A warm welcome and excellent hospitality service provides our guests with a refreshingly different experience when visiting Ayr. Our guest house has recently been fully renovated and tastefully furnished throughout to a high standard retaining many of the original Victorian features. bytheSea is a family run business and on arrival you will receive a friendly welcome from Julie and Wilson McIlwaine. We will endeavour to provide you with a wealth of information on local Ayr tourist attractions, shopping and restaurant guides.
bytheSea offer this extra facility: You are welcome to enjoy our comfortable lounge and enclosed relaxing patio area. Both areas are child friendly; we even provide toys for the little ones!
bytheSea is situated within a prime, central location 100 yards from the beach, children’s outdoor and indoor play areas and a five minute walk from excellent restaurants, bars and shops.
All our rooms are equipped with internet access, with hospitality trays, colour TV’s / freeview channels, irons, ironing boards and hairdryers. If you are on business in Ayr or would just like to surf the internet you can also make use of our broadband service for your laptop computer in your room.
Queens terrace is considered to be Ayr’s premier seafront location. Victorian and Georgian town houses frame the spectacular backdrop to the sea. This conservation area, with its cluster of well maintained guest houses and hotels is picturesque by day as well as by night.
From its very central position, all of Ayr’s attractions and amenities can be reached on foot. At the entrance steps of our Guest House you are a stones throw from:
children’s indoor and outdoor activity centre
Pirate Pete’s
Putting Green
Crazy Putting
Indoor Leisure Centre
Gaiety Theatres
Shops and Restaurants
and last but definitely not least Ayr’s beach.
