Self-Catering Town House in Links Road Prestwick
Travel Information
The house is located close to the seashore in Prestwick and is very easy to find. If you would like to see a location map of the area, please click here (Please note that our house is on the North side of Links Road (ie on your right as you face the sea.)
The information below contains many hyperlinks which you can click to get more travel information.
Travel by Air
Prestwick International Airport is only a five minute taxi ride or a twenty minute walk away from the house. There are flights daily to many international destinations and, within the UK, Ryanair provide inexpensive flights from Stansted and Bournemouth.
If you travel to Glasgow International Airport, then you can get to Prestwick using ScotRail's train service from Paisley Gilmour Street Rail Station to Prestwick Town Station. There is a link bus that you can catch from the Airport, which will take you to this rail station. Alternatively, you could take a taxi. For details of rail travel, please see below.
Travel by Rail
The house is only a five minute walk from Prestwick Town Rail Station, which is on the main line between Glasgow and Ayr. For most of the day, there are at least two trains to and from Glasgow every hour and these terminate at Glasgow Central.
If you click here, you can download the timetables as a pdf document. You can find out more general information about ScotRail's services, by clicking here.
Ferry
There are ferry terminals at Troon and Ardrossan, just a few miles up the coast from Prestwick, and both are on the ScotRail line to Glasgow. P&O Irish Sea run a ferry between Troon and Larne in Northern Ireland. For information on this route, please click here.
The Ardrossan ferry goes to Brodick on the Isle of Arran. The Brodick crossing takes less than an hour so the trip to Arran can make a superb day out, if you are staying with us in Prestwick. Further up the coast, there are ferry terminals at Largs and Wemyss Bay.
By Car
The A77 from Glasgow to Ayr has recently been improved and all of the northern section is now motorway, so travelling to Prestwick could not be more convenient. For those travelling up from the south, it is possible to reduce the journey time and mileage by cutting off the M74, taking the A70, to Ayr. However, the road is fairly narrow and winding, so allow at least an hour for that last leg of the journey. But the scenery is spectacular!