Highland Traitors Weekends at Embo House

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Spend a Highland Traitors weekend steeped in intrigue, deception, and unforgettable fun at Embo House, with your facilitated, private, Traitors experience. Designed for groups of 8 to 16 guests, this exclusive-use stay transforms a luxurious Highland retreat into the perfect setting for strategy, suspicion, and surprise.

The Traitors

Embo House comfortably sleeps up to 16 guests in eight beautifully appointed double bedrooms. Whether you’re gathering friends, family, or colleagues, the house offers flexibility and ensures you can all relax and enjoy your stay before and after your traitorous endeavours!

         

Embo House’s very own “Claudia Winkleman” runs our Highland Traitors Experiences

Embo House’s Highland Traitors weekends are for a minimum stay of three nights, which will give ample time to immerse yourselves in the house, the area and the game, using Embo’s characterful spaces to full effect. The atmospheric library becomes the ideal setting for hushed alliances and secret plotting, while the bar offers a lively backdrop for discussions, accusations, and dramatic reveals.

Your Highland Traitors weekend includes use of the 6-wo/man hot-tub, and can be catered*, part-catered* or self-catered, giving you complete control over your weekend. You and your group will have exclusive use of the house and extensive gardens – and can create the exact atmosphere you want—whether that’s relaxed and social or intensely competitive. Guests are responsible for organising and bringing all participants and prizes, making it a truly personal and private event tailored to your group dynamic.

Best of all, the Traitors game itself is included at no extra cost AND we are offering the house to rent at a special price of £3,600. (15% discount) during the months of October, November and December 26, (Christmas excluded) and February/March 27.
The game can take 3-5 hours and can be played once or twice during your stay. Highland Traitors weekends can run Thursday to Saturday (leave Sunday morning) or Friday to Sunday (leave Monday).

A Highland Traitors weekend at Embo House is more than just a getaway—it’s an immersive social experience where every conversation matters, every glance could be a clue, and no one is quite who they seem. Perfect for celebrations, team-building, or simply an extraordinary escape, it’s a weekend you and your guests won’t forget anytime soon!

Highland Traitors Weekends at Embo House

 

 

Embo House is just an hour’s easy drive from Inverness, where the airport and train station have daily arrivals from around the UK.

*NB: Any catering is charged extra. Menu options available on request. Alternatively, your group can eat in the great local restaurants.

Embo House: “5 star” self-catering in Dornoch

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Embo House: 5-star self-catering accommodation in Dornoch

We are delighted to report that the Scottish tourist board have awarded Embo House a 5-star self-catering rating, making us the only Dornoch 5-star self-catering accommodation. As you may gather, we are rather proud of this!

For the House to achieve the 5-star rating, we had to fulfil many challenging criteria and pass a detailed inspection by the man from “Visit Scotland” – who was obviously charming, – but that didn’t stop us being very nervous!

The property is Grade 1 listed and had been beautifully modernised by our predecessors as a private house, so we always felt that Embo House deserved a 5-star self-catering rating. Our job has been to turn it from a 10-bedroom 6-bathroom house – to one with 8 generous double bedrooms, all with en-suite bathrooms. We completed that job this spring.

“Dalmore” & “Wolfburn” suites completed 2019

All our mattresses are pocket-sprung and then have toppers for extra comfort. The bed linen is 200 thread-count, pure Egyptian cotton and we have 100% woollen throws on top, sourced from Kingcraig in Dornoch. We also ensure all rooms are provided with complementary robes, tartan slippers, hairdryers and a bluetooth sound system, so our guests can stream their favourite music.

“Glen Ord” & “Balblair” suites completed 2018

Downstairs, we have everything you might want to celebrate in style, including real table-cloths & napkins, crystal glassware and a bone china dinner service. (Of course, if you’d rather be more casual, we also have easy-care alternatives.) We are also happy to arrange for a chef to come in in cook you dinner. So Embo House 5-star self-catering in Dornoch doesn’t have to be hard work!

In addition to Embo House’s 5-star self-catering award, we have also achieved a “Golfers Welcome” and “Walkers Welcome” accreditation from Visit Scotland. The primary extra requirements for these schemes is that we have a secure, indoor “Club store”, adequate space to store all other outdoor equipment such as jackets, golf shoes and boots – and a “Drying room” – where equipment can be dried overnight. So please come and challenge us! We think we will have everything you need.

                 

As part of our celebration for achieving Embo House’s 5-star self catering award, we made a short video, showing a little of what it’s like to stay in Embo House. Paste this link into your browser to watch it if you like!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuC3J7DujvY

 

Spring at Embo House

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It is almost unbelievable how the carpet of snowdrops which surrounds Embo House from January, gets supplanted by a veritable host of golden daffodils in April. We had been away to our niece’s wedding, and arrived back to find that Spring had definitely sprung in Dornoch.

  

Spring flowers (and Nala) in the garden at Embo House.

In the herb garden, the mint, sage and rosemary are sprouting – and it looks like we will have a forest of chives. Fruitwise, the Rhubarb is starting to go bananas and in the summerhouse, the peach tree is in bloom, and the apricot tree and grape vine are not far behind

 

It’s not just the Spring plants which are active – It’s the birdlife too! We seem to have wild ducks nesting on an island in the pond (safe, but only just, from our inquisitive dog) and there are oyster catchers all over the place, making their wonderfully exotic call. Jim has spent lots of time in the tree house, trying to spot them.

  

And in the house, we are nearing the end of the building work we have been doing. Two new bathrooms have come to life, which means a storm of dust needs to be cleared out. So Embo House is having a HUGE Spring clean!

Spring Bath at Embo House