The Landmark Trust (landmarktrust.org.uk) has loads of terrific properties in the highlands. Avoid Christmas and the summer school holidays and they're a bargain.
We stayed in baronial splendour in Gargunnock House for £70 per head a night, lived like a Laird and enjoyed trips out to the Trossachs. It's Highlands-lite but great fun.
Six miles west of Stirling
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