Stayed at this centrally located hotel for 5 nights in April 2007. We asked for a non smoking room and were given one of only 3 rooms on the first floor which were non smoking. Two of these rooms are extremely small and unfortunately we had one of them! The room was small and very noisy as there was a two inch gap under the door leading from our bedroom to the hallway. Chambermaids shouted outside
our room every morning about 7.30, to majke sure we were all up for breakfast and not too relaxed. Reception staff were very young and not very service oriented.

Breakfasts were good, but there was a very loud and over powering head waiter who seemed to patronisingly shout to the guests rather than talk.

The leisure centre is very good and underused, so we had the pool to ourselves.

On the whole I would not recommend this hotel. It is not value for money. We paid £118 per night. This is more than I pay for a 4 star when I stay in London!!

We stayed for 2 nights mid week (21st - 23rd March) and were very impressed with the Salutation. We had a standard double room which was very clean and had a lovely bathroom with power shower & jaccussi bath. Breakfast was great - as much as you want, good choice and top quality. Staff were very polite & helpful. My watch slid down the back of the dressing table which we thought was fixed to the wall. The staff had retreived it within 15 minutes of me telling them. We ate out both evenings & can highly recommend Stampers, a small intimate restaurant, serving high quality food. The hotel has a lovely spa with a beautiful swimming pool. A great place to stay.

just stayed a week end in this booked up hotel you would never have thought it could be so peaceful! the club room worth every penny along with the lovely celebration pack and food exceptional will definately be back. all credit to all inatrusive and pleasent staff will most surely be back

We stayed at the Saluation this week. Whilst the hotel itself is really nice the bedroom was a bit of a laugh. The room was quite small and sloped in different places. Although there was meant to be satellite TV we only had National Geographic and Paramount Comedy, but on the other hand you don't visit the Lake District to watch TV!! The pillows were very thin and I used the spare one and asked for a third one. The matress also sloped rather but that rather kept in with the theme of the room!!

I used the spa bath for a few seconds!! It seemed to fire everywhere so I switched it off quickly ! This was not the hotel's fault, rather mine because I've never used one before!!

The breakfasts were really good.

Maybe if we stayed there again I would go for a family room or a superior room or a room that didn't slope!!