STAFF at Kendal's Castle Green Hotel are celebrating after their quality hospitality earned two national awards.

The hotel won both the Fan Favourite Hotel and Large Best Western Hotel Experience of the Year awards at the Best Western members' conference in South Wales.

The Fan Favourite Hotel, a new award, was decided after 10,000 Best Western Rewards customers nominated their favourite hotel.

"The really great thing about this award is that it is decided by customers and therefore directly related to the service and hospitality that we provide," said Castle Green managing director Tim Rumney.

The Large Best Western Hotel Experience of the Year Award is decided by measuring all the quality survey scores undertaken by the hotels, to see which hotel above 50 bedrooms comes out top.

The Castle Green Hotel achieved the highest overall rating in the group’s British hotel network of 279 hotels.

Mr Rumney added: "I was hugely proud to accept these awards with the hotel’s general manager, Ben Mayou.

"There are many exceptional hotels in Best Western and to gain these awards puts the Castle Green Hotel at the top of Best Western in Britain, and more widely secures our reputation as one of the top hotels in the North West."