Updated to meet 21st century standards, there is an elegant spa with beauty treatments, an indoor swimming pool and a gym with iPod docks. Each stylish guestroom comes with a flat-screen satellite TV.  When you book, be sure to ask about the rooms overlooking the courtyard.

You will enjoy having dinner with the feel of being outside while protected from the weather under a glass pyramid in the Glasshouse Restaurant and Piano Bar. For a light menu, you can try the Castle’s Business Lounge.

Airth Castle is only 30 minutes drive to Edinburgh and 45 minutes from Glasgow. History buffs will delight in being within 20 minutes reach to Stirling, with its Castle and the Wallace Monument.  Take advantage of thrifty Scottish pricing.