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Crieff Hydro Meeting Rooms

Leading Scottish independent hotel, Crieff Hydro, has boosted an already impressiverange of conference facilities with a ￡260,000 investment in meeting rooms and WiFi technology throughout the property.

In a climate where time is money and budgets are constrained, ritual meetings are often replaced by virtual meetings through telephone and video conferences – but at what price overall? Undoubtedly the pace of commercial life is not helped by unnecessary meetings, but sometimes there is no substitute for face-to-face engagement.

This is never more so than in the areas of team building and creative thinking, both of which aid productivity and deliver untold benefits in terms of positive corporate culture and staff retention.

Recognising this, Crieff Hydro’s latest meeting rooms have been designed specifically as ergonomic spaces to encourage clients to think outside the box. Traditional meets modern in the overall design, the latest high-tech equipment makes light work of clever presentations and, in an effort to overcome the dreaded ‘graveyard slot’ after lunch, skilled instructors come as part of the package to run activator sessions designed to stimulate minds and bodies and fire delegates up.

At the same time, this established hotel set in the glorious Perthshire countryside has invested a mighty ￡60,000 in first-class WiFi facilities throughout the property, enabling superfast broadband and efficient plug and play technology for the ultimate connectivity.

Crieff Hydro Meeting Rooms

Commenting on the hotel’s investment in new facilities, Chief Executive Stephen Leckie, said: “In a highly competitive marketplace, investment is crucial to stay ahead of the game. In this online age, people not only expect, but demand, free WiFi access and those venues who fail to invest in meeting that demand, ultimately risk losing their competitive edge. Like many other parts of Scotland away from the cities, Crieff does not get broadband speed. So we have had to make a big investment to bring a fast “pipe” in from Perth. We have taken that a step further by introducing plug and play capability which means that presentations can be beamed direct to a screen from a laptop without trailing wires and the need for complex kit.

“Increasingly aspirations of meeting planners are high and we know that buyers are constantly looking for something a bit different. Not everyone is looking for facelesshotel rooms or purpose-built conference centres and we believe that what weoffer at Crieff Hydro is a unique package of flexible spaces to ensure thatmeetings are interesting, stimulating and alive. Add to that our own onsite teambuilding centre which helps to set the venue apart from others and create a unique experience.

Designed by the internationally renowned design team at Graven Images in Glasgow, the creative minds behind boutique properties such as Hotel Missoni in Edinburgh and Blythswood Square in Glasgow, Crieff Hydro’s spaces offer dramatic backdrops, cleverly hidden high-tech and sumptuous contemporary comfort.

In the latest meeting rooms, original features have been blended with specially created artworks in the form of collages with layers of historical references from the hotel’s history. Neutral tones sprinkled with flashes of accent colours combine with a scaled-up geometric check carpet to provide a dramatic contemporary twist; mirrors and etched glass give a sense of space and light and the flexible spaces offer a variety of configurations with break-out and reception areas.

Crieff Hydro is set in a lush 900 acre estate in the Perthshire countryside with no less than 60 on-site activities including off-road driving and quad bike courses, horse riding, archery, laserquest, climbing, off-road Segway tours, a Victorian Spa and swimming pool and leisure club.

The hotel now has twelve meeting and conference spaces that can cater for events from two to 500. These include: the state of the art Melville Hall with capacity for up to 500; the venue’s highes space, the Tower Room which can take 8 people boardroom-style; the Loggia sun room which is perfect for receptions up to eighty people; and now the introduction of two innovative new meetingrooms designed with productivity in mind.
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For further information, please contact:

Geoff Morrison | Marketing Manager | Crieff Hydro Limited | 01764 651684 | geoff.morrison@crieffhydro.com