And while one restaurant on the property will remain general access, all other onsite offerings, including the rooftop bar and extensive gym and wellness facilities, will be available only to current guests and those select in-towners; members will also receive priority in-room booking and discounted rates. Gleneagles managing director Conor O’Leary tellsit’s a natural model for a hotel that started out as a golf club.
outpost there. “We know a lot of members that come to Gleneagles live and work in Edinburgh,” he explains. “So we think the 33 rooms will be taken up by people we know already, one way or another.”Gleneagles Townhouse isn’t an outlier. Increasingly, high-end hotels worldwide are creating similar programs aiming to appeal as much to nearby residents as to visitors.