Welcome to RoseGrove.

Rooms from £18 B&B per person, evening meals £11 2 course & £13 3 course

A picturesque area of beauty in the Scottish Highlands, is where you will find RoseGrove Guest House. Situated on a seven acre croft in Spey Valley. Mountain views, excellent service, superb food and en-suite facilities are only a few of the reasons why RoseGrove is the chosen accommodation of many. Children are very welcome, with baby equipment and toys available upon request.

Staying at RoseGrove for 2 nights or more will enable you to receive a free pass to Rothiemurchus Estate, which offers a unique blend of scenic beauty, nature, history and activities. for more information click HERE.

Guests staying for 3 nights or more will receive a discount. Click HERE for more details.

Food at RoseGrove is certainly something special. Sue Walters prepares all breakfast and evening meals using the finest ingredients, in order to produce traditional Scottish and English cuisine. Special diets are easily catered for.

RoseGrove is the ideal location for visiting the many visitor attractions throughout the Highlands of Scotland. Our guests including;

Bird watchers - Many species are regularly spotted in the locality; Crested Tit and Capercaillie can be seen in the surrounding croft, all sighting are noted in our log book.

Fishing - On the mighty river Spey, one of the most famous Scottish Salmon rivers, is available together with numerous smaller rivers and lochs. The Spey fishing technique attracts many specialist fisherman.

Golf - Courses are extremely close by including Boat of Garten, Carrbridge, Kingussie, Newtonmore and the Bill Mitchell (PGA) designed Grantown-On-Spey.

Winter Sports - Cairngorm and Lecht ski areas very close by.

Outdoor Activities - Winter walking, pony trekking, snow boarding, skiing, ice climbing, survival, hill walking, mountain and rock climbing, Dinghy sailing, Canoeing and Kayaking are available at Loch Morlich and Loch Insh all only a few miles away.

What's NEW

Where did summer go, or at least that poor excuse for a summer that we have had this year. It seems the weather since mid September has been better than we had during June, July and August

Off Peak Deals began on the 1st October, this means that any stay of three or more nights, with or without evening meals are subject to a discount of approximately 20%. Autumn seems especially good this year with the colours still strong and vibrant so if you feel like a few days of TLC, this is the place to come; soon we will be into Winter, my favourite season of all here in the Highlands, the starkness of the moor lands and beauty of the mountains still take my breath away.

We are discovering ever more wonderful places to visit so we can soon tell you where to go, in the nicest possible way of course and after a day sightseeing and walking you can come back to tea and bickies by the fire.

For those guests who have been before a quick catch up on the family, this year has been quite difficult in that Graham has been very ill but he is much better now although his Parkinson's is not as under control as we would like but patience is everything; even so we have just about managed business as usual. Vicki, our youngest and our number one waitress is now very part time! She has left school after deciding she wanted to take up a career in nursing, (something good always seems to come out of bad things and she made this decision whilst holding Graham's hand in Raigmore Hospital), she is doing a three year degree course with Stirling University at their Highland Campus at Raigmore Hospital and goes on her first placement to Fort William Health Centre next week. So, we are very proud of her but I still can't come to terms with the idea of my baby injecting real people - as long as it's not me!! Laura, the middle one, is staying most of the time in Reading and very shortly starts a new job, she had been working for Bank of Ireland Mortgages but is moving to the Inland Revenue in their Insolvency Department, (Boo Hiss), so I hope no-one ever comes into contact with her in her line of work. Still it is for her a better job with increased chances to progress and more time to spend at home here with us which is great. James, number one son and number one web page designer and looker after is still dashing about Europe on behalf of Prodrive so although he officially lives here with us we don't get to see a lot of him. So it is a big thank you that he manages to find time to do these updates for me.

More changes at Rosegrove

Back to the guest house, the dining room is just about finished now with new flooring, a fridge freezer in which we are going to stock Rizzas ice cream and other wonderful puds, and a breakfast bar to make the morning scrum a bit more civilized, just got to sort out the window frames and put up the rest of the blinds, (I know we have been putting these up for the past two years but it is soooo boring, you have to cut every slat on every blind and at both ends so they look right). Haven't done as much redecoration as I would have liked in the rest of the property but you can only do what you can do and Graham had to come first, we'll get there.

The wild garden is very very wild now, much to the birds delight, we have a real epidemic of Coal Tits I think mostly thanks to the Rosegrove Triffid. A huge plant appeared throughout the Summer which we later found out was a Burdock thanks to an intelligent, knowledgeable guest. We can only think it was either in the bird seed or has been carried here by a bird. This has been a magnificent plant, back in the Spring the parent birds would shelter their young under the enormous leaves whilst they were feeding them, then through the Summer it has been both shade and cover against the couple of Kestrel that have earmarked us as providing easy pickings; the flowers when they came were the most beautiful purple and now it is covered in seeds which the Coal Tits especially like.

We keep thinking we must go out, machetes in hand and regain a little control but we don't like to until all the seeds are gone as it would rather defeat the object of a wild garden, so please don't look out of our windows and think 'what a mess' rather, 'lucky birds'! Well I think that's it, do try and come and see us through the Winter and I will do my best to make you leave relaxed, refreshed and well fed.

Off peak deals last through until just before Easter with the exception of New Year, please give us a ring for further details.

Sue Walters