Lake District Buttermere
Buttermere Court Hotel
Independent pet-friendly review by Four Legged Guests · updated October 2026 · paw rating built from 1 verified guest review mentioning pets
Bring your dog if
- You're happy with a standard hotel-room stay where the property explicitly welcomes dogs
- You're basing yourself in Buttermere / the Lake District and want a pet-friendly anchor for day trips
- The wider guest experience is strong - guests rate this 9.2/10 overall on booking platforms
Worth knowing
- Paw rating sits on a single confirmed pet review - expect movement as more data arrives
- Pet fee: £14 per pet per night (max 2 pets) - research-verified; confirm at booking
- Shared corridors and common areas mean nervous or vocal dogs may find it harder to settle
How this review was built Evidence, sources, refresh cadence
- Evidence: 1 pet-mention guest review sourced from major booking platforms - guests who explicitly mentioned travelling with a dog. Each review is screened for pet-relevance, then judged for sentiment to compute the paw rating.
- Not a personal visit. We don't stay at every hotel we cover - we summarise patterns from real guest reviews, paraphrased and never quoted verbatim. Full standard on our editorial policy page.
- Wider context: The property has 1,368 guest reviews overall across booking platforms, averaging 9.2/10 - the paw rating reflects only the pet-mentioning subset.
- Last refreshed: October 2026. Policies and pricing drift; we re-check on a rolling basis. Confirm specifics with the property at the moment you book.
- How the paw rating works: Full detail on the methodology page, including the three verification gates and known limitations.
Pet policy at a glance
- Pet fee: £14 per pet, per night.
- Up to 2 pets per booking.
- The dog charge is capped at £28 in total for the stay.
- Dogs are welcome in all areas of the hotel except the breakfast room and select bedrooms.
- Please note pets are not allowed in the Standard Family Room and the King Room with Mountain View.
- Dogs must not be left unattended in the hotel.
- Book your dog in as early as possible - arriving with an undeclared dog can mean extra charges or having to find alternative accommodation.
- Dedicated pet-friendly room types available: Classic Double rooms, Classic Twin rooms, Executive Family rooms, Lake View apartment.
Pet-friendly summary
Buttermere Court Hotel sits in the village of Buttermere, between Buttermere and Crummock Water, and it is about as well placed as a Lake District dog holiday gets. The lake is a six-minute walk from the door, a waterfall walk starts behind the property, and the trails leaving the village run from gentle valley circuits up to full fell days.
The hotel is dog-friendly throughout rather than in a handful of designated rooms, which is the distinction that matters when you are working out whether your dog can sit with you or has to wait upstairs. Guests with dogs describe staff who are warm about it, with the breakfast and evening teams drawing repeated praise from returning visitors, and the pub downstairs is part of the appeal rather than an afterthought. There is a games room with a snooker table for wet evenings, secure bicycle storage and a small shop.
One restriction is worth planning around: two room types are excluded from the pet policy, so a family set on the larger family room will need to take an alternative. The charge is £14 per dog per night, capped at £28 in total for the stay, and up to two dogs can be booked in.
Two honest caveats. Because dogs are welcome throughout, the shared areas carry the consequences, and guests have reported dog hair left on the lobby furniture for days at a time; a few visitors without dogs have named the general dog presence as the thing they liked least about their stay. And the valley has poor mobile coverage and unreliable hotel wi-fi, which catches out anyone expecting to stay connected.
For a walker with a dog who wants a pub, a bed and a lake within a few minutes of each other, Buttermere Court earns its 4.4/5 paw rating.
Highlights from pet-mentioning reviews
What reviewers travelling with dogs consistently noted about staying here.
- Dogs welcome throughout, not just set rooms
- Lake shore a six-minute walk away
- Two room types exclude pets
- Pub and games room downstairs
- Dog hair reported in shared lounge areas
About this hotel
A three-star hotel in the village of Buttermere, Cumbria (CA13 9XA), set between Buttermere and Crummock Water in the western Lake District. Rooms sit above a pub serving real ales and cooked breakfasts, with a games room, a small gift shop and secure bicycle storage on site. The lake shore is a few minutes' walk away and fell paths leave from the village.
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The Buttermere Court Hotel, Buttermere, CA13 9XA