Hotel History
Based at Strathyre in the Trossachs we offer luxurious traditional Scottish inn accommodation in one of the most beautiful parts of the country.
Today we enjoy entertaining all kinds of people from families to wildlife watchers, hillwalkers to stressed executives wanting to get away from it all, and we don’t mind if any of them bring their dog along as well! From the décor to the selection of fine malt whiskeys at the bar we offer the ultimate in traditional breaks with plenty of little modern comforts. But it wasn’t always quite like this.
Back in 1902 when the Inn was established if you’d have dropped in for a dram you might have met a frosty reception. At the same time as the USA was enforcing prohibition a Temperance Movement began across the UK, encouraging teetotalism and abstention from all kinds of intoxicating liquors.
The movement worked closely with groups like the Salvation Army, Quakers, womens and Catholic organisations and lobbied for laws restricting alcohol sales. In many parts of the Highlands, where Catholicism has always been dominant, inns, hotels and public houses signed up to the movement and stopped selling alcohol altogether.
Things have returned to older traditions in Scotland now, with a dram by the fire an essential part of Scottish hospitality and any trip to the Highlands. Our most recent history has seen new owners arrive at the Inn working hard to keep it’s reputation for high standards and deciding to keep the traditional rural feel to the place that so suits the ancient landscape it sits in.
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