Golf, Tea, Wildlife Park, Petrol, Dinner Vouchers with 7 nights in Lochearnhead cottages

Highland Cow at Auchingarrich

Briar Cottages self catering holidays, Lochearnhead are giving away local hospitality and activity vouchers for selected 7 night bookings in Briar Steading and Little Briar  cottages, valued between £15 and £80.   Check out our monthly offers on our price list.  Book 7 nights in May and June to receive free tickets to Auchingarrich Wildlife Park, Comrie   You will be awarded 4 tickets with luxury Briar Steading and 2 free tickets when you book Little Briar Cottage. If you prefer, use the voucher in the coffee shop where they serve delicious snacks and lovely cakes indoors or outside on the wooden deck looking over the children's novelty play park and the beautiful Strathearn Valley.

Golfers will appreciate our July vouchers for both cottages.  2 can play from Little Briar cottage and 4 can play from luxury Briar Steading or 2 people can play twice. The 2 and 4 player vouchers are for 18 holes at St Fillans Golf Club, St Fillans, at the east end of Loch Earn.  The course is quoted at Sandy Lyle's favourite inland course. No wonder it is very picturesque as well as a great course to play on. The voucher can be used at weekends as well as week days. Its your choice. Show the voucher again and again over the course of your weekly stay and you can arrange

St Fillans Golf Club, St Fillans, Loch Earn

any number of 18 hole rounds at half price.

September visitors will receive vouchers for Afternoon Tea at the luxury Four Seasons Hotel,  St Fillans where pets are also very welcome. Enjoy views over Loch Earn while you tuck into a sandwich with your favourite filling followed by scones, tea bread, shortbread and pots of tea or coffee.  Luxury Briar Steading bookings award 4 vouchers and pet friendly Little Briar mean that 2 vouchers will await your arrival. Look out for other vouchers for dinner and drinks in The Chef owned Lochearnhead Hotel and for free petrol from Lix Toll garage 5 miles from Lochearnhead.   Keep checking for additional vouchers throughout the year or telephone  Kim and Fraser with any queries and to book 01567 830 443 or 07917 416 49.  Remember that you can fish free of charge, launch and moor a small boat or canoe, use the summer house and picnic spots within the three acre gardens and ask for a shot of our hot tub too!    Twitter @Briarcottages 

Phenomonal Loch Earn offers seiching tides, boat races and other unique events

Loch Earn has a seiching tide.  Not a tide that moves with the sun and moon and it does not cause the loch to rise and fall either. The seiching phenomenon has something to do with the prevailing wind. Seiching happens in other lakes like Garda, Baikal, Eirie and has also been reported in Scotlands, Loch Treig.  As a guest, you can fish for trout free from our loch garden at Briar Cottages in Perthshire. You may experience the seiching as your float moves subtly right and then left over a 16 hour period. The water often looks calm like the photo above taken last week at the end of April; especially early in the morning and later in the evening. At other times the pseudo waves can be quite choppy. The beauty of the location is that the loch state, colours, weather and seasons are ever changing and no two days seem alike.  The setting sun had Glen Ample glowing behind Edinample Castle the other night yet there is still a bit of snow high on the hill tops.  Before long, the glen and surrounding hills will start to turn green as the grassy hues become richer. Whatever the weather, the loch and its backdop make a unique and magical venue for scheduled events like the Great Loch Earn Boat race, The Loch Earn 6.5 mile and 1 mile open water swim competitions,  the SAA water plane splash in and Wake Scot water ski and wakeboarding contests.

 The Great Loch Earn boat race was held on Loch Earn on 25th April, organised by the Crieff round table. 13 boats with teams of 4 set out from the Lochearnhead Cafe, rowing six and a half miles to St Fillans in aid of charity.  The loch was kind to them however the weather was misty and cool. Contestants gathered at the recently refurbished Achray House Hotel in St Fillans afterwords for some well earned sustenance and the prize giving ceremony.  How wonderful it is to be able to view these unique loch events from our front garden.

Weather or not to book holiday accommodation in Lochearnhead

Thank you to everyone who contacted us to enquire whether or not our holiday cottage in Scotland is knee deep in snow and out of electricity. Don't worry! This is Lochearnhead. The village seems to have its own wee magical micro climate and I am beginning to wonder if the fairy knoll in the Lochearnhead games field plays a part in our protection. We feel a little guilty that friends in Aberfeldy and Auchterarder have been reporting 2ft of snow or more. We had a light snow fall of an inch and a half making the village really pretty from Tuesday last week. There has not been a flicker of a difference to our electric supply. There really is something magical about the weather when you are staying in Lochearnhead. Maybe it is the towering hills back and front that shelter us. Maybe it's our south facing position at Briar Cottage and our holiday cottage Little Briar. I am in no doubt that a big factor is the A84 and A85 road gritting team. They are so thorough and attentive that we have never even seen snow landing on the main roads all winter. Also, they are extremely courteous and pull in to let the traffic past at every opportunity. So, we have been enjoying the picturesque scenery of snow (and deer) covered Glen Ample opposite; yet we have been traveling on the roads to neighbouring towns and villages without inconvenience. Our guests prior to last week took a picture of Fraser on his tractor in the paddock. Last weeks guests went walking in the snow and today the garden lawn on Loch Earn is green again with the daffodil stems well on their way.   By all means spare a thought for those who have been out of electricity, deep in snow or sleeping in their cars but please don't feel sorry for us here in Lochearnhead. Oh.....and please don't tell anyone about our smart and efficient road gritters in case someone poaches them!

PS: Easter week 10th-17th April is currently available (Little Briar self  catering cottage Perthshire sleeps up to 4 in 1 double and 1 twin bedroom@ £500 -Call me (Kim) or Fraser 01567 830 443 to enquire or book )