Cameron House, Loch Lomond

When looking for a luxury weekend away, it’s still great to find some savings so looking for the cheapest flights means you can afford to choose a lovely hotel in a beautiful location.

Taking a flight to Glasgow, you can then splash out in more ways than one at the beautiful Cameron House, perched on the southwest edge of Loch Lomond. The building is grand and baronial looking with its fountain courtyard overlooking the loch.

The rooms ooze luxury, their look, a kind of contemporary chic overlaid with the warmth and comfort of the local heritage. From the classic bedrooms up to the suites all the accommodation has monsoon showers, iPod docking stations, fluffy bathrobes and really gorgeous toiletries. The family rooms have cosy snug annexes with bunks, which fill the space with textured walls, like a fantastic little hide-out which adds to the great Scottish adventure for any little ones.

For the ultimate in that romantic weekend to wow the one in your life, the Colquhoun suites have wet rooms and a free standing tub in the room, where you can sip champagne or watch a surround sound movie on the state of the art plasma TV.

The Beauty Bar and Cameron Club have a simply fabulous pool with waterslides for the adventurous and quieter areas for swimming or just lazily floating on the water. There are the staples of the spa weekend with Jacuzzi, steam room and sauna, and a fully equipped gym area. Cosy treatment rooms echoing the snug décor of the bedrooms provide the perfect treat.

If you can tear yourself away from the luxury and treats indoors, the hotel has a championship 18 hole golf course at the Carrick, located a short way from the hotel with a concierge shuttle to get you there with ease.

The hotel can also arrange other great activities on, around and above the Loch itself. Seaplane trips are bookable, as are 90 minutes loch cruises. Sailing and instruction for the same are also available from the nearby marina.

The temptingly well named team of Muddy Good Fun at Cameron House will arrange quad or mountain biking, archery, clay pigeon shooting or a hawk walk, where you can don a gauntlet and wait for the hawk to land on your arm, all with expert guidance at hand.

Further afield you can visit local attractions. If you are a whisky lover and have managed to escape the well stocked hotel whisky bar, you can take a trip to the Glengoyne Distillery just under 10 miles away, to sample the malt, take a tour or master class and maybe take a bottle or two back home.

For design lovers, just under 5 miles away in Helensburgh, there is Hill House designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, along with his original or restored furnishings and fittings all commissioned by publisher Walter Blackie.

Or simply jump into a hire car and take the high road, or the low road, and explore the shores and hills surrounding Lomond. With so much to do you will definitely be pleased to have saved money on that flight.

BIO

Linda Endersby spent 19 years in the airline industry enabling her to visit many beautiful places across the world. As well as writing about the places she loves, weekends as a bookseller offer her fabulous opportunities to research future destinations.