Activities Also available for guests' use are the Billiard Room, and recently built all-weather tennis court. The area offers a wide variety of outdoor pursuits including; climbing, hill walking, fishing, and golf at various courses. There is an excellent restaurant 10 minutes' walk away from the castle which overlooks Lachlan Bay. The castle is family- run and Euan and Lisa assure you a warm welcome. Local Amenities General store, post office, filling station- 7 miles, supermarket and nearest town - Dunoon, 25 miles.

Getting there
Dunoon and the Cowal Peninsula
The Cowal Peninsula provides the visitor with a heady mix of some of the most breath-taking scenery in Argyll, with rolling farmlands, lochs and mountains in abundance. The castle is 1½ hours' drive from Glasgow

Follow the legendary banks of Loch Lomond, or the A814 through Helensburgh and up the side of the Gare Loch. Both routes converge at Arrochar, and the A83 then goes across the head of Loch Long, through the mountainous fringes of the Argyll Forest Parks and over the appropriately named Rest and Be Thankful, towards Inveraray and Campbeltown, taking the A815 turn-off. Sweeping down through Glen Kinglas, the road goes past Stracker on the A886 and thereafter the B8000

Cowal Highland Gathering
The big event in the Cowal calendar is undoubtedly the Cowal Highland Gathering, the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. Each year on the last weekend in August the bunting goes up and thousands of pipers, Highland dancers, descend on Dunoon. The event has now been going for over 100 years and is without question the most spectacular of its kind in the world, attended by tens of thousands of visitors. Competition is fierce for the prospect of winning at Cowal with competitors coming from all over the world to participate.

International Customers: +44 1422 323 200

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UK Customers: 01422 323 200