KENDAL's Castle Green Hotel picked-up two awards at the Best Western Annual Members Conference at Celtic Manor Resort.

The hotel won both the Fan Favourite Hotel and Large Best Western Hotel Experience of the Year Awards.

The Fan Favourite Hotel was a new award this year and is decided by contacting 10,000 Best Western Rewards customers and asking them to nominate 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 hotel 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."