Skiddaw Croft Bed & Breakfast

One of our top picks in Keswick. Skiddaw Croft Bed & Breakfast is located in Portinscale, 0.3 miles from Derwentwater.

The rooms have a flat-screen TV and tea/coffee making facilities. All rooms include views of the mountains or lake. Extras include free toiletries and a hairdryer.

There is a guest lounge at the property.

Theatre by the Lake is 1.5 miles from Skiddaw Croft Bed & Breakfast, while Go Ape Whinlatter Forest Park is 3.1 miles away

Information about the host

Skiddaw Croft Bed & Breakfast offers a warm welcome in the quiet village of Portinscale, within a short walk of Keswick Town. It is an Edwardian house, which provides spacious and comfortable rooms with spectacular views over Derwentwater and the surrounding Fells. All bedrooms are all fully equipped, 3 en-suite and offers a relaxing and cosy guest lounge with magazines and books for you to relax in and plan your next outing. We have closed one of our single rooms (room 4) in order to ensure guest safety in line with Covid Government guidelines. This enables guests who book the single room (room 7) on the second floor have exclusive use of the separate shower/toilet room.

In 2013 we decided that our Government jobs were becoming too stressful. We researched and chose to run our own B&B in the Lake District, an area we love and have been visiting for a number of years. We bought Skiddaw Croft in Portinscale as it has some truly magnificent views and is in a beautiful quiet village. Our new adventure began in late September 2015 and changed a combined 4 1/2 hour daily commute between us to just 1 minute :-). We meet some wonderful people who stay with us and know we have made the right decision. Everyone we have met in Portinscale and Keswick have been very welcoming and supportive to us, which makes a feel that we definitely made the right decision to move here. We look forward to meeting every guest and thoroughly enjoy reading our reviews on TripAdvisor. They help us to learn and improve on our service and what we do to the property.

Portinscale Village is located on the northern shores of Derwentwater with 2 marinas, offering a wide variety of water sports, a village pub, offering local beers and home cooked food, and easy access to local Fell walks. Portinscale is on the C2C Cycle Route. It also boasts a shop/café and hotel with public bar & restaurant, all within 5 minutes walk. Keswick is a 15-20 minute walk from Skiddaw Croft Bed & Breakfast along a flat, dedicated footpath. The Theatre by the Lake is a 1.5 mile walk, while Go Ape at Whinlatter Forest Park is a 3.5 mile drive away. There are numerous other attractions nearby.