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Jetty Museum Lake Windermere is a must. Clean modern facilities, ample parking, super cafe offering a wide selection of delicious cakes, sandwiches and some hot food. Museum itself presented to a high standard and wonderful intimate boat trip across the lake is highly recommended. Staff very friendly, informative and helpful. Windermere has some lovely shops, galleries and lots of great restaurants, including San Pietro and Brown Sugar to name but afew. The town is in two separate parts with a 5min drive between the two. Would highly recommend The Pig as a super place to eat but there were a handful of other wonderfully charming looking restaurants, booking a table in advance is essential to avoid disappointment. The drive to Ullswater along A592 via Patterdale and Glenridding is the definition of the Lake District. The tremendous views are breathtaking. And returning to Windermere via Ambleside A591 offers even more spectacular views. My only criticism with the Lakes was the car parking payment system if using credit card by phone. It didn't seem to work properly, declining payment and causing much much of a headache... Pay with cash and you won't have this issue. Despite being able to pay by card at the payment machine itself this facility didn't seem to work forcing you to resort to Payment over automated phone app... stressful! Other than that a must see / experience town.

Beautiful views whichever way you look. Staff everywhere helpful and friendly (big ThankYou to the bearded gentleman at Lakes Cruises ticket office on Pier 1!) Unspoilt despite many thousands of visitors - It’s all so clean and tidy!

Make sure you have the ability to get to Bowness where the boats travel up and down the lake all day. It’s a long walk from Windermere and the hills in Bowness by the shops are very steep indeed. Windermere Centre is a bit olde worlde looking and very pleasant to browse the shops. The streets I noticed are littered with remnants of dog mess everywhere which was disappointing. No bins seen anywhere but most people had dogs! Bowness streets by the lake have swans Canada Geese and ducks wandering loose so there is bird mess on the path everywhere you walk. Lots of cafes to choose from. Superb views. We go again and again.

Parking could be difficult, we parked our car for the week and travelled everywhere by bus, which was very good. Lots to do and see, the lake cruises are very good, we went to Ambleside then got another cruise to Wray Castle, lots of lovely walks to do, or you can travel around by bus, we went to Glenridding, Kendal, Grasmere all by bus. We ate at various places in Windermere at night, all offering good choice of food. Easy to get around Windermere by Bus.

Was a stunning place parking was a bit of a nightmare or find if you got there really early your guaranteed a space but after 10am your driving around looking for somewhere. Not many gifts shops the ones we did find were really expensive so you need to shop around other places to find cheaper gifts.. Lake District is beautiful if your in to walking and hiking so need some decent footwear.. found some beautiful waterfalls so was worth the climb just wish I had been younger and fitter to do the big climbs.buttermere ,Ullswater Ambleside Keswick Aira force are just a few places to recommend stunning at buttermere and Ullswater. The country roads were a bit hair raising but was stunning just becareful of the sheep in the road especially around the bends and of course the many many cyclists!!

Some lakes less comercial, lovely , experience on the boat hire was good . Walks great Howver paying for toilet wasn't aware, needed the card and at times didn't worked So desperate for the loo. Ended up in cafes to use the loo and purchase drinks