With such a huge expanse of coastline, it is no wonder that Ayrshire is home to some of the most spectacular links golf courses in the UK. There are over 50 golf courses in Ayrshire and Arran, ranging from world famous Championship courses, through to courses suitable for beginners. We will be happy to recommend and book a course to suit your needs. In July 2024, Royal Troon will play host to the 152nd Open Championship. Our guest house is a 30 minute drive from Royal Troon making it the perfect place to stay if you are attending. (14th - 21st July 2024).

The town is famed for a battle in 1263 when the Vikings, attempting to land from a fleet of longboats, were repulsed by the army of Alexander III. This Viking heritage is celebrated at Vikingar!, a multi-media Viking-themed attraction and at the annual Largs Viking Festival, with battle re-enactments and living history displays. The festival culminates in a grand Viking galley burning and firework display.

A couple of miles from the town centre lies Kelburn Castle & Country Park. This 13th century castle might take you by surprise – the outer walls have been painted in bright and bold eye-catching designs by Brazilian graffiti artists. You can wander through the woodland glen, a tranquil place of natural beauty, perfect for an invigorating countryside walk.

Great Cumbrae is the larger of the two islands known as The Cumbraes in the lower Firth of Clyde in western Scotland. Home to the National Watersports Centre, the Cathedral of the Isles and the University Marine Biological Station, Millport, the holiday island has an 18-hole golf course which sweeps almost to the summit, and a round-island road much favoured for family cycle runs.

Mount Stuart House on the east coast of the Isle of Bute, Scotland, is a Gothic Revival country house and the ancestral home of the Marquesses of Bute. It was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson for The 3rd Marquess of Bute in the late 1870s, replacing an earlier house by Alexander McGill, which burnt down in 1877. The house is a Category A listed building

The Largs Museum is run by volunteers from the Largs Historical Society. Since 1975 it has been housed in one of the oldest building in Largs. In 1967 Alex Simpson acquired two weavers cottages in Manse Court to house his growing collection of photographs and local artefacts.