A scenic approach leads to ‘imaginative, well-cooked food’ and ‘especially comfortable bedrooms’ at this ‘lovely, small’ restaurant-with-rooms’ in an area ripe with history and hiking routes.

Mellow sandstone battlements, turrets and towers are revealed only at the final turn of the ‘lengthy’ drive through the ‘vibrant, meticulously tended’ grounds of Paul and Poppy Szkiler’s 19th-century baronial pile.

If you’re looking for a modestly priced hotel at the heart of the city, this is just the ticket – a modern B&B on the penthouse floor of a handsome, buff stone, 1900s office building, right by Central Station.

As a former home of Glasgow merchants, Lorraine Gibson’s listed B&B was built to provide rest and peace in a leafy neighbourhood – it still does this today.

Yachting folk can moor at Patricia Watt’s small hotel in a coastal village on the edge of Loch Lomond national park. A former shooting lodge for the Marquis of Bute, it is today the community hub.

In springtime, the drive up to Jan and Adam Moore’s 18th-century former sporting lodge is ‘lined with young trees in blossom, bulbs everywhere’.