Welcome to Stay with our Friends

Lovely people, lovely places

Need a hotel recommendation you can trust? Just Stay with our friends!

It stands to reason that if you're looking for a recommendation for a quality hotel, the best person to ask is a quality hotelier.

"The idea is simple, if you like what we do, you'll like

where we like so we can bring you trusted recommendations"

Staywithourfriends.com is the brainchild of award winning hoteliers Simon & Wendy Bennett who run Augill Castle in the Lake District and their PR guru Andrea Marston. It has already been dubbed the hotelier's hotel site with the simple message that 'if you like what we do, you'll like what we like'.

Here you will find an eclectic collection of people running individual characterful places.

Staywithourfriends.com will also give these lovely places the opportunity to recommend their favourite places and feel comfortable about recommending each other too. If they like us, we'll like who they like and so it grows organically with everyone's guests reaping the benefits.

Simon, Wendy and Andrea came up with the idea of Stay With Our Friends as a way of introducing places they like to a wider audience. Simon & Wendy have run Augill Castle, an award winning place to stay in Cumbria's Eden Valley, for twelve years. Andrea runs her own PR consultancy and has been involved with Augill through some of its most exciting years.

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Here's what people are already saying about us...

"A really good idea and makes sourcing excellent accommodation so much easier"

Susie Bagot, Levens Hall, Cumbria

"Love the concept and will be using it personally to find great places to stay that come highly recommended!"

Julie Darroch, Cumbria Tourism

"Love the new website, fabulous idea"

Alison Roper, Stonetrail Riding