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Luxuriating in the Lake District with a champion chef

Luxury
April Hutchinson
16 June 2021

Jenna and Jamie Shail haven’t let the pandemic stop them progressing with their plans of creating a dream boutique hotel in Ambleside – and their chef Dan McGeorge has been on a triumphant mission of his own too. 

The lounge at Rothay Manor is one of several relaxing areas of the hotel

Hats off to anyone who has completed something significant during this crazy period of change and lockdowns – I’m still finding excuses why I haven’t hung a picture, written a book, baked. Anything. We’re in the travel industry; the worry is enough to exhaust anyone I tell myself...

But married couple Jenna and Jamie Shail have used the time to roll up their sleeves and crack on with the renovation of their hotel, set inside an 1823 manor house in the Lake District’s honeypot village of Ambleside.