Long weekend Scotlend

toolpath

The wife will be 50 in Feb (she likes 49 and doesnt want to hit the big 50) and I want to take her away for a long weekend. Ideally somewhere warm and sunny but that would mean a longer flight that time of the year. To be practical and as she has never been to Scotland, it would be probably a good idea to take her there.:T
Can anyone recommend a good hotel with pool and sauna and also massage.
I have been looking at Edinburgh and Inverness ( easyjet destinations from Luton airport) but any suggestions apprieciated. Date I am planning to take her is weekend of 23rd February.:j

Engadine

You can also fly to Glasgow from Luton. Cameron House on Loch Lomond is a beautiful hotel, one of my favourites in the UK. It is owned by De Vere.
http://www.devere.co.uk/deluxe/Cameron-House it is a 5 star deluxe hotel.

It has a spa, leisure facilities and 3 restaurants situated right by the Loch it has stunning views of the Loch and the surrounding hills. The hotel has a golf course that is fairly new (The Carrick, it opened in June last year)

The hotel has some beautiful rooms, standard rooms are really nice and well furnished the suites are fantastic!

The hotel is often used by the rich and famous, the Scotland football team stay there when preparing for games, Robbie Williams has stayed there and each year in July a lot of the golfers who are playing in the Scottish Open at a course further up the loch stay there.

lilac_lady

If you want to stay in the centre of Edinburgh the Balmoral Hotel on Princes Street is pricey but is a fabulous place to stay. It's really close to Waverley station so you could take the train to Glasgow, Stirling, Perth etc on one of your week-end days. Even if you just stay in Edinburgh, it's a lovely city with lots to do.

DKLS

Try the Creiff Hydro

ailuro2

Marriott Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club just outside of Edinburgh has a lovely pool,gym etc, and a beauty therapy room too- it's a beautiful place, which also does a free airport transfer to Edinburgh airport. You can play golf there too, if you're into that while your OH is off getting pampered.


http://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-photos/edigs-marriott-dalmahoy-hotel-and-country-club/

the pictures of the exterior don't do it justice.

ps We're going to the Glasgow MArriott next weekend, two nights for £99 each, but paying with Tesco Clubcard vouchers so only really cost us £50

toolpath

Thanks guys for your recommendations
I have just booked the Caledonion Hilton which has leisure facilities:beer:
and everything we should need for the weekend and also flights.
Thanks again

tiamai_d

Ohhh, don't fly into Glasgow airport if you don't like the landing. The landing at Glasgow is horrid and lengthy.

toolpath

We are flying to Edinburgh so hopefully should be ok.
Anybody got any tips about getting from the airport into the city
centre?

Engadine

tiamai_d wrote: »

Ohhh, don't fly into Glasgow airport if you don't like the landing. The landing at Glasgow is horrid and lengthy.

The landing at Glasgow isn't any more lengthy than other airports! Are you sure it was Glasgow you were flying into?

alison74

toolpath wrote: »

We are flying to Edinburgh so hopefully should be ok.
Anybody got any tips about getting from the airport into the city
centre?

Easy as pie. Walk out the terminal, follow the signs for the airport bus (normally big blue ones) and it will use the greenways all the way into Shandwick Place (West End) and have you in there in 20 minutes. The bus driver always says what the next stop is (it only has a few stops from airport to terminus).

Shandwick Place is where you want to get off, walk 50 metres on the same side of the road as the bus stop until you come to Frasers Department Store on your left and on your right, across the road will be the obvious Cale Hotel and a lovely view of the Castle.

It would be silly to pay £18 (maybe more in rush hour) or so for a taxi when you can jump on the airport bus which leave pretty much every 10 minutes or when they fill up.

And on your way back, you catch it from the other side of the road (make sure you're at the bus stop with 'airport bus' on it)

Check on the Scotland board for things to in and around Edinburgh, there's a lot of great ideas on there.

Have fun, I think it's the best city there is, but then I do live here

tiamai_d

Engadine wrote: »

The landing at Glasgow isn't any more lengthy than other airports! Are you sure it was Glasgow you were flying into?

Yes. It was Glasgow.

You seem to go down at a steep angle in 3 stages, and then it's quite a bump onto the runway. You just seem to be descending for ever. Not forever... but a lot longer.

Glasgow-Prestwick is a lot gentler. Been down to London a few times and the few times I have flown back to Glasgow it has been the same each time, so I can't blame the pilot.