Creagan Ruadh

Reviews (9)

• Norma Lorraine Rothnie

  Creagan Ruadh cottage is a really lovely cottage and has an absolutely amazing and outstandingly beautiful and stunning location in the small loch side village of Ratagan, amongst magnificent mountain scenery and overlooking the wonderful Five Sisters of Kintail mountains range, and is situated on lovely Loch Duich, one of the most beautiful lochs in the Scottish Highlands. Creagan Ruadh cottage not only has a wonderfully beautiful view but is in an ideal location for exploring the magnificent mountainous areas and glens around Shiel Bridge and Glen Shiel and the lovely village of Glenelg, where the original ferry crossing to the Isle of Skye is still based, and is also ideally placed for visiting some of the wonderful and more remote lochs and mountains of the beautiful North-West Highlands. Creagan Ruadh cottage is also in a really great position for visiting the unique and extraordinary, really beautiful, wild and rugged mountain and loch and coastal landscapes of the Isle of Skye, as the cottage is only a twenty-five- minute drive to the Kyle of Lochalsh, where there are good amenities and there is the amazing bridge that crosses over to this wonderful island. The drive to the Skye Bridge from Creagan Ruadh cottage is very scenic and beautiful and passes through the wonderful mountain scenery of the Morvich mountains, beautiful Loch Long and also the lovely scenic bay at Balmacara. When the Skye bridge starts to arrive in view, the iconic shape and outlines of the Cuillin mountains on Skye start to appear on the horizon and suddenly loom into view, and this short drive between the cottage and the Skye Bridge is part of the enjoyable experience of having a holiday at Creagan Ruadh cottage and in this area, and this is a really wonderful scenic drive, that also provided the opportunity for us to have some amazing excursions to the wonderfully beautiful and extraordinarily scenic Isle of Skye in addition to discovering some of the beautiful mountains and lochs of the North West Highlands.Creagan Ruadh cottage is a really lovely cottage and was a marvellous place for our family to have a holiday and is a traditional style cottage bungalow of the Highlands and also has an alpine feeling to its architecture, which is very apt as it is situated below a lovely forested mountain and has wonderful views of the beautiful high soaring peaks of the Five Sisters of Kintail mountains at beautiful Loch Duich. Creagan Ruadh cottage is very comfortably and traditionally furnished and is a very warm and well heated property for a winter holiday in the Highlands and was a really lovely place to stay. We were delighted to receive a warm and friendly welcome and a lovely gift of some wine and Christmas chocolates and mince pies when we arrived at the property, and the cottage was a wonderful place to return to after a day out exploring the area or a drive somewhere further afield in the North-West Highlands or the Isle of Skye.Creagan Ruadh cottage has an absolutely amazing position raised quite high up above and not far from the edge of the extraordinarily beautiful Loch Duich and has a wonderful, landscaped garden that sweeps down towards this magnificent loch, and both the cottage and the garden have outstandingly beautiful views over this amazing loch, and the lovely garden adds something extra to the wonderful view of this stunningly picturesque and extraordinarily beautiful mountain and loch scene. The main aspect of this property that really impressed us is the amazingly beautiful view from this lovely cottage, and this is one of the most outstanding aspects of the property and for this reason it is really quite an exceptional property due to its amazing location and view. The lounge of the cottage is very comfortably furnished and has a lovely high beamed ceiling and a wonderful large picture window, where this stunningly beautiful view of Loch Duich can be constantly seen and looks almost unreal and rather like a beautiful landscape painting and is a really mesmerizingly beautiful and unforgettable view. The lounge was a wonderful comfortable place to relax and rest and to look out at this amazingly stunning view of this very memorable and beautiful place that is one of those really idyllic and unforgettable places in the Scottish Highlands. In the lounge we found a lovely welcoming Christmas tree lit up with fairy lights, which added to the feeling of our holiday there being during the Christmas season, and around the cottage there were a few older prints of eighteenth or nineteenth century landscape paintings of the Five Sisters of the Kintail mountains area and Loch Duich, which due to the beautiful wintry tawny brown and russet colours of the mountains at this time of year looked almost indistinguishable from the view outside the cottage and fitted in nicely with the more traditional style of the property. In the last couple of days of the holiday, there was some snow and the amazing view from the picture window in the lounge was transformed into a completely different type of landscape view of this beautiful mountain and loch scene, and became a wonderful winter wonderland snowy scene of the Five Sisters of Kintail mountains and Loch Duich covered in snow, which was absolutely beautiful. Creag Ruadh cottage has a good-sized, traditional rustic pine kitchen, which was very well-organised and very clean and well-equipped, and off the kitchen there was a useful porch for our outdoor clothes and coats. There was also a pleasant separate dining room, which was ideal for our Christmas meal and this cottage is really quite spacious and both of the bedrooms were an excellent size and had good wardrobe space and storage and also had the most wonderful views to wake up to each day, as each bedroom had a large picture window, which overlooked the lovely garden and the amazingly stunning views of Loch Duich and the very beautiful Five Sisters of Kintail mountains range. The main bedroom had another lovely high beamed ceiling, which added to the character of this room, and was furnished with traditional pine furniture. The bathroom was a good size and was very clean and had a nice shower area but the hand rail on the wall of the shower needed replacing, but really apart from this, Creagan Ruadh cottage is an excellent and very comfortable cottage and has a wonderfully beautiful view of the mountains and loch and provides a peaceful and tremendously beautiful place to have a holiday and the opportunity to explore so many places within the North West Highlands area and Lochalsh and also the Isle of Skye. There were numerous places to drive to from the cottage that we would recommend and really enjoyed visiting and also some wonderful walking trails near the immediate vicinity of the cottage. Immediately above the location of Creagan Ruadh cottage there is an old logging trail, which provided some wonderful jogs for my husband in the surrounding area and up through the woods to an amazing high up view of Loch Duich and also further up again to the beginning of the wonderful and renowned view of the Five Sisters of Kintail mountains from the stunning and spectacular viewpoint at the beginning of the Mam Ratagan Pass, where there is a magnificent and beautiful view of these wonderful, rugged mountains, and this is a really marvellous place for taking photographs of this extraordinarily stunning and very unique mountain scene. The drive through the Mam Ratagan Pass starts almost immediately from the doorstep of the cottage and from the road a bit further up above the cottage, and this is one of the most wonderful and beautiful drives in the Scottish Highlands, with stunning views of the rugged mountains and wonderful forests of this beautiful mountain landscape.About a twenty-minute really lovely drive further on from this magnificent and extraordinary viewpoint, there is a wonderful drive and gradual descent into the village of Glenelg, which is a wonderful cosy place in the mountains overlooking the Isle of Skye, with a small community and a village pub and the ferry crossing for the Isle of Skye. At Glenelg there are also the remains of the historic and old eighteenth century Bernera Barracks, which was built during the era of the Jacobite risings and has an eerie and sad sense of its past history and more turbulent times. From Glenelg the road rises up fairly steeply again and there are beautiful views of the coast and the village of Glenelg down below, and only a fairly short distance a bit further along this road, there is quite a long walking trail to Sandaig bay, which was the home of the author, Gavin Maxwell, who loved nature and worked as a naturalist and writer and wrote the book, “A Ring of Bright Water”, and this remote and really peaceful and beautiful cove, where he lived happily for many years, is known to have some lovely rocky outcrops and small islands, which can be reached from the beach. We did not get to see this place during the holiday, but it would be a wonderful place to visit and there is a memorial to Gavin Maxwell at Sandaig, in this beautiful place, that he loved so much. Glenelg is somewhere that we returned to on a couple of occasions during the holiday because it is a wonderful place to visit and the starting point for the drive to Glenelg is so near to Creag Ruadh cottage and it is only a twenty minute and wonderfully beautiful drive that takes in the view of the Five Sisters of Kintail mountains, and the views of the Isle of Skye from the coastal village of Glenelg are endlessly fascinating and really beautiful.There were some beautiful country trails on the immediate doorstep of Creagan Ruadh cottage and a walking trail along the side of Loch Duich was really appreciated by our family on Christmas day, with beautiful views of the spectacular mountain scenery of this wonderful and stunningly beautiful loch. Creagan Ruadh cottage is a really lovely cosy property amongst the most amazing and wonderful mountain scenery, and we would strongly recommend it due to its peaceful and stunningly beautiful location and the excellent size of the cottage and its traditional comfortable furnishings and the warmth of the cottage during the winter season, which is essential for any winter holiday. Creagan Ruadh cottage is also situated in an ideal location for wonderful drives and excursions into the stunningly beautiful mountain villages of the local area and also to the extraordinarily beautiful Isle of Skye and the wonderful North- West Highlands. There were a large variety of really beautiful drives and also some wonderfully beautiful and really stunning walking trails in the immediate area around the cottage and also some magnificent places to visit and walking trails in the beautiful local mountain villages of the Morvich mountains area and at lovely Loch Long. The wonderful Lochalsh coast has a beautiful bay at Balmacara surrounded by lovely woodlands and crags, where there are some walking trails along the coast and through beautiful woodlands. A bit further on from here, and not too far from the Kyle of Lochalsh, we discovered the pretty coastal village of Plockton, which is a wonderful place with a seaside atmosphere that has a really spectacular and stunning setting amongst the mountains and is situated on the edge of the sea loch at Loch Carron. Creagan Ruadh cottage also provided some wonderful opportunities for beautiful drives much further afield into the more remote mountains and lovely lochs of the North West Highlands to wonderfully beautiful and unique places like Loch Maree and Loch Torridon, and in addition to this the possibility of some amazing ventures onto the wonderful and extraordinarily beautiful Isle of Skye, and we would recommend Craigh Ruadh cottage as an ideal base for exploring this area and as a really comfortable and lovely cottage, with a really stunning and peaceful location for a holiday in the Highlands.

• Kerry

  Return visit to this lovely cozy cottage. It’s all about the view, whatever the weather the view is constantly changing, but is always fabulous. You find yourself watching out the picture window rather than the tv.You can enjoy walks from the door or use the car and explore a bit further, Skye is not too far away, Applecross is a stunning drive.We would recommend to either take shopping with you or get it delivered (worked well for us) as there are no shops close by. We also saw porpoise from the lounge window and had regular visits from wildlife in the garden. Love this cottage, Thank you for sharing.

• Confirmed Guest

  Fabulous location, lovely cottage. Our second visit.