Luxury Loch Ness self catering cottages

The cottages were built using a sustainable source of wood for the kits, and huge amounts of insulation in the loft and cavity spaces. Excellent doors and windows were fitted to prevent energy loss. We have our own private water source with multi-filtration system, without additional chemicals. Wood burning stoves are in each cottage where we encourage the use of them as opposed to any other form of heating by issuing a basket full of appropriately harvested logs, (there is a log store on hand for our guests to help themselves to more at no extra cost, where required. They can even chop logs themselves to further experience the outdoors life here!)

We re-cycle all glass and paper; glass is taken by us to the local bottle bank, and the paper we reuse on the fires. We recycle tins and plastic too. We reuse all bin liners and plastic bags time and again, and then recycle them. All foodstuffs that are left are used in some way, usually we compost them. We have built bird tables and bird and owl nest boxes, that are situated all over the place. We aim to begin producing our own organic salad and vegetables for the use of us and our clients. We cultivate our extensive gardens without the use of any pesticides and fertilisers.

We take our crystal clear, soft water direct from the water table, filter it and serve it up; as pure as possible! Rain water is recycled for the garden and waste biologically degrades and soaks away. We use energy efficient boilers; voted most efficient boiler of the year at time of installation. All appliances purchased were A, A+ or A++ rated for energy efficiency. We use energy saving light bulbs, where possible, dolly washer balls, dryer balls, environmentally friendly cleaning products, (Ecover), and none at all where possible.

We have our own in-house chef’s service cooking the finest quality meals to order, delivered to your cottage door; using only local produce, (inc. our own free range eggs, lamb and venison), and we are as organic as possible. Fair Trade items are included in our welcome package, i.e. coffee, tea, sugar and we encourage the use of local, and Scottish suppliers, organic ones where possible for foodstuffs. We strongly believe in only employing local staff and trades, as we open all year round they too are employed all year. We try desperately hard to buy all our produce from local farmers and/or shops.