Anyone for a four-night Scottish Highlands holiday with coach pick-ups in Cleethorpes and Grimsby?

                                                                 

The holiday is being put on by Yorkshire-based company Cairngorm Travel

 

THERE  are still places available on a four-night mid-January 2025 holiday to Kingussie, near Aviemore, in the Scottish Highlands - with coach pick-ups in Cleethorpes, Grimsby and probably Immingham.

Most of those who have so  far booked on the holiday are going for the fresh Highland air, magnificent mountain scenery, convivial company - and the chance to watch red squirrels and scan the skies for golden eagles.

                                              

Red squirrel - often seen around the hotel

For those not particularly keen on walking, there is a railway station a couple of minutes' walk away from the hotel with services to Pitlochry, Perth and Inverness for shopping, sightseeing and/ or monster-hunting. 

There is also a bus stop outside the hotel with regular services to ski-town Aviemore.

The dates are: January 14 to January 18, 2025.

The holiday includes:

* Coach trip to and from Kingussie with pick-ups in Cleethorpes, Grimsby and probably Immingham  

* Four nights at the Duke of Gordon Hotel, with five-course candlelit evening meals and full Scottish breakfasts

* Live evening entertainment

* Optional nature-watching walks  within a five-mile radius of the hotel

The price: £259 each for the holiday for couples/ two persons sharing a room.     

There is a single person supplement - but this is being waived for the first 10 singles to make a booking.

As with similar trips in April 2023 and May this year, the holiday is being put on for birders by the long-established Yorkshire-based company Cairngorm Travel (01405 761334) in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Bird Club.

The  holiday is not in the company’s brochure, but more details about the Duke of Gordon hotel can be found at the Cairngorm Travel website. cairngorm-travel.co.uk

The booking number for the holiday is 01405 761334. 

The name of holiday is SB25-1/ Scottish Bird Safari January.

The previous two holidays - in April 2023 and May this year - to the same destination were really friendly, enjoyable events, and January's event should be similar.

More information from LBC secretary James Wright at Secretary@Lincsbirdclub.co.uk 

                                                  

A crackling log fire awaits . . .

The Duke of Gordon Hotel

The small town of Kingussie near Aviemore

                                                                

The River Spey runs a short way from the hotel

Always a warm welcome in Kingussie

                                                                                                             

* Photo of red squirrel by Peter Trimming via Wikimedia Commons