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.
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.
(Image: Carron Castle)