Scotland - Linlithgow
 

Can any Scotland experts comment on Linlithgow? Is it an interesting or worthwhile location for a day trip?
Thanks.
Abbey

The Palace is quite beautiful and very interesting, and makes a nice day trip on a good day in summer when you can take a picnic to eat by the loch in the grounds. There's not really anything else there, it's just a very small town, and I don't think I'd bother if the weather wasn't good. Where are you staying & for how long ?

Hello Caroline ~ Currently two nights in Anstruther, and two nights in Glasgow. I'm still rearching the location for the night I arrive in Scotland ... should be relatively close to the Glasgow Airport --ie. not much further than Stirling or Dunfermline, as I will have had a long day of travel.

I think Linlithgow is well worth the vist. As a ruin it will always be better in good weather than poor.

The Tormaukin in Gleneagles might be an interesting option for your night's stay after you arrive.

We spent a couple of hours in Linlithgow in June on the way from Edinburgh to Crieff in Perthshire. The palace is wonderful - although it was a bitterly cold day so I did not linger as long as my husband. It is quite a small town but has several pubs and we had an excellent lunch in one.

Why not stay in Glasgow first ? Or are you flying out of Glasgow early in the morning ?

Any reason you're not staying in Edinburgh ? :-)

Thanks for the comments regarding Linlithgow. Sounds like a location that definitely depends on the weather
for touring the Palace. I'll certainly keep it on my list of "must do" sites, for warmer temperatures.

Caroline ~ Glasgow could be an option for a first night [although I'm not really a city person], but I was hoping to spend the following morning touring a historic sight that I hadn't yet visited.
As for the city of Edinburgh ~ well actually I usually find the accommodation costs here to be more expensive than elsewhere, so I usually visit Edinburgh in day trips.
Thanks all!