Scotland Visit 2010

**Trigger** Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:19 am

Starting Thursday 27th May 2010

We are planning our first Club tour to Scotland hosted by our Scottish Snippets man - Jim Grant. The date will be from Thursday 27th May 2010 with two options of either a long weekend or continuing on for a full week-long tour up into the Scottish Highlands.

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The first stopover point will be Grangemouth or Falkirk which is about 330 miles from Paul Matty Sportscars in Bromsgrove.

From then on the itinerary will include some of Scotland's fantastic West Coast scenery driving on traffic-free and challenging roads.

There are to be many opportunities to enjoy fine food, stop for regular tea and coffee breaks, see stunning countryside and enjoy the complete experience of driving in Scotland.

Visits will include the famous lochs and castles, David Coulthard, Jimmy Clark and Bo'ness car museums, along with a visit to Knockhill Race Circuit.

The full itinerary and details will be listed soon, so please reserve your place by contacting Chris Mayhew (events organiser) as soon as possible at christophermayhew@btinternet.com

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**Trigger** Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:32 am

Might as well start our online list to help the planning process Wink

1. Chris and Tash (week long)

**Conway** Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:34 am

1. Chris and Tash (week long)
2. Joan & Conway - week long visit (travelling up Thursday)

**Trigger** Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:19 pm

1. Chris and Tash (week long)
2. Joan & Conway - week long visit
3. CAM - weekend
4. TimS - week long visit

CAM wrote:Dear All,
I am planning to travel up on the Thursday arriving late afternoon with the idea of a welcome dinner Thursday night. I will only be up for the long weekend and intend to drive south on Monday and back to work on Tuesday.
We chose this time because of the school holidays, but I do appreciate the hotels/B&B's will be busier/dearer.
Jim Grant is working on the final route plus accomodation, which I hope to post early/middle of Jan 2010. We then all need to book up pronto to secure the rooms.
Best wishes & a very Happy New Year.
Chris Mayhew

Nice one Chris ... look forward to the details.

**TimS** Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:03 pm

2010 has started at a pace and despite the snow we are busy tweaking and planning the LDC events for the year.

Why not join us for this exciting tour of Scotland at the end of May. You can do a long weekend or the extended west coast tour for a week.

This promises to be a great oportunity to stretch the legs of your Lotus and visit some spectacular places. Our long term LDC man - Jim Grant (Scottish Snippets in Chicane) is busy working on the itinery.

We should have details of hotels and full route etc very soon so if you are looking for a great touring holiday then book your place with Chris Mayhew a.s.a.p.

Cheers, Tim. Scotland Visit 2010 Icon_smile

1. Chris and Tash - week long visit
2. Joan & Conway - week long visit
3. CAM - weekend
4.
5. Colin - weekend
6. Gill/Martin - tbc
7. Jennie/Richard - week long visit

**Trigger** Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:24 am

Non official list:

1. Chris and Tash - week long visit
2. Joan & Conway - week long visit
3. CAM - weekend
4. TimS - week long visit
5. Colin - weekend
6. Gill/Martin - tbc
7. Jennie/Richard - week long visit
8. Steve_P - LEC

**STEVE.E** Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:00 pm

have booked the time off work on the friday so will be traveling up north with the convoy. Can only make it for the weekend have to be back at work on the Tuesday, so will be coming back down on the monday after visiting Hazels grandparents in Paisly. Have added our names to the list. Looking foward to it, fingers crossed for some sunny weather Scotland Visit 2010 Icon_biggrin

1. Chris and Tash - week long visit
2. Joan & Conway - week long visit
3. CAM - weekend
4. TimS - week long visit
5. Colin - weekend
6. Gill/Martin - tbc
7. Jennie/Richard - week long visit
8. Steve_P - LEC
9. Steve & Hazel - Weekend

**CAM** Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:25 pm

Can everyone planning to go to Scotland please tell me if you are going up Thursday 27th May or Friday 28th May?
Thanks
Chris Mayhew

**Trigger** Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:56 pm

CAM wrote:Can everyone planning to go to Scotland please tell me if you are going up Thursday 27th May or Friday 28th May?
Thanks Chris Mayhew

1. Chris and Tash - week visit - traveling up Thursday
2. Joan & Conway - week visit
3. CAM - weekend
4. TimS - week visit
5. Colin - weekend
6. Gill/Martin - tbc
7. Jennie/Richard - week visit
8. Steve_P - LEC - week visit - traveling up Friday night
9. Steve & Hazel - weekend

New details will be posted on the website in the next coming week of details for accommodation and traveling itinerary.

**TimS** Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:58 pm

Trigger wrote:
CAM wrote:Can everyone planning to go to Scotland please tell me if you are going up Thursday 27th May or Friday 28th May?
Thanks Chris Mayhew

1. Chris and Tash - week visit - traveling up Thursday
2. Joan & Conway - week visit
3. CAM - weekend
4. Tim & Sue - cancelled - work committments
5. Colin - weekend
6. Gill/Martin - tbc
7. Jennie/Richard - week visit
8. Steve_P - LEC - week visit - traveling up Friday night
9. Steve & Hazel - weekend

New details will be posted on the website in the next coming week of details for accommodation and traveling itinerary.

**Conway** Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:25 pm

TimS wrote:
Trigger wrote:
CAM wrote:Can everyone planning to go to Scotland please tell me if you are going up Thursday 27th May or Friday 28th May?
Thanks Chris Mayhew

1. Chris and Tash - week visit - traveling up Thursday
2. Joan & Conway - week visit - travelling up Thursday
3. CAM - weekend
4. Tim & Sue - week visit -travelling up Thursday
5. Colin - weekend
6. Gill/Martin - tbc
7. Jennie/Richard - week visit
8. Steve_P - LEC - week visit - traveling up Friday night
9. Steve & Hazel - weekend

New details will be posted on the website in the next coming week of details for accommodation and traveling itinerary.

**CAM** Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:11 pm

1. Chris and Tash - week visit - traveling up Thursday
2. Joan & Conway - week visit - traveling up Thursday
3. CAM - weekend - traveling up Thursday
4. Tim & Sue - week visit -travelling up Thursday
5. Colin - weekend
6. Gill/Martin - week visit
7. Jennie/Richard - week visit
8. Steve_P - LEC - week visit - traveling up Friday night - meet at Ballachulish on Saturday
9. Steve & Hazel - weekend

**CAM** Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:07 am

Dear All,
The final details are almost complete now, just waiting on a hotel confirmation Monday morning.

1st night Thursday Falkirk (Travelodge) £19 at the moment......book now yourself

2nd-4th night Friday-Sunday Isles of Glencoe Hotel ...awaiting conf tomorrow £315-£375 B&B

Weekenders leave

5th & 6th night Monday-Tuesday Inverness

7th night Wednesday Pitlochry

8th night Livingstone nr Edinburgh

Home.

If you have any questions please contact me and I will try and answer them. I will be posting a final hotel list and route plan during next week, so please expect an email or call.

CAM

**Trigger** Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:38 pm

CAM wrote:1st night Thursday Falkirk (Travelodge) £19 at the moment......book now yourself

This has risen to £22 ... advise to book asap Wink

**Trigger** Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:24 pm

Have booked the hotels for the week long tour.

Thursday 27 (1 night) - Falkirk Travelodge - £22 per room
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=349

Friday 28 to Sunday 30 (3 nights) - The Ballachulish Hotel - £110 per room per night (booked under Lotus Drivers Club) http://www.ballachulishhotel.com/

Monday 31 to Tuesday 01 (2 nights) - New Drumossie Hotel, Inverness - £95 per room per night (booked under Jennie Wilson / Lotus Drivers Club) http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/new-drumossie/index.htm?

Wednesday 02 (1 night) - Craigvrack Hotel, Pitlochry - £80 per room (booked under Lotus Drivers Club)
http://www.craigvrack.com/

Thursday 03 (1 night) - Premier Inn tbc

Further details and the accommodation itinerary can also be downloaded from the Lotus Drivers Club website:
http://www.lotusdriversclub.org.uk/Events/ScotlandVisit/tabid/111/Default.aspx

**A7ESK** Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:48 pm

Trigger wrote:Have booked the hotels for the week long tour.

Thursday 27 (1 night) - Falkirk Travelodge - £22 per room
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=349

Friday 28 to Sunday 30 (3 nights) - The Ballachulish Hotel - £110 per room per night (booked under Lotus Drivers Club) http://www.ballachulishhotel.com/

Monday 31 to Tuesday 01 (2 nights) - New Drumossie Hotel, Inverness - £95 per room per night (booked under Jennie Wilson / Lotus Drivers Club) http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/new-drumossie/index.htm?

Wednesday 02 (1 night) - Craigvrack Hotel, Pitlochry - £80 per room (booked under Lotus Drivers Club)
http://www.craigvrack.com/

Thursday 03 (1 night) - Premier Inn tbc

Further details and the accommodation itinerary can also be downloaded from the Lotus Drivers Club website:
http://www.lotusdriversclub.org.uk/Events/ScotlandVisit/tabid/111/Default.aspx

Well done Chris in booking all that up .
affraid

Eddie.

**Simon Hough** Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:56 pm

The Ballachulish is a nice hotel, we spent 2 night there last Novenber on our way back from the highlands. Their sister hotel has lesure facilitiys and is about 5 mins drive away. You can use them all free of charge as a guest. The only down side is they have no real beer and the their collection of malts is a bit small, but the food was very good. I suggest you make the old library room an LDC room, it has a fire and sofas so is a good place to plan the next days drive outs !!!

We also make use of the falkirk travelodge when we go up. It is basic, but the car park is reasonable it is good value for money, never had any problems there. Don't forget to go to the wheel, worth a trip as a good bit of civil engineering.

We would have gone on this trip except for the fact we are going up to Nethybridge (highlands) in March. I will be interested in the groups experiances of Scotland and if it should be repeated in furture years. The hotel we use in Nethybridge is used by many a motoring club as a base to drive the highland roads. The hotel is very old but you can get some 4 night dinner B & B packages for £120 a head so it is exceptional value for money. So maybe there would be interest for this one year ? I find the roads in Scotland just get better and better the further North you go, the A939 is one of my favourits.

Go enjoy !!

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**martin e** Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:26 pm

We have made our hotel bookings so we are all set. Great. Gill and Martin E

**Trigger** Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:49 pm

martin e wrote:We have made our hotel bookings so we are all set. Great. Gill and Martin E

Nice one ... are you coming for the full fat tour or the weekend?

**martin e** Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:49 pm

We are doing the full trip! see you Sunday at Stoneleigh breakfast run, hopefully the weather will allow it to
take place. Gill E Scotland Visit 2010 Icon_bounce

**Trigger** Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:02 pm

Has anyone confirmed which Premier Inn to stay at on the last Thursday night?

**1divla** Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:39 pm

CAM wrote:1. Chris and Tash - week visit - traveling up Thursday
2. Joan & Conway - week visit - traveling up Thursday
3. CAM - weekend - traveling up Thursday
4. Tim & Sue - week visit -travelling up Thursday
5. Colin - weekend
6. Gill/Martin - week visit
7. Jennie/Richard - week visit
8. Steve_P - LEC - week visit - traveling up Friday night - meet at Ballachulish on Saturday
9. Steve & Hazel - weekend

10. Dave & Shaz - weekend - traveling up Thursday

**Trigger** Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:08 am

Brilliant ... looking forward to this even more now we are only a few months away. Already bought the two most essential pieces of kit for this trip ... two LDC beanie hats Laughing

Here's the updated list from online attendees:

01. Chris and Tash - week visit - traveling up Thursday
02. Joan & Conway - week visit - traveling up Thursday
03. CAM - weekend - traveling up Thursday
04. Colin - weekend
05. Gill/Martin - week visit
06. Jennie/Richard - week visit
07. Steve_P - LEC - week visit - traveling up Friday night - meet at Ballachulish on Saturday
08. Dave & Shaz - weekend - traveling up Thursday

**martin e** Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:45 pm

Hi Chris, Steve and Hazel not able to make this trip now, looks like the information has not filtered through to you yet Gill E

**Jennie** Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:13 pm

Hi All

Only 5 weeks to go ..... the final hotel has now been decided it is the Premier Inn, Leith for the night of Thursday 3rd June. Close to the Brittania and Edinburgh, and it will be celebrations all round as it is our wedding anniversary that day.

Please could all of those who are going to the whole trip please let me have your contact numbers so that mobile phone numbers can be exchanged. I have had to release the rooms that had been provisionally booked at both Inverness and Pitlochry to avoid charges to my credit card, however, the hotels assure me that if there are any late comers they still have rooms available. Just make sure that you tell them that you are part of the group.

Myself, Richard, Gill and Martin, Chris and Tash intend to start early on Thursday 27th May, and if anyone else would like to join us there will be a coffee break meeting at Keele Services on the M6 at 7-7:30am. We want to get a head start so that hopefully we will be able to reach Falkirk with enough time to see the 'Wheel'. We have provisionally thought the Tebay Services would be the next meeting point at around10-11am for a late breakfast/early lunch. Again if anyone is thinking of joining us please could you let me know.

Jennie

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