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3.5 out of 5
Shakespeare Inn
78 Highgate, Kendal, England

Reviews

9.4

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 70 out of 99 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 24 out of 99 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 3 out of 99 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 99 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 99 reviews" "

9.6/10

Cleanliness

9.6/10

Staff & service

8.8/10

Amenities

9.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Adrian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very comfortable
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

David, Burton Latimer

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely place to stay, very central and staff were welcoming and friendly
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ben

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
After staying for a night I had the best night sleep I could ever have. With the rooms being placed not directly inside the pub makes it for a great night sleep. Only fault is the walls are not super sound proof. However, from a range of breakfast options which is cooked and continental, to the location of being directly in Kendal town center it truly is a magnificent place. Do not let it being in town center fool you from the experience. It's like you wasn't even next to a high street. The staff was fantastic when I was there accomodating to all sorts of things. It was a pleasure staying there and I encourage anyone that wants a affordable but amazing value for money option to select this place in Kendal if you are going to stay
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Claire

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A lovely big room, very comfy bed, good shower and extras like coffee. Very convenient for exploring Kendal. Staff were great and cooked breakfast delicious. Id recommend staying here for a short break.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

christopher

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely old building, friendly service, nice pub food, vegetarian friendly, delicious breakfast, large roomy rooms
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great service convenient location a lovely stay would definitely use again if in Kendal.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

John

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
What a great stay me and wife had. Will go back again if we stay in Kendal again. Room was great and breakfast fantastic. Staff were excellent and super friendly
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

SaulJo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property was clean and the staff very helpful. Fabulous breakfast included.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Gary

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice property, very central. Friendly and helpful staff. Only cioncern is that to get to the parking area, you have to drive through a very narrow passage. Not for the feint hearted with a large car!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Angela

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect!
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent base to explore Kendal and s'ern Lakes
Excellent situated in the centre of Kendal and offers car parking (free - but beware entry is narrow!). Rooms directly off the rear courtyard, so removed from any noise from the pub. Excellent breakfast (full English or Continental) included in room rate served by v friendly staff. Only downside - make sure the separately-switched extractor fan is on before showering!
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Alan

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place for a stop over for a business trip. Staff were all really friendly and helpful. Perfect and what I as looking for. Great Breakfast as well
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Steven

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice one night stay
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

6/10 Okay

Greg

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Ian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

selwyn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Graeme

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Bethan

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Highly recommended. Clean and very quiet
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Cheryl

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good and would recommend
Lovely hotel with friendly staff. Breakfast included in price is useful and we enjoyed a cooked breakfast everyday. The continental breakfast could be improved. Not a lot of choice but ok to have a juice or fruit in addition to cooked breakfast. Sky in room but did not work and signal not great so used my iPad to watch TV when signal was bad. Tea and coffee in room very useful but a bigger fridge would be very helpful. You can’t fit more than 2 cans of coke in fridge. Overall good experience
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Graham

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Really good value for money
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Simon

Very friendly
Excellent stay friendly quality place and food.
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Margaret

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
My husband and i book for 3x nights arrived Monday 24th September found the pub closed after phoning the number left on the door the manager turn up after booking in was told the pub would be closed all day Monday and no food on till Thursday afternoon then only open till 9.00pm with the scaffolding being up all way round not good start to short break But the staff was very good big thank you to Rachel nothing was to much trouble. It would have been nice if we was told about the dinning and closed times.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Richard

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Julia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Anita

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Lesley

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Julie

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Linda

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Damian

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly and helpful staff. Super location for Kendal. Comfortable and clean rooms. Thank you very much.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Lorraine

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Neil

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kevin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Michelle

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent Stay
Stayed here for 2 nights, ideal location, carpark included and breakfast. We ate here every night too, the food was lovely, good choice to choose from. Staff all very helpful and pleasant. Room was a really good size - highly recommend.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

gerry

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good value fro money and halpful staff
Very helpful staff. Nice room with good shower, if not a little small, but very quiet. Reasonable breakfastr but I'd prefer grilled to fried breakfast. Would return though.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

David

Business traveller
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Raymond

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Margaret

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lake district 100k
Stayed 3nights. Room was spacious and light. Food was excellent. But the best thing that i found was the friendly helpful staff
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kim

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location, great pub with surprisingly good food! One of the best pub we have been in our 2+ weeks in UK. No rowdy and noisy patrons, Love the 70s and 80s music.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jill

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

frayr

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Dave

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kevin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Go forth and enjoy !
Great place to stay right in the centre of Kendal. Staff were lovely and helpful. Cooked breakfast spot on !
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Neil

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastic Pub and Hotel
Staff at the Shakespeare are fantastic, from check in to checkout they were extremely helpful and friendly. The room was very good, lovely comfy bed and an excellent bathroom with walk in shower - they even provided a mini fridge with milk. The breakfast in the morning was delicious, we had the full english and it kept us full for about 10hrs!!! Again the staff were so friendly... Overall this was a great stay and I would highly recommend the Shakespeare to anyone.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worth a try!!!
Great little place on Kendall high st. Very friendly owners and food was really good. Try the homemade Wobbly bob pie. Delightful. Be mindful of parking. Spaces are fine but the driveway through to the back is narrow and needs concentration to get through first time!!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ben

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sarah

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
The staff were friendly and helpful. Room clean and has everything you need.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022