The 16 Best Hotels in Scotland
"The good life never looked better than it does at this impeccably renovated 16th-century farmhouse set on a 4,000-acre Highland estate near Kingussie, south of Inverness. There are four double rooms upstairs in the farmhouse, a hayloft above the steadings, and two self-catering cottages. Only one of the farmhouse rooms has an en suite bathroom, which, if nothing else, increases your sense of being at home rather than in a hotel—but all are decorated with great flair and subtlety. The style is a charming Scandi-Scot hybrid, combining sleek, angular, modern Danish design with a stodgy, four-square, Highland farmhouse vernacular. Hence you’ll find your Bamse chair sprouting a shaggy Shetland sheepskin, pale linen curtains framing your shuttered sash windows, and thickly knotted rugs in elegantly hushed tones to soften and warm the bare wooden floorboards. In short, not a trace of the usual Victorian tartan-and-antlers kitsch. Congratulations for which are due in large measure to Anne Holch Povlsen, the wife of Anders Holch Povlsen, a Danish billionaire and conservationist who, with various Wildland-branded properties (of which Killiehuntly is one), not long ago leapfrogged the Duke of Buccleuch to become the largest private landowner in Scotland." - Steve King
