Perthshire, United Kingdom

Pine Trees Hotel

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Highland hedonist

Setting

Evergreen Pitlochry

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Designed around the Scottish principle of “coorie”, a cosy welcome awaits at refreshed Victorian manor Pine Trees Hotel. Luxuriously appointed rooms with huge walk-in showers and views of the verdant grounds are matched in polish by a nature-inspired restaurant and seductive bar. Thoughtful touches including wellies to borrow, a dog-friendly wing and help-yourself snack stations add to the home-from-home charm. Watch out for the woodland wellness area, coming soon. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

32, including nine suites.

Check–Out

11am, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

Also

If you have some mobility, ground-floor rooms in Heatherbank House may meet your needs, but unfortunately Pine Trees Hotel is otherwise unsuitable for wheelchair access, does not have any lifts, and is not adapted for visually or hearing impaired guests.

At the hotel

Electric-car shuttle (local trips only), wellington boots and hotel-branded dry robes to borrow, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV with Chromecast, vintage-style DAB+ radio with Bluetooth speaker, GHD hairdryer, kettle, cafetiere, vegan hot chocolate, complimentary Iain Burnett chocolates, local Laura Thomas Co. amenities.

Our favourite rooms

Heatherbank Cottage is a romantic wee self-contained suite just across from the main house. For loftier ambitions, it has to be the grand Molyneaux Suite, with its perfectly placed bath in the window nook. Middle-of-the-pack Highland Haven Rooms have our hearts for their private balconies.

Spa

There’s no spa at Pine Trees Hotel, but a woodland wellness experience is in the works. This will include a sauna and steam room, set among the trees in the gardens. It’ll be available to guests to hire by the hour for up to six people, with dry robes, towels and slippers included.

Packing tips

As wellies and dry robes are provided at Pine Trees Hotel, you can leave those at home. Fill the extra suitcase space with designer knitwear and custom-made kilts instead.

Also

Dotted around the hotel’s clutch of buildings, you’ll find Perthshire pantries, where you can help yourself to fresh fruit, tea, coffee, biscuits and homemade bakes.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs are welcome in Coach House Suites at Pine Trees Hotel, with beds and treats provided. Your pup is allowed in the bar and lounge but not in Fauna restaurant​​ and there are 10 acres of surrounding woodland for walkies. See more pet-friendly hotels in Perthshire.

Children

Welcome, but there are no specific facilities for them. Heatherbank House has one Pinewood Suite with a king-size bed and bunk beds in a separate area. There are two sets of interconnecting rooms, and baby cots can be added to selected rooms on request.

Sustainability efforts

The hotel takes sustainability seriously and has achieved Green Tourism’s gold accreditation. Refurbished with sustainability in mind, the hotel auctioned off its old furniture. The updated decor includes carpets made from recycled fishing nets, upcycled furniture in the bedrooms, and the old wooden panelling repurposed into door signs. Fauna restaurant uses produce sourced from within a 100-mile radius, and the hotel has reduced single-use plastics with glass-bottled Belu mineral water. The bath products are by Scottish maker Laura Thomas, who champions local flora ingredients and sustainable packaging.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

If you’re graced with Scottish sunshine, a window table with views of the bonnie grounds is a good choice. If not, couples will like the curved leather booths, and groups will relish the private Cellar Room, for revels among rare vintages.

Dress Code

Country-house casual.

Hotel restaurant

Echoing Pine Trees Hotel’s philosophy of celebrating Scotland’s natural assets, Fauna is the hotel’s concept restaurant. In a refined dining room of forest greens and autumnal browns, regional produce – fish from Peterhead, mushrooms from Glasgow, Isle of Mull cheddar, and Perthshire beef — is celebrated with culinary aplomb. During the day, a menu of more casual bites is on offer in the bar at Flora. Breakfast, too, speaks to the hotel’s geography – you can even have a nip of whisky in your porridge.  

Hotel bar

Flora bar invites you to sink into velvet sofas in flushed hues, under pools of ambient lighting and next to a roaring fireplace, for an evening that’s as warming as its line-up of whisky cocktails. If nips leave you nonplussed, go for the Pine Trees Margarita instead — it uses Scottish agave spirit Véspero. 

Last orders

Breakfast hours are 7.30am until 9.30am. Flora serves food from noon until 8.30pm and pours till 11pm. Fauna is open for dinner, 6pm until 8.30pm.

Room service

​There’s no room service at Pine Trees Hotel, but you can help yourself to drinks and snacks from your nearest Perthshire pantry, with stations dotted around the different buildings for easy access from your room.

Location

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Address
Pine Trees Hotel
Strathview Terrace
Pitlochry
PH16 5QR
United Kingdom

Tucked into ancient woodland down a private driveway, Pine Trees Hotel is just outside the buzzing Perthshire town of Pitlochry in the Scottish Highlands.

Planes

Edinburgh airport is the closest, around an hour and 40 minutes’ drive away, while Glasgow and Inverness airports are each two hours’ drive, and all are served by international routes.

Trains

Pitlochry station has direct trains from London Kings Cross, including the overnight Caledonian Sleeper service, as well as Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness. It’s a 10-minute walk or a short drive from the hotel.

Automobiles

There’s free parking on-site, and ​​EV charging stations are in the works for summer 2026. The hotel also has an electric car they can send to collect you from the town or train station if you don’t fancy the stroll.

Worth getting out of bed for

The rural locale of Pine Trees Hotel is rich in variety when it comes to planning your time here: take a wild dip in nearby Loch Faskally, climb Ben Vrackie, and even enjoy (if that’s the word) bungee jumping from a bridge near Killecrankie. Or perhaps 18 holes at Pitlochry Golf Club, which is just behind the hotel, is more your style. 

Culture fixes are also in abundance: Pitlochry Festival Theatre punches above its weight with a lively programme of plays and musicals. Blair Castle is the home of private army, the Atholl Highlanders, eye-candy gardens and family adventures for little Smiths.  

In summer, you might see migrating salmon making their way through Pitlochry Dam. In autumn, Faskally Wood’s annual light show, The Enchanted Forest, provides sylvan spectacle. All year round, The Chocolate Lounge in Grandtully, home of the Highland Chocolatier, tempts with guided chocolate tastings.  

Local restaurants

Chef Tom Tsappis brings lauded Japanese-inspired cuisine in the form of multi-course tasting menus to the Scottish Highlands at Killiecrankie House. For a gastronomic take on a wee dram, The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant in Crieff is also Michelin-starred: try their lobster toddy before a rare whisky flight in the Lalique bar, a collab with the French crystal house.  

Local cafés

The light-flooded conservatory café at luxury shopping hub House of Bruar is a welcome pit stop — that’s if you have any room left after sampling the delights of their food hall.  

Local bars

Wander into Pitlochry for a pint of real ale at the whitewashed Auld Smiddy Inn. There are venison pies and cullen skink on the menu if you get peckish. If your tastes run more to the other amber nectar of the region, there are a glut of distilleries nearby: our pick is the Dewar’s Aberfeldy Distillery.  

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this historic hotel in Perthshire and unpacked their rare malts and Scottish tablet, a full account of their nature-filled break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Pine Trees Hotel in Pitlochry… 

Pine Trees Hotel’s polished approach to service is built on the principle of “coorie” — translating roughly as cosy and welcoming — and it’s a heady brew. You’ll find it in considered details, such as snacks placed just where you need them and borrowable wellies; as MOs go, it’s extremely embracing.  

There’s no standing on ceremony here — just rock up and relax. Rooms, daubed in soft hues that reflect the woodland views, are luxurious but not stiff; sofas are squishable, beds are floppable, and baths, deep and generous.  

The restaurant and bar, too, feel like places you can sink into and stay awhile. The whiskies help, of course — working your way through drams from across Scotland is a worthy pastime. As is sampling one of every dish on the menu, like taking a trip around the Highlands without leaving your seat. This is country-house hedonism at its bonniest.  

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