Overview

With my wife who is disabled spent a week at the Hollies to celebrate our ruby wedding anniversary. We were also joined by our two children with their partners and our granddaughter. The lodge has been built to a very high standard and a lot of thought given to disabled people. My wife is mainly wheelchair bound and all door openings on the ground floor are wide and the kitchen sink and adjoining work tops adjustable for height. There is also an excellent wet room with a comfort height toilet with bars fitted around the room. We were all very comfortable in the lounge in the evening and our children found the bedrooms upstairs very comfortable as well as the ajoining shower room. The location is ideal for both visits to the Lakes and Yorkshire Dales. Janet and Jon who own the Lodge and stay in an ajoining B&B and were extremely helpful and made us very welcome

Transport & Parking

Parking at the lodge was excellent with no threshold to manoeuvre when using the back door. We used our own car during this visit. In general we found parking ok around the Lakes and Dales. Some of the pavements were difficult to negotiate mainly due to lack of ramps and vehicles parked on the pavements. However, this can be said for most places. One trip we would recommend for powered wheelchair/scooter users was Grisdale where there was a lovely path going around a lake.

Access

There is a step at the front door but easy wide access at back door and paving slabs outside made it easy to push or power a wheelchair from a car.

Toilets

As previously stated the wet room and loo is excellent.

Staff

Janet and Jon were extremely helpful and interested if there was any way that they could improve the lodge for the disabled.

Anything else you wish to tell us?

Recommend the lodge for anyone looking to stay in this area. You will not be disappointed.