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Touring Perthshire
Highland Perthshire offers the visitor a choice of Scottish holiday or short break as diverse as its scenery. The mixture of relaxation and the variety of things to do – be it walking, climbing, fishing, golf, country sports, adventure sports, cycling, motor biking or sightseeing - makes the Poppies Hotel the ideal location for a holiday.
In a region steeped in history, where you will discover as much of the past as of the present. There's so much to do that you may not want to leave! But if you want to explore further afield, The Weem Hotel makes the perfect central base for discovering much of Scotland.
The scenic, historic and cultural diversity of the surrounding area, featuring an abundance of outdoor activity and sightseeing riches, is what really brings the hotel into its own as a sensational touring and activity base. Throughout our site you’ll find out and come to understand why the glittering array of things to see and do in all directions, usually fairly close to the hotel but all well within a short drive or fulfilling day trip, is attracting so many discerning visitors, both from the UK and overseas, to the hotel every year, and choose for yourselves why you must come and share some quality time with us.
Must visits well within a easy and fulfilling day trip are Loch Lomond, The Trossachs, Glencoe, Loch Tay, Killin, Crieff and Aberfeldy – and of course the cities of Stirling, Glasgow and Perth.
Some Perthshire Heritage and Castle Trails highlights - peek back into history and recapture, if only momentarily, the events of the past in a part of Scotland which captivated the historic figures who made Scotland great.
- home of a Clan Chief at Castle Menzies, by Aberfeldy, where Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed on his way to the Battle of Culloden;
- two and a half centuries of military history at the Black Watch Museum;
- the childhood home of the Queen Mother at Glamis Castle
- the island castle on Loch Leven where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned for almost a year before her dramatic escape;
- the Church where John Knox fuelled the fire of the Reformation at St. John's Kirk in Perth;
- walk to the stunning waterfalls that inspired Robert Burns' poem; "The Birks O' Aberfeldy".
- oldest existing library in Scotland (Innerpeffray, near Crieff), founded by Lord Madderty in 1680.
- Queen's View, one of the most famous views in Scotland across Loch Tummel to Schiehallion. Queen Victoria took tea here in 1866, but the viewpoint actually commemorates Queen Isabel, first wife of Robert the Bruce.
- the fairy-tale white Blair Castle, protected by the last and only private army in Europe;
- the magnificent Scone Palace, where Kings of Scots including Robert the Bruce, were crowned - many atop the fabled Stone of Destiny.
- Listen for the footsteps of "My Lady Greensleeves" who is reputed to haunt Huntingtower Castle where Mary, Queen of Scots visited in 1565 while on her honeymoon with Darnley.
