Experiences

Here is a selection of activities and experiences to enjoy during your stay, with more detailed suggestions and local recommendations available in each property.

In Dundee

  • The V&A, Discovery & Waterfront Gardens - the V&A often has good exhibitions, right next door is the historic Royal Research Ship Discovery.The gardens have a lovely café overlooking the Tay, Dundee Cycle Hub Café

  • Camperdown Country Park and Wildlife Centre - perfect for families, with animals, a play park, and café

  • Dundee Botanic Gardens - run by the University of Dundee, featuring tropical and temperate glass houses, gardens are good for a short, scenic walk

  • Sensations Science Centre - an interactive museum that is great for kids, and equally engaging for adults

  • Verdant Works Museum - an industrial history museum set in a beautiful restored 1833 jute mill

  • Dundee Law Monument - an amazing viewpoint at the city’s highest point, and a monument rich in history

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Cycling

  • Invergowrie & West Carse - for easier cycle routes for all skill levels, like the Hazel Avenue and Wildlife Pond loops

  • River Tay & Inchture - explore routes along the Tay, connecting to the Green Circular route near Inchture and Longforgan

  • Lundie & Ballo Wood - excellent for mountain biking, with routes for beginners and more advanced sections

  • Scone & Moncrieffe Hill - many cycle routes and paths

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Watersports & Fishing

  • Wild Shore Dundee - brilliant for watersports like water skiing and wakeboarding

  • Nae Limits - excellent outdoor activities centre with white water rafting, canyoning and many more

  • Willowgate Adventure Centre, Perth - great range of watersports and other activities

  • Ledcrieff Loch Trout Fishery - nearby in the beautiful Sidlaw Hillls (pictured), with rainbow, brown, tiger, and blue trout

  • Ledyatt Loch Trout Fishery, Lundie - another great fishing loch nearby

Antiques

We have a fabulous selection of antique centres nearby…

  • Scottish Antiques & Arts Centre, Abernyte - has a huge and impressive selection, it is easy to spend hours here, has a great café too

  • Yard 97 - a beautifully curated place by Robert Workman

  • Rait Antiques Centre - Scotland’s oldest, rural, antique centre

History

For those interested in Scottish history, architecture, and beautiful gardens…

  • Glamis Castle - a magnificent castle with a rich history that offers guided tours and beautiful gardens

  • Scone Palace - a grand, gothic stately home famed as The Crowning Place of Scottish Kings, with extensive gardens and a maze (pictured)

  • Falkland Palace - a well-preserved Renaissance palace, with one of the world’s oldest tennis courts dating from 1539!

  • Blair Castle & Gardens - a striking castle with elegant gardens and woodland walks

  • Drummond Castle Gardens - while the castle itself is closed to the public, their amazing gardens are worth a visit

Children & the Family

  • Kids play - Cairnie Fruit Farm & Mega Maze, Active Kids Adventure Park, East Scyrne Fruit Farm

  • Piperdam - has many great activities for kids and the whole family

  • Quad bikes - Piperdam or Highland Offroad, Dunkeld

  • Auchterhouse Country Sports - clay pigeon shooting

  • Horse riding - Muirhead Stables, Kinshaudy Stables

  • TeamSport Go Karting Dundee

  • Glenshee Ski Centre - if you are staying at the right time of year!

Distilleries & Wineries

  • Cairn O’Mohr fruit Wines, Errol - just 10 minutes down the road, an award winning winery that brews fruit wines and ciders

  • Eden Mill Distillery, St.Andrews - Scottish craft gin and single malt whisky distillery

  • The Glenturret Distillery, Crieff - Scotland’s oldest working distillery in the Perthshire countryside

  • Blair Athol Distillery, Pitclochry - one of Scotland’s oldest working distilleries, known for their smooth Highland malt using water from the Allt Dour Burn

  • Arbikie Highland Estate Distillery, Montrose - Scottish Gin, Vodka, and Whisky on a family owned farm

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