Gleneagles was named a Finalist in the Best UK Hotel of the Year category at the 2025 Travelling for Business Awards, recognition for the
Perthshire estate that has defined Scottish grandeur for a century.
Since 1924, the "Glorious Playground" has occupied a category of its own: a great ocean liner of a hotel moored in 850 acres of Perthshire, where guests shoot, ride, fish, fly falcons and play some of golf's most storied courses - the King's, the Queen's and the Ryder Cup-hosting PGA Centenary - before dressing for dinner in rooms that hum with easy glamour. The estate's restaurants and bars have become destinations in their own right, crowned by two-Michelin-starred dining and, for oenophiles, extraordinary private experiences in the hotel's celebrated cellar, where
Dom Pérignon dinners unfold beneath the property in candlelit intimacy.
Its recent renaissance impressed voters as much as its heritage. Gleneagles has been reimagined room by room with wit and confidence - Scottish craft and mid-century warmth replacing tartan cliché - while the American Bar, the spa and the Little Glen for younger guests show an estate designing for how people actually live now. For business travellers, that translates into Britain's most complete venue for leadership retreats and incentive travel: arrive by direct train from London to the estate's own station, and an entire company awayday builds itself.
The 2025 title went to Lucknam Park, with Gleneagles shortlisted alongside Heckfield Place - a Finalist field gathering the three great expressions of British country hospitality: Wiltshire polish, Hampshire quietude and Highland-fringe theatre.
The brand now travels too: Gleneagles Townhouse has carried the estate's spirit into Edinburgh's St Andrew Square, giving members and guests a city foothold between
luxurious Scottish escapes - and confirming that the hotel's second century will be its most confident. Back on the estate, the shooting school, gundog school and falconry mews keep alive sporting traditions few venues anywhere can offer, while the American Bar's revival has become a destination in itself.
As the Travelling for Business Awards look towards 2026, Gleneagles remains what it has been for a hundred years: proof that scale and soul can share a roof, and the reason so many travellers' love affair with
Scotland begins at a railway halt in Perthshire.
