The BluePages Guide to Portavadie

Melldalloch Holiday Lodges are hidden away in a quite nature reserve surrounded by the Kyles of Bute. The Self Catering Lodges are fully furnished, including SKY TV, Kitchen with hob, microwave, coffee-maker, with Cot and Highchair available on request. The Lodges consist of 2 bedrooms for 4 people, and 3 bedroom for 6 people, being ideal for boat crews, families, cyclists and walkers or anyone for that matter who is after a peaceful relaxing break or forced stopover. Only 10 minute drive from Portavadie Marina.

"Otter Ferry is located on the East Shore of Loch Fyne, just north of Otter Spit. The Oystercatcher is a pub and restaurant right on the beach with an amazing beer garden overlooking the visitor moorings and pontoon. We have a professional chef proprietor and a superb supply of fresh seafood and other locally source produce including real ales. A good pontoon offers easy access by tender or small boat at all states of the tide. There are 15 swinging moorings with free wireless internet access."

Set in a man-made lagoon on Loch Fyne, Argyll, Scotland, Portavadie is one of the UK’s most modern marinas, with sheltered deep-water berthing and stunning purpose-built marina facilities.

All meals are taken in the original elegant dining room overlooking the Kyles and Isle of Bute. With the ornate cornicing, beautiful ceiling rose and superb Victorian fireplace, which when chilly outside provides a warming log fire complementing the cast iron radiators, a more welcoming restaurant is hard to imagine.