Coast and Castles

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jiberjaber

Veteran
Location
Essex
 
Myself and a few chums are just starting to plan this ride out for the summer.

If anyone who has done it can recommend clean, not-too expensive/fancy accommodation with secure cycle storage for 6 bikes in the following places I'd be very grateful:

Craster
Berwick
Innerleithen
Edinburgh

I'm aware of the list on the official site so will check that as a first port of call, but just putting feelers out for any personal recommendations from CCers.

Cheers.
 

jiberjaber

Veteran
Location
Essex
From memory....

Craster - I rode through so no help unfortunately.
I stayed at the YH in Alanmouth
Berwick - I stayed in a hotel they let me store my bike in their meeting room.
There's a fantastic bike based B&B in Innerleithen which I used, If you look at my strava report for that day you should be able to get the details of the route data and google... ( I gotta rush out to a meeting now)

Edb, I just got the train home a few hours after I got there so unable to help.
 

jiberjaber

Veteran
Location
Essex
Not sure how to do that. I searched for you on Strava but couldn't find any user by the name of jiberjaber.

Was it one of these maybe?

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotels-g1129826-c2-Innerleithen_Scottish_Borders_Scotland-Hotels.html

If you go to the link I posted upthread you see see my coast & castle rides on strava links ;)

South Shields was Annies Guest House (bike storage in their yard covered by a tarp, take a big lock just in case. Very cheap and good value!)
Alnwick was the Youth Hostel (Bike storage in a secure bike shed, seemed a bit like a kids play room combined with a travel lodge, quite noisy!)
Berwick was The Kings Arms Hotel (bike storage was requested and they provided a meeting room for my bike, Italian next door was very good!)
This was the place I used, in Innerleithen. It was fantastic! http://www.gledeknowe.co.uk/

I think I booked all of them apart from YH through booking.com iirc
 
If you go to the link I posted upthread you see see my coast & castle rides on strava links ;)

South Shields was Annies Guest House (bike storage in their yard covered by a tarp, take a big lock just in case. Very cheap and good value!)
Alnwick was the Youth Hostel (Bike storage in a secure bike shed, seemed a bit like a kids play room combined with a travel lodge, quite noisy!)
Berwick was The Kings Arms Hotel (bike storage was requested and they provided a meeting room for my bike, Italian next door was very good!)
This was the place I used, in Innerleithen. It was fantastic! http://www.gledeknowe.co.uk/

I think I booked all of them apart from YH through booking.com iirc

Great. Thanks very much for that :smile:
 
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