Hi, our usual once-a-year posh 'treat after a visit to the in-laws' hotel on the M6 is full of wedding guests on the night we want at the end of July. So we're looking for an alternative south of Penrith on the M6 or somewhere between there and midway along the M66. We're after a family room (2 small co-sleeping DDs) with an eatery so we can hook up the monitor or listen in on them. We've passed loads of inns on the blasted moors before but they all look a bit bleak and I feel I need personal experience as backup before I commit! Brough must have some nice places, as must Applelby I'd have thought..? So hard to tell from a badly framed pic on t'internet.
MN has never failed me with recommendations so far, so I have high hopes :-)