Visited here on a wet Monday morning. You can't book the tours, so glad we arrived just after opening as tours were booking up fast, and you can't view unaccompanied. It was a real gem, smaller, cosier rooms than in lots of castles and a nice contrast to Fyvie castle & Haddo house that we had visited on previous days. Our guide Sophie, though only 18 was very engaging, able to answer all our questions & really knew her stuff. The spiral staircase was challenging, though Sophie gave us all plenty of time & safety warnings. The castle looked gorgeous after it's recent repairs & the re- colouring of its pink exterior. Well worth visiting

Lots of castles to choose from but 'the pink one' caught our eye. It was a guided tour with Myles, who was an engaging young man, who gave us a good history of the Castle and its social history i.e. how castles change ownership as fortunes ebb and flow. The tour is only about an hour but the grounds are extensive so you can go for walks on trails through the grounds too and you could spend hours here.

Really enjoyable place to visit, the recent works of the outside walls is beautiful, situated in a pretty countryside. Frequent guided tours of the museum, easy to join without booking. Really interesting and pretty castle, our guide Iona did a wonderful job! Careful on the tight steep stair cases!

Really enjoyed our visit to this beautiful castle. Our guide Lloyd was very informative and patient with my grandchildren who were excited and asking lots of questions. I would thoroughly recommend a visit but be mindful that you must go with a guide. We were fortunate in waiting only 10 minutes for our tour.

This castle is a gift to photography and makes a stunning backdrop. Internal visits are by guided tour only. We got the last 2 places but would have been hugely disappointed if we hadn't as there's not a lot to do otherwise if faced with a wait. The tour was really interesting and the guide was very knowledgeable. The stairs are not for the faint-hearted and may deter those less mobile.

This is the first visit to Craigievar since it reopened after some refurbishment. This is a National Trust for Scotland property, free to members. Highly recommended joining as we recouped our annual membership fee visiting properties over this single weekend. Although there are some walks in the grounds, we concentrated on the castle itself. Visits are by guided tour only (every 30 minutes) and you can only book in person. Arriving at 10:30 for the castle opening, the first tour was at 10:45 and by the time we left on it, it was fully booked. When we finished an hour or so later, people were being told they’d have to wait an hour for a tour, so probably better to get here early on a weekend or during tourist season. The guide was really knowledgeable about the history of the castle and the tour included a few ghost stories, which I always feel add to the entertainment value. The castle is said to have inspired Walt Disney’s Cinderella castle and you can see why, with all the turrets giving it a real fairy tale feel.

The tour guide for this castle was brilliant. Gentle, knowledgeable and really funny. The castle itself is an amazing piece of living history visited occasionally but its now elderly former inhabitants. Even our teenage girls loved it and naturally, had to have many photos taken in front of this magical castle.