Visit Girvan
Longer answers to the questions people actually ask before they come to Girvan.
The rest of this site is a reference guide: two hundred pages that stay put and get corrected when a fact changes. This is where the longer answers live, the ones that do not fit neatly under a heading of their own.
Everything here follows the same rule as the guide. We research against primary sources, we say when we cannot confirm something, and we put a date on anything that will go out of date.
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An honest answer about Girvan, the South Ayrshire seaside town on the Firth of Clyde: what it does well, what it does badly, and who should give it a miss.
When to come to Girvan in South Ayrshire, month by month: weather, daylight, sea temperature, what is open and what is shut, and the two weeks we would pick.
An honest comparison of Girvan and Ayr as a base: beaches, food, price, transport, and which one suits which kind of trip.
Why Olympic curling stones are quarried on Ailsa Craig, an uninhabited Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde, what Blue Hone and Common Green granite do, and the one Games that did not use them.
Questions visitors ask
The same people who wrote the guide: the owners of the seafront apartment on the home page. We say so on every page, we take no commission or advertising from any business mentioned, and we list competing accommodation anyway.
Rarely, and on purpose. We would rather have four posts that are right than forty that are stale. Anything with a figure in it carries the date it was checked.
