The seven beautiful UK castles you can stay in this summer - full list
As staycations continue to be popular this year, many are deciding they would quite like to lord over their own castle after watching the BBC's The Traitors.
Looking for an alternative holiday this year? How about staying in a real-life castle?
As staycations continue to be popular this year, many are deciding they would quite like to lord over their own castle after watching recent period dramas and the hit reality TV series, The Traitors.
Ardross Castle which is used in the BBC reality show is used as a wedding and conference venue when it is not being used for the silver screen, but unfortunately, its rooms cannot be booked out for a stay.
But luckily plenty of castles are offering their rooms to holidaymakers looking to be king for a few days.
Castles from Fife to Bristol allow visitors to tuck into turret rooms, slumber in affordable four-poster beds and even rent out a whole fort.
See the list below for all of the UK's castles for hire.
Chester-le-Street’s Lumley Castle looms over the River Wear and features opulent four-star suites from a bygone era.
Visitors can stay in four-poster beds and bed chambers in the castle’s former chapel allowing holidaymakers to live out their own fairytales.
It also holds murder mystery dinner dates along with three-course meals in the Knights Restaurant.
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Located in the heart of Perthshire, Scotland, the traditional Balvaird Wing at Scone Palace can welcome six guests to sleep and eat in the home of the Earls of Mansfield.
The castle has a fifteen-hundred-year history and allows diners to tuck into a culinary feast in a grand state dining room that rivals the round table.
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Located in sprawling Ayrshire woodland, Glenapp Castle’s 17-period suites offer a cosy castle stay.
Guests can start the day dining on a full Scottish breakfast before heading off for a Hebridean Sea Safari.
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An ancestral Scottish castle on the bank of the Tay Estuary, Carron Castle is studded with oil paintings, grand pianos and baronial bedrooms.
Visitors can hire the whole thing for a retreat with up to 28 of their friends.
The castle has an elegant drawing room and library with quiet corners for tittle-tattle, as well as 1,500 acres of private estate to roam.
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This Bristol Tudor castle offers suites that are nothing short of stately with period detailing winding all the way up the 77 spiral steps to the magnificent Catherine of Aragon tower suite.
Notable former guests include Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
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