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THE  iHi INDEPENDENT HOTEL DIRECTORY - 2012

Selective directory of small independent hotels with character in the UK

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Hotels in the Scottish Highlands
The Scottish Highlands are a sparsely populated area, with limited hotel resources. Hotels cannot easily cope with the tourist influx in the busy summer months, and may get booked up very early on. Advanced booking is often essential; and to be sure of getting what you want, very advanced booking is recommended.

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All hotels listed on iHi offer good or reasonable value compared to other hotels of similar quality  in their area .

 €  - Not too expensive: very good value for money.
€€€ Rooms usually over £100 / 120 € a night.
Hotels with no price information are generally in between.
  Inn / pub accommodation, the traditional British inn.

Prices may vary from season to season, and week to week..
 
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1. London and southeast England 4 East Anglia
5 - 6 The centre of England 7 - 8 - 9  The North of England
Wales and - 3 - the Southwest Scotland
Character, quality, value. The iHi directory is a selection of hotels chosen with care. The directory includes mostly quiet hotels with character offering good value for money, a selection of country hotels and town hotels, away from busy streets. For Scotland, iHi offers a carefully selected choice of good-value hotels, near the main tourist destinations and also in some quite remote spots in the Scottish Highlands.  
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Area 10. Scotland / Borders and Lowland Scotland

  • Scottish Borders - Selkirk
     €   The County hotel ***  is an old coaching inn on the market square in Selkirk, a quiet small town in the Borders. Friendly comfortable hotel with bar and restaurants, and best Scottish hospitality. Other restaurants close by. Cheap by UK standards, and top value for money
  • Edinburgh
    The Bonham Hotel ****, with 47 guest rooms, is an address to remember. Calm location in a historic residential area 10 minutes walk from Princes St., it offers clean, pleasant and comfortable accommodation at competitive rates. Good size rooms, friendly hotel staff, restaurant. Very good value for a four-star quality hotel.
  • Edinburgh -  Bruntsfield
     €   the Mardale Guest House ***  is a small hotel with just six rooms, located in a quiet cul de sac just a 15 minute walk across the Meadows to the Old Town. Very well served by city buses. A friendly family B&B hotel close to restaurants, theatres and university. Recomended for travellers without a car.
  • Glasgow
    the Manor Park hotel is a small family-run *** hotel on a leafy street in the west end of Glasgow. Spacious, clean and comfortable rooms, and a warm welcome. Good breakfasts, good value. No restaurant, but plenty nearby. A mile from Kelvingrove gallery and Glasgow university. Nothing but favourable reviews.
  • Glenfarg, near Perth
     €   The Glenfarg hotel is 45 minutes north of Edinburgh, near the A90 road to the Highlands. It is 15 minutes from Perth. This 17-room hotel, in a  Victorian country house set in its own grounds, has a bar, restaurant and free wifi. The two-star ranking is reflected in the price, but not in the  welcome, and the hotel gets plenty of good reviews for friendliness, cleanliness and good value. A good base for exploring Perthshire and Fife.


Area 10. Scotland / Highlands and Islands

  • Kilmelford, south of Oban, west coast
     €    The Cuilfail Hotel ** is located 15 miles south of Oban, just a short walk from the sea, and offers good value for money - which is not always easy to find in the Highlands. It has a restaurant and a bar with plenty of character. The hotel provides a pickup service from Oban station or ferry port.
  • Invermoriston, Loch Ness , HIghlands
    €€€ Glenmoriston Arms hotel is an old hotel with plenty of character, dating back to the eighteenth century. Charlie Chaplin enjoyed staying here. The hotel stands in the village of Invermoriston, on the shores of Loch Ness, and its restaurant offers traditional Scottish fare. the bar is renowned for its choice of 150 different whiskies. Friendly and welcoming staff.
  • Highlands - Ardgour, Fort William, 
     The Inn at Ardgour ***, Traditional Scots inn with 12 rooms, standing at the edge of Loch Linnhe, the sea loch that goes up to Fort William. Just by the Corran Ferry. Wonderful situation with views over the loch to the Ben Nevis range. Warm and personal service, comfortable good sized rooms, bar and restaurant with loch view.
  • Aultbea, northwest Scotland
    Aultbea hotel *** It's hard to find a more isolated spot than  Aultbea, without going to the Outer Hebrides..the hotel stands at the water's edge, on a sea loch that was the HQ for the Royal Navy's North Atlantic convoy protection force in World War II. It's hard to imagine it today. Between wild mountains and sandy shores, the hotel offers a friendly welcome in an inspiring environment. Bar, restaurant, and the certainty that you will really feel "away from it all" in this empty corner of northwest Scotland.
  • Hebrides, Isle of Mull,  
    The Ardachy House hotel is a small reasonably priced hotel in a remote location on Mull. The hotel looks south over the deserted sands of Ardalanish Bay and beyond to the Hebridean islands of Jura, Colonsay and Islay. A destination for those who want to get away from it all.  






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