There are a mountain of activities in and around the North Kessock area. You will find all the information available at or reception and our friendly staff are on hand to help you plane your perfect day.
The City of Inverness
Inverness is the hub of the Scottish Highlands, an area renowned for its spectacular landscape, proud history and vibrant culture. A European millenium city, Inverness is the retail, business, educationa nd social centre for its residents and some 8,000,000 overnight visitors per year.
Leisure, Culture & Tourism
There is a fast expansion of restaurants, cafes and bars prviding a cosmopolitan nightlife as well as a developing street cafe culture. Eden Court Theatre is one of the leading conference and theatrical centrepieces in Scotland. Golf, fishing, hillwalking, cycling and choice of boat trips along the Caledonian canal for Loch Ness or the Moray Firth for Bottle nose dolphin spotting. Day trips to Cairngorn National Park, Culloden Battlefield ro maybe a local whisky distillery tour and tasting.
Golfing Holidays in the Highlands
A wide range of golf clubs and courses are available throughout the Highlands and Islands. Visit our Golfing section for more information about some of the clubs near the hotel.
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The Moray firth is home to about 130 Bottlenose Dolphins. They are normally seen as small "bands" of six or seven animals comprising two or three females and their calves. The males tend to be solitary and are not often present.
The Moray Firth Dolphins are one of only a few known groups, in British waters. In the summer months they often frequent inshore waters where they can be easily seen, to the delight of visitor and resident alike.
The Dolphin and Seal Centre has a magnificent view of the Moray Firth. Pick up a set of binoculars and spot one of the 130 individual animals or the many seals in the Firth. Minke Whales can sometimes be seen in the Moray Firth between August and October. The toothed whales are represented in the Moray Firth by bottlenose dolphin, white-beaked dolphin, Atlantic white-sided dolphin, common dolphin, Risso's dolphin and harbour porpoise. Of these the bottlenose dolphin and the harbour porpoise are by far the most common.
Underwater microphones (hydrophones) pick up dolphin, seal and other underwater sounds and relay them to amplifiers in the Centre. Put on a set of headphones and you can tune in to this undiscovered world.
Depart from Inverness harbour out onto the Moray Firth where we have the best chance of seeing the most northerly group of bottlenose dolphins in the world plus common seals, grey seals and porpoise. In the moray firth there is a lot of bird life such as terns, gannets, fulmers, razorbills, kittiwakes, red kites, ospreys, and a variety of wadding birds on the shoreline mud flats and Munlochy Bay which is the R.S.P.B. sanctuary.
