Another Place, The Machrie

Style

Nicely putt

Setting

Inner Hebrides isle

Another Place, The Machrie is Scottish to a tee. Yes, you might spy some house tartan in the country-chic bedrooms, and admire the vintage Hebridean scenery from your window, but the hotel’s heritage-proud spirit runs much deeper: its seasonal restaurant impresses with island-fresh seafood and produce, and the outdoor sauna or local-seaweed-salve treatments soothe aching muscles. A championship golf course draws a sporty crowd, but we think this coastal retreat is a winner for all.

Facilities

Rooms

43, including five suites.

Checkout

11am. Check-in, 3pm; both are flexible, subject to availability.

More Details

Rates at Another Place, The Machrie include a Scottish breakfast.

Also

The hotel is suitable if you have reduced mobility: there are two accessible rooms (Standard and Better Double or Twin) with adapted bathrooms and three dedicated parking spaces, plus you can take the lift to the Stag Lounge and 18 Restaurant & Bar.

Fitness Center

Free Internet Access

Golf

Laundry

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

Spa

At the Hotel

Championship golf course, gym, fat bikes to borrow, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, tea- and coffee-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and Land & Water bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

Classic, country-nodding interiors are married with contemporary furnishings at Another Place, The Machrie, where rooms flaunt house tartan, wood panelling and curated artwork. We like the Islay room for its fit-for-a-king four-poster bed and fern-green details; fling open the French doors in a Best room for a healthy dose of fresh air and verdant views. Bigger clans — with any keen golfers in tow — might like one of the Lodges: they’re set beside the stellar golf course and the seafoam-green open-plan kitchen is ideal for post-round debriefs.

Spa

There’s no formal spa but you’ll find a sauna in the Clubhouse for restoring muscles after rounds of golf, and a wild garden that’s inspired by Scandinavian wellness, with its two wood-fired hot tubs, cold plunge pool and a second sauna. There are also two treatment rooms, where all-natural massages and facials soothe with antioxidant-rich seaweed products, sourced from the Hebrides.

Packing Tips

Walk the walk with argyle vests and Pringle knits; talk the talk with your trusty clubs and well-stocked golf bag.

Also

The Machrie is home to an 18-hole championship golf course that was originally designed by Willie Campbell in 1891. It’s been revamped with a golf shop, covered driving range, short-game area and six-hole course for little Smiths, plus other fun frills.

Children

Welcome. The Ben Hogan Duplex Suite and Lodges are best for families. There are board games in the Snug, movie nights in the cinema room and plenty of all-ages activities, such as fat-biking and a kids’ golf course.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

At the end of the restaurant is the ‘tower’, a separate section with the best dual-aspect views of both the course and the water.

Dress Code

In your golfing garb or country clobber.

Hotel Restaurant

18 Restaurant & Bar is strictly Scottish and proud: seasonal, island-sourced produce is given the limelight and the window-wrapped space overlooks the turf and surf of the links and the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a relaxed space, but the food is seriously good: smoked haddock kedgeree or a full Scottish breakfast are your driving-range fuel come morning; dinnertime puts the spotlight on Islay ingredients, such as Loch Gruinart oysters, Port Askaig lobster and Ardtalla venison. The Courtyard takes the reins for lunch, and you can tuck into your soups, salads or burgers outside, in the cosy Stag Lounge or one of the living areas. There’s a set lunch featuring family favourites on Sundays; afternoon tea is a decadent, daily affair.

Hotel Bar

Toast to your day with some world-renowned whisky at the bar (when in Scotland…). Move in on your favourite malt or discover it with a tasting flight. Classic cocktails are also given an Islay twist: warm up your vocal chords with a Singing Cinnamon (Bunnahabhain Stiuireadair whisky, apricot brandy, cardamon bitters, smoked cinnamon) or nurse an Ardbeg sour (single-malt scotch, demerara sugar, bitters).

Last Orders

At 18 Restaurant, breakfast is from 7am to 10am; lunch is between noon and 5pm; you can take afternoon tea from 2pm to 4.30pm, and for dinner, it’s 6pm to 9pm. The bar pours from noon to 11pm.

Room Service

Dishes from 18 Restaurant & Bar can be delivered to your room on request; just ask at the front desk.

Planes

Flights from Glasgow arrive at Islay Airport, which is a five-minute drive from the hotel, and a free shuttle service runs between the two from 7am to 10pm daily.

Automobiles

The best way to discover this pristine island is with your own set of wheels, and the hotel has free, round-the-clock parking. If you’d rather put someone else in the driving seat, staff can help arrange taxis and tours, but you’ll need to book in advance.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

After fine-tuning your swing on Another Place, The Machrie’s championship golf course — or in its sociable mini golf area — you’ll want to tee up some more alfresco activities on nature-respecting Islay. It’s a short walk to the stretching Laggan Bay, where coastal yomps and fat-biking are backdropped by rolling dunes. Its sapphire shallows offer invigorating dips, as do other swimming spots, such as Kilnaughton Beach and Loch Gruinart (thaw out afterwards in the hotel’s outdoor sauna and hot tubs).

The wholesomeness continues on rosy-cheeked hikes: local favourites include those to Carraig Fhada Lighthouse or Soldier’s Rock; you could also swap a pub crawl for the Three Distilleries Pathway, stopping off at the island’s plentiful whisky-makers for toe-warming aperitifs. Boat tours and sea kayaking can take you to spy local wildlife, or back at basecamp, stargaze at the inky Scottish skies or settle in with a movie night in the cinema room.

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