Kirkstyle Hideaway Serviced Bothy
A five-star hideaway near St Vigeans
About this hotel
Kirkstyle Hideaway earns its five-star rating through genuine seclusion rather than resort scale, a serviced bothy near St Vigeans Stones Museum with local shops a minute's walk away and The Old Boatyard a short taxi ride for dinner. Free wifi covers the essentials, and the property's whole identity centres on quiet, private space rather than a busy hotel bar or restaurant scene. For a couple prioritising genuine privacy over convenience, roughly twenty minutes from Carnoustie by car, this bothy delivers a retreat that a larger hotel simply cannot replicate. What it lacks in proximity to the Championship Course it makes up for in the kind of total quiet that becomes more valuable the further into a multi-round trip a couple gets.
- Five-star rating
- Genuine seclusion
- Close to local shops
- Free wifi
Our take
A couple genuinely prioritising privacy and quiet above all else will find real value in Kirkstyle Hideaway's secluded setting, twenty minutes from Carnoustie's Championship Course. A buddies trip or anyone wanting an on-site restaurant and bar should look toward a Carnoustie or Dundee hotel instead, built for that livelier purpose.
- Book well ahead given the very limited room count and genuinely secluded setting near Arbroath's old town.
- Plan dinner at The Old Boatyard, a short taxi ride away, since this is a self-catering-style retreat.
- Allow twenty minutes' drive time to Carnoustie's Championship Course when planning tee times from this secluded base.
Why we love it
- Genuine five-star seclusion
- Close to St Vigeans Stones Museum
- Local shops a minute's walk away
- Total privacy over resort scale
Why guests love itMy partner and I stayed at Kirkstyle Hideaway for four nights, driving the twenty minutes into Carnoustie for two rounds and otherwise barely seeing another guest the whole trip, and the quiet after a windy links round mattered more to us by the third day than any hotel restaurant ever would have, even a genuinely excellent one nearby in town.