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What is probably my favourite hotel/restaurant which is 15km up a single track road from the nearest village on the edge of the Moor of Rannoch is right next to where the wonderfully named Deerstalker train has a stop - so even though there are like 3 buildings in the middle of nowhere they have a direct train service from London:

https://www.seat61.com/deerstalker.htm

https://www.moorofrannoch.co.uk/

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Very cool, didn't even realize the UK had such large mountains/ranges.

Well, the mountains aren't very high but they can be quite challenging and rather pretty:

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opAWJnD0Jro

Also for more details:

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/

Also, for the mountain bikers out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_IQS3VKjA

> mountains aren't very high

Yes and no. For example Aonach Beag is 4049 ft above sea level. But it basically begins at sea level. By contrast Mt Cowen, one of the highest local peaks near me here in Montana is 11212ft above sea level, but the bottom of it is roughly 5000ft so not that much higher in terms of actual mountain to climb.

A fair point - I remember thinking that when I worked in Denver for a bit and visited the Rocky Mountains up past Estes Park and thought that the scale of the mountains top to bottom looked kind of familiar - just that the bottom was a hell of a lot higher than sea level!

Prominence is one measure of relative height of mountains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence

I suppose since there's only three buildings they can choose to charge whatever they want. I had a look on the hotels website and it was £700 per night. While I'm sure it's lovely, a room for the night is certainly not affordable for most of the UK population.

That's not correct - for an extremely good dinner, room and multi-course breakfast we've always been about £450 for two people - which includes the dinner at £85 pounds each (on the website), wine etc.

So its not really that expensive and actually quite good value compared to a lot of places - it is a treat after all, not somewhere you'd go every weekend.

NB I've no connection to the place other than really liking it.

You're right, sorry. I'd two days selected rather than one. £450 is still quite a lot, but like you say, manageable as a one-off event and certainly seems worth it from how you've described it.

>> NB I've no connection to the place other than really liking it

Understand. How you described it made me consider a visit. Great venue and location.

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