BALBINIE HOUSE CONFIRMS PARK AND VISIT DYNAMIC PRICING

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In 2023 Balbirnie House invested £100,000 and installed state-of-the-art technology across the entire span of parking portfolio, aligned to always ensure that our private hotel car parks are always available for our own hotel guests and visitors. Parking charges are applicable. If four guests are arriving by car for afternoon tea, the cost of the parking is circa £0.50 per person. 

With sustainability to the forefront, we incorporated 10 pre-reservable electric vehicle chargers, with capacity to deliver millions of miles of clean energy driving each year.

With a hotel history which has been built upon a cornerstone of always offering absolutely superb start point value-for money, Park and Visit Dynamic Pricing is now being applied across the entirety of all Balbirnie House provisions and services. 

Specifically, on a very regular basis Balbirnie House considers start point pricing offered by hospitality industry colleagues elsewhere within 45 minutes drive, and we then define our start pricing at levels either marginally less, or significantly less. We then also fully fully factor an acknowledgement of the cost of parking within that start point, which in terms of practicality is settled via the convenience of either App, or touchscreen at front desk. 

Balbirnie House Park and Visit Dynamic Pricing was initiated at the very beginning of 2024, and the first relevant examples we have defined are in relation to our 3 course The Modern Age dinner, and Afternoon Tea. You can read that blog summary here> 

If you are not clicking through to read the above, then we mention that the blog highlights that the return rail ticket costs (4 adults Markinch to Edinburgh and back) are now at £54.00 which are significantly more than the £2 cost of parking a car at Balbirnie House! 

With 370,000 residents in Fife (fact of the day that's more than the country of Iceland), Balbirnie House sits at the geographical heart of the county. We are certainly absolutely focused on doing all we can to offer wonderful value for money, during this cost-of-living crisis. 

Please bear in mind that the term 'cost-of-doing business crisis' is now extending across the hospitality sector! Our operating costs simply 'to open the doors on a weekly basis', were over £102,000 per week in 2023. As always we are very keen to see Balbirnie as vibrant as always, and pricing as always has to make this approachable. 

There are many brand new houses being built within a short distance of Balbirnie Park, we are certainly focused on ensuring we provide pricing for new regulars arriving into the local area. 

We are already fully aware of the level of tremendous value for money within all that we offer within our very extensive wedding literature. This is confirmed by the fact that during 2023 we took bookings for 201 future weddings at Balbirnie House. 

Park and Visit Dynamic Pricing will now also incorporate into all start point pricing for private and corporate special events, all day and 24 hour conference rates, all overnight stays, and looking even further ahead (as we are already working on finalising 2024 festive tariffs), therefore all generalities of the 2024 festive season. 

For certain types of Special Events we are now able to use new technology to extend hospitality even further. Through 2024 we are absolutely delighted to offer digital passports for complimentary parking for all guests attending Celebrations of Life, Milestone Anniversaries, and Charity Events. Please contact our special events department for more information.

As an integral focus on local business community, for the first 6 months of 2024 (and this may be extended further tbc) we are also offering digital passports for complimentary parking for all residential guests who are assigned our bed and breakfast LPR rates (Local Privilege Rates), and please note, as well as our full Grill @ The Orangery menu, we can also offer LPR pricing for one or two course Orangery dinners from our The Modern Age menu. 

Superb start point value. Approachability. Our traditional warmth of welcome of Scotland hospitality. Start point pricing at levels underneath those of industry competitors, with start point pricing which also fully acknowledges the costs within the new parking systems as well. For our amazing local community, we can do no better this! 

All ongoing pricing, menus and availability via www.balbirnie.co.uk 

All best wishes, 

Nicholas 

MD Balbirnie House