The Good Hotel Guide’s pick of the ten best luxury boutique hotels in Scotland
From chic city hotels to stylish rural retreats, Scotland’s luxury boutique hotels each have something unique to offer.
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Travel: The best spa breaks in Scotland to revive your mind and body
With the leaves changing colour, the colder climes setting in and the daylight hours getting shorter, autumn is the perfect time of year to think about winding down and taking some time out to relax.
Scotland’s top 10 restaurants with rooms, as chosen by the Good Hotel Guide
With an impressive natural larder from which to draw inspiration, Scotland’s hotels and restaurants with rooms have a catalogue of awards amongst them, not to mention the high praise and repeat custom of many a guest.
Travel: Enjoy the stunning scenery of Loch Ness plus super food… You’ll Lovat
You can’t hear the words Loch Ness without thinking of its monster, which is why I found myself on its shores early one sunny Saturday morning.
Travel: Unbeatable beauty spot Blair Atholl is Bruar dead brilliant
Words like elegance and luxury sometimes seem as if they belong to others.
Travel: Relaxation is a shore thing at Balloch Park’s Kenmore Lodges
Situated on the former grounds of a castle, it’s a lodging fit for a king – or an earl to be more precise.
Travel: Sharpshooters are gunner love Moscow (the Ayrshire one)
As you turn off the A77 bound for Moscow (pronounced “moss-cow”), there is lush, green countryside everywhere you look.
Top hotels near the Highland Games, as chosen by the Good Hotel Guide
The Highland Games is one of Scotland’s highlights of the summer, attracting thousands of competitors and tens of thousands of spectators each year.
Travel: Fife’s Balbirnie House is like Downton… but with tubs and TVs
It looks like no more than a scattering of big rocks in a quiet woodland glade. In fact, we are standing at the heart of Fife’s sacred centre, a site where ceremonies have been performed by generations of prehistoric people.
Travel: The tower and the glory of storied Stirling
Driving along the M80 towards Stirling, one landmark stands sentry over all others. There in the distance, perched ramrod-straight on a rocky outcrop, looms the Wallace Monument, for 150 years a towering symbol of Stirling’s pivotal role in Scotland’s past.
Travel: Find elegance and art in Dundee, the city of discoveries
With the opening of the new blockbuster V&A Museum in Dundee last year, there was the sense some imperceptible corner had been turned.