Published in Scotland Magazine Issue 13 on 25/3/2004.

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Much Mor for your money

Fancy a week's holiday at Gleneagles for the rest of your life? The hotel's new seasonal homes offer just that opportunity. Dominic Roskrow reports.

It says much about the world fame of Gleneagles and its reputation for golf that when it announced plans to open 50 seasonal homes the week covering the Ryder Cup – still some years away – sold out almost immediately.

The seasonal home concept – launched last year and still in the construction process – has captured the imagination of people who love Gleneagles and know that they will want to return to it time and time again. But the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be resident on the course during the golfing showdown between America and Europe proved too hard to resist for some fans.

And that presumably means that they forked out the cash for that event and got another 51 weeks holiday thrown in to the deal almost as a bonus.

The term ‘timeshare’ has many connotations, most of them negative, but the new Glenmor development demands that such a tag is reassessed. Gleneagles itself prefers to use the term ‘seasonal ownership’, but effectively you’re buying a timeshare – the right to live in one of the luxury homes for one week at a set time each year, every year for 55 years.

Ignore any negative aspersions that might cast. The homes – the first batch of which are already built and with work continuing apace – are sited close to the hotel at the heart of the stunning leisure complex.

They are the ultimate in luxury. And they give the occupiers the right to holiday at Gleneagles as they would if they had rented a room, but with the added bonus that should you wish to do s.....

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By Dominic Roskrow

Section : Best of Scotland

Page number : 56