Andy, I went over on the Friday and back on the Monday last year. Jules and Vickie came up on the Friday too. Actually, rubbish, Jules and I went via Lohen on the Thursday
Anyhoo, we all arrived about the same time on the Friday afternoon which gave us time for relaxing (drinking in the hotel bar) before we met up with Nicky, Derek and boys for food.
We all went back on the Monday - it just made it all the more relaxed as it's about a 4.5 hour drive to Stranraer...
There's not much difference in price between the B&Bs in Harrogate and the hotel we got into last year:
Cedar Wotsits which has a nice big car park, a gym which we all used twice a day
, is close to town and which does a cracking hangover brekkie
Only thing is, accomm in H'gate tends to get booked up quite quickly, so if we decide on somewhere, we should just go for it