Tebay Services Hotel

The view from the window is great, and there's tasty food sourced locally and good service if you want to sit down, stretch your legs and have a hot drink. For a quick stop, you can be back on the road in no time. Even the filling station sells fancy artisan sweets. Can't complain.

There's a mix of options for quick bites, takeaway and sitting down, plus drinks, a hotel, petrol station and the farm shop. I still enjoy stopping here on the way, though it's usually pretty busy these days. The men's toilets are the disappointing part. They need an update, larger stalls and maybe a changing area. I'll stop at the southbound site on the return, and again here next time I'm passing.

It's clean throughout, wheelchair accessible, and has excellent places for dog walking and for children to stretch their legs. There's a great selection of food for different dietary needs. Some things in both the food and non-food sections are overpriced, though I found a healthy, affordable option at the carvery: vegetables and gravy for £6.50. Would recommend.

On our trips north we always stop here, usually to buy meat and cheeses. This time I was GF and had a look at the cake stand by the farm shop entrance, fully expecting to torture myself. After checking a few, I realised maybe around 40% of the items were GF. They do warn about possible cross contamination, so I'm unsure how suitable they are for someone with coeliac disease. But as a GF person, I spent more than I should have, and everything was literally to die for. Sooo good!