10 beautiful boltholes in the Lake District for when hotels reopen As hotels in England prepare to reopen on May 17, here are 10 hotels in the Lake District with availability until the end of June 13 May 2021 • 3:46pm Laura Ashley Hotel The Belsfield sits beside Lake Windermere in Bowness, so that from the lawn you can watch daytrippers piling onto the lake cruisers as you sip your afternoon tea It is easy to see why poets, writers and artists have been moved to capture the beauty of the Lake District on page and canvas. This national park has an intoxicating beauty – in the drama of its peaks, its great lakes reflecting its big, unpredictable skies, the green and gold of its fellsides, its rushing becks, and meandering drystone walls.