Castle Green Hotel can host a conference of up to 300 delegates, a board meeting of 14, a training day or a wedding for up to 250 evening guests, with 99 bedrooms in the same building. The four-star hotel stands in Kendal, Cumbria, in 14 acres of gardens and woodland looking toward Kendal Castle and the Lakeland Fells.
Seminars and company events
The hotel lists eight meeting spaces for groups of 2 to 300. Each event is assigned a dedicated conference host, and presentation equipment is part of the booking rather than an extra. Day delegate, 24-hour and room hire rates cover equipment hire, Wi-Fi and parking, so the quote does not change with the number of flipcharts or screens. A conference lounge gives delegates a place to work between sessions. Team building programs can be added to the agenda, and residents have use of the hotel's leisure club. The hotel has held AIM accreditation from the Meetings Industry Association since 2009, and organisers can offset the emissions of delegate travel through a carbon program offered with the booking.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings take up to 220 day guests and 250 evening guests. The hotel has seven ceremony spaces, so a couple can hold the ceremony, the wedding breakfast and the evening party without leaving the site, and guests can stay in the 99 bedrooms.
Rooms and capacities
The Function Suite is the largest room: 300 theatre style, 180 cabaret or 50 around a boardroom table. It can also be divided into two conference rooms. The Kendal Suite takes 100 theatre style and 60 cabaret, and the Oak Room 80 theatre style and 60 cabaret; both seat 40 boardroom style. The Garden Room suits 40 theatre style or 24 cabaret. The Boardroom seats 20 theatre style or 14 at the table, the Castle Room 14 boardroom style, and the Bindloss and Woodlands rooms 10 theatre style or 6 at the table for breakout work.
Accommodation
The 99 bedrooms range from standard and king rooms to Garden View rooms, Junior Suites, Herdwick Suites and Executive Suites, with interconnecting rooms for families. Residents have free use of the Pulse Health and Fitness Club, which includes a swimming pool, and The Green Rooms offers beauty treatments.
Catering
Catering comes from the hotel's own kitchens. The Greenhouse Restaurant, Alexanders and the Greenhouse Bar and Lounge cover breakfasts, working lunches, client dinners and afternoon tea, and room service is available to residents.
History and setting
Castle Green opened as a hotel in 1997 around a historic house on the edge of the town known locally as the Auld Grey Town. Its gardens and woodland face the ruins of Kendal Castle, and the fells of the Lake District National Park begin a short drive to the west. The hotel is managed by Legacy Hotels and Resorts.
Getting there
The hotel is on Castle Green Lane, Kendal LA9 6RG. Parking for more than 250 cars is free. Oxenholme Lake District station, on the West Coast Main Line, is a short taxi ride away, and the M6 motorway passes east of the town. Manchester Airport is the nearest large international airport.
