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GET ME VROOM SERVICE! Gourmet food, smiling staff and six lanes of nose-to-tail traffic roaring past your window. Welcome to Britain's best-kept holiday secret - a service station on the M6. Make your (central) reservation now!

Publication: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Publication Date: 09-MAY-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: GET ME VROOM SERVICE! Gourmet food, smiling staff and six lanes of nose-to-tail traffic roaring past your window. Welcome to Britain's best-kept holiday secret - a service station on the M6. Make your (central) reservation now!(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: by Jane Fryer

STANDING at the top of a neat Tarmac slip road, eating a slab of home-made pie and surveying all beneath me, it's easy to think this place has it all.

Outstanding views across the Cumbrian fells (albeit obscured by the driving rain), a caravan park, pretty walking trails, landscaped gardens, a pond full of pootling ducks and ducklings, a barbecue hut, an award-winning farm shop opened by Prince Charles -- complete with butcher and groaning cheese counter -- a very cosy hotel, and thousands of loyal visitors who come back time and time again to enjoy a very special taste of the Lake District.

Oh yes, and not forgetting the acres of car parking, handy petrol station, enviably good transport links and six lanes of traffic that roar past, just a few yards from the main entrance.

Because despite its cunning disguise as an upmarket holiday resort, this is actually a motorway service station -- Tebay to be exact, nestled between junctions 38 and 39 on the M6.

Or, to be more accurate, Britain's best services, according to a recent survey to mark the 50th anniversary of the motorway service station by consumer watchdog Which?. Tebay scored the maximum points available and was praised for its superb shop, lovely ambience and wonderful location.

So wonderful, in fact, that regulars have been returning time and again -- not just to fill up their cars, admire the fresh flowers in the immaculately clean loos and grab a quick home-made pasty or portion of braised liver, or rib of beef and some sausages from the butcher, but also to spend their holidays here. At a service station. By the M6.

Which is why I am here on...

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