Travel: Dornoch Castle Hotel, Dornoch
History flows through the veins of the town and nowhere more so than Dornoch Castle Hotel, the ideal base from which to explore the royal burgh and coastline of east Sutherland. Believed to have been built in the 13th century as the bishop's palace for the neighbouring cathedral, the castle served as a court, jail and school down the years before becoming a hotel in 1947.
The Thompson family took over the hotel in 2000 and have refurbished the castle to a very high level, offering a mixture of "standard" and "superior" class rooms. At present, the two stars of the show are the pair of "deluxe" rooms, called the Old Courtroom and the Cathedral View Suite.
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