Glencruitten House
With a hot tub, a sauna and a spa. Children welcome.
Glencruitten House was built in 1897 in the woods above Oban, and in the 1920s Sir Robert Lorimer reworked it, adding the library at its heart.
Today its owners live here and share it as a guest house, with rooms in the Baronial and Lorimer wings and villas in the forest, each named after a figure of Scottish folklore. Inside it's all tartan canopies, painted wallpaper and dark wood, and the villas have hot tubs on their decks, a barrel sauna and green glass baths. There's dining in the house, yoga and spa treatments, and walks through the woods.
A place where Scottish legend, Highland beauty, and Baronial grandeur intertwine.
Rooms come with a Nespresso machine, tea and coffee, and a fridge with milk and water.
- Stay
- Rooms in the Baronial and Lorimer wings, and villas in the forest.
- Dining
- In the house, with cooking from Scottish produce.
- Wellness
- Yoga, spa treatments and woodland walks.
Glencruitten House sits on Glencruitten Road, about a mile east of Oban in Argyll.
The ferry terminal is roughly a five-minute drive. Oban railway station, with daily trains to Glasgow Queen Street, is a little over two miles down the road.
George Street Fish, Oban2 miles5 min by road
Alba the Artshop, Oban2 miles5 min by road
The Rockfield Centre2 miles5 min by road
Oban HarbourThe deep, sheltered little bay that made Oban, where the ferries leave for the Western Isles.2 miles5 min by road
The Waterfront Fishouse, ObanA seafood restaurant on Oban's Railway Pier, cooking locally caught fish and shellfish as plates to share, with windows over the bay.2 miles6 min by road
Oban Seafood HutThe green shack on Oban's CalMac pier, set up in 1990 by fisherman John Ogden, selling fresh local shellfish to eat at the tables outside.2 miles6 min by road
The Modern Croft, ObanA shop of craft, design and homewares on George Street in Oban, much of it made in Scotland, with prints, ceramics, textiles and gifts.2 miles6 min by road
Bridge over the AtlanticThe single stone arch of 1792 that carries the road to Seil over a strait of the Atlantic, south of Oban.12 miles16 min by road
Scotland, in print.
Every photograph commissioned, every word written by somebody who went. Printed twice a year, made in Scotland.