Nether Abbey Hotel, north Berwick

The Nether Abbey Hotel has been owned by successive generations of the same family for fifty years. In 2004 the Hotel shut for extensive renovations and refurbishment with simply stunning results. Although priding ourselves on old fashioned personal service there is nothing staid or old fashioned about the Hotel. The public areas are open plan, cool, contemporary and with all the sophistication you would expect from a city centre bar and restaurant.

We take great pride in the food and drink we offer with the emphasis on quality and fresh local ingredients – there’s a good chance that the guy sitting next to you at the Bar will have caught the Sea Bass you had for dinner!

The hotel's twelve bedrooms were closed in December 2006, extensively renovated and refurbished and re-opened some four months later on 31st March 2007. The Nether Abbey Hotel is well placed within North Berwick to take full advantage of the area's fine beaches, the wide variety of outdoor pursuits available, the town's Sports Centre with indoor swimming pool and the new Scottish Seabird Centre, located at North Berwick harbour.

In addition, the area boasts some 19 superb golf courses, ranging from the Open Championship Links at Muirfield, to Musselburgh Old links, on which golf has been played longer than anywhere else in the world. We can arrange course bookings and tee-off times at no extra charge and organize transport.

The Nether Abbey Hotel started life as a grand seaside house at the turn of the 19th century. As with many buildings of this era, each room has its own character with high ceilings on the first floor and coombes and fireplaces in most second-floor rooms - the original servants quarters. However, one thing that all twelve rooms and bathrooms have in common is that they have all been renovated to an exceptionally high standard.

No detail has been overlooked. Most of the fixtures and furniture were not only made specifically for us but are in fact one-off designs, including the beautiful crystal light-shades. and the hand-woven woollen throws. Each room comes with a flat screen plasma TV with access to 85 free view channels, and if you need to keep in touch - WiFi is available throughout the hotel!

All of our bathrooms are fitted out with "Grohe" fittings and furnished with beautiful limestone. Re-plumbing the hotel as part of the renovations means that mains pressure is available throughout with masses of piping hot water. Our recent inspection by VisitScotland (May 2007) rated the bedrooms as being of an exceptionally high standard.