Hottest Tickets in Town
Well that's us back from Visit Scotland Expo selling the Loch Ness Clansman Hotel - a hard and tiring couple of days but the rewards are worth it.
The great interest in Scotland and particularly Loch Ness and the Highlands as a holiday destination is fantastic. A trip to Loch Ness is the hottest ticket in town and with the present economic crisis, it is fantastic value for money.

So don't hesitate - book now or availability might be snapped up.
Staying at the Loch Ness Clansman gives you a hassle free holiday with plenty to do - trips on the Jacobite - visit Urquhart Castle - Monster Exhibition - walks in Glen Affric - day trips to Cairngorm National Park, Ben Nevis, Applecross and the West.
So much to do - so little time.
We cater for the new 'nano' break (1 night) - short stay or longer if required.
So please be like all the operators we met at Expo - contact us today and book that break you have been promising yourselves - You deserve it - yes, the hottest ticket in town.
Willie Cameron

Happy Lambing!
Spring has sprung at Loch Ness with Marion our Head Housekeeper taking time off to deliver this years lambs. She lives with her husband high in the hills above Loch Ness in a place called Abriachan.
You can take a marvellous walk from the hotel right up to the top of Abriachanand get both excellent exercise and see the stunning views over Loch Ness. There is also a fantastic mountain bike assault course for the brave hearted.
It is said in the olden days that Abriachan was famous for the illicit distilling of whisky to supply the growing population of Inverness - sadly those days are all gone - fallen into the mists of time of local history.

Talking about history, last week was the aniversary of the Battle of Culloden - 16th April 1746 and yesterday the Gaelic Society of Inverness held a service of Rememberance for the fallen.
People came from all over the world. We even had a gentleman and his son from Dublin staying with us to attend the ceremony. The Loch Ness Clansman Hotel is an excellent base.

This week Rory, Sarah and myself are off to Visit Scotland Expo at the SECC in Glasgow - This is a showcase exhibition for the tourist trade, where buyer meets supplier. We would like to extend an invitation to you all to visit us at stand D7 (hall 3) where I will be able to regail you with stories from the Clansman here at Loch Ness.
Look forward to seeing you and good luck with the lambing!!
Willie Cameron

Ken your Country
On New Year's Eve 1940, a World War II Bomber ditched into Loch Ness. The Wellington was recovered in 1985 and can now be seen at the Brooklands Museum in Surrey.

WELCOME TO TROPICAL SCOTLAND

Wow!! - What amazing Easter weather.

Here at Loch Ness we have been blessed with a wonderful sun filled weekend.
It was a pleasure looking after all of you who ventured to the North of Scotland and the worlds most famous stretch of water.
You ate well, drank well, soaked up scenery, walked, jogged, sailed, motored, cycled and then in the evening listened to the Scottish and Celtic sounds of our resident musicians - Willie and Stuart - for tax purposes known as the Murphy brothers then sampled our range of malt whisky's with a little lesson on the subject from myself.

As always, the world was represented really well, people from Australia, China, Japan, India, Europe and of course England, Ireland and Wales - the place to be seen was definately Loch Ness.

The weather was so good - Rory got the BBQ out on Saturday and Sunday and was inundated with hungry people getting their first bite of an Aberdeen Angus beefburger before sailing to Urquhart Castle and on return picked up dessert - a cool 99' cone with Rory's freshly made ice-cream.
What more could one ask for?
REAL LOCH NESS CHILLOUT!! - HAPPY HOLIDAYS

KEN YOUR COUNTRY
Loch Ness was the birth place of commercial Hydo Electric Power at Ft Augustus on the south side of the Loch.
Today, the new Hydro scheme at Glendoe is one of the jewels of modern Scottish industry - this is also at Ft Augustus.

WELCOME TO THE MOVIES!
Easter is upon us and Loch Ness is getting busier after the long winter.

Someone writting in the local paper said they were amazed that no-one had sighted 'Nessie' - as we know, that event will arise.

The highlight of the week so far is the arrival of a major Indian film company shooting a new psychological thriller called 'Purple Lake' directed by Vishal Pandya. Most of Sunday's filming took place at the Clansman Harbour and on the Jacobite boats on Loch Ness.

Loch Ness is no stranger to film companies using this amazing location from documentaries, adverts and promotions to full films.
In 1962 'What a Whopper' staring Adam Faith, Sid James and Spike Milligan - an early 'Carry- On' type movie was part filmed here and a very rare original poster of the film can be seen in the Loch Ness Clansman games-room.
Released in 1970, 'The Private Life of Sherlock Homes' directed by the world famous Billy Wilder was also shot here. In 1968 'Submarine X1' with James Caan; in 1996 'Loch Ness' with Ted Danson and Joley Richardson; in 2001 the horendous 'The Evil Beneath Loch Ness' staring Patrick Bergin was filmed between here and California as can be cheesily seen in the continuity matching. Water Horse, although filmed mainly in New Zealand, featured the Loch Ness story.
Cartoons like 'Skooby-Doo' and the 'Simpsons', commercials for Toyota, Abercrombie and Fitch, 'Orange' and 'Vodaphone' together with 'Kit-Kat' all features 'Nessie'.

So the magic of Hollywood or Bollywood is not a stranger to us here at Loch Ness - in fact it's pretty normal, so much so that we ran a PR stunt a number of years ago with a look alike Sean Connery and Julia Roberts photographed at a new road sign 'DRUMOLLYWOOD - Welcome to the movies'!!

Ken Your Country
Loch Ness attracts one million visitors per annum, generating £25 million sterling to the local economy.

Today, ofcourse is the 1st April 2009 - April Fool's day and no where on earth is more appropriate for practical jokes, hoaxes and generally taking the 'mick' out of Jo public than Loch Ness - world famous for numerous hoaxes - the most noted being the 'Surgeons' photograph created with a toy submarine from Woolworths and a peice of plastercine to replicate the 'beasts' neck - then duly photographed - then passed to the Daily Mail - then fooled the world for 50 years.
Here at the Loch Ness Clansman we have been renounced for our April Fool stunts...remember the floating golf course on Loch Ness and the re-sighting of the Little Mermaid of Copenhagen - both stories featuring in national newspapers.
However today we played a minor joke on our earst hotel Managing Director Mr Rory Cameron. Rory was left a note to contact Mr H. Vanrental, a Dutch tour operator from a company called 'Debustours, DeNederland' Ref. Lunch bookings throughout the summer and to call 0870-850-2661.
On my return, Rory informed me that the number I gave him belonged to HERTZ Car Hire and that they didn't know what he was talking about. The whole conversation was witnessed by a former employee who is pregnant and is due tomorrow 2nd April.
On my revealing that Mr H. Vanrental was infact HERTZ-VAN-RENTAL the penny dropped too much hilarity for all parties concerned including pregnant Louise who nearly had her baby there and then - another Loch Ness hoax!!