Photos: Andy Murray’s hotel, Cromlix in Dunblane, Scotland, has been awarded the 2024
Tennis ace Andy Murray is set to upscale his posh hotel, riding the wave of an Instagram-driven surge in afternoon tea popularity.
The manager of Murray’s Cromlix establishment in Dunblane, Scotland, has spilled the beans on some developments at the award-winning spot. Owned by the sports star and his wife Kim Sears Murray, Cromlix clinched the 2024 AA Award for Scottish Hotel of the Year. The blueprint for the future includes a swanky new restaurant and kitchen expansion to replace the current eatery, The Glasshouse, boosting seating from 50 to a roomy 80, with completion eyed for spring 2026.
Additionally, guests can look forward to three fresh ground floor bedrooms and, come 2025, a wellness cottage doling out treatments from Edinburgh’s skincare sensation MODM, plus nine quaint cabins dotted around the loch. Barry Makin, the hotel’s boss, revealed they dish out roughly 1,000 afternoon teas monthly and credits the meal’s resurgence to its photogenic qualities on Instagram.
Barry said: “It’s been really well supported by local people, and we wanted to make sure we always have the capacity to cater for them as well as hotel guests.”
The local hotspot is making sure not to turn away neighbors, with Barry from Cromlix saying: “We never want to be in a position where we are turning away local custom because it’s so important to maintaining a thriving hospitality business. It also means we can turn the current restaurant space into a dedicated venue for afternoon teas and special events.”
