Glen Affric Estate
For 24, with 12 bedrooms, a hot tub and a sauna. Children welcome.
Glen Affric Estate is a 10,000-acre private-hire estate near Cannich, in the Highlands, let whole to one family or group at a time, for up to 24 guests.
The Estate Lodge, a restored Victorian house, has seven double bedrooms, for up to 14. The Green House, a short walk away, sleeps six in two doubles and a twin, and White Cottage, by the loch, sleeps four in two doubles. The Rose has a four-poster, and the Heather Suite a Highlands canopy bed and two window seats looking over the loch.
In the Lodge there is a sitting room with a log fire, a Whisky Room, a candlelit cellar for tastings, a Games Room with a pool table that turns into a private cinema, and the Sir Edwin Landseer Room, hand-painted with sporting scenes. The estate’s chefs cook for you, and all food and drink are included apart from an enhanced wine list. The Rock Spa has a sauna, a hot tub and a glass-fronted fitness studio. On the estate you can canoe, paddleboard, sail, fish for trout, try archery and clay shooting, and watch for red deer, ospreys and golden eagles.
Where 19th-century Victorian grandeur meets untamed Highland wilderness.
The Estate Lodge has seven double bedrooms: the Heather Suite, the Lily of the Valley, the Rose, the Daffodil, the Magnolia, the Primrose and the Bluebell.
The Green House has the Caledonian, the Rowan and the twin Holly, all en suite, and White Cottage has the Birch and the Willow, a top-floor suite with a super-king bed and a private sitting room.
The Lodge has seven double bedrooms, a sitting room with a log fire, a Whisky Room, a candlelit cellar for wine and whisky tastings, a Games Room with a pool table, a large screen and cupboards of board games, and the Sir Edwin Landseer Room.
- Exclusive use
- One group at a time. The whole estate is yours, for 2 guests or 24.
- Sleeps
- 24. The Lodge: seven doubles. The Green House: two doubles and a twin, all en-suite. White Cottage: two doubles.
- Walking
- About four minutes' walk. That is all it takes from the Lodge to the Green House, White Cottage or the Steading Grill Room.
- Food
- Cooked by the estate's chef. All food and drink are included but the enhanced wine list, and there is no self-catering. The chef caters for a wide range of diets.
- Spa
- The Rock Spa is yours. A sauna, a hot tub and a glass-fronted fitness studio, for guests only; massages and treatments are booked ahead with local therapists.
- On the estate
- Every activity is part of the hire. Stalking takes up to four at a time; trout from the loch are yours to keep, and salmon from the river go back.
- Children
- Babysitting can be arranged. The Holly, with twin beds, and the Bluebell are made for younger guests.
- Shop
- Cannich, 25 minutes' drive. The village shop is there; the supermarkets are in Inverness.
- By train
- Inverness is the nearest station. It is about an hour's drive, and the estate can arrange transfers from Scottish airports.
Glen Affric Estate is in the Scottish Highlands, near Cannich, about an hour’s drive from Inverness, with Glen Affric National Nature Reserve, open to walkers, all around it.
The nearest village shop is in Cannich, about 25 minutes’ drive away, and Inverness is the nearest city and train station. Inverness Airport is 41 miles away, about 1 hour 15 minutes by road, or 15 minutes by helicopter. GPS may lose its signal after Cannich: keep right, follow the signs for Glen Affric, and after about 25 minutes you reach the Lodge gate, where you ring the bell for entry.
Getting hereSatnav may lose its signal after Cannich: keep right, follow the signs for Glen Affric for about 25 minutes to the Lodge gate, and ring the bell.
A walk round Loch Affric1 mile away A few hours
A picnic at the end of the road in Glen Affric4 miles away A few hours
A walk to the Coire Loch from Dog Falls7 miles away A few hours
Dundreggan Rewilding Centre and its woodland paths10 miles away A few hours
A walk to Plodda Falls by Tomich11 miles away A few hours
Corrimony Chambered Cairn in Glen Urquhart13 miles away A few hours
A canal walk at Fort Augustus to Loch Ness and the Pepperpot15 miles away A few hours
Loch Ness by RIB to Urquhart Castle15 miles away A few hours
The Allt na Criche Trail walk above Fort Augustus15 miles away A few hours
Spending a Whole Day Around Loch Ness15 miles away A day out
A walk to Invermoriston Falls and Telford's old bridge15 miles away A few hours
A walk to the Allt na Cailliche waterfall in Glengarry17 miles away A few hours
Eilean Donan Castle and lunch in Broadford19 miles away A few hours
Attadale Gardens on Loch Carron19 miles away A few hours
A Daytrip Around the Applecross Peninsula19 miles away A day out
A walk to the Falls of Foyers and lunch at the Camerons20 miles away A few hours
A sea kayak on Loch Carron20 miles away A few hours
A walk to Divach Falls from Drumnadrochit21 miles away A few hours
A walk by Loch Arkaig from the Chia-aig falls21 miles away A few hours - Copy.jpg)
The Road to the Isle of Skye22 miles away A day out
Travelling Scotland’s Great Glen22 miles away A day out
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly Priory and lunch on the square23 miles away A few hours
Calum's seal trip from Plockton and Castle Moil24 miles away A day out
Plockton, Eilean Donan and Kyle24 miles away A day out
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