Booked a double room for £82 through bookings.com. B&B.
Lovely hotel in the centre of Ambleside village. Staff very pleasant and attentive. Leisure facilities very good pool, sauna, gym. Only had breakfast which was excellent full freshly cooked english and help yourself to cold stuff, make sure you are down and eating before 9.30 as they clear everything away at 9.30am. Our room was very small (Room 110) although clean and tidy if we had been staying for more than a night we would have complained. Also as most hotels now have at least queen sized beds we were very disappointed with our standard double (that said a bigger bed would not have fit in the room). Although as said for one night the room was ok and everything else more than made up for it. We would definatley stay at the hotel again and recommend it.

Booked on best western web for our anniversary. We were allocated a room at the front of the hotel with double bed.( could do with a kingsize !) There was a card wishing us a happy anniversary, which was a nice touch.
The hotel is spotless, staff very efficient and approachable. The breakfast is lovely, buffet style for cereals etc and cooked breakfast to order which was very good.
We went for a swim every morning and had the lovely pool to ourselves.
The hotel is in a good situation at the top of the town with lots of shops and restaraunts close by.
We ate out in the evening at the Tai Rest near the hotel which was very good, Lucys on a plate, excellent and Mathews Bistro which was excellent and great value before 7pm off the set menue. You do need to book at all of these.
Also enjoyed a night at the cinema, the box office only opens 20 mins before a film to buy your ticket.

We stayed for 3 nights in the Salutation Hotel in Ambleside in September 2007, the hotel was excellent, great location for exploring the Lake District, the service is excellent, including the breakfasts, the staff couldn't be more helpful and the room we had was spotlessly cleaned daily. We will certainly be returing to this hotel.

We stayed for just one night at the salutaion to celebrate our 2nd wedding aniversary as we met in ambleside (in 1997) and lived there for the first 4 years of our relationship. We booked it on a whim and were grateful for a vacancy at such short notice peak season.
We received a warm welcome (and it was nice to find somewhere so central to park in ambleside) and were even allowed to check in early as our room was already ready.
I was a bit disappointed, at first, with the size of the room as it was quite expensive for a standard double but it did have a beautiful balcony overlooking the little town centre which was fantastic as the weather was GLORIOUS. It was the balcony that made the room really as if we had been having typical lake district weather there would not have been enough space to spend much time in. However, as it was, we had a wonderful hour or so watching the sun dip behind the hills with a chilled bottle of wine. The size of the room is the only reason why i didn't give the salutation full marks.
The leisure facilities were extremely pleasant and the breakfast was plentiful and a of very good quality and cooked to perfection. Great selection too if you don't fancy the works.