We provide immaculate, comfortable and friendly bed and breakfast accommodation in the heart of the Scottish Highlands.

Waverley Villa is three minutes walk from the centre of the town.

It is a perfect location for exploring Strathspey and Badenoch, the Cairngorms and Aviemore, the Moray coast, the Scottish Highlands and Loch Ness.

The area offers, fishing, golfing, skiing, snowboarding, bird watching, walking, biking, water and mountain sports or simply relax in this beautiful town on the edge of the Cairngorm National Park.

Visit special local attractions:- castles and gardens, the Whisky Trail around Speyside, the Ospreys at Boat of Garten, The Steam Train from Boat of Garten to Aviemore and the Funicular Railway on the Cairngorm Mountain.

We can organise by prior arrangement clay pigeon shooting and seasonal pheasant, roe and red deer shoots.

Due to our central location, there is easy access for eating out at the many hotels, restaurants and cafes in Grantown-on-Spey and the surrounding area

Self Catering: 3 units;
smallest sleeping 2, largest sleeping 4.

2 x 2 bed £420 – £650 per week
1 x 1 bed £400 – £520 per week

Social media is becoming more and more important to tourism
businesses as an excellent marketing and customer engagement tool but
it can also be a big time waster.

We’ve booked Horizon Scotland at the Enterprise Park, just outside
Forres on Tuesday 28 February to show how to set up and maintain
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare whilst minimising the time
spent on social media to 15-30 minutes a day!

Horizon Scotland is where our technology partners Open Brolly is based who have developed the GreaterSpeyside iPhone app and are working on the GreaterSpeyside magazine to come out later this year.

The morning session is aimed at beginners whilst the afternoon
session is aimed at the more advanced social networkers.

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This is also a networking event so make sure you bring plenty of
brochures and business cards!

And it is a relatively unknown fact that gin is made from vodka. So, unlike other gins, our gin is truly single estate from field to bottle. Our gin is full bodied and sharp yet fruity.

William will take you through the tasting and what Chase has to offer.

Will’s story… I grew up in Herefordshire and feel very lucky to have been brought up in this beautiful part of the world. I had been farming potatoes for 20 and realised I wanted to change direction. I wanted to remain in farming and produce a great tasting product we could make from potatoes.

In 2002 I started to make my potatoes into crisps and by Summer, ‘Tyrrells’ was born. As Tyrrells grew I was searching for the next step. In 2004 whilst traveling in the USA, looking for packaging equipment for the chips, I stumbled on a small distillery making potato vodka and thought this would be a great new chapter to life. From the idea in 2004, it took us until April fool’s day 2008 to make the first of our potatoes and then make the first batch of vodka in June 2008. Upon tasting the very first drop from the column before filtering I was so enamored and proud of it I decided to call it Chase Vodka.

In this masterclass from Chase Distillery you have the chance to taste the vodka, gin and liqueur’s they produce.

Many hotels and other accommodation in Speyside are already fully booked for the period that the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival is being held.

Here is a list of accommodation that is still available in the GreaterSpeyside area.

This list is updated frequently (last update 18 FEB 11:43 GMT)and is as extensive and accurate as possible. Of course there may be rooms booked or available that we have not been made aware of but if you’re having trouble finding a bed for the festival weekend then this is a good place to start.

Show me the FULL LIST of available accommodation

Show me the available accommodation per category:

• Hotels
• B & Bs and Guesthouses
• Self Catering
• Hostels
• Caravan & Camping

Show me the available accommodation per town:
(see map below for location of towns)

• Aberlour
• Archiestown
• Ballindalloch
• Buckie
• Craigellachie
• Carrbridge
• Cullen
• Dufftown
• Dulnain Bridge
• Elgin
• Forres
• Glenlivet
• Grantown on Spey
• Keith
• Lossiemouth
• Nairn
• Nethy Bridge
• Rothes
• Tomintoul

The list of towns is not exhaustive, for all available accommodation throughout Speyside browse the full list of available accommodation.

Please note that once you are looking at the list of accommodation, whether one town or the full list, and you navigate away from that page on the GreaterSpeyside website, then you will be searching in all accommodation in the area, not just the ones that still have rooms available for the festival weekend - as the ‘search’ facility on the GreaterSpeyside web site is not linked to this availability when selecting other towns in the dropdown box.

So remember to come back to this page if you want to search in different towns for properties that are most likely to still have availability.

Sunday 20 May 2012

The Gordon Castle Highland Games and Country Fair and will be open to visitors from 11.00am – 17.00 with a full programme of new and existing events to enjoy; all compered by legendary heavy eventer Hamish Davidson.

Additional parking areas have been establised to give greater access to the arena, exhibition areas, highland dancing competition,and other events as well as to stalls for visitors to browse and buy. New for 2012 will be an athletics programme, dog show, piping competition and lots more.

Draft Programme
Traditional heavy events with leading competitors taking part
New athletics programme for adults and children up to 5k
Highland dancing competition
Fochabers Fiddlers
Dog Show
Solo piping competition
Falconry display and exhibition
Band displays
* Archery
* Laser clay shooting
* Clay pigeon shooting
* Massed Bands
* Full programme of children’s entertainment
* Spey casting demonstration and Fly fishing competition

Wednesday 7th December 2011 was the date for a very important visit when Santa and his reindeer took time out from their busy schedule to visit Cullen. Organised by the Cullen Voluntary Tourist Initiative, the event mirrored the success of a similar one two years ago which saw hundreds of people flock to enjoy the festive atmosphere.

The event got off to a great start with stirring music from the pipes of Adam and Callum Newlands, followed by carols sung by Cullen Primary School pupils, supported by the Cullen and Deskford Church of Scotland and the local Methodist Church. Callum and Adam then led the crowd to find Santa and his reindeer who made a spectacular entrance from a location which had been kept a carefully guarded secret. A short tour of Cullen ensued, led by Cullen Fire Brigade, before they arrived back at the Millennium Square, where the children (and adults!) had a chance to get a bit closer.

The Cullen Voluntary Tourist Initiative would like to thank everyone who turned up despite the wintry conditions. They are also very grateful to all those who put so much time and effort into creating this event – particularly members of the Committee, all the marshals who braved the cold, Grampian Police for helping to control traffic and guide the parade around the town, and Cullen Fire Brigade for leading the parade.

See more on Cullen and Deskford community web site

At Craggan Outdoors the emphasis is on offering easy access to a wide range of fun and challenging activities, enabling visitors of all ages and abilities to enjoy their time with us, and to be pleased with what they have achieved.

With the majority of activities available on-site – minimising your time spent travelling and helping minimise our impact on the environment – instructors that are chosen for their people skills as much as their technical abilities, bright and spacious bunkhouse and cosy bothy accommodation, as well as a welcoming licensed cafe, Craggan Outdoors provides everything required by the activity seeking visitor.

Activities include archery, clay pigeon, climbing/abseiling, golf, gorge walking, high ropes, kayaking, mountain biking, quad treks, River Spey canoe trips, and a zip wire. All in the beautiful surroundings of our Speyside location at the heart of the Cairngorms National Park.

AC Gliders is the first business to offer Segway Tours in Moray. Based at Eastgrange Farm, AC Gliders offer fun tours exploring the area on Segways.

Tours are available daily at 11am, 1pm and 3pm. Participation needs to be booked in advance and tours are subject to availability.

The on-site bistro The Loft is open from 9am to 9pm and offers excellent coffees and teas with delicious fresh homebakes and superb meals.

HighlandDeals offers weekly discounts in the form of vouchers which can be bought from the Highland Deals web site.

To benefit from the weekly Groupon type deals best is to sign up and register your email address.