My girlfriend and I thought we would treat ourselves to a weekend away in the lakes and plumped for the famous wild boar, infamous wild boar more like.
We were welcomed on our arrival in reception by the grumpiest old man in history, without raising his head from the desk he muttered "checking in".
The room we were allocated was so small that you couldn't swing a cat round, in fact one of us had to step into the bathroom if we needed to pass each other.
After perusing the hotel dinner menu, we thought we'd eat out, and made our way back to reception to enquire about local restaurants, the same man was still on reception, as we approached he raised his head and once again said "checking in".
This, all in all is the most over pretentious dump I've ever stayed in.
One to avoid at all cost.

I organised a Christmas Party for 25 people, I contacted the hotel direct and got an excellent rate, on arrival the staff were very helpful and friendly. All the rooms were clean, tidy and warm.
The food served at the hotel was excellent and the price of drinks were reasonable.
The hotel was very festive and we all enjoyed our stay, I will definatley return.
Having organised a party at the Low Wood last year I would prefer the Wild Boar its much more intimate and friendly.

My hysband and I spent a night at the Wild Boar last week. After reading some of the previous reviews, I wondered if I had made a mistake; however we had heard the food was excellent and decided to judge for ourselves. We booked via the English Lakes website and were quoted a rate of £64 per room which we paid in advance. On arriving at our room (no 2) it was enormous and had a king size bed, a separate sitting area and a large spotless bathroom with clawfoot bath. The heating was more than adequate which it needed to be as the temperature fell to -4 that night. We had an excellent dinner, using our Hi life card which gave us one meal free, and the service was superb - not intrusive but always easy to attract attention. My husband had the steak and kidney pudding and felt there wasn't enough gravy - on requesting a little more a well filled gravy boat was brought - he says the gravy was the highlight of his stay! Despite feeling in the evening that we would never eat again, breakfast the next day was again superb. On checking out it emerged that the room we had been given was £84 per night - the very helpful Scottish receptionist did not charge us the extra cost. We have stayed in numerous hotels in this area and would heartily recommend the Wild Boar both for its accommodation and its food. Note to the previous reviewer - creaky floorboards etc are part of staying in an old building - if you want modern, stay somewhere else.

We have just returned from an overnight stay at this hotel. Definitely will not go there again and certainly won't recommend it to our friends colleagues.

The only good thing I can say about this hotel is that the staff were very nice and willing to help.

The bad things are, we were promised on booking this hotel, a room with a 4 poster bed and a corner bath, this we didn't get. Our room, number 2, was in the first instant not easily found as the there were no signs on the walls telling us where it was. There were signs for rooms 3, 4, 5, etc but not 2. On asking a member of staff, we found the room along a corridor sign posted 26 to 28!

The room itself was a suite, desperately in need of an upgrade and in my opinion 'shabby'. The window frames were mouldy from condensation and the curtains were hanging off. The decor, I found, rather dingy, depressing and begging for a coat of paint. On entering the room it felt cold and damp. We turned up the radiators; well those that seemed to work, so that solved that problem. I don't think there was one floor board in the room that didn't creak. The lighting in the room was totally inadequate. I think all the lights and lamps must have had only 25w bulbs in them, the bathroom was bright enough though. The bed and pillows were like sleeping on a sack of potatoes so not a good night sleep at all. The bed linen was however clean and of good quality. One of the radiators was noisy, gurgling away at regular intervals during the night. Activity from staff/other guests early morning meant we didn't need an alarm clock. We could hear cupboards being opened and closed, footsteps on the creaking corridor floors and laundry trolleys being moved around outside our bedroom window. The bathroom was simple and ok to a point, but again, in need of some repair work. It was clean, the water was hot and the shower which was over the bath was good. The towels were clean and of good quality. The floor was ceramic tiled but the grouting was virtually non existent. The gaps between the tiles were deep and dirty and some of the tiles were cracked. Not a hygienic floor at all.

The restaurant I felt left a lot to be desired. The dining chairs were uncomfortable and difficult to move on the carpet which was filthy, shabby and in places down right dangerous. The food was certainly not value for money. Cheap cuts of meat made to sound gourmet. The breakfast was good with plenty of choice although the coffee was undrinkable.