Turnberry Holidays

There's much more to cheap UK holidays in Turnberry than a great golf venue. Yes, the town hosts the Open, but it's also a disarmingly pretty place. If you're a golfer, you'll need to be pretty good to play the links course, and pretty well-off, too. Explore the coast on your UK holidays to Turnberry, Ayrshire, and you'll enjoy a ruined castle, where Robert the Bruce was born. Also visible from the shore is Ailsa Craig, built from granite and home to 40,000 gannets. Turnberry in Ayrshire is also Burns country, and poetry fans should get along to Souter Johnny's Cottage, named after John Davidson in Burns' poem ‘Tam O'Shanter’. Among many artefacts are a family bible and shoemaking equipment. Historians will enjoy 18th-century Culzean Castle, with its stunning artwork, old furniture, armoury and Eisenhower Room. Stroll the mature gardens, explore the shoreline, then enjoy a bite in the restaurants, snack-bars or picnic area.

 

On your relaxing UK holidays in Turnberry, you'll discover a historian's heaven. For example, Crossraguel Abbey, founded in the 13th century, has been magnificently restored with a lovely church, cloister, chapter house and more. Rozelle House is also worth a trip on your UK holidays in Turnberry. It's a major Ayrshire exhibition venue with art workshops for everyone. There's yet more Burns joy to be had at the poet's Bachelors' Club, the site of his debating club. Also convenient is the Scottish Maritime Museum, with its ever-changing exhibits and displays. Dalgavern Mill and Country House Museum, meanwhile, offers walks by the river, a coffee room and some lovely antiques. For outdoor enthusiasts, the Isle of Arran beckons.

 

Great-value UK holidays in Turnberry have much to offer. It's an area bursting with opportunities for outdoor leisure, with way marked walking and cycling trails, plus the chance to get over to the gorgeous Isle of Arran. Castles, homes and gardens abound here too, and lovers of poetry will revel in being in the heart of Burns country, particularly in February, when the poet's life is celebrated in earnest. So, book your cheap family UK holidays in Turnberry online or by phone with directline-ukholidays.