Conference and Meeting venues in Ayr

Meeting planners will find Ayr to be an excellent destination for conferences, meetings and events being a coast, country and town location providing a range of attractions for delegates.

At the centre of the Firth of Clyde, surrounded by beautiful Ayrshire countryside and impeccable golf courses, Ayr is an ideal base for both land and water-based team building events and corporate activities whilst less adventurous delegates will appreciate the town’s heritage and culture being famed as the heart of Burns Country. A selection of meeting venues, ranging from sporting venues to historic buildings, provide outstanding conference and banqueting facilities for all corporate events.

Ayr is easily accessible via A roads connecting to the M74 or via the M77/A77 route from Glasgow, via good rail links and flights into Prestwick or Glasgow airports for international conference delegates.

Conference facilities at sporting venue Ayr Racecourse and affiliated hotel Western House make it the biggest conference centre in Scotland outside a major city. The Princess Royal Conference, Banqueting and Exhibition Centre offers 11 state-of-the-art suites over 4 floors, the largest having capacity for up to 1,000 delegates, whilst the hotel provides 3 further conference spaces including the Cathedral Ballroom, also an elegant setting for banqueting and weddings. Another sporting venue Ayr United FC offers the Hospitality Suite for conferences, corporate events, banquets and weddings whilst the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum celebrates the local poetic hero and provides several meeting spaces, both contemporary and historic, with capacity for 120 delegates. Academic venue the West of Scotland Management Centre is part of the university business school, centrally located in historic venue Craigie House, which now boasts a fully equipped modern facility for conferences, meetings and training events. Ayr Town Hall and The County Buildings are charming historic venues experienced in hosting a range of corporate events and weddings, the town hall alone accommodating 700 delegates. Majestic historic venues also include Culzean Castle and Blairquhan Castle, one of Scotland’s finest Regency castles, both of which offer magnificent backdrops for conferences, team building events and weddings. Ayr hotels also offer outstanding conference and banqueting facilities such as the Mercure Ayr Hotel whose Summit Conference Centre offers 7 conference and meeting rooms with capacity for up to 200 delegates. The Station Hotel is a grand historic Victorian building with a conference room and banqueting suite able to accommodate up to 250 delegates ideally placed in the town centre for convenience with good access to Prestwick Airport.