The Swan Hotel & Spa takes conferences, team away days, wellness retreats, parties and civil weddings for up to 80 guests, across six rooms that range from a twelve-seat meeting room to a rustic barn. Bedrooms, cottages and loft rooms are on site. The hotel sits on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, in Cumbria, at the southern end of Lake Windermere.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells meetings, conferences, team away days and retreats, with an in-house events team that plans the program, handles room layouts and stays on hand during the day. Every conference room has audiovisual equipment, including projectors, screens or televisions and sound, and high-speed Wi-Fi runs through the building. Packages include a projector and screen, flipcharts, pads and pencils.
The hotel offers a day package and a 24-hour package that adds dinner in the brasserie, bed and breakfast and use of the health club. Room hire by the day is also possible, with extras added as needed. For team building, the activity partner Graythwaite runs clay pigeon shooting, archery and axe throwing nearby, and a paddle hut on site rents out paddleboards.
Weddings and receptions
The Swan is licensed for civil ceremonies. Ceremonies take place in the Ballroom, which is also where the first dance happens, or guests can gather on the terrace or in the bar area. The wedding breakfast is served in the Conservatory, the rustic Barn or a private function suite. In spring and summer the lawn and riverfront host drinks, canapés and photographs. The couple receive the best available suite on the night, and wedding guests get preferential room rates.
Rooms and capacities
The Barn, the Ballroom and the Club Room each take up to 80 guests. The Ballroom has chandeliers and views of the river, and the Club Room has its own bar. The Rowland VIP Area, next to the Barn, takes 20 or serves as a buffet space. The Studio holds 60 and suits wellness retreats, and the Bridge Room seats 12 for small meetings.
Accommodation
Guests stay in hotel rooms, cottages, loft rooms and family rooms, some of them dog-friendly. Holte Spa offers thermal journeys, an outdoor Finnish sauna, naturally filtered pools and treatments.
Catering
The chefs cover breakfast, light lunches, refreshments, private dining and menus built for the event, with dietary needs handled. The River Room is the main restaurant, the Swan Inn is a pub serving British classics, and a café and the Spa Café serve lighter food. Wedding menus run from canapés and a three-course meal to an evening buffet.
History and setting
The building is Grade II listed. Its grounds front the River Leven, with the lake and the fells of the southern Lake District around it.
Getting there
Newby Bridge lies at the southern end of Windermere, within easy reach of the lake towns and the main roads into the Lake District.
