Kilmarnock Arms Hotel
The Kilmarnock Arms Hotel is a family owned and run hotel. Situated in the centre of Cruden Bay and only 800m from the world renowned Cruden Bay Golf Course, the Hotel offers 14 spacious ensuite single, double/twin or family rooms. Relax and enjoy excellent cuisine and wines in our Falcon Restaurant or Lounge Bar, or sample on of our extensive range of Malt Whiskies.
Bram Stoker first stayed at the Hotel in 1894. A favourite book written by him during his stay at the hotel was "The Watter's Mou". A strange melodrama about Cruden Bay in the heyday of smuggling in the first half of the nineteenth century. Bram Stoker told people of how he got his ideas for his stories when he was on holiday in Cruden Bay, walking on the sands to Whinnyfold or scrambling over the rocks north to the castle and the Bullers. Slains Castle, now a ruin, but then the home of the Earl and Countess of Erroll, is a strange, storm-scarred building, hanging on the edge of the cliff, looking like the original Castle Dracula, as indeed it might well be.
"When I first saw the place I fell in love with it. Hid it been possible, I should have spend my summer there in a house of my own, but the want of any place in which to live forbade such an opportunity. So I stayed in the little hotel, The Kilmarnock Arms".
Thus wrote Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, about his first visit to Cruden Bay in 1894.
Location
- Coastal Location
- Rural Location
- Village Location
Contact
Mutch
Bridge Street
Cruden Bay
Aberdeenshire
AB42 0HD
Scotland
Tel: +44 (1779) 812213
Fax: +44 (1779) 812153
E-Mail: reception@kilmarnockarms.com
WWW: http://www.kilmarnockarms.com
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