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Low Wood deputy GM wins regional tourism award
Michelle Croukamp, deputy general manager at the Low Wood was awarded the ‘most exceptional young tourism manager' in Cumbria Tourism's skills & business awards on Wednesday 2nd May.
The oscar style ceremony held at Castle Green Hotel in Kendal was presented by popular ITV Border news front man Tim Backshall. Michelle’s husband Dawid who had won the same award 2 years ago in his position of conference & banqueting manager was with her at the ceremony to congratulate her success. Michelle said “ Dawid has teased me ever since he won it 2 years ago as we were both nominated that time but it is great now to be able to say you are only as good as your last award”.
Group marketing manager Colin Fox who also attended the awards added “Michelle has always been a very valuable member of the Low Wood team and was an exceptional personnel and training manager but her recent promotion to the deputy GM position of a hotel with Low Wood’s prominence at only 28 shows how professional, enthusiastic and dedicated she is and I know she is also held in the highest regard by everybody who works with her".
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Lancaster House celebrates success in tourism skills awards
Lancaster House is celebrating after its staff won two prestigious skills awards.
Michael Weston-Cole won the award for Lancashire Chef of the Year and Jim Bunter won the award for the Most Outstanding Young Tourism Manager at the Lancashire Excellence in Tourism Awards.
The awards are organised by the Lancashire and Blackpool Tourism Board to give employers the opportunity to recognise and reward the people who make a difference to their business, a gesture of recognition and appreciation for indiviudals abilities and achievements.
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Low Wood wins Excellence in Business Tourism
Low Wood won the top award for Business Tourism at the annual England’s Northwest Tourism Awards held recently in Manchester.
The judges said “The Low Wood is a very focused family-run business with a strong emphasis on its staff. Service is a priority for the business market and the Low Wood stays ahead of the competition with impressive level of repeat business, a true barometer of customer satisfaction.”
The Low Wood Hotel will now have the opportunity to represent the Northwest in the national Enjoy England Awards for Excellence, organised by VisitBritain in April 2007
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Grand Opening Sandeman's Bar
Lancaster House Hotel held an official opening ceremony for the newly extended Sandeman’s Bar performed by George Sandeman, a seventh generation descendant of the late George Sandeman who founded The Port House company in 1790, and one of the most charismatic and genial speakers of the wine trade.
The Sandeman family have strong connections with the local area, which has enabled the hotel to acquire artefacts and documentation relating to the present family and their history. Within this collection is a port bottle produced to commemorate H.R.H Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation, which has survived the passage of time, given to English Lakes Hotels, by Thomas Sandeman, father of George Sandeman.
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Low Wood Marina Opening Celebration
The official opening ceremony of the Low Wood Marina took place on 22nd September. Students from Windermere St Anne’s School opened the celebration with a sailing demonstration, followed by the appearance of a waterskiing butler! Speeches followed by Simon Berry, English Lakes Hotels' Chairman and Managing Director, and John Derbyshire, Racing Manager and Performance Director of the Royal Yachting Association, who performed the official ribbon cutting. Guests were then invited for afternoon tea at Low Wood Hotel to celebrate the recent completion of the hotels ground floor redevelopment programme.
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Olympic 2012 Roadshow visits Low Wood
Gold medal hero and chairman of the 2012 London Games organising committee, Lord Sebastian Coe accompanied by Daley Thompson, brought the 2012 Roadshow to Low Wood Hotel. He addressed an audience of representatives from Cumbria’s tourism, business, sports and cultural sectors and talked of the importance of the Olympic Games to Britain. He urged Cumbrian businesses and local authorities to cash in on this great sporting event which will attract approximately 2 million visitors to the country, many of whom will wish to stay on and holiday across the UK.
Sebastian Coe is no stranger to the area having spent time during his career training and fell running in the Lakes. And in 1994 he performed the offical opening at the 50th anniversary of Ambleside Sports along with our late Chairman, Michael Berry, president of the society.
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Ultimate picnic at the ultimate picnic venue
The Ultimate Picnic has been hitting the national tabloids, local radio and regional TV stations in the heat of the scorching summer sun in the most beautiful hotel grounds setting in the lake district. The luxury picnic is the work of Craig Sherrington, the chef at the four-star Storrs Hall Hotel on the shores of Lake Windermere, and is priced at £1,566.60 for two people. Instead of pre-packed sandwiches, packets of crisps, carrot sticks and supermarket dips, this ultimate summer picnic includes such delicacies as Foie Gras, Beluga Caviar, British Rare White Beef, Scottish Lobster and an Exotic Fruit Trifle with real Gold Leaf Shavings. As the very best food should also be washed down by something equally special, the picnic comes complete with bottles of Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne and Chateau Lafite-Rothschild. Craig Sherrington says: “My aim was to create the ultimate picnic for a very special occasion. So I’ve selected all the items I think should go into the perfect picnic where money really is no object. For those who think the £1,566.60 price tag is too much to swallow, the hotel can also produce picnic hampers priced at £17.95 and £22.50 a head.
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Beautiful woodland adds to Wild Boar guest experience
English Lakes Hotels have purchased Gilpinpark Plantation, a seventy two acre parcel of woodland next to The Famous Wild Boar hotel. Tim Berry, company director who bought the land on behalf of English Lakes Hotels said “we intend to allow guests of the hotel to enjoy this historic woodland and its flowers and fauna and would like to restore the tarns that used to be a feature of the land”. The beautiful semi natural woodland of mixed ages, fine specimen trees, areas of open grazing and rock outcrops is inhabited by Roe and Red deer.