Pitlochry Dundarach Hotel

Accommodation

Perth Road

Pitlochry

Scotland

phone 01 796 472 862

general enquiries

enq@dundarach.co.uk

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The Dundarach is in the town of Pitlochry, standing on high ground overlooking the highland games field, the River Tummel and across to the Festival Theatre. In a couple of acres of private grounds the accommodation is peaceful, yet just 2 minutes from the centre.

The linked pages of this web site should help you with your total package to Pitlochry.

Originally a wine merchants large house the Dundarach became a hotel in 1936. The traditional atmosphere has been carefully retained in the main part of the building without compromising the level of comfort and service you expect from your hotel. The hotel has 40 bedrooms, 20 traditional and 20 contempory. They are all en-suite bath/showerroom.

The hotel offers a pleasant lounge giving uninterrupted views of the surrounding hills and hotel grounds.

A bar where you can sample a large range of Pitlochry malt whiskies.

An excellent restaurant featuring Scottish produce, a quality wine list and outstanding decor.

The famous Pitlochry countryside offers you so much. There is an abundance of different walks. Low level, medium and hill walks. All mapped to help you make the most of it.

 There are golf courses to suit all handicaps and beginners.

 There is salmon fishing for the experienced in the River Tummel below the hotel.

 You can take in a performance at the world famous “theatre in the hills”, a great live arts experience .

 You can visit the ancient and stately castles of Glamis, Scone and Blair. An epoch of Scottish history right in Pitlochry. In summer, pipe bands and highland dancing in the field here. You can tour the many byeways and backwaters around this highland perthshire area. Discover Faskally, Tummel, Tilt, Fender and Rannoch. There are other things to do and you will find full details on the activities page. You can see how malt whisky is made very near the hotel, and sample the famous water of life at either of 2 distilleries here in the town.

 This historic building, built from 1863 onwards, by an Edinburgh wine merchant, is of Aldour whinstone. A locally quarried stone, soft when extracted, it becomes very hard through exposure. The architect was Heyton, noted for his use of overly heavy wrought iron ridge pieces and italianate features. The south wing was built for the boy scout movement, it was a games room and dormitory, converted later to bedroom accommodation. The west wing was built in the early 20th century for Japanese landscape gardeners and staff by the then proprietor John Dixon. At that time the gardens were much larger and were of Japanese and Italian styles. As was normal at the time, (for Japanese style gardens) there was a miniature Mount Fujiyama, complete with snow covered peak in the local Pitlochry white spar . Ben Vrackie means speckled mountain, a name that came from the spar (white quartz) which dotted the slopes. Today the spar in all down in the gardens of the town. Japanese literary giant Soseki Natsume visited the Pitlochry Dundarach at the time, as a friend of the proprietor and wrote a poem of his stay. Copies are available, translated into english, from reception.

The great house later belonged to Edradour distillery and it was the nieces of the distillery manager who turned the place into a hotel. We hope that by reading this piece it will make you want to book your room and stay here in the Pitlochry Dundarach Hotel.