Oliver’s Travels has unveiled a collection of Traitors-inspired stays for groups keen to stage their own weekend of alliances and accusations, featuring grand country houses, Gothic mansions and Scottish castles. The accommodation has plenty of built-in drama: drawbridges, spiral staircases, ancestral portraits and dining rooms that practically demand a final vote.
The Celebrity Traitors returned to BBC One and BBC iPlayer on 1 October, with its second series bringing another group of celebrity contestants to a castle in the Scottish Highlands. For viewers whose main takeaway is a sudden desire to gather their friends somewhere spectacular, the timing of this collection is rather good.
Seven highlights range from a ten-person Edwardian manor to a Lake District mansion sleeping 36. Scotland supplies several suitably imposing settings, though Norfolk and Somerset make strong cases for taking the intrigue south. Oliver’s Travels says its Concierge team can also help organise a hosted game and private dining, depending on what’s available at the chosen property.
Ardross Castle, the programme’s filming location, isn’t available for ordinary overnight stays. Our earlier guide to five Traitors-inspired castle stays explores other bookable alternatives; this new collection adds options for groups who want help putting the game together, too.
How a hosted Traitors weekend works
Oliver’s Travels’ Concierge team can work with specialist event partners to arrange an afternoon, a full day or an entire weekend of play. That gives you scope to make the game the centrepiece of the trip, or keep it to one gloriously suspicious afternoon before returning to the business of enjoying your castle.
The company says a professional host can manage the secrets and accusations, use the house itself as inspiration for missions, and tailor the game to the group and house. Having somebody else keep proceedings moving is an appealing option when the person who normally organises the group holiday would quite like to play as well.
Private dining can also be arranged for the final reveal. The particular experience depends on the property and availability, so it’s worth discussing the format alongside your accommodation enquiry, especially if a hosted weekend is the reason for choosing the house.
The prices below are accommodation-only weekly starting rates, checked on 1 October 2026, and are subject to dates and availability. Hosted experiences and private dining are quoted separately. Here are seven highlights, ordered broadly by group size.
1. Loch Lomond Manor, Scotland
Loch Lomond Manor brings the smallest group size in this selection together with five distinctive turrets. Built between 1901 and 1902 in Helensburgh, the Edwardian house has stained-glass windows, a drawing room hung with tapestries and views towards the Clyde and Argyll. It’s a lovely proposition for friends who want the period-house atmosphere on a more intimate scale.
The drawing room gives this stay its particular appeal: an inviting setting for a gathering where everybody can remain part of the conversation, including the friend whose explanation is becoming increasingly elaborate.
Loch Lomond is a short drive away, giving the group another focus between rounds. A smaller party can make the game one part of the escape, alongside time exploring the area, rather than filling every hour with missions.
Sleeps 10. Accommodation from £4,920 per week.
2. The Fortalice, Scotland
The Fortalice’s Great Hall has a hand-painted ceiling, a vast fireplace and a dining table seating sixteen. If your ideal gathering revolves around everybody sitting down together, this is a particularly persuasive room in which to do it. The final vote would have quite the backdrop.
Built as a fortified house in 1560, the castle also has spiral stone staircases and four-poster beds. Those details give the stay a strong sense of history, with enough architectural character to make the journey between dinner and bed feel part of the occasion. A castle weekend deserves a proper staircase, after all.
The sleeping arrangement is important here: capacity is twelve adults and up to four children, rather than sixteen adults. That makes The Fortalice worth considering for a group including families.
Sleeps 12 adults and up to four children. Accommodation from £6,304 per week.
3. C17th Castle, Somerset
C17th Castle centres on an octagonal keep surrounded by eight turrets, with bedrooms divided between the keep and towers. The arrangement has a miniature-castle-kingdom quality that feels wonderfully suited to a group escape, particularly one where a little theatricality is the whole point.
A circular granite dining table gives the house its obvious gathering place. There’s a library for a change of pace and an indoor pool for a swim between rounds.
The hilltop position brings sweeping views across the Somerset countryside and Bristol Channel. That setting gives the stay a scenic appeal beyond its striking architecture, and a good reason to leave time in the itinerary for simply enjoying the house.
Sleeps 16. Accommodation from £12,664 per week.
4. Finnie Castle, Scottish Borders
Finnie Castle is a restored fifteenth-century stronghold near Jedburgh, surrounded by ancient woodland beside the River Jed. Its vaulted undercrofts and family chapel give the property a distinctive historic character, while the Great Hall supplies a suitably grand focal point for bringing eighteen guests together.
Ancestral portraits and an ornate fireplace furnish that hall with precisely the sort of details you’d hope to find on a castle escape. They also make it easy to imagine an evening’s deliberations acquiring rather more ceremony than they would around the dining table at home. Your friends can provide the questionable alibis.
Sleeps 18. Accommodation from £18,060 per week.
5. The Storied Garth, Scotland
The Storied Garth is a Scottish Baronial mansion near Callander, set within twelve acres of riverside grounds. Distinctive towers and spiral stairs establish the mood, while twelve individually designed bedrooms accommodate a group of twenty-four.
A private bar, library and grand dining room offer settings for different stages of the weekend, from smaller conversations to bringing everybody back together. Oliver’s Travels’ hosting guide also highlights a giant outdoor chessboard here, another playful detail in a house with plenty to occupy the group.
The cinema and arcade games room make The Storied Garth especially appealing for a longer gathering.
Sleeps 24. Accommodation from £22,575 per week.
6. Noblestone Castle, Norfolk
Noblestone Castle makes its entrance via a drawbridge. Built in 1455, the moated Norfolk castle has corner turrets and fifteen bedrooms, giving a thirty-person gathering an appropriately dramatic address. Arriving is already part of the appeal, before anybody has started allocating secret roles.
An oak-panelled dining room seats thirty, a particularly useful detail for a group booking this large. Private dining for the final reveal would be worth discussing here if you want the meal to be part of the event.
Reception rooms with open fires and a billiards room provide other places to gather between rounds. Noblestone has the highest weekly starting rate among these seven highlights, so the full accommodation and event quote deserves attention early in the planning.
Sleeps 30. Accommodation from £45,150 per week.
7. Windermere Gothic Mansion, Lake District
Windermere Gothic Mansion accommodates the largest group in this selection: thirty-six guests across eighteen bedrooms. The Victorian Gothic house has private gardens overlooking Lake Windermere, bringing a particularly beautiful setting to a trip that could easily be planned around a big birthday or reunion.
A cocktail room, library, cinema and games room give the group several ways to spend time together.
Sleeps 36. Accommodation from £16,124 per week.
What to ask before booking
Your guest list should lead the enquiry, including the split between adults and children and how you’d like the bedrooms allocated. A property’s overall capacity is a useful starting point; the room arrangements will determine how comfortably it works for your particular friends or family.
A two- or three-night plan needs its own accommodation enquiry. Ask which stay lengths are available for your dates and request the corresponding price, rather than treating a fraction of a weekly starting rate as a weekend quote.
The Concierge enquiry should set out how much of the trip you want hosted: one afternoon, a full day or the whole weekend. Include whether you’d like private dining for the reveal, and ask for the accommodation, hosted game and dining costs to be itemised so you can agree the group budget before booking.
