Clyde Coast
Before package holidays abroad became popular in the 1960s, the Clyde coastal resorts provided a thriving holiday destination for folk from the west of Scotland , particularly during the two week summer break known as the Glasgow Fair. City families would flock to the Clyde Coast for the fresh air and freedom of the seaside.
Now a place for wealthy Glaswegians to build seaside villas. Once a place for slightly less wealthy Glaswegians to spend their holidays! The advent of the package holiday has meant a diminution of the 'Costa Clyde' holidays but has also heralded a somewhat accidental but very significant rebirth of the area - not only as a new modern gateway to the Western Highlands - but as a superb high amenity holiday and leisure destination in its own right, with a mecca of local surrounding activity and tourism pursuits for the modern leisure and eco-tourist. This wealth and diversity for the modern traveller now comes right into its own, unblinkered by the mass seaside resort appeal it once had.
The enduring assets of a wonderful seaside location and attractive mountainous hinterland just don't die - now the gateway to a new breed of tourist and to a much more tranquil destination, still remarkably unspoilt but without the hurly burly of the bygone era.
‘What better way to view this spectacular coastline on board the ‘pleasure steamers’ Waverley and Balmoral. Visit www.waverleyexcursions.co.uk for more details with departures from the nearby town of Helensburgh’
Welcome to the delights of the Clyde Coast . From Helensburgh virtually on our doorstep - to Ayrshire and the idyllic isle of Arran - a lasting and memorable experience.
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