Re: Scotland Visit 2010

**A7ESK** · **A7ESK** on Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:48 pm

Trigger wrote:Have booked the hotels for the week long tour.

Thursday 27 (1 night) - Falkirk Travelodge - £22 per room
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=349

Friday 28 to Sunday 30 (3 nights) - The Ballachulish Hotel - £110 per room per night (booked under Lotus Drivers Club) http://www.ballachulishhotel.com/

Monday 31 to Tuesday 01 (2 nights) - New Drumossie Hotel, Inverness - £95 per room per night (booked under Jennie Wilson / Lotus Drivers Club) http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/new-drumossie/index.htm?

Wednesday 02 (1 night) - Craigvrack Hotel, Pitlochry - £80 per room (booked under Lotus Drivers Club)
http://www.craigvrack.com/

Thursday 03 (1 night) - Premier Inn tbc

Further details and the accommodation itinerary can also be downloaded from the Lotus Drivers Club website:
http://www.lotusdriversclub.org.uk/Events/ScotlandVisit/tabid/111/Default.aspx

Well done Chris in booking all that up .
affraid

Eddie.

**Simon Hough** · **Simon Hough** on Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:56 pm

The Ballachulish is a nice hotel, we spent 2 night there last Novenber on our way back from the highlands. Their sister hotel has lesure facilitiys and is about 5 mins drive away. You can use them all free of charge as a guest. The only down side is they have no real beer and the their collection of malts is a bit small, but the food was very good. I suggest you make the old library room an LDC room, it has a fire and sofas so is a good place to plan the next days drive outs !!!

We also make use of the falkirk travelodge when we go up. It is basic, but the car park is reasonable it is good value for money, never had any problems there. Don't forget to go to the wheel, worth a trip as a good bit of civil engineering.

We would have gone on this trip except for the fact we are going up to Nethybridge (highlands) in March. I will be interested in the groups experiances of Scotland and if it should be repeated in furture years. The hotel we use in Nethybridge is used by many a motoring club as a base to drive the highland roads. The hotel is very old but you can get some 4 night dinner B & B packages for £120 a head so it is exceptional value for money. So maybe there would be interest for this one year ? I find the roads in Scotland just get better and better the further North you go, the A939 is one of my favourits.

Go enjoy !!

**martin e** · **martin e** on Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:26 am

We have made our hotel bookings so we are all set. Great. Gill and Martin E

**Trigger** · **Trigger** on Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:49 pm

martin e wrote:We have made our hotel bookings so we are all set. Great. Gill and Martin E

Nice one ... are you coming for the full fat tour or the weekend?

**martin e** · **martin e** on Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:49 pm

We are doing the full trip! see you Sunday at Stoneleigh breakfast run, hopefully the weather will allow it to
take place. Gill E

**Trigger** · **Trigger** on Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:02 pm

Has anyone confirmed which Premier Inn to stay at on the last Thursday night?

**1divla** · **1divla** on Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:39 pm

CAM wrote:1. Chris and Tash - week visit - traveling up Thursday
2. Joan & Conway - week visit - traveling up Thursday
3. CAM - weekend - traveling up Thursday
4. Tim & Sue - week visit -travelling up Thursday
5. Colin - weekend
6. Gill/Martin - week visit
7. Jennie/Richard - week visit
8. Steve_P - LEC - week visit - traveling up Friday night - meet at Ballachulish on Saturday
9. Steve & Hazel - weekend

10. Dave & Shaz - weekend - traveling up Thursday

**Trigger** · **Trigger** on Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:08 pm

Brilliant ... looking forward to this even more now we are only a few months away. Already bought the two most essential pieces of kit for this trip ... two LDC beanie hats Laughing

Here's the updated list from online attendees:

01. Chris and Tash - week visit - traveling up Thursday
02. Joan & Conway - week visit - traveling up Thursday
03. CAM - weekend - traveling up Thursday
04. Colin - weekend
05. Gill/Martin - week visit
06. Jennie/Richard - week visit
07. Steve_P - LEC - week visit - traveling up Friday night - meet at Ballachulish on Saturday
08. Dave & Shaz - weekend - traveling up Thursday

**martin e** · **martin e** on Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:45 am

Hi Chris, Steve and Hazel not able to make this trip now, looks like the information has not filtered through to you yet Gill E

**Jennie** · **Jennie** on Tue Apr 20, 2010 5:13 pm

Hi All

Only 5 weeks to go ..... the final hotel has now been decided it is the Premier Inn, Leith for the night of Thursday 3rd June. Close to the Brittania and Edinburgh, and it will be celebrations all round as it is our wedding anniversary that day.

Please could all of those who are going to the whole trip please let me have your contact numbers so that mobile phone numbers can be exchanged. I have had to release the rooms that had been provisionally booked at both Inverness and Pitlochry to avoid charges to my credit card, however, the hotels assure me that if there are any late comers they still have rooms available. Just make sure that you tell them that you are part of the group.

Myself, Richard, Gill and Martin, Chris and Tash intend to start early on Thursday 27th May, and if anyone else would like to join us there will be a coffee break meeting at Keele Services on the M6 at 7-7:30am. We want to get a head start so that hopefully we will be able to reach Falkirk with enough time to see the 'Wheel'. We have provisionally thought the Tebay Services would be the next meeting point at around10-11am for a late breakfast/early lunch. Again if anyone is thinking of joining us please could you let me know.

Jennie

Scotland Visit 2010