Golden Lion Hotel

For over two hundred years, guests have been welcomed in through the handsome stone entrance of the Golden Lion, with royalty and Scotland's national bard, Rabbie Burns, among them. Nowadays a sought-after setting for leisure, business and special occasions, the family-owned, family-run Golden Lion provides traditional Scottish hotel hospitality in modern style.

The Golden Lion is a historic hotel, full of original touches and personality, and our room layouts reflect the many different eras from the 18th century onwards. Our bedrooms - every one finished to exceptional standards of modern comfort and style - vary in size, shape and decor, which only reflects the distinctive character of the building.

Cronies Bar is the characterful solution when you seek a cool, quiet pint, and the comfortable, wood-panelled setting is a favourite with touring guests and Stirlingshire locals alike. Sink into the leather club armchairs and sofas, order up a dram or two of malt whisky and admire the memorabilia that takes you back to the Golden Lion's 18th century origins as a coaching inn.

In the early 1780s James Wingate, a Stirling business man, commissioned the famous Scottish architect Gideon Gray to build a hotel on the site of The Gibb's Inn Tavern and Lodgings, located in Quality Street Stirling. The Gibb's Inn was according to antiquity, "The principal hotel in Stirling catering for coaches going north to Perth - 'The Difiance' 4 horse coach leaving at 8.50am - and south to Glasgow - 'The Rapide' leaving for Glasgow at 8.30am, both from the pend behind the Inn."The Hotel known as Wingate's Inn opened to much "fanfare and anticipation" in 1786 to "provide a valuable service to visitors and travellers to and from Stirling alike."