Redlands Country Lodge

30/03/2025

Our very last guests checked out today, our very last hot tubs emptied and filled and our very last rooms reset!

Thanks to everyone who’s stayed with us over the last 19 years and helped us grow our wee family business.

Brand new owners will be moving in very soon and are excited to be opening the diary up again.

We wish them all the best for future success and happiness here at Redlands - we have absolutely loved living here and are sure they will too.

We are off for a bit of a rest!

K&A

06/03/2025

**NOW BOOKED**

Last minute availability due to a cancellation for this weekend in our lovely little WeeTwo cabin.
Book now at Redlandslodge.com.
Be quick!!

14/02/2025

💕Happy Valentines to our lovely guests arriving today! 💕 Cosy rooms ready and our bubblicious tubs heating up nicely for arrival. 💕

(For those of you who missed out this weekend, we’ve plenty of availability throughout March! 😘)

23/01/2025

Check out our late availability this weekend. Perfect place to hideaway in all weathers!

06/01/2025

Promised yourself you’ll get the steps in in 2025 and bored of the treadmill already?🚶 🏃
We’ve fantastic woodland walks all around us and plenty of fresh air!
🌳 🌲 And what better than a bubblicious hot tub to soak those muscles in after?
See our Ditch The Treadmill offers through Jan and Feb on our website.

31/12/2024

30/12/2024

Perfect place to blow away the NY cobwebs, beautiful walks.

29/12/2024

😃 Lovely review from guests who’ve just checked out after enjoying a wee twixmas break. 😃

12/12/2024

Beautiful view from the house this morning.

11/12/2024

🎄 🎄 We still have some availability over Xmas and NY here at Redlands.
Cosy in our gorgeous apts with a private hot tub. 🎄 🎄
Check if your dates are available on our website.
www.redlandslodge.com

🎄 🎄

05/12/2024

That’s one gorgeous guest booked into WeeBothy for 4 nights over Christmas! Ooooo - Christmas Day in a hot tub….! Bliss.

www.redlandslodge.com

28/11/2024

Wee bit frosty - perfect hot tub weather.

Book via our website for December availability.

Www.redlandslodge.com

28/11/2024

Sooo, you lucky people! It’s taking longer than expected to handover to our new owners so we’ve decided to reopen some cheeky December dates.
Check out availability and book direct on our website

WeeOne log cabin apartment at Redlands Country Lodge with private hot tub, perfect for a short break only 1 hour from Edinburgh.

10/10/2024

We have the weeniest of availability left now in October - nothing from the 23rd onwards until the new owner opens their diary.
Be quick!

Any enquiries for Nov onwards, please email us and we can pass on - the new owner will get in touch in Nov. We can’t confirm any bookings or availability however.

23/09/2024

Eeek!!
🏡OUR VERY LAST WEEKEND DATES AVAILABLE BEFORE WE MOVE ARE…

🏡 Fri 4/ Sat 5 October WeeBothy (NOW SOLD)

🏡 Sat 19/Sun 20 October WeeTwo and WeeBothy

Some mid week available up to the 23rd October. Nothing after that.

🐝 quick!!

15/09/2024

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2006.
18+ years ago, we jumped into buying Redlands with absolutely no idea what we were doing but with the notion that we wanted to be around for the kids when they came in from school! Remote working wasn’t possible back in the day!

Our first years were bed and breakfast days - breakfast for 12 before the school run (kids always late!). Eggs from our own hens (THE secret to a perfect poached egg!)
Proud to be supporting local butchers and using Fife suppliers wherever we could. Road testing all the local bars and restaurants so that we could recommend to guests was tough 😝.
The KettleBridge Inn remains a firm fave of our guests.
Alan often washing and ironing linen until midnight before heading to work in Edinburgh. We’d be cleaning loos, making beds (thankful for our lovely cleaner Mrs R!) and then checking in guests who often commented how lovely it must be to have so much of the day we to ourselves after breakfast!

A real family business with Mum and Dad able to cook a full breakfast and check in guests to allow us a break - their duties even extended to rearing 6 ducklings who appeared while we were on holiday! Our kids had jobs too, from being in charge of egg collecting, chicken hut cleaning, horse feeding and breakfast service (when it involved payment of course! ) and even litter picking along Pitlessie Road!
The days of the hand written guest review in a book, telephone calls to take bookings and learning from those who’d been in the business for years and who were kind enough to pass on wisdom and top tips.

Then came the internet.
Fantastic! Our wee place in Ladybank became known to even more people worldwide. A website, online bookings, credit card machines and our little business grew again.
At last, we could outsource the laundry!

Then came apps and mobile phones, Airbnb, Booking.con, lots more competition and the emergence of the online review!
In 18 years we’ve only a few duff reviews and we are genuinely thankful that those people haven’t returned! One memorable guest complained loudly at breakfast that an owl 🦉 had kept them awake at night (I replied that I’d forgotten to switch him off before I went to bed.)
Another guest was displeased that we didn’t have a shop onsite.

2024
My reason for jotting this down? We have finally decided to retire!
We’ve enjoyed growing our business, adapting to many changes
- from guests expectations from their holiday accommodation to 😷 🦠!
We made it through and our wee business has never been busier.

So, it’s been an ideal time to hand over the reins and take time to have some short breaks and long lies ourselves. Believe me we are the easiest of guests - simply thankful that someone else has made the bed and cleaned the bathroom.

A lovely new owner will be moving in to Redlands in November and we wish them all the best - we truly have loved raising our family here and have made many special friends in the village too (you know who you all are). We hope they are made to feel as welcome as we have and will continue to support local businesses too.

We will update again once all the legal stuff is done! 🤞

Be quick to get in another break with us while we are still here - our weekends are almost gone already!!

Kate and Alan
Xx

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30/08/2024

Oooh 😋