Balwarren Bed and Breakfast in Banff Aberdeenshire Scotland

 

Balwarren is a Bed & Breakfast accommodation with a difference, offering a relaxed and refreshing service with exceptional food and entertaining hosts.

  

Set in the beautiful rural landscape of Ordiquhill, on the North East Coast of Aberdeenshire, this secluded croft is a very special hideaway from city cares. Balwarren is within easy travelling distance of Turriff, Banff, Keith, Cornhill, Portsoy, Cullen, Buckie and Elgin. It is referred to in the guests visitors book as a 'hidden gem'.

 

Balwarren cottage has been owned by James and Hazel Watt for the last thirty years. The property is at least 200 years old and was once a cottar house on the Drummuir and Park Estate which was sold in the late 1970's when the Estate was split.

 

Once a small, heather thatched 'but and ben' the house has been tastefully renovated and extended.

Careful attention to detail has created a high quality bed & breakfast where comfort and a flair for the old and interesting blend to delight the guests.

 

The Balwarren Bed & Breakfast Accommodation consists of one twin and one double room both of which are en-suite.

 

The beds are new with quality mattresses and the wind dried bedding a pleasure to sink into. A television is supplied in both bedrooms. All our rooms are situated on a ground floor and each of our bedrooms comprise of the following facilities:

En suite shower rooms with shaver points : Beds fitted with memory foam mattresses : Colour Television : Hair dryer : Bottled water : Wind dried linen.

 

There is a dining area and seperate sitting room for our guests. The Balwarren Bed & Breakfast dining area is a delight where plants thrive in the sunny warmth of this charming room. The superb sitting room is welcoming with a mini minstrel's gallery, books and cascading plants. So that our guests may relax in peace and comfort after a day of sight-seeing, we have deliberately not included a television in the sitting room.

 

Price: £75- £85 per room

 

DELICIOUS BREAKFAST SELECTION

Selection of breakfast starters: Cooked breakfast using free range Balwarren eggs : Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon : Continental style breakfast with home-made bread : Enjoy home produced marmalade and jam

 

During your stay at Balwarren Bed & Breakfast why not sample our delicious home-cooking?

3 Course Dinner : Using home grown or locally produced ingredients :

Balwarren Croft Highland Beef : Balwarren home grown vegetables, herbs and fruit. £25 per person

 

We are located within easy travelling distance from Turriff, Banff, Keith, Cornhill, Portsoy, Cullen, Buckie and Elgin.

 

Dotted along this exceptional coast line are quaint fishing villages, bustling marinas, a wide selection of golf courses and places of interest such as Duff House, Elgin Cathedral, Fraserburgh Lighthouse and Macduff Aquarium to name but a few.

 

Golf nearby:

 

Duff House Royal Golf Club

The course is a flat, beautifully manicured parkland course with little rough. The large “Mackenzie” two-tiered greens, many well positioned bunkers and trees make the course a severe but fair challenge to golfers of all abilities.

 

Cullen Golf Club

Cullen must lay claim to the most remarkable site for a golf course in Europe. There is not a lot of room within this amazing environment for Cullen’s 18 holes, with the course playing it’s outward nine close to the cliffs before doing an about-turn with the inward nine playing back at beach level,

 

Royal Tarlair Golf Club

A cliff top parkland course which certainly presents a challenge for the more serious golfer,and offers enjoyable golf in an ideal setting for the not so serious. A warm welcome awaits all visitors to Royal Tarlair and all we ask of you is to enjoy your golf while here

 

Turriff Golf Club

Those of us fortunate enough to play Turriff on a regular basis are fulsome in our praise of the course and its surroundings. On a fine summer’s day there is no finer place to be.

 

Strathlene Golf Club Tel: 01542 831798

Strathlene/Buckie Golf Course is a superbly maintained links course extending East from Buckie to the small village of Findochty. On a clear day there are marvelous views over the moray firth to the hills in the North and the moray firth Dolphins are frequently seen passing close by the rocky cliffs which form the Northern boundary of the course.

 

Keith Golf Club

Inland, slightly hilly in parts with panoramic views, with greens renowned locally for their texture and consistency.

 

Huntly Golf Club

Huntly is a parkland course set in the former policies of Huntly Castle itself. Very popular with outings since, being relatively short at 4904yds.

 

Buckpool Golf Club

Built on sand, Buckpool has fast, rolling fairways, often lined by tall mature gorse bushes. Swailes and hollows are littered around the approaches to slick undulating greens, so precious some are protected by cavernous bunkers.

 

Moray Golf Club Lossiemouth

Moray Old is a challenging round of golf, but your good shots will also be rewarded. It is a fair test of true links golf and many visitors return again and again to take on its challenge.

 

Spey Bay Golf Club Tel; 01343 820424

Spey Bay is a picturesque, undulating links course with a long beach on one side. The fairways are lined with swathes of gorse and heather, while shingle and the beach also form a border at some holes

 

Contact Us:

Balwarren
Ordiquhill, Cornhill
Banff, Aberdeenshire
Scotland AB45 2HR

Tel: 01466 751688

E Mail: Hazel Watt

Website: www.balwarren.com