COUNTRY LIFE – SATURDAY 4TH JUNE 1927.
A HOLIDAY SUGGESTION. A GREAT SCOTTISH HOTEL.
A beautiful Scottish house, built in 1851 by Robert Napier, builder of the first ironclad steamship, has now become one of the leading hotels in Scotland, indeed, of the British Isles.
It is the Shandon, on the shores of the Gareloch, and the photograph reproduced on this page gives some idea of the magnificent accommodation offered to visitors by this great country house.
Among a few of the points of interest to those who are attracted by the idea of a Scotch holiday may be mentioned covered tennis courts, a huge ballroom with a beautiful spring floor, private golf course, bowls, croquet and billiards and, perhaps, the greatest attraction of all, two salt-water swimming lakes and two gymnasia, one of each reserved for women visitors. There are also private bathrooms for hot, cold, fresh or salt bath, and an efficient swimming attendant and masseur, who controls Turkish, Russian, spray baths and so forth.
To all this must be added excellent cooking, poultry, eggs and vegetables from the hotel’s own farm, a fine selection of wines and a station five miles away, so that passengers can leave King’s Cross at 7.30pm and wake up at Shandon next morning at 6.40 in time for swim before breakfast. The scenery, needless to say, is glorious, the air most invigorating and the climate astonishingly mild in the months that are generally regarded as cold in Scotland.
Particulars may be obtained from the Proprietor, Mr R Mitchell, Shandon Hotel, Shandon, the Gareloch, NB.
Shandon People and History 
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