Short Term Let Licensing is new legislation brought in by the Scottish Government.
We use UpFront Reviews for all our properties, UpFront Review provide verified reviews of all our holiday rental accommodation. How it works: When anybody books a Great North Lodge through our website and booking system they receive an email asking them to submit a review of their stay. Their review is then linked through to the…
Skiing in Scotland You’d be forgiven for thinking a ski holiday meant hanging around for hours in airports, waiting for transfers and having to navigate your way around a foreign language. Have you tried skiing in Scotland? They say if you can ski in Scotland you can ski anywhere, quite the claim! There are 5…
Munro Bagging A Munro is the Scottish name for a mountain over 914 metres and there are 282 in Scotland, 55 of which are in the Cairngorms National Park, 4 of which are the highest mountains in the UK. A Corbett is a Scottish hill that is between 762 and 914 metres high and with…
The Cairngorms National Park is in the Highlands of Scotland and is the largest national park in the UK, it is home to many rare species of birds, animals, and plants. The Cairngorms National Park has a hugely diverse landscape from heather moorlands and peatlands, ancient Caledonian pine forests, wetlands and rivers, and a vast…
Scotland is the spiritual home of golf and has a wealth of courses to choose from, when you think of golfing in Scotland you will inevitably think of St Andrews or Turnberry and the list goes on but we do have some amazing courses on Speyside. Spey Valley in Aviemore is listed in the top…
Where Whisky is made is crucial to how it tastes, whisky made on the Islands differs from the Highlands. Speyside whisky is famous and some might argue best. The area of Speyside has the oldest distilleries in the world and produce a gentle, fruity malt whisky. Ask anyone in India, China, the USA, Norway, Germany,…
Happy New Year from Great North Lodges! We are super excited about the year ahead, however first let’s take a little look back at 2022 as this was a busy time for the Great North Lodges Team. We launched our new website and changed our booking system to make booking your stay with us even…
Holidays are coming! Badenoch and Strathspey has so much going on over the festive period to make your holiday a special memory to keep forever…. Real Reindeer! How about seeing Santa and his reindeer on Christmas eve in Aviemore? That’s real reindeer from The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd. The Christmas Eve parade is a free event…
This is something we at Great North Lodges are always asking ourselves. We want our customer experience to be the best. We wanted to improve our website and have a modern, slick easy to use website with as few clicks to book as possible. We now have a brand new website and we hope you…