Amazing Easter Walking and Social Weekend in Arran 2025

Arran is a beautiful, magical Scottish Island, south of Glasgow so relatively short car journey, and easily accessible by low cost ferry trip from Ardrossan (£5 each way / £20 for cars). Arran has some splendid granite mountains, with beautiful ridges and fantastic sea views. As well as wonderful mountain walks and scrambles, there are great coast walks, and plenty of interesting things to see and do (ranging from standing stones, to visiting the lovely Holy Island).

More info at:

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/arran/

Many say that visiting Arran is like seeing the whole of Scotland on a single Island. Beautiful.

Each year as soon as SYHA Lochranza on Arran becomes available for exclusive hire we attempt a booking as this is such a fabulous location and for 2025 our prayers have been answered as our exclusive hire booking has been accepted. Yes it is quite a way ahead, but that's what we have to do to secure such spectacular locations

Accommodation is included from Good Friday 18th April 2025 for THREE nights to Easter Monday 21st April 2025 but as long as you do so early enough it shouldn't be a problem to add extra nights before or after the weekend to make a longer break. We hope to be on the Island from around the 15th or 16th so plenty of scope to organise some extra walks and to get together for evening meals etc.

There will definitely be a walk on the Friday starting 11am latest, close to Brodick so participants can join the walk even if they are arriving on the morning ferry and a choice of walks on each of the other days of the weekend so something for everyone.

Goatfell is a must as is Caisteal Abhail, a lovely mountain with graceful ridges and fine sea and mountain views.

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/arran/goatfell.shtml

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/arran/caisteal-abhail.shtml

But there is loads to choose from at low and high level so genuinely something for everyone.

Accommodation is in single sex dormitory style rooms with all bedding provided but not towels. Food is provided from dinner on the Friday through to lunch packups for Easter Monday and we do cater for all the usual dietary requirements for which we issue a simple information request shortly before the event start date. As all our organisers and walk leaders are unpaid volunteers we are able to keep our prices amazingly low but this also means we need a small amount of help from each person attending to help with either meal prep or clearup for just one mealtime over the weekend which we manage via a kitchen rota.

The cost is paid as a non-returnable deposit of now £50 payable when you book, to which must be added Meetup booking fees. The balance of £129 will be payable by BACS 12 weeks prior to the event being 24th January 2025. Alternately you can avoid Meetup Booking Fees entirely by paying the whole amount of £179 by BACS at the outset. Please let us know if you are doing this and we will manually add you to the event attendee list.

Account Code: 40848442
Sort Code: 56-00-61
Account Name: Peak Activities & Leisure Limited

Balance reminders will be sent.

If you have to cancel with more than 28 clear days notice your full balance payment will be refunded but not the deposit value. No refunds will be provided to those cancelling with less than 28 clear days notice. ("clear" means does not include event start date or cancellation date!

Up to date availability on all of our weekends away is viewable at a glance at:-

https://www.peakmeetupgroup.com/weekends

Please address any questions about the weekend directly to [email protected] or via Meetup