England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Kendal
Kendal is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 30,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels in Kendal, with about 124 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 2
- Nearest airport
- LBA87 km · Leeds Bradford Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Kendal
Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness area of Cumbria, England, just outside the Lake District. It lies within the River Kent's dale, from which its name is derived.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Kendal
See
- The Kendal Parish Church
- Levens Hall
- Kendal Castle
- Sizergh Castle
- Kendal Museum
- Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry
- Abbott Hall Art Gallery
- Quaker Tapestry
Do
- The Brewery Arts Centre
- The Scout Scar
- Lakeland Climbing Centre
- Westmoreland County Show
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Kendal
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Kendal hotel | 60 | 4.2/5 1,099 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Kendal Town Centre hotel | 64 | 4.1/5 571 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Kendal
85 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata; the 40 best known are shown, by the number of Wikipedia editions that cover them. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Dove Nest | 16.6 km | |
| Holbeck Ghyll | 15.7 km | |
| Langdale Chase | 15.8 km | |
| Storrs Hall | 12.4 km | |
| The Bull Hotel | 14.1 km | |
| Windermere Hotel | 1847 | 12.0 km |
| Ambleside Inn | 18.3 km | |
| Ambleside Salutation Hotel & Spa, BW Premier Collection | 18.3 km | |
| Belsfield Hotel | 12.1 km | |
| Croft Hotel | 18.5 km | |
| Duke William Hotel | 7.2 km | |
| Fleece Inn And Yard Entrance | 0.2 km | |
| George Hotel | 18.8 km | |
| Globe Inn | 0.3 km | |
| Greyhound Hotel With Milestone And Mounting Block | 1680 | 22.3 km |
| Highgate Hotel | 0.3 km | |
| King's Head Hotel | 23.6 km | |
| Kings Arms Hotel | 22.7 km | |
| Low Wood Hotel | 16.1 km | |
| Macdonald Old England Hotel & Spa | 12.2 km | |
| Mortal Man Inn | 15.2 km | |
| New Inn | 0.2 km | |
| Newby Bridge Hotel | 16.0 km | |
| Queen's Head Public House Robinsons Brewery | 17.3 km | |
| Railway Hotel | 7.2 km | |
| Red Lion Hotel | 17.3 km | |
| Rothay Manor | 18.3 km | |
| Royal Oak Hotel | 18.3 km | |
| Shap Wells Hotel | 18.1 km | |
| Stags Head Inn | 12.2 km | |
| Sun Inn | 5.8 km | |
| Sun Inn | 19.6 km | |
| Swan Hotel | 15.9 km | |
| The Black Swan | 23.6 km | |
| The Cuckoo Brow Inn | 14.0 km | |
| The Fat Lamb | 24.3 km | |
| The Punch Bowl | 7.1 km | |
| The Queen's Head Hotel | 15.2 km | |
| Wateredge Hotel | 17.7 km | |
| White Lion Hotel | 18.3 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Kendal
Kendal has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 19 °C; October is the wettest, with about 221 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Kendal: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), about 87 km from the city centre in a straight line; Teesside International Airport (MME, 88 km) and Newcastle International Airport (NCL, 104 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
National Express runs buses to Kendal; Stagecoach's 555 (or X55) service links Lancaster and Kendal with Keswick. Kendal station is one stop (3 km) beyond Oxenholme on the branch line to Windermere. Trains run hourly until 9:45PM weekdays, 8:45PM weekends.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
LBA · Leeds Bradford Airport
MME · Teesside International Airport
NCL · Newcastle International Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Kendal
Eat
Kendal has produced a local delicacy called the Kendal Mint Cake. It was created in 1936 and was used as an energy bar on the 1953 expedition that climbed Everest for the first time.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Kendal
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 2 places
of 2 places
of 2 places
Questions
Kendal: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Kendal?
By published guest score: Travelodge Kendal (4.2 / 5 · 1,099 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Kendal Town Centre (4.1 / 5 · 571 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Kendal?
Kendal has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 19 °C; October is the wettest, with about 221 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Kendal?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), about 87 km from the city centre in a straight line; Teesside International Airport (MME, 88 km) and Newcastle International Airport (NCL, 104 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Kendal?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Kendal
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.