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Win a weekend with Speyside Wildlife! Don't miss out on Scotland Outdoor's current competition, for a chance to win a fantastic weekend of wildlife watching with Speyside Wildlife! The prize includes two days of guidin.........  Read Full Story
Special Offer of the Week! Book before 13 July 2010 to receive a fantastic discount of £200pp off the 3 remaining spaces on our Bay of Biscay & Picos trip (5-14 August 2010). Offered at a special price of £1.........  Read Full Story
Special Offer of the Week! Book before 6 July 2010 to receive a fantastic discount of £200pp off the 5 remaining spaces on our Summer Mammals & More trip (24-31 July 2010). Offered at a special price of £645.........  Read Full Story
ATTA comes to the Cairngorms This Autumn the eyes of the global adventure travel industry will be on the Cairngorms National Park as ATTA (Adventure Travel Trade Association) brings its Adventure Travel World .........  Read Full Story
Special Offer of the Week! Book before 29 June 2010 to receive a fantastic discount of £200pp off the 6 remaining spaces on our Summer Mammals & More trip (17-24 July 2010). Offered at a special price of £64.........  Read Full Story
Special Offer of the Week! Book before 22 June 2010 to receive a fantastic discount of £200pp off the remaining spaces on our Summer Wildlife Bonanza (10-17 July 2010). Offered at a special price of £595pp f.........  Read Full Story
Special Offer of the Week! Book before 15 June 2010 to receive a fantastic discount of £330pp off the 3 remaining spaces on our Sutherland & Speyside trip (23 June-3 July 2010). Offered at a special price of.........  Read Full Story
Special Offer of the Week! Book before 8 June 2010 to receive a fantastic discount of £200 off our Aracena trip (17-22 June 2010). Only 3 spaces left at £995pp for one week only! Call the office on 01479 812.........  Read Full Story
Wildlife watching for all We're delighted our evening wildlife watching hide has been included in an article on "Scotland Outdoors" as a wildlife destination for those who may not be able to get around so e.........  Read Full Story
Easter Offer! If you are unable to take too much time off work over Easter, why not join us for the Speyside section of our Mull & Speyside Easter holiday? Enjoy a long weekend at our comfortab.........  Read Full Story
A top-ranked tour company! We're delighted to have been voted one of the top-ranked tour companies in a recent Birdwatch Magazine travel survey - and we're the only Scotland based tour operator to be listed!.........  Read Full Story
Amazing views of Lynx! Julian is currently in Andujar, Andalucia, checking things out in preparation for our tours this year and he just sent us this incredible picture! Here's what he has to say ... "w.........  Read Full Story
Speyside Wildlife in The Irish Times We were recently mentioned in an article in The Irish Times ... see the link below for ideas of what to do and see in the Cairngorms, including a visit to our wildlife watching hid.........  Read Full Story
Speyside Wildlife in the Belfast News Letter We recently featured in a fantastic article about Aviemore which appeared in the Belfast News Letter. Take a look here ….........  Read Full Story
Win back what you spend with PayPal! From now until 20 December, PayPal are offering you the chance to win back what you spend! Every week they will be paying back 500 lucky customers for one of their PayPal purchase.........  Read Full Story
News just in from the Steading ... On Wednesday this week our guests were woken in the night by the squeaking sounds of a Pine Marten running across the roof! A large amount of Pine Marten scat found in the grounds.........  Read Full Story
A "Hide" of Activity! Great things have been happening at our evening wildlife watching hide recently… We've had 4-5 Badgers each evening – all feeding frantically, laying down fat for the winter. The .........  Read Full Story
Darren's Making an Exhibition of Himself (Again) Speyside Wildlife guide and award winning artist Darren Rees will be showing paintings at London's Mall Galleries later this month as part of the annual Society of Wildlife Artists.........  Read Full Story
Darren meets Parky News has just reached us that Sir Michael Parkinson has come out of retirement to interview our guide, Darren Rees, and quiz him about art, life and messing about leading tours for.........  Read Full Story
Welcome to Chrissie! Just a quick note to say welcome to Chrissie, our new guide. She's leading her first holiday in Speyside this week and we're delighted to have her on board! Find out more about her.........  Read Full Story
Prize Draw Winner! Congratulations to Catherine Macleod, the winner of this quarter's prize draw. We hope you enjoy spending your £25 book token. You too could be in with a chance of winning! Simp.........  Read Full Story
Speyside Wildlife in Financial Times Weekend Magazine Just in case you missed the great article "Wildlife Tracking in the Snow" in this weekend's Financial Times Weekend Magazine we've added a link below so you can catch up on the sto.........  Read Full Story
Speyside Wildlife January Newsletter Speyside Wildlife's January Newsletter - please click on the link below to view our latest newsletter..........  Read Full Story
Speyside guest is runner up in International Wild Bird Photography competition! We'd like to say a big congratulations to Mary Braddock, one of our regular guests, who was recently announced as runner up in the Amateur section of the International Wild Bird Ph.........  Read Full Story
Speyside Wildlife on Facebook! Yes, we've finally joined the 21st Century and would like to invite any of you who are already there to join us as a fan on our new Facebook page!

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Get out with your VisitScotland Adventure Pass - no experience needed! Speyside Wildlife are offering "buy one get one free" on our Evening Wildlife Watching experience as part of VisitScotland's Adventure Pass initiative. For full details call us on.........  Read Full Story
Keeping up standards! We have just had our bi-annual anonymous visit from a Quality Assurance Inspector at VisitScotland and are delighted that our “Wildlife Experience” assessment for Day Tours has bee.........  Read Full Story
Peace of mind The turmoil in the financial world and the collapse of Excel have left people feeling confused and disturbed by the various reports that have come out of the media in the last few .........  Read Full Story
Prizes Galore at the British Birdwatching Fair We had a great time at the British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland Water last week and hope those who came along did as well. We saw hundreds of you over the weekend and came home ho.........  Read Full Story
Darren's Award No, Darren hasn’t been searching for the post of head gardener at his Stirlingshire estate - he’s been winning more awards for his paintings!

He was a category winner in .........
 
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Some 2009 holidays now open for bookings We are pleased to announce that details of many of our 2009 overseas holidays are now online and open for bookings! Where would you like to go next? Why not have a browse around .........  Read Full Story
Speysde Wildlife on "Springwatch" Tonight! We were delighted to have "Springwatch" filming at our hide last night and even more delighted that they managed to get some amazing footage of our resident Pine Martens! Don't mi.........  Read Full Story
Scottish Wildcat Sighting at Speyside Wildlife Hide! On the night of Monday 12 May, our guide Craig Round, whilst with Speyside Wildlife guests, was lucky enough to get a rare sighting of a Scottish Wildcat at our hide! Craig descri.........  Read Full Story
Competition Winner! Congratulations to Heather Rowe from Portsmouth who was the lucky winner of our recent competition! Heather was able to correctly name the five species of bird that breed in Scotl.........  Read Full Story
Darren’s Exhibition: Ice, Birds and Bears – Paintings From The North Our regular guests will not be surprised to learn that Speyside guide Darren Rees is making an exhibition of himself over the coming weeks. His latest one-man show ‘Ice, Birds and .........  Read Full Story
Speyside Wildlife on "The One Show" As many of you will know, last summer we again hosted "The One Show" film crew at our wildlife hide, they were delighted with their visit and the great views of Pine Martens. We n.........  Read Full Story
The Sunday Times - Britain's best 50 days out Yesterday, Speyside Wildlife made it into the Sunday Times' list of Britains Best 50 Days Out! Here's what they had to say: "41 SAFARI Cairngorms, Highlands With ancient woodland.........  Read Full Story
Hospitality Assured Award On 31 January, Emma, Bonnie, Lisa, Susanne and Darren visited the Drumossie Hotel near Inverness to attend a conference at which we were presented with our Hospitality Assured awar.........  Read Full Story
Ian's Talks Yes, due to popular demand he's on tour again with a range of exciting talks on offer, and you can catch him at the following clubs and societies between October 2006 and February .........  Read Full Story
Darren's Recipe Book In the kitchen at the Steading, Darren is always being asked for his recipes. Now you can have the chance to emulate his culinary marvels as he's put pen to paper to produce a litt.........  Read Full Story

CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK BRAND - Increasing quality whilst reducing impact

We've been granted use of this Brand by the Cairngorms National Park Authority. This is only given to those businesses who have agreed to a set of quality standards in respect of their visitor experience, together with a commitment to reducing their impact on the natural environment.


HOSPITALITY ASSURE - Service to Customers

As part of our commitment to our customers and our customer service promise "to deliver outstanding wildlife experiences where you are always treated as an individual and not one of a crowd", we went through the rigorous Hospitality Assured assessment in respect of our customer care and were delighted to achieve the award. It is the only standard within the Hospitality industry that focuses on the customer experience. The assessment will be ongoing giving you assurance that we shall always strive to improve the way we do things.


VISIT SCOTLAND - Quality Assurance Scheme - Wildlife Experience

Speyside Wildlife is one of 40 wildlife businesses to be assessed under Visit Scotland's pilot scheme for Wildlife Experiences achieving 3 Star status for our day tours. Watch out for the designation throughout Scotland. We were delighted to receive our letter of confirmation from Visit Scotland so thought we'd share some of it with you here, ''Thank you for participating in the pilot of the new Wildlife Experience Designator within our Quality Assurance Scheme for visitor attractions. Your feedback and contribution to the introduction of this new development has been invaluable and we would like to welcome you as a new member of the Quality Assurance Grading Scheme.


WILD SCOTLAND - Scotland's Wildlife Tourism Association

Wild Scotland is Scotland's Wildlife and Nature-based Tour Operators' Association - a group of wildlife professionals who are all committed to delivering a first class wildlife-watching experience to their guests. Members provide a wide range of wildlife attractions and holidays throughout Scotland from birdwatching to whale-watching and from boat trips to land safaris. We have been involved in the association from its conception and have worked with Visit Scotland on the new accreditation scheme for the industry.


ATOL PROTECTED

The air holidays and flights are ATOL Protected, since we hold an Air Travel Organiser's Licence granted by the Civil Aviation Authority. Our ATOL number is ATOL 4259. In the unlikely event of our insolvency, the CAA will ensure that you are not stranded abroad and will arrange to refund any money you have paid to us for an advance booking. For further information, visit the ATOL website at www.atol.org.uk.