There are six cottages and two apartments available for let throughout the year at Bonawe House. The two elegant apartments are part of the main house. The six cottages are set around a sunny courtyard to the rear of the main house. They are furnished mainly in pine with original Scottish paintings and have direct access to the gardens. All our accommodation has a dishwasher, cosy living flame fire in each livingroom and a bath and shower. Wifi access from our reception and most of the cottages.
The superking beds can be separated into singles on request.
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2 people, 1 twin bedroom (will be a king bedroom Autumn 08) |
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A bright detached ground floor cottage, without steps inside. Rose has an open plan kitchen and living room with large picture windows. Rose has been graded at 4 star accommodation. |
4 people, 1super kingbed, 1 twin bedroom |
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A particularly spacious first floor cottage with separate entrance overlooking the formal gardens. Honeysuckle has a large farmhouse kitchen/ dining area and a separate living room. |
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2 people, 1 super kingbed (can be twin by request) |
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A cosy ground floor cottage with bags of character. Clematis has an open plan kitchen and living room, with views through the trees over the loch. Clematis has been graded at 4 star accommodation. |
5 people, 1 king bed, 1 full size bunk bedroom, 1 single bedroom |
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A cheerful detached ground floor cottage. The kitchen and spacious living room are open plan. No steps inside. |
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2 or 4 people, 1 double bedroom, 1 full size bunk bedroom |
 Left hand side |
Holly has an airy open plan kitchen and living room on the ground floor, the bedrooms are upstairs. Outside of school holidays it can be booked at the 2 person price |
6 people, 1 super king bed, 2 twin bedrooms |
Top 5 windows on the left |
Situated on the second floor of main house. The kitchen and living room are separate. Very spacious with stunning views across Loch Etive. |
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4 people, 2 twin bedrooms (2 beds could be joined if requested)
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Downstairs right hand side |
A cosy ground floor cottage with a separate kitchen and living room. The three foot thick walls give extra character. |
4 people, 1 double bedroom, 1 twin bedroom |
All the right hand section |
Downstairs it has a magnificent large oak panelled drawing room with piano, kitchen/dining room and a separate toilet. The upstairs has two bedrooms with stunning views across the Loch. The master bedroom is exceptionally grand and gracious. The bathroom has a traditional bath with shower, underfloor heating and a 'loo with a view'. Furnished throughout with period furniture and decor appropriate to a property of this splendour. The additional facilities include a washing machine, tumble dryer. |
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1 Rose Cottage 2 Holly Cottage 3 Garden Cottage 4 Honeysuckle Cottage 5 Clematis Cottage 6 Hydrangea Cottage 7 Edwardian Apartment 8 Reception 9 Etive View Apartment |
All cottages have:
A copy of all the information on this website within a comprehensive file, also lots of local leaflets. Map of walks around the house.
Living room: Large colour TV (usually we have 4 channels), most have teletext access, DVD player that can play most music CDs. All livingrooms have a cosy livingflame fireplace. A 'freeplay' torch and radio that are powered by winding them up.
Kitchen: Dishwasher, under worktop fridge with freezer compartment, electric cooker, extractor, oven with grill, toaster, kettle, microwave. Crockery and cutlery for the number of people in each cottage. Pans and other cooking utensils. Teapot and cafetiere. Iron and ironing board. Drying rack (airer), vacuum cleaner and sweeping brush.
Bathrooms: Bath with shower in the bath. The Etive shower is an electric shower, all other showers are gravity fed from the hot tank. The Rose shower is a power shower. Toilet, sink with light and shaver socket. Most bathrooms have an electric towel heater. The Edwardian, Etive and Hydrangea bathrooms have tiles with underfloor heating, all other bathrooms have a linoleum floor.
Bedrooms: We have a variety of sleeping arrangements. The single beds are all 1.90m (6ft 3") long and 90 cm wide (3ft). The double beds are 1.90 m long (6'3") and 1.35 m wide. The king beds are 2.00m long and 1.50m wide. The super king sized are 2 singles linked together, so 1.90m long by 1.80m wide. All single beds have a single duvet cover of 2m long by 1.35m wide. The doubles, king and super king all have superking sized duvets which are 2.20m long by 2.60m wide.
All beds have an electric blanket, except for the bunk beds. All beds have a 13 tog duvet.
All cottages have at least one storage heater and an instant convector heater for each room.
We provide the following 'consumables': Washing up liquid, dishwasher powder (without phosphates), washing up brush, dishcloths. Liquid soaps by washbasins. Toilet roll and bin bags. We provide Ecover and other 'green products' and re-fill all the bottles, luxury recycled toilet paper and recycled bin bags.
We will leave behind in cottages any oil, pepper and salt that have been left by previous guests.
Communal access in reception to: Extensive DVD library with 100+ titles, Resource books and walks with some local maps (not OS maps), games (such as monopoly and cluedo) and Scottish Jigsaws. Coin phone. Upright Dyson vacuum cleaners. Converter socket for European guests. Hairdryer. Wifi access from reception and some cottages.
We will do any washing and drying for £4 (double a normal washing machine load).
Unusual for our area is that we have separated rubbish collection for 3 different colours of glass and paper. We also have our own compost bin for fruit and vegetable waste that you can use.
We can accommodate anyone with allergies and asthma, and ensure there is no perfumed products in your cottage (all our products are green, but some still have perfumes), just let us know how we can help. Also using ultra sensitive washing powder for sheets etc.
Midge free zone - what does it mean? Scotland is known for the midges, let me give you a brief overview of what they are and their habits. Midgies are tiny flying insects, and some of the species have females that need a blood meal before they mate. They like to be around wet boggy areas, when the air is still. Any wind and you won't notice them, when you walk at pace you won't notice them, as they can't fly fast enough to keep up. Particularly when you camp you will notice them in the evenings. Typically they are around from the end of May until early September. They are attracted by carbon dioxide in your breath. Around Taynuilt we have not found them that bad, but when the first machines came out to control them we immediately bought one, and have located it just behind Holly cottage. It gives off Carbon Dioxide to attract the females, and they are lured into a net. This reduces the breeding population locally, i.e., just around our house and immediate gardens. Along with the machines came the logo for display on websites.