Lakeside Park Hotel & Spa

About Lakeside Park Hotel & Spa

Lakeside Park sits off the A3054 at Wootton Bridge, roughly midway between Ryde and Newport, which makes it one of the easiest bases on the Island for touring. The hotel occupies seventeen acres of grounds looking out over a twenty-acre lake, and the setting does a lot of the work: water views from most public rooms, walking paths through the grounds and a genuine sense of space that seafront hotels cannot offer.

Rooms are modern and generously sized, with air conditioning, walk-in showers or baths, and a choice of lake-facing or garden-facing outlooks. Suites and family rooms are available, and the newer wing rooms are the ones to ask for. The hotel is rated four stars by the AA with a quality score in the high seventies, and it is used for weddings and conferences as well as leisure stays, so standards of housekeeping are consistent.

The spa is the main draw. There is a ten-metre indoor pool with hydro jets, sauna, steam room, jacuzzi and experience shower, plus a thermal spa garden with an outdoor hot tub and two garden saunas. Treatment rooms cover massage, reflexology, hydrotherapy and the usual beauty list, and day packages are sold to non-residents as well as guests. A gym and relaxation room complete the facilities.

Dining is in the lakeside brasserie, which serves both a carte and set menus with a reasonable amount of Island produce, and there is a bar and terrace for lighter meals. The hotel suits couples on a spa break, groups celebrating something, and anyone who wants a comfortable four-star standard without paying seafront prices. Osborne House, Quarr Abbey and the Fishbourne ferry terminal are all within ten minutes' drive.