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LEFT: View of The Dormy House
ABOVE: The stunning evening glow of Gleneagles Hotel
Sandy Byrne describes the
Supercars on Tour 2007 Christmas Party
location Glorious Gleneagles
he Palace in the Glen’ is the suitably unfussy friendliness and courtesy towards its
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royal description of one of the British guests who are made to feel thoroughly at
Isles’ greatest hotels. A legend set in a home from the moment of arrival. It might be a
magical location just one hour from Glasgow very large hotel but you never feel anonymous
and one hour from Edinburgh, Gleneagles is or anything less than a welcome and
most famous as a five star golf resort and a important guest at all times.
hotel of such splendour and magnificence The hotel stands in the very heart of
as can scarcely be imagined. Scotland almost at its centre, and could be
Having celebrated its 80th anniversary in said to epitomise both its heart and its soul in
2004, Gleneagles is set in 850 acres of the the rolling hills of Perthshire between Perth
most beautiful scenery in the world, is steeped and Stirling. But Gleneagles is less a hotel and
in Scottish tradition and hospitality yet enjoys more a way of life, having been described
every state of the art contemporary luxury the variously as ‘the eighth wonder of the world’
most discerning traveller could wish for. As and the ‘Riviera in the Highlands.’ Built by the
well as all these riches there is a beautiful spa former Caledonian Railway Company with its
and gourmet cuisine to enjoy and own railway station, it’s one of Scoltand’s
accommodation is nothing short of fabulous. oldest hotels, having opened in 1924.
In addition to being one of the world’s greatest By the 1930s golfing hotels were all the
golf resorts, Gleneagles is a member of rage, a ‘playground for leisure and pleasure’,
Connoisseurs Scotland, a world class grouping and by a couple of decades later a fixed part
of properties with authentic Scottish flavour and of high society. Following the London season,
hospitality. The hotel is designed in the style of an yachting at Cowes, Polo at Deauville and so
imposing French chateau and its surrounding forth, society would retreat to Gleneagles for
gracious landscaping inspired by the parks and the grouse shooting beginning on the
gardens created by the great Capability Brown. Glorious Twelfth. Yet it wasn’t until 1982 that
Luxurious yes, in the grand style, but Gleneagles opened year-round – before that it
starchy Gleneagles is not. It has a certain only opened its doors for the summer.
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