Buchan Hotel
Aberdeenshire
📍 Ellon and District, AB41 9DS
🔌 Nearest public charging: · 0.1 mi (Open Charge Map)
Photo: Bill Harrison (CC BY-SA 2.0)
- Family run hotel offering traditional Scottish hospitality
- Large beer garden on site
- 25 newly refurbished ensuite bedrooms with modern amenities
- Close to River Ythan estuary and fishing beats
- Access to golf, museums, whisky trails and fishing nearby
The Buchan Hotel is a family run hotel and restaurant in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, close to the River Ythan with its famous estuary and excellent fishing beats. The hotel offers 25 newly refurbished ensuite bedrooms, each with free Wi-Fi, tea making facilities and television, plus a large beer garden and a public bar with a warm, friendly atmosphere. Breakfast, coffees, lunch and evening meals are served daily, with menus built on local produce and Scottish flavour. Ellon itself sits amid a rich agricultural area with golf courses, a whisky trail, castles and nature nearby, and the hotel is also within reach of local museums and heritage sites, making it a handy base for exploring Aberdeenshire's countryside and coastline.
How far to…
- Museum of Farming Life
- 4.7 miles
- Forvie National Nature Reserve Visitor C
- 4.9 miles
- Tarves Heritage Project
- 5.5 miles
- Dyce station
- 11.8 miles
Accommodation on site
- Rooms
Details taken from the operator's own website on 31 Oct 2026 — check current terms when you book.
Facilities
- ✓ Bar
- ✓ Restaurant
- ✓ WiFi
- 🔌 EV Charging Nearby
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