitchandtherobot. Again, with a late bar till midnight the fun just keeps on going.

Sunday 6th September sees the close of the festival, but we won't let go without a fight. With a Sunday roast served until 4pm and hog roast and barbecue in the afternoon, there will be no excuse for going hungry. Afternoon entertainment in the garden (weather permitting) otherwise in the marquee from the exquisitely talented Kirk McElhinney http://www.myspace.com/kirkmcelhinney. In the evening we have the return of Pete Lashley http://www.myspace.com/petelashleymusic, this time he is bringing the re-inforcements in the form of his full band. We only have until midnight to eat all the food and drink all the beer, so come down and give us a hand.

Opening night of the poetry season

The Wordsworth Trust Summer poetry program began last night in St Oswald's Church, Grasmere. Tomas Venclova and Ellen Hinsey were the opening readers of this new season and went down very well in the beautiful setting of St Oswald's Church, just a few meters from William Wordwsworth's final resting place. The supper in attendance by the poets, held at Dale Lodge Hotel was first class with a main course of panfried seabass with buttered spinach and crushed new potatoes. The dessert of Strawberry Eton mess was perfectly light and put a lovely end to the evening. Look out for further poetry evening once a fortnight all summer long.