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- Clunie Cottage
  
  Sleeps: 4-6 people
  
  Our largest cottage is semi-detached and is all on one level. It’s especially bright and airy, particularly well suited to people with visual impairments. It has its own patio with bench seating and overlooks a small garden and bird table.
  
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- Gairn Cottage
  
  Sleeps 4 people
  
  Our allergy free cottage so no pets are allowed. It’s a small and cosy cottage with an accessible ground-floor bedroom and second bedroom in the upstairs gallery. It opens onto the courtyard and has bench seating with planters just outside the door.
  
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- Gelder Cottage
  
  Sleeps: 5 people
  
  Cottage opens out onto a riverside patio with views across the River Dee and Balmoral Golf Course. It has an accessible twin bedroom downstairs and second bedroom in the upstairs gallery.
  
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- Girnock Cottage
  
  Sleeps: 4 people
  
  A detached cottage which opens out onto a riverside patio with views across the River Dee and Balmoral Golf Course. It’s all on one level and has two bedrooms. It has an accessible picnic table just outside the cottage.
  
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Crathie Opportunity Holidays Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice applies to everyone whose information is provided as part of an enquiry or booking. If you are providing information about anyone else, please make sure that they have seen this notice, and that you have their permission before giving us any personal data about them.

What sort of data does Crathie Opportunity Holidays hold about you?
We collect and keep data about you. This includes the personal data you give via our website, email or over the phone when you enquire or make a booking, during or after your visit.

We keep data about your enquiry or visit. This includes payments you make. We do not
keep any bank or payment card details.

We will keep and use personal data about other people whose information you have provided.

We will ask for personal data that is essential for us to know so that we can provide our service to you. If we ask for personal data that is not essential, we will explain why and tell you the consequences if you do not provide us with the personal data.

How does Crathie Opportunity Holidays use your personal data? Necessary uses – providing our service:
To provide our services to you we will need to use your personal data, and personal data relating to any other persons whose data is connected with providing our service.

We may need to use this personal data when you enquire, when you make a booking, during your visit and after your visit.

We use the personal data about you and others to manage and update your booking. It is necessary that we are able to use your personal data in this way to provide our service to you.

We may contact you by phone, post, email or SMS. We might use these to contact you with information about your enquiry or booking (for example, to let you know availability or prices or to answer any queries before, during or after your visit).

We also use your personal data for other ‘legitimate business interests’. These are other uses allowed by law which are necessary to enable us to provide our service. These include managing and operating our business and improving our business.

We may use your personal data to improve our business. We might use your information to understand customers’ needs and requirements to match our service to customers’ needs.

Will Crathie Opportunity Holidays send me marketing information?
We may use your personal data to send you relevant marketing information. We do this so we can tell you about our products. We may send marketing by email. You can opt out of marketing at any time, by contacting us.

Who does Crathie Opportunity Holidays share your personal data with?
Crathie Opportunity Holidays does not share your information.

How long does Crathie Opportunity Holidays keep your personal data for?
When you have made a booking, we keep personal data for 5 years after your visit. When you have enquired but not made a booking, we keep data for up to 1 year.

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You have the right to know what data we hold about you. This is called your ‘subject access rights’.

If you ask us for this, we will send you a copy of all the personal data we hold about you. If you want a copy of your personal data, please contact us.

You have the right to change or amend your personal data if you think any of the personal data we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete. Contact us and we will change it.

You have the right to stop us using your data or ask us to delete the personal data we hold about you. If you want us to stop using or delete your personal data, please contact us.

Contact Details
Email: info@crathieholidays.org.uk
Telephone: 013397 42100

More Information
For more data about your rights, visit the Information Commissioner’s Office website
The Information Commissioner’s Office is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights and promote data privacy for individuals. Their website is www.ico.org.uk.

If you have a complaint or concern about how we have handled your personal data and we have not been able to sort it out to your satisfaction, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the ICO.

Kevin H

4 contributions

24 Sep 2025

Kevin and Tricia visit to Crathie Opportunity Holidays I have a progressive muscle wasting condition (SMA 3) and we have been struggling to find suitably adapted holiday accommodation for sometime. I can honestly say Crathie was an unexpected gem of a find and we had the best holiday in stunning surroundings with great facilities ( ceiling hoists in bedroom and bathroom, wet room shower with shower chair, profiling adjustable bed and a Closomat toilet.). The staff and volunteers were great so friendly and helpful. An added bonus was that we were able to take Molly our springer spaniel with us too. We stayed in Clunie cottage which was lovely and had everything needed for a holiday let. The location of the cottage was stunning, a five minute walk from Crathie Kirk and just a few minutes extra to the gates of Balmoral. The cottage courtyard looks down onto the lovely and spectacular River Dee and there are lots of places to go for a walk without having to go on the main road. Braemar is about 9 miles away and Ballater is slightly closer at 8 miles both towns are lovely although my preference was for Ballater, it's a gorgeous wee town. There's a decent sized CO-OP supermarket in Ballater for all your grocery needs. I also need to mention the Clachan Grill in Ballater we had a couple of meals there and the food and service were exceptional.We were fortunate to meet a lovely couple who were staying in one of the other cottages when we arrived at Crathie. We had a great time getting to know Mike and Jean and they had lots of good tips for places to visit or restaurants/cafes to have a meal.As Maggie the manager told us we were very fortunate to be there during the warmest and driest summer on Royal Deeside for many years, but we will definitely be back, whether or not they can guarantee the weather because it is such a lovely part of the World and the people are so friendly. Crathie Opportunity Holidays provide the sort of accommodation that is so difficult for families and couples who have a family member with a severe disability to find. The best recommendation I can give is that we will definitely be visiting Clunie Cottage again the the near future.

Alison A

01 Jul 2026

Superb cottages in a beautiful location Had a great week in one of the 4 cottages here. They are right by the River Don and next door to Balmoral. Set in lovely grounds with space to sit outside. These wee cottages are fully accessible and thus it was great to have a riser/recliner chair and profiling bed for one of our party. The food storage space and fridge were too small in Gairn ( the smallest cottage) but there is a laundry room with extra fridge and freezer space which we made use of. Very nice accommodation and would definitely go back. Lovely, helpful staff both at booking stage and onsite. A great find and highly recommended if you need an accessible holiday venue.