The growing preference for holiday rentals over traditional hotels in Scotland is driven by several key factors that appeal to modern travellers, especially families and groups.
Here are the main reasons people are choosing rentals:
🏠 Enhanced Space and Comfort
- A Home-Away-From-Home: Rentals typically offer much more space than a standard hotel room, often including separate living areas, multiple bedrooms, and private outdoor spaces like gardens.
- Ideal for Groups and Families: For larger parties, booking a single holiday home is usually more cost-effective and comfortable than reserving multiple hotel rooms. Everyone can stay together under one roof. A hotel will offer a family room with 4 or more people sleeping in the one room! Why are you paying for this when you do not sleep like that in your own home – you all want your own space and bedroom surely?
🍽️ Flexibility and Self-Catering
- Cost Savings on Meals: Having a fully equipped kitchen allows guests to prepare their own meals, which can lead to significant savings compared to eating out for every breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- Freedom from Schedules: Unlike hotels with set breakfast times and housekeeping schedules, rentals offer complete flexibility over your daily routine. You can eat when you want and come and go as you please.
- Dietary Needs: Self-catering is perfect for guests with specific dietary requirements, allergies, or young children, as they have full control over food preparation.
- You can also bring all your own drink and as such not paying hugely inflated hotel bar prices for good quality drink of your choosing.
🐾 Pet-Friendly Options
- Many holiday rentals, particularly those in rural or coastal areas, are pet-friendly, allowing people to bring their dogs—a significant factor for many families on a staycation.
🌄 Location and Scenery
- Rentals offer a greater choice of locations, including more remote and secluded spots near lochs and coastlines, which aligns with the desire of many visitors to experience Scotland’s natural beauty and engage in outdoor activities like walking and cycling and many more family friendly fun activities.
In summary, the key benefits for the consumer boil down to more space, greater privacy, cost-effectiveness for groups, and the flexibility of self-catering.
All the more reason to book a Susan Reid Collection property