A journey · Edinburgh · St Andrews · Gleneagles
The Lowlands circuit
Scotland's Lowlands by rail, with no car of your own: five nights in Edinburgh, the train over the Forth and up through Fife to the home of golf, and on to the great hotel in the Perthshire hills. Three stops, each a short ride from the last, and a choice at the end: Glasgow for a night or two more, or back to Edinburgh for the flight.
- Stops
- 3
- Nights
- 10
- Stayed in
- 2
- With partner perks
- 1
The route
Fly into Edinburgh: the W is about twenty minutes by car from the airport, at St James Quarter in the heart of the New Town.
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Edinburgh · 5 nights
W Edinburgh has 199 rooms and 45 suites across three buildings around St James Square: the 12-storey Ribbon, the newly built stone-faced Quarter House, and James Craig Walk, a heritage-listed Georgian terrace of 1775. SUSHISAMBA and the W Lounge occupy the top floors, whose terraces look out from Arthur's Seat to the sea.
Booked through Marriott Luminous
A car to Waverley, then ScotRail on the Dundee line over the Forth and up through Fife, about an hour to Leuchars, the station for St Andrews; a car meets the train for the ten minutes into town.
2
On our list
St Andrews · 2 nights · On our list
On the Road Hole, the seventeenth of the Old Course, with the links and the sea from the rooms, a spa, and the Road Hole bar for the evening.
A car to Leuchars, then ScotRail by Dundee and Perth to Gleneagles station, about two hours with the change at Perth, where the hotel's car waits; or an hour and a quarter by car straight across Fife.
3
Perthshire · 3 nights
Gleneagles is a country house hotel and golf resort in Strathearn, Perthshire, conceived by the Caledonian Railway's general manager Donald Matheson and opened on 7 June 1924. James Braid's King's and Queen's courses opened in the grounds in 1919 and Jack Nicklaus's PGA Centenary Course came later, alongside a shooting school, an equestrian school and a spa.
ScotRail from Gleneagles station, a few minutes from the door: to Glasgow Queen Street in about an hour, for a night or two more in the city, or back to Edinburgh Waverley in the same time. Both have flights home.
What to know
Fly into Edinburgh: the W is about twenty minutes by car from the airport, at St James Quarter in the heart of the New Town.
10 nights across 3 hotels: 5 at W Edinburgh, 2 at Old Course Hotel and 3 at The Gleneagles Hotel.
Edinburgh to St Andrews: a car to Waverley, then ScotRail on the Dundee line over the Forth and up through Fife, about an hour to Leuchars, the station for St Andrews; a car meets the train for the ten minutes into town. St Andrews to Perthshire: a car to Leuchars, then ScotRail by Dundee and Perth to Gleneagles station, about two hours with the change at Perth, where the hotel's car waits; or an hour and a quarter by car straight across Fife. ScotRail from Gleneagles station, a few minutes from the door: to Glasgow Queen Street in about an hour, for a night or two more in the city, or back to Edinburgh Waverley in the same time. Both have flights home.
W Edinburgh (Marriott Luminous). Booked through us, each adds a room upgrade on arrival where one is free, breakfast for two each day, a hotel credit to spend on dining or the spa, and early check-in or late checkout when the hotel can give it, at no extra cost to you.
Take this journey
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