DESTINATION AYRSHIRE
Bennane Shore is a great base to explore the many local places of interest including:
- Culzean Castle and Country Park with restaurant
- Heads of Ayr Farm Park
- Glentrool Forest Nature Trails,
- Boat trips to Ailsa Craig (RSPB) home to 40,000 pairs of gannets and puffins and where curling stones come from.
- Day trips of Isle of Arran
- Day trips to Ireland
- Logan Botanic Gardens
- Burns National Heritage Park including Burns Cottage and museum
- Tam O Shanter Experience – restaurant and shop
Garden centres and tea rooms including
- Barwinnoch Herbs and Nursery
- Sky High Falconry displays and private sessions
- The Electric Brae – where you can defy gravity
A wide range of local activities:
- Loch fishing, Pinbraid Loch Lendalfoot,
- Shopping in Ayr
- Horse riding at the Maidens Riding Centre
- Golf at one of the many local golf courses, including Girvan, Turnberry and Brunston Castle
- Tennis & Bowling in Ballantrae
Further afield
- Glasgow 1½ hours
- Edinburgh 2½ hours
- Belfast 1½ hours
Eating Out
- Kings Arms Hotel, Ballantrae
- Wildings Restaurant, Maidens
- Aromas, Girvan
- Malin Court, Turnberry
- Knockinaam Lodge, (where Eisenhower and Churchill planned WWll), Portpatrick
- Corsewall Lighthouse Hotel, Stranraer, (19th century lighthouse)
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