Tig Cottage Holiday Home

05/04/2025

🐾 LAST-MINUTE DOG HOLIDAY ALERT 🐾

Surprise availability at Tig Cottage for April 7-12th! Recently crowned the UK's #2 dog-friendly property by Dog Friendly Magazine (your pup deserves the silver medal treatment).

Your dog is already packing their tennis balls for:
• April countryside walks right from the doorstep
• Dog-friendly beaches just 5 minutes away
• Wildlife watching from the garden (bunnies included at no extra charge!)
• Stars bright enough to howl at
• The kind of peace that makes tails wag slower

At £110 per night, you're not just booking a cottage – you're gifting your dog the spring break they've been dropping hints about all winter.

Only available for these specific dates – April 7-12th. The resident birds are already rehearsing their dawn chorus welcome.

PS: Your dog's Instagram will never be the same after these views 🐶📸

31/03/2025

YOUR GOOD BOY (OR GIRL) DESERVES A HOLIDAY TOO!
..and now is the perfect time to snaffle a last minute break to Tig, because it seems that the threat of "Awful April" tax-wise has led to some last minute cancellations!

April is the perfect time to visit Tig Cottage, deep in the heart of the UNESCO Biosphere in beautiful rural South Ayrshire... the lambs and calves are still in the field, small enough to be cute, big enough to be running and playing and looking adorable (don't look if you're a fan of legs of lamb on a Sunday).

Our resident wild birds are ravenous, and will put on a Red Arrows worthy display (okay, without the smoke!) if you put out some bird food in the morning (don't worry, we supply it!)

The weather is warm enough for a teeshirt, but not too hot that you don't want to do anything, and everything is blossoming as Spring hits its peak. Perfect for beachside strolls or exploring hills and lochs (bring a waterproof though, it's still Scotland!)

Dates available: 6th April - 12th April and 20th April - 27th April.

Minimum 2 night stay - book online via your favourite booking sites (yes, we're on booking dot com, airbnb and vrbo), or contact me directly.

(PS: Humphrey says: Plz sharez thx!)

29/03/2025

I love my stays at Tig Cottage Holiday Home, as does Humphrey!

We’ve got a whole week available in April, so you’ve ever fancied visiting beautiful South West Scotland, and staying in the heart of the UNESCO Biosphere, at a property rated 9.6 out of 10 on Booking dot Com, now is your chance… just get in touch, or visit our site!

26/03/2025

Good night from Tig Cottage.

26/03/2025

Dunno if I’ll stay here again, the locals keep singing….

26/03/2025

The fields around Tig are filled with lambs and carefully crafted watchful ewes this morning, so me and the dog are taking a lot of care to stay away from the hedges. Sometimes, it’s looking with the eyes and not trying to catch everything with the phone, even for Facebook!

24/03/2025

At Tig, we allow dogs to stay, because we know that dogs deserve holidays too, and for many of us, a holiday isn’t a holiday without our furry friends.

But our lovely housekeepers make sure that everything is wonderfully spotless before you check in!

Image from the fabulous Mostly Dogs

19/03/2025

Heavy traffic up at Tig Cottage today…

18/03/2025

Tig looks all sparkly today!

10/03/2025

Today, Tig is having a wash!

Because we’re surrounded by trees, the outside of the cottage can get green. So every so often, we need to have the outside specially cleaned to get rid of the existing green and slow down the growth of any new greening.

After all, Tig has to look its best!

We’re already looking forward to seeing how good she looks once it’s done!

If you’d like to see in person - why not book your stay via our website at www.tigcottage.com today?

28/02/2025

A lovely post about what can be seen up in the sky tonight above Tig (assuming no clouds!)

Even without magical planet alignments, the sky above Tig is magical. Most of us don’t have darkness in our lives any more, and there’s nothing like stepping out and seeing darkness - true, real darkness, not the murky grey punctuated by streetlights that we call night now - and then, as your eyes adjust, looking up and seeing a multitude of stars, at first those you know, and then, as your eyes adjust, more and more….

Booking online via our site.

🪐This evening, seven planets are due to line up in the night sky in a rare planetary alignment that won't grace our skies again until 2040.

🪐Throughout the month, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn have been visible to the naked eye, with Uranus and Neptune seen with binoculars or a telescope. Now, Mercury has joined the 'parade'.
Night sky experts say this evening, February 28, is the best date this week to spot the celestial display, as Mercury will be higher on the horizon.

🪐Planetary alignments occur because the planets in our solar system orbit the Sun within roughly the same plane, known as the ecliptic plane,” Dr Shyam Balaji, a researcher in astroparticle physics and cosmology at King’s College London, said. “As they orbit at different speeds and distances from the Sun, there are moments when they appear to line up from Earth’s perspective.”
🌍The best time to see the alignment in the UK this evening will be shortly after sunset, when the planets will be positioned above the western horizon”.

🤞Fingers crossed for some clear skies. 🤞

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Image credit: Josh Dury

25/02/2025

100 reviews!!
9.6 out of 10 ain’t bad at all!

Thank you to everyone who has stayed and left us such lovely reviews!

24/02/2025

Did you know we do nice gift vouchers if you're buying someone you care about a stay at Tig Cottage?

Treat someone - or yourself - today!

06/02/2025

In the summer, when the Water of Tig is running shallow, it feels friendly and cheerful. But after the storm and with all the rain, it was positively thundering through the garden!

Talking of summer - it’s getting busy on the bookings! Don’t miss out - whether you’re a repeat guest booking directly or a first time stayer, you can book now and pay later via our website (link in comments).

04/02/2025

Forgot my tripod so 10 seconds is about the the longest I can go without a wobble.

Busy at the bird table again.

02/02/2025

Breakfast time at Tig Cottage - the bluetits move too fast for photos! 🤣

01/02/2025

Fancy new WiFi set up at Tig means that the WiFi now reaches all the way to the back of the cottage!

Tomorrow, a new extender should arrive, meaning WiFi in the garden (although we recommend the sound of the river and the birds over yet another crime podcast).

31/01/2025

Sometimes we get asked “can you really see lots of stars at Tig Cottage?”

Here’s a photo I took just now, with my iPhone on night mode (no tripod either!)