Scotland · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Dumfries
Dumfries is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom, home to about 33,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Dumfries, with about 55 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Nearest airport
- PIK78 km · Glasgow Prestwick Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Dumfries
Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, near the mouth of the River Nith on the Solway Firth, 25 miles (40 km) from the Anglo-Scottish border. Dumfries is the county town of the historic county of Dumfriesshire.
The Dumfries area is lowland and sits on red sandstone, well-drained and fertile. The town grew up east of the lowest crossing point and tidal limit of the River Nith - Maxwelltown on the west bank was separate until merged with Dumfries in 1929. Although it's a burgh of great antiquity, few of the buildings are very old, as invading armies kept wrecking the place. The last such visitor was Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745, who demanded money and shoes for his men.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Dumfries
See
- Robert Burns' House
- Robert Burns' Centre
- Moat Brae
- Dumfries Museum
- Hunterian in the South
- Lincluden Collegiate Church
- Aviation Museum
- Cruck Cottage
- Easthill Stone Circle
- Sweetheart Abbey
- New Abbey Corn Mill
- Birthplace of John Paul Jones
Do
- Mabie Farm Park
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Dumfries
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Dumfries hotel | 55 | 3.8/5 848 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Dumfries
26 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Queensberry Hotel, 16 English Street, Dumfries | 0.5 km | |
| Kings Arms Hotel | 24.6 km | |
| Station Hotel, Station Road, Dumfries | 0.9 km | |
| Volunteer Arms Hotel | 22.3 km | |
| Auldgirth Inn | 12.1 km | |
| Bluebell Hotel, 112 High Street, Lockerbie | 17.7 km | |
| Buccleuch and Queensberry Arms Hotel | 21.5 km | |
| Coach And Horses Inn, 1 Bank Street, Dumfries | 0.3 km | |
| Crown Hotel, 10, 12 Victoria Street, Kirkpatrick Durham | 18.9 km | |
| Culgruff House Hotel | 24.7 km | |
| Dinwoodie Lodge Hotel | 19.8 km | |
| Embassy Hotel, Newbridge | 3.8 km | |
| George Hotel, High Street, Moniaive | 24.1 km | |
| Hamilton House | 1.4 km | |
| Hetland Hall Hotel | 12.8 km | |
| Imperial Hotel, 35 King Street, Castle Douglas | 24.2 km | |
| Lockerbie House Hotel | 18.8 km | |
| Old Temperance Inn, Corsock | 20.2 km | |
| OYO Dryfesdale Hotel OYO Rooms | 17.7 km | |
| Rivendell | 2.0 km | |
| Somerton House Hotel, Carlisle Road, Lockerbie | 17.4 km | |
| Tam O' Shanter Inn, 117 Queensberry Street, Dumfries | 0.5 km | |
| The Cottage, Prestonmill, Kirkbean | 18.2 km | |
| The Galloway Arms Hotel, Castle Douglas Road, Crocketford | 14.0 km | |
| Trigony House Hotel and Garden Spa | 19.1 km | |
| Woodland House Hotel | 3.7 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Dumfries
Dumfries has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 18 °C; October is the wettest, with about 187 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Dumfries: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK), about 78 km from the city centre in a straight line; Edinburgh Airport (EDI, 99 km) and Glasgow Airport (GLA, 103 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Scotrail trains run every 2 or 3 hours from Glasgow Central, taking 1 hour 50 min via Kilmarnock and Sanquhar, and continuing from Dumfries to Annan, Gretna Green and Carlisle. From England, take the train towards Glasgow or Edinburgh and change at Carlisle. From Glasgow it's almost as quick to come via Carlisle as by the direct train. Dumfries railway station is east side of town centre. It has a staffed ticket office and machines, a cafe, toilets and waiting room. There is step-free access to Platform 1, which in practice all trains use.
Getting around
Houston's Bus 372 runs south from Dumfries along A710 to New Abbey (for Sweetheart Abbey), Ingleston Ford Farm (start of the climb up Criffel), Kirkbean (turnoff for John Paul Jones birthplace) and Sandyhills, which has a deer park. It runs M-Sa every two hours, but only three times on Sunday. Houston's Bus 6A runs south from Dumfries along B725 via Kingholm Quay to Glencaple and Caerlaverock Castle.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
PIK · Glasgow Prestwick Airport
EDI · Edinburgh Airport
GLA · Glasgow Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Dumfries
Stay safe
Obvious stuff: beware traffic, safeguard valuables and avoid the occasional idiot drunk. Also, avoid getting drunk yourself and falling victim to Burke and Hare. No bodysnatchers they: they preyed on Edinburgh's down-and-outs, got them drunk, snuffed them out and sold the corpses for dissection. Hare turned prosecution witness against Burke, who was hanged in 1829, while Hare was given immunity and smuggled out of town to Dumfries. He may have been making for his origins in Ulster, but he was recognised and a furious mob besieged him at the Kings Arms Hotel (now Boots on High Street).
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Dumfries
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Dumfries: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Dumfries?
By published guest score: Travelodge Dumfries (3.8 / 5 · 848 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Dumfries?
Dumfries has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 18 °C; October is the wettest, with about 187 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Dumfries?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK), about 78 km from the city centre in a straight line; Edinburgh Airport (EDI, 99 km) and Glasgow Airport (GLA, 103 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Dumfries?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Dumfries
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.