West Highland Way accommodation

Fred R <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

And so on. As everyone and her uncle seems to do the Way these days,
there must be some sites out there with first-hand info on hotels, pubs,
b&bs, and the rest. Could anyone point me to some good ones? Any FAQs
out there?

And I'd be very interested in any reports on accommodation from denizens
of this NG. What, for instance, is the Inveroran Hotel like? Great
location, but it would mean rejigging the preceding stages to stop
there. All and any info/gossip/comments welcome. TIA.

The Inveroran is great- good location and plain good food and decent
bar.
I have stayed at Inversnaid lodge this IS not the hotel on the shores
of Loch Lomond but just up the hill, it mainly does residential
photography courses, but I have stayed there while walking the Way- The
food is EXCELLENT . well worth making enquiries.
The hotel at Tyndrum well I wouldn't give it house room - food was
bloody awful and the bed was diabolical.-as you can gather I was not
best pleased and let management know about it
Kinghouse is Kinghouse ; it depends on your daily mileage limit.
If you stay around Tyndrum /Crainlarich one could at a stretch get to
Kinghouse BUT you would be pushing to get to Kinlochleven.
The final stretch from Kinlochleven to Fort Bill roundabout seems never
ending.
As I say it depends on your daily rate of progress - some like to take
it at a 'reasonable' pace others go at it like Billy Whizz or an SAS
training exercise- the latter for the hardy can be indulged every year
during the
summer months when the fastest time end to end is attempted.

The other thing to ponder is whether to use the onward baggage
facility- it is a handy facility worth the cost - to offload most of the
rucksack contents- just carting what one considers essentials for the
days walk.
--
dave hill

Fred R <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

And so on. As everyone and her uncle seems to do the Way these days,
there must be some sites out there with first-hand info on hotels, pubs,
b&bs, and the rest. Could anyone point me to some good ones? Any FAQs
out there?

And I'd be very interested in any reports on accommodation from denizens
of this NG. What, for instance, is the Inveroran Hotel like? Great
location, but it would mean rejigging the preceding stages to stop
there. All and any info/gossip/comments welcome. TIA.

The Inveroran is great- good location and plain good food and decent
bar.
I have stayed at Inversnaid lodge this IS not the hotel on the shores
of Loch Lomond but just up the hill, it mainly does residential
photography courses, but I have stayed there while walking the Way- The
food is EXCELLENT . well worth making enquiries.
The hotel at Tyndrum well I wouldn't give it house room - food was
bloody awful and the bed was diabolical.-as you can gather I was not
best pleased and let management know about it
Kinghouse is Kinghouse ; it depends on your daily mileage limit.
If you stay around Tyndrum /Crainlarich one could at a stretch get to
Kinghouse BUT you would be pushing to get to Kinlochleven.
The final stretch from Kinlochleven to Fort Bill roundabout seems never
ending.
As I say it depends on your daily rate of progress - some like to take
it at a 'reasonable' pace others go at it like Billy Whizz or an SAS
training exercise- the latter for the hardy can be indulged every year
during the
summer months when the fastest time end to end is attempted.

The other thing to ponder is whether to use the onward baggage
facility- it is a handy facility worth the cost - to offload most of the
rucksack contents- just carting what one considers essentials for the
days walk.
--
dave hill

Fred R <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

And so on. As everyone and her uncle seems to do the Way these days,
there must be some sites out there with first-hand info on hotels, pubs,
b&bs, and the rest. Could anyone point me to some good ones? Any FAQs
out there?

And I'd be very interested in any reports on accommodation from denizens
of this NG. What, for instance, is the Inveroran Hotel like? Great
location, but it would mean rejigging the preceding stages to stop
there. All and any info/gossip/comments welcome. TIA.

The Inveroran is great- good location and plain good food and decent
bar.
I have stayed at Inversnaid lodge this IS not the hotel on the shores
of Loch Lomond but just up the hill, it mainly does residential
photography courses, but I have stayed there while walking the Way- The
food is EXCELLENT . well worth making enquiries.
The hotel at Tyndrum well I wouldn't give it house room - food was
bloody awful and the bed was diabolical.-as you can gather I was not
best pleased and let management know about it
Kinghouse is Kinghouse ; it depends on your daily mileage limit.
If you stay around Tyndrum /Crainlarich one could at a stretch get to
Kinghouse BUT you would be pushing to get to Kinlochleven.
The final stretch from Kinlochleven to Fort Bill roundabout seems never
ending.
As I say it depends on your daily rate of progress - some like to take
it at a 'reasonable' pace others go at it like Billy Whizz or an SAS
training exercise- the latter for the hardy can be indulged every year
during the
summer months when the fastest time end to end is attempted.

The other thing to ponder is whether to use the onward baggage
facility- it is a handy facility worth the cost - to offload most of the
rucksack contents- just carting what one considers essentials for the
days walk.
--
dave hill

Fred R said:

As a belated (sorry, I've been off Usenet for a couple of weeks with
cold, family visits, etc, etc) followup to my posting of the 25th
October on WHW guides/blogs, I'd be interested in any gossip/reviews of
various places to stay on the WHW as myself and partner are currently in
the stage planning, erm, stage. We're going to splash out on B&B, partly
because it's a godawful faff camping and feeding yourself after a long
day's hike, particularly when there's only 8 hours of light in the day,
if that (we're going next eastertime)

Easter always happens after the vernal equinox so you will have more
than twelve hours of daylight. To get as little as eight hours you
would need to be going before the 22nd of January.

I find that a problem with B&Bs in the winter is that you frequently
waste daylight at the beginnning of the day as hosts seem reluctant to
get up in the dark to cook breakfast really early so you can get out
there on the hills at first light. To do a black to black (start in
the dark, finish in the dark) I find I need to be in self catering.
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Geal Charn above Glen Markie
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/Oct07/wh11.htm

Fred R said:

As a belated (sorry, I've been off Usenet for a couple of weeks with
cold, family visits, etc, etc) followup to my posting of the 25th
October on WHW guides/blogs, I'd be interested in any gossip/reviews of
various places to stay on the WHW as myself and partner are currently in
the stage planning, erm, stage. We're going to splash out on B&B, partly
because it's a godawful faff camping and feeding yourself after a long
day's hike, particularly when there's only 8 hours of light in the day,
if that (we're going next eastertime)

Easter always happens after the vernal equinox so you will have more
than twelve hours of daylight. To get as little as eight hours you
would need to be going before the 22nd of January.

I find that a problem with B&Bs in the winter is that you frequently
waste daylight at the beginnning of the day as hosts seem reluctant to
get up in the dark to cook breakfast really early so you can get out
there on the hills at first light. To do a black to black (start in
the dark, finish in the dark) I find I need to be in self catering.
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Geal Charn above Glen Markie
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/Oct07/wh11.htm

Fred R said:

As a belated (sorry, I've been off Usenet for a couple of weeks with
cold, family visits, etc, etc) followup to my posting of the 25th
October on WHW guides/blogs, I'd be interested in any gossip/reviews of
various places to stay on the WHW as myself and partner are currently in
the stage planning, erm, stage. We're going to splash out on B&B, partly
because it's a godawful faff camping and feeding yourself after a long
day's hike, particularly when there's only 8 hours of light in the day,
if that (we're going next eastertime)

Easter always happens after the vernal equinox so you will have more
than twelve hours of daylight. To get as little as eight hours you
would need to be going before the 22nd of January.

I find that a problem with B&Bs in the winter is that you frequently
waste daylight at the beginnning of the day as hosts seem reluctant to
get up in the dark to cook breakfast really early so you can get out
there on the hills at first light. To do a black to black (start in
the dark, finish in the dark) I find I need to be in self catering.
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Geal Charn above Glen Markie
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/Oct07/wh11.htm

In article <[email hidden]>,

dave hill said:

Fred R <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

And so on. As everyone and her uncle seems to do the Way these days,
there must be some sites out there with first-hand info on hotels, pubs,
b&bs, and the rest. Could anyone point me to some good ones? Any FAQs
out there?

And I'd be very interested in any reports on accommodation from denizens
of this NG. What, for instance, is the Inveroran Hotel like? Great
location, but it would mean rejigging the preceding stages to stop
there. All and any info/gossip/comments welcome. TIA.

The Inveroran is great- good location and plain good food and decent
bar.

Thanks for the tip, Dave. I went past the Inveroran when I was up there
in October, doing a short walk along the wide glen south of the Beinn
Ghabhar range, and it was a fantastic location. Nice and quiet, well
away from the main road, great surroundings. A little pricey, but less
than the Bridge of Orchy hotel so could be worth a go.

Quoted message said:

I have stayed at Inversnaid lodge this IS not the hotel on the shores
of Loch Lomond but just up the hill, it mainly does residential
photography courses, but I have stayed there while walking the Way- The
food is EXCELLENT . well worth making enquiries.

Yes, I heard that from my work colleague who'd done the WHW, that the
Hotel was poor and "like an old people's home" but the lodge was the
bee's knees.

Quoted message said:

The hotel at Tyndrum well I wouldn't give it house room - food was
bloody awful and the bed was diabolical.-as you can gather I was not
best pleased and let management know about it

The only two hotels I saw at Tyndrum when I was last there, staying in
the very comfy Strathfillan Wigwams, were very much retired coach party
style hotels which I'm sure wouldn't welcome scruffy, dirty walkers.
Paddy's Bar is, well, ok but not worth bothering with, especially from a
beer viewpoint, and Tyndrum itself is little more than a very busy
stopping off point for supplies and food. We'll not stay there if we can
avoid it.

Quoted message said:

Kinghouse is Kinghouse ; it depends on your daily mileage limit.
If you stay around Tyndrum /Crainlarich one could at a stretch get to
Kinghouse BUT you would be pushing to get to Kinlochleven.

A decent enough pull up the Devils Staircase (IIRC) right enough, but
feasible I think. Maybe the Kingshouse has gone as far downhill as it
can, and is now clawing its way back up. The last time I was there,
there were just two seriously over-worked Polish girls behind the bar
who looked shattered, such that I nearly felt guilty ordering beer, and
the breakfast was, to put it gently, 'creative chaos'. All that was
missing was a Sybil shouting "Basil!" and a rat running around the
kitchen :o)

Quoted message said:

The other thing to ponder is whether to use the onward baggage
facility- it is a handy facility worth the cost - to offload most of the
rucksack contents- just carting what one considers essentials for the
days walk.

Oh, we'll definitely be using a sherpa service, no worries! From what
I've seen the going rate is ?30/bag for the whole Way, which is pretty
decent.

Cheers

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

In article <[email hidden]>,

dave hill said:

Fred R <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

And so on. As everyone and her uncle seems to do the Way these days,
there must be some sites out there with first-hand info on hotels, pubs,
b&bs, and the rest. Could anyone point me to some good ones? Any FAQs
out there?

And I'd be very interested in any reports on accommodation from denizens
of this NG. What, for instance, is the Inveroran Hotel like? Great
location, but it would mean rejigging the preceding stages to stop
there. All and any info/gossip/comments welcome. TIA.

The Inveroran is great- good location and plain good food and decent
bar.

Thanks for the tip, Dave. I went past the Inveroran when I was up there
in October, doing a short walk along the wide glen south of the Beinn
Ghabhar range, and it was a fantastic location. Nice and quiet, well
away from the main road, great surroundings. A little pricey, but less
than the Bridge of Orchy hotel so could be worth a go.

Quoted message said:

I have stayed at Inversnaid lodge this IS not the hotel on the shores
of Loch Lomond but just up the hill, it mainly does residential
photography courses, but I have stayed there while walking the Way- The
food is EXCELLENT . well worth making enquiries.

Yes, I heard that from my work colleague who'd done the WHW, that the
Hotel was poor and "like an old people's home" but the lodge was the
bee's knees.

Quoted message said:

The hotel at Tyndrum well I wouldn't give it house room - food was
bloody awful and the bed was diabolical.-as you can gather I was not
best pleased and let management know about it

The only two hotels I saw at Tyndrum when I was last there, staying in
the very comfy Strathfillan Wigwams, were very much retired coach party
style hotels which I'm sure wouldn't welcome scruffy, dirty walkers.
Paddy's Bar is, well, ok but not worth bothering with, especially from a
beer viewpoint, and Tyndrum itself is little more than a very busy
stopping off point for supplies and food. We'll not stay there if we can
avoid it.

Quoted message said:

Kinghouse is Kinghouse ; it depends on your daily mileage limit.
If you stay around Tyndrum /Crainlarich one could at a stretch get to
Kinghouse BUT you would be pushing to get to Kinlochleven.

A decent enough pull up the Devils Staircase (IIRC) right enough, but
feasible I think. Maybe the Kingshouse has gone as far downhill as it
can, and is now clawing its way back up. The last time I was there,
there were just two seriously over-worked Polish girls behind the bar
who looked shattered, such that I nearly felt guilty ordering beer, and
the breakfast was, to put it gently, 'creative chaos'. All that was
missing was a Sybil shouting "Basil!" and a rat running around the
kitchen :o)

Quoted message said:

The other thing to ponder is whether to use the onward baggage
facility- it is a handy facility worth the cost - to offload most of the
rucksack contents- just carting what one considers essentials for the
days walk.

Oh, we'll definitely be using a sherpa service, no worries! From what
I've seen the going rate is ?30/bag for the whole Way, which is pretty
decent.

Cheers

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

In article <[email hidden]>,

dave hill said:

Fred R <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

And so on. As everyone and her uncle seems to do the Way these days,
there must be some sites out there with first-hand info on hotels, pubs,
b&bs, and the rest. Could anyone point me to some good ones? Any FAQs
out there?

And I'd be very interested in any reports on accommodation from denizens
of this NG. What, for instance, is the Inveroran Hotel like? Great
location, but it would mean rejigging the preceding stages to stop
there. All and any info/gossip/comments welcome. TIA.

The Inveroran is great- good location and plain good food and decent
bar.

Thanks for the tip, Dave. I went past the Inveroran when I was up there
in October, doing a short walk along the wide glen south of the Beinn
Ghabhar range, and it was a fantastic location. Nice and quiet, well
away from the main road, great surroundings. A little pricey, but less
than the Bridge of Orchy hotel so could be worth a go.

Quoted message said:

I have stayed at Inversnaid lodge this IS not the hotel on the shores
of Loch Lomond but just up the hill, it mainly does residential
photography courses, but I have stayed there while walking the Way- The
food is EXCELLENT . well worth making enquiries.

Yes, I heard that from my work colleague who'd done the WHW, that the
Hotel was poor and "like an old people's home" but the lodge was the
bee's knees.

Quoted message said:

The hotel at Tyndrum well I wouldn't give it house room - food was
bloody awful and the bed was diabolical.-as you can gather I was not
best pleased and let management know about it

The only two hotels I saw at Tyndrum when I was last there, staying in
the very comfy Strathfillan Wigwams, were very much retired coach party
style hotels which I'm sure wouldn't welcome scruffy, dirty walkers.
Paddy's Bar is, well, ok but not worth bothering with, especially from a
beer viewpoint, and Tyndrum itself is little more than a very busy
stopping off point for supplies and food. We'll not stay there if we can
avoid it.

Quoted message said:

Kinghouse is Kinghouse ; it depends on your daily mileage limit.
If you stay around Tyndrum /Crainlarich one could at a stretch get to
Kinghouse BUT you would be pushing to get to Kinlochleven.

A decent enough pull up the Devils Staircase (IIRC) right enough, but
feasible I think. Maybe the Kingshouse has gone as far downhill as it
can, and is now clawing its way back up. The last time I was there,
there were just two seriously over-worked Polish girls behind the bar
who looked shattered, such that I nearly felt guilty ordering beer, and
the breakfast was, to put it gently, 'creative chaos'. All that was
missing was a Sybil shouting "Basil!" and a rat running around the
kitchen :o)

Quoted message said:

The other thing to ponder is whether to use the onward baggage
facility- it is a handy facility worth the cost - to offload most of the
rucksack contents- just carting what one considers essentials for the
days walk.

Oh, we'll definitely be using a sherpa service, no worries! From what
I've seen the going rate is ?30/bag for the whole Way, which is pretty
decent.

Cheers

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

In article <[email hidden]>,

dave hill said:

Fred R <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

And so on. As everyone and her uncle seems to do the Way these days,
there must be some sites out there with first-hand info on hotels, pubs,
b&bs, and the rest. Could anyone point me to some good ones? Any FAQs
out there?

And I'd be very interested in any reports on accommodation from denizens
of this NG. What, for instance, is the Inveroran Hotel like? Great
location, but it would mean rejigging the preceding stages to stop
there. All and any info/gossip/comments welcome. TIA.

The Inveroran is great- good location and plain good food and decent
bar.

Thanks for the tip, Dave. I went past the Inveroran when I was up there
in October, doing a short walk along the wide glen south of the Beinn
Ghabhar range, and it was a fantastic location. Nice and quiet, well
away from the main road, great surroundings. A little pricey, but less
than the Bridge of Orchy hotel so could be worth a go.

Quoted message said:

I have stayed at Inversnaid lodge this IS not the hotel on the shores
of Loch Lomond but just up the hill, it mainly does residential
photography courses, but I have stayed there while walking the Way- The
food is EXCELLENT . well worth making enquiries.

Yes, I heard that from my work colleague who'd done the WHW, that the
Hotel was poor and "like an old people's home" but the lodge was the
bee's knees.

Quoted message said:

The hotel at Tyndrum well I wouldn't give it house room - food was
bloody awful and the bed was diabolical.-as you can gather I was not
best pleased and let management know about it

The only two hotels I saw at Tyndrum when I was last there, staying in
the very comfy Strathfillan Wigwams, were very much retired coach party
style hotels which I'm sure wouldn't welcome scruffy, dirty walkers.
Paddy's Bar is, well, ok but not worth bothering with, especially from a
beer viewpoint, and Tyndrum itself is little more than a very busy
stopping off point for supplies and food. We'll not stay there if we can
avoid it.

Quoted message said:

Kinghouse is Kinghouse ; it depends on your daily mileage limit.
If you stay around Tyndrum /Crainlarich one could at a stretch get to
Kinghouse BUT you would be pushing to get to Kinlochleven.

A decent enough pull up the Devils Staircase (IIRC) right enough, but
feasible I think. Maybe the Kingshouse has gone as far downhill as it
can, and is now clawing its way back up. The last time I was there,
there were just two seriously over-worked Polish girls behind the bar
who looked shattered, such that I nearly felt guilty ordering beer, and
the breakfast was, to put it gently, 'creative chaos'. All that was
missing was a Sybil shouting "Basil!" and a rat running around the
kitchen :o)

Quoted message said:

The other thing to ponder is whether to use the onward baggage
facility- it is a handy facility worth the cost - to offload most of the
rucksack contents- just carting what one considers essentials for the
days walk.

Oh, we'll definitely be using a sherpa service, no worries! From what
I've seen the going rate is ?30/bag for the whole Way, which is pretty
decent.

Cheers

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

In article <[email hidden]>,

Phil Cook said:

Fred R said:

As a belated (sorry, I've been off Usenet for a couple of weeks with
cold, family visits, etc, etc) followup to my posting of the 25th
October on WHW guides/blogs, I'd be interested in any gossip/reviews of
various places to stay on the WHW as myself and partner are currently in
the stage planning, erm, stage. We're going to splash out on B&B, partly
because it's a godawful faff camping and feeding yourself after a long
day's hike, particularly when there's only 8 hours of light in the day,
if that (we're going next eastertime)

Easter always happens after the vernal equinox so you will have more
than twelve hours of daylight. To get as little as eight hours you
would need to be going before the 22nd of January.

I find that a problem with B&Bs in the winter is that you frequently
waste daylight at the beginnning of the day as hosts seem reluctant to
get up in the dark to cook breakfast really early so you can get out
there on the hills at first light. To do a black to black (start in
the dark, finish in the dark) I find I need to be in self catering.

That wouldn't be a problem for me - I'm seriously hard pushed to get up
at 8am, and if I do I wander around like an extra from Shaun of the Dead
for the next couple of hours ;-)

Cheers

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

In article <[email hidden]>,

Phil Cook said:

Fred R said:

As a belated (sorry, I've been off Usenet for a couple of weeks with
cold, family visits, etc, etc) followup to my posting of the 25th
October on WHW guides/blogs, I'd be interested in any gossip/reviews of
various places to stay on the WHW as myself and partner are currently in
the stage planning, erm, stage. We're going to splash out on B&B, partly
because it's a godawful faff camping and feeding yourself after a long
day's hike, particularly when there's only 8 hours of light in the day,
if that (we're going next eastertime)

Easter always happens after the vernal equinox so you will have more
than twelve hours of daylight. To get as little as eight hours you
would need to be going before the 22nd of January.

I find that a problem with B&Bs in the winter is that you frequently
waste daylight at the beginnning of the day as hosts seem reluctant to
get up in the dark to cook breakfast really early so you can get out
there on the hills at first light. To do a black to black (start in
the dark, finish in the dark) I find I need to be in self catering.

That wouldn't be a problem for me - I'm seriously hard pushed to get up
at 8am, and if I do I wander around like an extra from Shaun of the Dead
for the next couple of hours ;-)

Cheers

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

In article <[email hidden]>,

Phil Cook said:

Fred R said:

As a belated (sorry, I've been off Usenet for a couple of weeks with
cold, family visits, etc, etc) followup to my posting of the 25th
October on WHW guides/blogs, I'd be interested in any gossip/reviews of
various places to stay on the WHW as myself and partner are currently in
the stage planning, erm, stage. We're going to splash out on B&B, partly
because it's a godawful faff camping and feeding yourself after a long
day's hike, particularly when there's only 8 hours of light in the day,
if that (we're going next eastertime)

Easter always happens after the vernal equinox so you will have more
than twelve hours of daylight. To get as little as eight hours you
would need to be going before the 22nd of January.

I find that a problem with B&Bs in the winter is that you frequently
waste daylight at the beginnning of the day as hosts seem reluctant to
get up in the dark to cook breakfast really early so you can get out
there on the hills at first light. To do a black to black (start in
the dark, finish in the dark) I find I need to be in self catering.

That wouldn't be a problem for me - I'm seriously hard pushed to get up
at 8am, and if I do I wander around like an extra from Shaun of the Dead
for the next couple of hours ;-)

Cheers

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

In article <[email hidden]>,

Phil Cook said:

Fred R said:

As a belated (sorry, I've been off Usenet for a couple of weeks with
cold, family visits, etc, etc) followup to my posting of the 25th
October on WHW guides/blogs, I'd be interested in any gossip/reviews of
various places to stay on the WHW as myself and partner are currently in
the stage planning, erm, stage. We're going to splash out on B&B, partly
because it's a godawful faff camping and feeding yourself after a long
day's hike, particularly when there's only 8 hours of light in the day,
if that (we're going next eastertime)

Easter always happens after the vernal equinox so you will have more
than twelve hours of daylight. To get as little as eight hours you
would need to be going before the 22nd of January.

I find that a problem with B&Bs in the winter is that you frequently
waste daylight at the beginnning of the day as hosts seem reluctant to
get up in the dark to cook breakfast really early so you can get out
there on the hills at first light. To do a black to black (start in
the dark, finish in the dark) I find I need to be in self catering.

That wouldn't be a problem for me - I'm seriously hard pushed to get up
at 8am, and if I do I wander around like an extra from Shaun of the Dead
for the next couple of hours ;-)

Cheers

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

Fred R said:

The only two hotels I saw at Tyndrum when I was last there, staying in
the very comfy Strathfillan Wigwams, were very much retired coach party
style hotels which I'm sure wouldn't welcome scruffy, dirty walkers.
Paddy's Bar is, well, ok but not worth bothering with, especially from a
beer viewpoint, and Tyndrum itself is little more than a very busy
stopping off point for supplies and food. We'll not stay there if we can
avoid it.

We stayed there at a campsite which also had some wood trekker huts:
http://www.tyndrumbytheway.com/Site/Accommodation.html

Looks like there is a hostel now as well.

Roos

Fred R said:

The only two hotels I saw at Tyndrum when I was last there, staying in
the very comfy Strathfillan Wigwams, were very much retired coach party
style hotels which I'm sure wouldn't welcome scruffy, dirty walkers.
Paddy's Bar is, well, ok but not worth bothering with, especially from a
beer viewpoint, and Tyndrum itself is little more than a very busy
stopping off point for supplies and food. We'll not stay there if we can
avoid it.

We stayed there at a campsite which also had some wood trekker huts:
http://www.tyndrumbytheway.com/Site/Accommodation.html

Looks like there is a hostel now as well.

Roos

Fred R said:

The only two hotels I saw at Tyndrum when I was last there, staying in
the very comfy Strathfillan Wigwams, were very much retired coach party
style hotels which I'm sure wouldn't welcome scruffy, dirty walkers.
Paddy's Bar is, well, ok but not worth bothering with, especially from a
beer viewpoint, and Tyndrum itself is little more than a very busy
stopping off point for supplies and food. We'll not stay there if we can
avoid it.

We stayed there at a campsite which also had some wood trekker huts:
http://www.tyndrumbytheway.com/Site/Accommodation.html

Looks like there is a hostel now as well.

Roos

Fred R said:

The only two hotels I saw at Tyndrum when I was last there, staying in
the very comfy Strathfillan Wigwams, were very much retired coach party
style hotels which I'm sure wouldn't welcome scruffy, dirty walkers.
Paddy's Bar is, well, ok but not worth bothering with, especially from a
beer viewpoint, and Tyndrum itself is little more than a very busy
stopping off point for supplies and food. We'll not stay there if we can
avoid it.

We stayed there at a campsite which also had some wood trekker huts:
http://www.tyndrumbytheway.com/Site/Accommodation.html

Looks like there is a hostel now as well.

Roos