Published in Scotland Magazine Issue 29 on 25/10/2006.

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Beyond your wildest dreams

For the right money Dream Escape will provide your dream Scottish holiday.

What would constitute your ultimate Scottish short break? Perhaps it entails being met at the airport by a chauffeur-driven vintage car, and being driven to the Balmoral Hotel for dinner and an overnight stay; collecting a sports car the following morning, maybe, and driving yourself down to Turnberry for lunch and a round of golf; then a helicopter ride up the coast and back in time for dinner and bed; and finally a seaplane over to Jura for a spot of deer stalking before flying back to the airport.

Sound wonderful doesn’t it? And now, thanks to the launch of a new company, even your wildest dreams can become a reality.

Dream Escape is the brainchild of David and Holly Tobin, a couple who met while travelling in Australia and who had both grown disillusioned with living and working in London.

“David was offered a job in Edinburgh and as I already knew the city well having been to University up here we decided to make the move.

“I began to work for VisitScotland and it was then that we saw the opportunity for a business serving the short break market.

I was able to see easily what was available and we saw the possibility of launching a business for people like our friends in London, people who needed a short break to get away but were really unaware of everything that was on offer in Scotland.” Originally Dream Escape was going to be aimed at people wanting to go away for a long weekend, but rapidly the couple realised that the concept applied equally to a wider range of.....

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By Dominic Roskrow

Section : Best of Scotland

Page number : 42