Site Leisure and Loch Tay Activities
Eating & Drinking
The Boathouse Restaurant and Bar
Situated beside the marina with uninterrupted scenic views over Loch Tay from large picture windows and spacious sheltered sun decks. The Boathouse is open for lunch, snacks, and evening meals with a varied and imaginative menu freshly prepared by the resident chef.
Cosy bar area with a freestanding open fire. Children are welcome in the restaurant but are not permitted in the bar area.
Open 7 days a week, restricted opening hours during winter. For more info tel. 01567 820 853.
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Activities on Land
Equestrian Centre
Open all year. Olympic size indoor riding school and outdoor all weather arena. Trekking/hacking tuition. Exhilarating rides up in the hills and by the loch. All ages and abilities welcome. Tuition from novice to advanced level in all disciplines. If you have never ridden before, now is your chance to give it a try!
Younger visitors will love the pony rides, and seeing the foals and young horses.
Horse owner guests may even bring their own horses with them on holiday! By advance arrangement only. Custom built stables and exercise yard.
For more info tel. 01567 820 736.
NOTE: SORRY THE STABLES ARE CLOSED AND WILL REOPEN IN SPRING 2008
TO BOOK RIDING PLEASE RING CRIEFF HYDRO STABLES ON 01764 651616
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Putting
Test your skills on an 18 hole putting green - great fun for all ages. Putters and balls are available for hire, or use your own. For keen golfers, there are several excellent golf courses within an hours drive.
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Clay Pigeon Shooting
Highly enjoyable activity available to both novice and experienced shots. Clays are fired over the loch. The cost includes gun hire, clays, cartridges and instruction. Advance booking required.
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Archery
Have a go at an archery session. Using the best archery equipment available and with some practice (and luck?), you are sure to achieve great results.
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Activities on the Water
Fishing
Lochside fishing from the banks of the lodges is free for our guests. Scales for checking the weight of catches are available, together with rests for leaving made-up rods and a freezer for your catch.
Boats for hire for salmon, trout, and course fishing (outboard engines/cuddies). Salmon rods for hire. The site has access to 15 miles of salmon fishing on Loch Tay. A ghillie can be arranged to accompany novices by advance notice.
Salmon taken from the loch over recent years have been increasing in both quality and numbers, the largest being in excess of 40lbs.
In addition to fishing Loch Tay, salmon and trout fishing can be arranged on the exclusive River Tay (requires booking well in advance!). And also on the River Dochart.
For keen anglers, 2 and 5 night special Fishing Breaks are available from January to the end of May.
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Boat Hire
Boats with outboard motors are available for cruising on the loch. Hire available from 1 hour to a full day.
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Speed Boat Trips
Why not experience the exhilaration of a 1 hour speed boat trip on the loch. The skippered boats carry up to 8 people.
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The Marina
Boat owner holiday guests may bring their own boat by arrangement and moor it for the duration of their holiday.
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Sailing
Try your hand at sailing in a skippered open keel boat. Appreciate the tranquillity and peace of slipping through the water powered only by the wind.
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Canoeing
Enjoy the beauty of Loch Tay from a paddle in a stable Canadian canoe.
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Sailing activities are operated by Legend Sailing, which is owned and operated by Andrew Cryer. For more info visit www.legendsailing.co.uk or tel. 01567 820 051.
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Other Organised Activities
Downhill Cycle Ride
Try this popular 20 mile downhill cycle ride through one of Scotland's most beautiful glens to the famous Fortingall Yew Tree*. The ride has been successfully completed by customers ranging from 6 to 60 years old.
* thought to be the oldest living organism in Europe, estimated to be between 3000 and 5000 years old. Its once vast trunk measured an amazing 56 feet in girth. Legend has it that Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor of Judea who had Jesus Christ crucified, played in the tree as a child, having been born to a local woman and a visiting Roman official.
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Moonlit Champagne Supper Cruises
Moonlit champagne supper cruises on a keel boat. Highly recommended.
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Various Organised Activities
River rafting, high ropes, cliff jumping, canyoning and much more.
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For more info on any of the activities in this section visit www.legendsailing.co.uk or tel. 01567 820 051.
Contact
If you require further information on the above activities then please contact the Loch Tay Highland Lodges office, unless otherwise indicated.
Tel. 01567 820 323.
www.lochtay-vacations.co.uk
reception@lochtay-vacations.co.uk
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