Quality Control & Peace Of Mind
All of Our Lake District Cottages Are Inspected By Visit Britain

Our mantra here at the Lakeland Cottage Company is quality, knowledge of our holiday homes and to listen to our guests. We prefer quality to quantity, so you won’t find pages of dull and indifferent properties as on many other web sites, only a select, handpicked collection that we would be happy to spend time in ourselves, and where all of our staff know each Lake District Cottage and each area well.

For greater peace of mind each of our Lake District Cottages has been inspected by Visit England, the official UK body for Quality Control in tourism, where they not only grade each of our holiday cottages but also check and read our descriptions ensuring that you, our guest, can make an informed decision in your Lakeland Holiday choice.


Visit England and Quality Assurance

Visit England is the organisation created on 1st April 2003 to market Britain to the rest of the world and England to the British.

Formed by the merger of the British Tourist Authority and the English Tourism Council, its mission is to build the value of tourism by creating world class destination brands and marketing campaigns.

As part of their role Visit Britain run a Quality Assurance scheme, whereby owners of self catering holiday homes can have their property assessed and awarded a quality star rating, this carried out by trained quality inspectors.

The awards are given as 1 star through to the highest award of 5 stars - we at The Lakeland Cottage Company only market properties that achieve a minimum 3 star rating.

It should be noted that holiday cottages and houses are marked on an overall percentage rating, this determining the number of stars awarded. This can mean a variation of quality within each rating. For example, one property may achieve the minimum percentile score to gain a 4 star award, whereas another may be only 1 percent below the required score to achieve a 5 star award.

Another service of VB is that the inspector will have read our description of each self catering holiday cottage prior to visiting the property, agreeing it to be fair and accurate, neither misleading or omitting details, allowing you to make an informed decision when selecting a property.