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)