Loch Ness Highland Resort

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Touring area
In an area of outstanding natural beauty
Playground
Park location

  • Scenic Highlands site by the shores of Loch Ness
  • A 25-minute drive from Urquhart Castle and 55 minutes from Inverness
  • Restaurant and shop on site; watersports and archery nearby
If you fancy spending some of your holiday trying to spot Nessie from lakeshores, and some taking in the scenic Scottish Highlands, take a look at Loch Ness Highland Resort, a family-friendly site in the village of Fort Augustus. Just five minutes’ walk (less than half a mile) from the shores of the famed Loch Ness, there are no prizes for guessing what the biggest draw is around these parts. The site’s also about five minutes from boat cruises on the loch, and from the Caledonian Canal (which runs from Inverness to the west coast at Fort William) and the 79-mile Great Glen Way that largely follows its route. For those in need of rather more activity, the site team can recommend local activities such as whitewater rafting, kayaking, gorge walking, river rafting, rock climbing, abseiling and archery, so staying busy is a cinch. The site itself also spreads across 40 acres of countryside, so kids (and excitable grownups) will also have plenty of space to run about in. All this could possibly be hungry work so it's handy that there's a bar-restaurant right on site to sort meals, and a handful of local eateries in the pretty Fort Augustus. After making sure everyone is fed, spend the long evenings during high season keeping eyes wide open to spy out eagles, ospreys, red stags, pine martens and red squirrels.

Site type

Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 27
Touring caravan pitches 30
Motorhome pitches 30
Open now
Opens 1 March

Tourist board rating

Please note
  • Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians.
  • Single-sex bookings of 6 or more people (couples and immediate family members excepted) are not permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • No hen/stag parties permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • Commercial vehicles (vehicles used for work-related purposes, carrying goods or fare-paying passengers) and sign-written vehicles are not permitted on site.

Languages spoken

English

Open from Sat, 1 Mar to

Pitch types & availability

Reviews

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would recommend this site to a friend

47%

would stay here again

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Quiet but majorly lacking

Overall 1/10
Location 6
Value for money 2
Accommodation 3
Facilities / Activities 1
Customer service 4
Child friendliness 1
Cleanliness 2
Wifi 1
Davina W. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Peacfull and spacious pitch

Disliked: Toilet and shower facilities are poor, only 3 toilets and 3 showers which are like portable toilets.
If you want to clean your teeth you need to use the small sink next to the toilet as no basins within the showers.
Nothing to dry your hands on after the toilet.
There are also no pot washing facilities.
Also this site is not wheelchair or mobility scooter accessible as the ground is all uneven gravel.
For the price we have paid it’s poor compared to the others we have stayed at this week.
If I had known how poor the site was I would have chosen somewhere else.

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So much improved and so welcoming and clean and tidy.

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 9
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Warm welcome especially from Izzy at the restaurant when we had a great meal of fish and chips when we arrived after a long drive,(and a lovely pint of lager). Steve who was working on the roof of the new toilet block was so friendly and welcoming.
The site is in a different league to the last time we arrived and is so much improved.
Loads of space between pitches and very nice shower block.

Disliked: too much gravel hardstanding which was a pain as it was dry and dusty, but thats it.

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thus not a balanced price/performance ratio and overpriced

Overall 2/10
Location 10
Value for money 1
Accommodation 2
Facilities / Activities 1
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 1
Wifi 1
Rainer G. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: 1) The location of the site
2) the friendliness of the staff

Disliked: considering that the site was recently opened 1) with the excessive amount of gravel the site seems cold and uncomfortable 2) the sanitary facilities consist of containers like at a mass event,

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Friendly check in. Spacious pitches, with new privacy screens being developed…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Friendly check in. Spacious pitches, with new privacy screens being developed with new plants between them. Would benefit from more toilet/shower facilities if the site was busy, although it was very quiet when we were there.

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Don’t stay there

Overall 1/10
Location 5
Value for money 1
Accommodation 1
Facilities / Activities 1
Customer service 3
Child friendliness 1
Cleanliness 1
Wifi 1
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Not much

Disliked: We booked into here as a campervan campsite as we finished the NC500, and they charged us £35, a relatively high rate considering the unfinished state of the place. When we got there the campsite is essentially a large gravel area, like a rough unfinished car park.

The tiny toilet block (unheated) was still being built and only had 1 working shower with limited hot water, and three tiny plastic unheated modular toilets. It’ll freeze solid in winter. There was no dish wash area, and the electric hook up had a cash limit. Very very poor value considering other sites we had been on.

The Resort site appears to be essentially a place to sell static caravans and lodges….and not a campsite, which I think is a recent afterthought.

Reception was helpful, but did not have any suggestions for the lack of facilities…in fact she shrugged and suggested we wash our dirty plates in the shower.

The campsite is an unfinished car park and is not fit to be marketed as such.

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In general it was a good stay - only one good sized shower cubicle

Overall 7/10
Location 10
Value for money 7
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 7
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 7
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Good communication and easy check in
Quiet area and good location
Clean

Disliked: Was expecting a hard level standing but it was gravel.
The showers were clean but need a more spacious cubicle (to include an area for drying and getting dressed). There was only one good sized shower with space to dry off others too small

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Friendly staff, good size pitches, black water dump and fresh water available.…

Overall 7/10
Location 10
Value for money 6
Accommodation 7
Facilities / Activities 4
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
James M. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Friendly staff, good size pitches, black water dump and fresh water available. Close enough to town to walk.

Disliked: Bit pricey, showers were not good, only one out of 2 machines working in laundrette.

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Ruhig gelegen, gutes Restaurant am Platz.Personal sehr freundlich…

Overall 3/10
Location 6
Value for money 3
Accommodation 3
Facilities / Activities 3
Customer service 7
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness No rating
Wifi No rating
Armin B. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Ruhig gelegen, gutes Restaurant am Platz.Personal sehr freundlich

Disliked: WC Anlage und Duschen sehr spärlich, ziemlich kalt dort. Plätze zwar eben, aber nur geschottert und ziemlich abseits gelegen. Sieht so aus, als ob sich alles noch im Aufbau befindet.

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Good location, needs more/better facilities for camping

Overall 5/10
Location 10
Value for money 5
Accommodation 5
Facilities / Activities 5
Customer service 7
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 5
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Easy check-in, good communication via email and from the lady at reception. Large pitches for motorhomes. Easy access to Fort Augustus, Loch Ness and the Caledonian Canal.

Disliked: There are not enough toilets and showers for the number of pitches. We were advised of on going works before we arrived but shocked to find three working toilets and only three showers. We didn’t use the showers on the last morning as we saw a couple take their dogs into the showers to clean them rather than use the fresh water taps. A little respect for other campers would have been nice, unable to report as reception was closed.

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Lovely site

Overall 8/10
Location 9
Value for money 7
Accommodation 9
Facilities / Activities 8
Customer service 9
Child friendliness 6
Cleanliness 6
Wifi No rating
Aisling A. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric gravel and hardstanding touring caravan pitch

Liked: Very dog friendly, lovely new showers, managers of the site were very friendly and told us nice walks to go on. Is two minute walk into the town.

Disliked: Price for two dogs was 24 for the stay was expensive

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Features

Leisure on site

Bar or club house Cycle hire Evening entertainment Fishing Fitness centre Games room Indoor swimming pool Kids' club On-site restaurant/cafe Outdoor swimming pool Play area TV room Take away Tennis Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available Car parking by pitch/unit Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Launderette Parent & baby washroom Pick-up from public transport Portable toilet Pub toilets Public telephone Shower available Toilet block Washing-up area Wifi

Groups welcome

D. of E. welcome Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided Barbecues allowed Campfires allowed Commercial vehicles allowed Dogs allowed Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Budget/backpacker Forest Lake and/or mountain Peaceful Spectacular scenery Walkers' paradise Wildlife haven

Utilities

Charging facilities Chemical disposal Electric car charging point(s) Gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Dog walk nearby Public transport nearby Shop nearby

Type

Large (51-200 pitches)

Nearby leisure

Canoeing/kayaking nearby Climbing nearby Cycle hire nearby Cycling nearby Fishing nearby Golf nearby Horse riding nearby Mountain biking nearby Restaurant nearby Sailing nearby Watersports nearby

Location

Loch Ness Highland Resort

Glendoe Road

Fort Augustus

Highlands and Islands

Scotland

PH32 4BG

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London BST (GMT+01:00)

GPS

57.14226°N
-4.68313°W

Nearest transport

Coach
8 mi Loch Ness Youth Hostel
15.4 mi Post Office
29 mi Bus Station
Rail
17.9 mi Tulloch Rail Station
18.5 mi Roy Bridge Rail Station
19.6 mi Spean Bridge Rail Station
Ferry
0.2 mi Fort Augustus Ferry Landing
22.6 mi Inverness Loch Ness Ferry Landing
27.4 mi Camusnagaul Ferry Landing

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

Explores of Loch Ness are an absolute must on any stay here. Make immediate tracks from base to the spectacularly placed Urquhart Castle (25 minutes’ drive), then continue onwards to the Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition (30 minutes) to learn about 500 million years of the lake’s history and to find out where all those Nessie stories started. Travel the length of Loch Ness to reach Inverness (55 minutes), where there are botanic gardens to wander, dolphin-spotting tours to take, a cathedral and castle to visit, museums and arts centres to traipse through, and plenty of shopping to be had. Just outside the city, a stop at Culloden (an hour and five minutes) comes highly recommended to learn more about the battle that ended the Jacobite uprising of the 18th century. Heading south instead, a 50-minute drive will land guests in Fort William, the starting point of hikes up Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest mountain, as well as the home of the Ben Nevis Distillery and the West Highland Museum. Further afield, it’s a little over an hour to the edge of Cairngorms National Park, explores of which should include stops at Dalwhinnie Distillery, the Highland Folk Museum, RZSS Highland Wildlife Park and Landmark Forest Adventure Park, among lots else.

Must see

Caledonian Canal Heritage Centre 0.2 mi

Urquhart Castle 14.3 mi

The Official Loch Ness Monster Exhibition 15.5 mi

Nevis Range Cable Cars 25.6 mi

Ben Nevis Distillery 25.8 mi

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

Caledonian Canal: Fort Augustus - Kytra Lock 0.3 mi

Fort Augustus to Glenmoriston 0.5 mi

Jenkins Park Circuit, Fort Augustus 0.5 mi

River Oich Walk: Fort Augustus 0.8 mi

Torr Dhuin Forest Walk 2 mi

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Offers

Conditions apply - see pitch type section for details

Nearest sites

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Frequently asked questions

  • Does Loch Ness Highland Resort have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Loch Ness Highland Resort dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Loch Ness Highland Resort? Explores of Loch Ness are an absolute must on any stay here. Make immediate tracks from base to the spectacularly placed Urquhart Castle (25 minutes’ drive), then continue onwards to the Loch … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Loch Ness Highland Resort?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  4 p.m. –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  10 a.m.
    On-site accommodation
    Arrive:  4 p.m. –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  10 a.m.
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Loch Ness Highland Resort? From £20 (for 1 night, 6 people) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.