Dundarach Hotel

Hotel Description

The Dundarach Hotel is in the pretty Perthshire town of Pitlochry standing on high ground overlooking the River Tummel and across the valley to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre. In a couple of acres of private grounds the accommodation is tranquil yet only two minutes from the centre of town. Originally a wine merchants country house.

The traditional atmosphere has been carefully retained in the main part of the building without compromising the level of comfort and service you expect from your hotel. The hotel has 40 bedrooms twenty traditional and twenty modern. Our rooms offer comfy beds with quality linens flat screen digital televisionradio tea and coffee making en-suite facilities.

Some rooms and all the public areas have wireless internet access (free of charge). The hotel provides a restful lounge giving uninterrupted views of the neighboring hills and hotel grounds. A bar where you can sample a large range of malt whiskeys. An brilliant restaurant featuring Scottish produce a good wine list attentive service and exceptional views of the hills and the Vale of Atholl.

The renowned Pitlochry countryside provides you so much. There is an abundance of different walks. Low level medium and hill walks. All mapped to help you make the most of it. There are golf courses to suit all handicaps and beginners. There is salmon angling for the experienced in the River Tummel below the hotel and trout angling in close by lochs.

You can take in a performance at the world renowned Pitlochry Festival Theatre Theatre in the hills a excellent live arts experience. You can visit the ancient and stately castles of Glamis Balmoral Scone and Blair. An epoch of Scottish history right in Pitlochry. In summer pipe bands and highland dancing in the field here. You can tour the many byways and backwaters around this highland Perthshire area.

explore Faskally Tummel Tilt Fender and Rannoch. There are other things to do and you will find full details on the activities page. You can see how malt whiskey is made extremely near the hotel and sample the renowned water of life at either of two distilleries here in the town. The hotel itself a house with history Dundarach built in 1863 and taking eight years to complete by an Edinburgh wine merchant is built of Aldour whinstone.

A locally quarried stone soft when extracted it becomes extremely hard through exposure. The architect was Heyton noted for his use of overly heavy wrought iron ridge pieces and italianate features. The south wing was built for the boy scout movement it was a games room and dormitory converted later to bedroom accommodation. The west wing was built in the early 20th century for Japanese landscape gardeners and staff by the then proprietor John Dixon.

At that time the hotel gardens were much larger and were of Japanese and Italian styles. As was normal at the time (for Japanese style gardens) there was a miniature Mount Fujiyama complete with snow covered peak in the local Pitlochry white spar. Ben Vrackie (the mountain that stands behind the town) means speckled mountain a name that came from the spar (white quartz) which dotted the slopes.

Today the spar can be seen around the area in the gardens of the town. Japanese literary giant Soseki Natsume visited the Dundarach Hotel at the time as a friend of the proprietor and wrote a poem of his stay. Copies are available translated into english from the hotel reception. The excellent house later belonged to Edradour distillery and it was the nieces of the distillery manager who turned the good old house into a hotel.

We hope you have enjoyed reading this piece and we look forward to friendly you to Dundarach Hotel.

Hotel Details

Rating: 3 AA
Amount of Rooms: 38
Prices From: £54 - Prices are approximate please use the 'availability & prices' button to view latest prices and offers.
Amenities: Bar, Car parking onsite, Concierge, Currency Exchange, Disabled Access Bedrooms, Disabled Access Public Areas, Disabled Facilities, Disabled toilets on ground floor, Fishing, Ground floor bedrooms, Hairdryer in all rooms, Laundry/Valet Service, Limited Hours Room Service, Limited room service for hot food, Lounge Menu, No Smoking Throughout, Porter, Private dining services, Radio, Restaurant, Tea and Coffee making facilities in all rooms, TV in room, Wake Up Call Available, Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Access To Bar, Wheelchair Access To Conference Rooms, Wheelchair Access To Reception, Wheelchair Access To Restaurant, WiFi Internet Access, WiFi Internet Access In Public Areas

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