Daimler & Lanchester Owners Club
2025 International Rally
You are all cordially invited to join us in Bonnie Scotland
from Wednesday 4th to Sunday 8th June 2025
The Rally Hotel will be the famous Crieff Hydro which was opened in 1868 as a Hydropathic Spa.
The original founder’s great-great-grandnephew Stephen Leckie is the current CEO and Stephen’s wife Fiona and their children also work in the business so it is truly a family run hotel.
Discover the beauty of Scotland
Queen's View
Credit VisitScotland / Kenny Lam
Fyvie Castle
Credit VisitScotland / Richard Elliot
Glencoe Lochan
Credit VisitScotland / Kenny Lam
Drummond Castle Gardens
Credit VisitScotland / Kenny Lam
The week's events
Wednesday 4th June
We will start welcoming guests on Wednesday 4th June 2025 with a buffet in the evening, which proved very popular at Arundel in 2024.
We will do things a bit differently this year. There will be no organised trips on Thursday and Friday.
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th June
But we will have suggestions and details about routes and attractions. It will then be up to members themselves to discuss at the breakfast tables who is going where and make their own arrangements.
Saturday 7th June
On Saturday, the hotel owner Stephen Leckie, who as you all know is also a club member and well known classic car collector and restorer, will open up his many garages and sheds to show us his latest projects. His professional tools and 4-poster lift will also be available to us, should any member have technical problems with their car or just wants to check something.
As an alternative to this, we are working with a local traditional tartan shop to give a talk and demonstration to those who are not ‘car crazy’.
Saturday Evening
7th June
Saturday evening will see a traditional Scottish Carvery and Ceilidh, with the Haggis being piped in by our resident Bagpiper.
The theme will be “dining with the cars”, but what this exactly entails will remain a secret for now.
Sunday
8th June
Sunday is our free static show in the grounds of Crieff Hydro with the prize giving at 4pm closing our annual gathering.
Hotel Booking
The hotel accommodation, together with the Wednesday buffet and Saturday Carvery (or alternative dietary requirements) can now be booked.
Rooms at the Hydro are £169.00 per night bed & breakfast (£159.00 for single occupancy plus £10 for additional guests).
The Wednesday buffet is £35.00 pp and the Saturday Carvery £43.00 pp.
There are also some rooms available at the nearby smaller Murraypark Hotel for a reduced fee of £135.00 and there are also self catering lodges available at special request, so plenty of options.
To book, go to the www.crieffhydro.com website and choose the hotel, dates, number of guests and use the promo code DLOC25. Please advise if you need disabled facilities.
Terms & Conditions: full pre-payment will be taken at the time of booking and any cancellations can be made a month before the event date with a full refund, any cancellations after this would be fully chargeable. If additional guests wish to book when the booking link has been closed (around mid-March), they would still be honoured the same rate depending upon bedroom availability.
Booking for the rally itself, which is again free of charge, will be available from December onwards, on the DLOC website.
Fàilte gu Alba!
Mark & Lorna Hooghiemstra.
