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Welcome
to the Fife Lodge Hotel.
The Fife Lodge Hotel is the perfect hotel to stay for visitors to the North East of Scotland for Golf, Fishing, Walking, Castles, Whisky and Adventure or just a quiet break.
Set in private grounds and with one of the largest Ballrooms in Aberdeenshire the hotel has an excellent reputation for weddings.
Fife Lodge Hotel Accommodation
The Hotel offers a choice of Accommodation:
All bedrooms in the main hotel are En-suite. For families some of our
spacious rooms can accommodate up to four persons.
Alternatively the Hotel Apartment offers a double room. a triple bedroom,
private shower toilet and a lounge.
For guests looking for private or self catering accommodation the Lodge
Bungalow can accommodate up to eight guests.
Fife Lodge Hotel Facilities
Weddings:
Popular places to visit and things to do in the area include: Duff House
Country House Gallery, Fyvie Castle, Delgatie Castle, The Whisky Trail,
Pennan, Historic Harbours, Banff Links, Macduff Marine Aquarium.
Visitors to the area will find many breath taking views of the countryside
and long golden sandy beaches, great for romance artists and photographers.
Every few miles there will be a historic site from cliff top castles over
looking the Moray Firth to hidden from view sites of former medieval palaces
and stately homes.
The Fife Lodge Hotel is the perfect venue for large and small weddings.
The hotel holds the necessary licences for Civil and Religious marriage
ceremonies.
The Fife Lodge Hotel Ballroom can cater for wedding receptions from 50
to 250 guests and up to a further 50 for the evening dance.
The hotel is set in its own grounds and there is ample parking for guest’s
cars and easy access for buses taking guests to and from the wedding.
Duff House Country House Gallery, a William Adam masterpiece (www.duffhouse.com)
is only a short distance from the hotel and is perfect for the Bridal
Party’s Wedding Photographs.
Designing a wedding to suit your requirements couldn’t be easier.
For details of our services, menus, wine lists and useful contacts to
help you decide your requirements for the day please contact the hotel.
We look forward to making your Wedding a very special day.
Conferences:
The Fife Lodge can cater for all types of Conferences, seminars and training
events.
Small rooms are available for one to one meetings, larger rooms for groups
of up to 20, 50 or more.
The BALLROOM can cater for over 200 delegates.
The hotel has AV equipment available for hire.
Function Facilities:
The Princess Louise Ballroom
The Princess Louise Ballroom can accommodate up to 250 guests for formal
functions and up to 400 for parties and charity events.
The Suite is ideal for Conferences, Seminars and Exhibitions.
Fife Lodge Hotel - Dining and Cuisine:
The Hotel offers a choice of Dining.
Choose from the comfortable surrounding of the Montcoffer Dining room
or the relaxed atmosphere in the Balvenie Lounge.
Bar Menu Available
Fife Lodge Hotel - Fishing:
RIVER DEVERON
The river opens on the 11th February and closes on 31st October. There
is always a chance of Spring fish. Sea trout start from mid-May through
to July. The grilse runs start in June and July and extend well into September
and often into October.
Excellent dry fly fishing for Brown Trout is available in April and May.
It is a river of big fish and each season brings in some fish in the 20-30lb
class.
The river Deveron due to its more illustrious North East neighbours
the Dee and Spey is a well kept secret where anglers return year after
year, generation after generation.
The Deveron rises in the high hills above the Cabrach along with its main
tributaries the Blackwater and the Bogie.
The peaty water flows over a bottom of shingle and rock and is fast flowing
in its upper reaches. Joined by the Isla it slackens its pace as it meanders
through the fertile countryside until its 60 mile journey ends in the
sea at Banff.
There are superb glides in its middle to lower reaches and due to the
rocky bottom it has plenty of white water and can fish well in low water.
It is prone to flash flooding and the water runs black but fines down
to that golden brown colour which fly anglers love.
Salmon can be encountered right from opening day on February 11th anywhere on the river but the higher beats are usually a favourite. During April and May the brown trout fishing is superb with many specimens of 5 to 6 lb being caught each year.
Sea Trout start running towards the end of May until July and again a
7 lb fish is not uncommon.
The grilse run begins mid July but given water can start in June and can
last all season.
This is supplemented with the summer Salmon which can reach 18 lb. The
back end run starts in September and fish can weigh up to 40 lb +. Indeed
the British record for a salmon caught on fly came off the Deveron and
weighed 61 lb.
Favourite flies include the Stoats tail, Munroe Killer. Willie Gunn, Ally Shrimp ,Cascade and the executioner. Spinning is allowed on most beats in high water and flying "c", Toby`s and Rapalas are great takers of fish in high water.
Fife Lodge Hotel - In and Around Banff:
The Fife Lodge Hotel is located close to the Town Centre, Library, Swimming
pool, Duff House Royal Golf Course, Duff House Country House Gallery.
A few minutes drive or for the more energetic a 20 minute walk takes you
to Banff Links. In Macduff the very popular Marine Aquarium.
In Macduff there is an Indoor Bowling Alley and Royal Tarlair Golf Club.
Banffshire is famous for its Whisky Distilleries and Historic Castles
such as Fyvie Castle.
There are many historic buildings and sites to explore.
The staff and management will be happy to make arrangements for Golfing,
Fishing and Shooting Parties.
With the rich fertile Buchan land and the fantastic seafood from the
North Sea, if you have a taste for the best cuisine anywhere there will
be a dish to suite everyone.
The Banffshire coast is fantastic for the water enthusiast. Enjoy fishing
in a secluded sheltered rocky bay. Sail along the coast along with the
Dolphins and see all the wildlife. Or try a bit of wind surfing or jet
biking. There are many harbours to sail to and from.
Email Fife Lodge Hotel enquiries & reservations: bookscotland@madbookings.com
