Cameron House

Balloch, United Kingdom. Located on a wooded promontory jutting into Loch Lomond near Balloch, within Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park.

Cameron HouseBalloch, United Kingdom

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Address: Cameron House
Loch Lomond
West Dunbartonshire G83 8QZ
Scotland, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1389 312 210
Official website: www.cameronhouse.co.uk
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208 bedrooms, including 28 suites, since the Lomond Wing extension, plus lodges and Mansion House apartments.
Restaurants and bars including the Cameron Grill, La Vista, LOMA by Graeme Cheevers and the Great Scots Bar with more than 250 whiskies.
Cameron Spa with rooftop infinity pool, health club, two golf courses and a marina.
Located on a wooded promontory jutting into Loch Lomond near Balloch, within Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park.

11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

Mid-1700s
A first house is built on the shores of Loch Lomond; it is later bought by Sir James Smollett, whose family keeps the estate for three centuries.
1830
William Spence builds the present baronial stone castle, with peaked gables and decorative turrets.
1865
The house is rebuilt after a fire.
1985
Laird Patrick Telfer Smollett sells the house, which had received Johnson and Boswell, Empress Eugénie and Churchill, to Kildonnan Investments.
November 2014
De Vere sells the hotel to Sankaty Advisors and Canyon Capital Advisors, owners of QHotels.
2015
Cameron House is sold again, to the American firm KSL Capital Partners.
18 Dec. 2017
A fire breaks out at dawn and burns for over 24 hours; more than 200 people are evacuated, two guests die and three are injured.
January 2021
At Dumbarton Sheriff Court, it emerges that a porter had put hot ash in a cupboard of kindling; the owner, admitting safety breaches, is fined £500,000.
20 Sept. 2021
The hotel reopens after a careful restoration, with 140 bedrooms including 24 suites.
October 2022
The new Lomond Wing opens, adding 68 rooms and the 700 m² Loch Lomond Suite event space, for a total of 208 bedrooms.
October 2025
The owner, KSL Capital Partners, puts the resort on the market, hoping for about £100 million.