‘The Traitors’ Kate Chastain on visiting Scotland — and castles you possibly can e-book there
Except you have been sleeping below a rock, you most likely know that individuals are obsessive about “The Traitors,” the Peacock actuality sport present that pits celebrities in opposition to one another as a bunch of “faithfuls” tries to weed out the mendacity “traitors.”
It is filled with deception, sensible gameplay, bodily and mentally taxing challenges to win money and a few true characters, together with a bunch of beloved (and notorious) actuality TV stars from exhibits like “Survivor” and “Massive Brother,” in addition to an unbelievable array of Bravo personalities from “The Actual Housewives” franchises and “Shahs of Sundown.” To not point out, Pilot Pete from “The Bachelor” can be a part of the solid.
However the shock star of the present is not an individual in any respect. It is host Alan Cumming’s native Scotland, which is sensible contemplating the sport is about within the majestic and delightful (if not ominous) Ardross Citadel close to Inverness.
To place it in perspective, U.S. searches for “flights to Scotland” jumped 159% the day after the premiere of “The Traitors” Season Two aired Jan. 12, in accordance with Locations to Journey. (To make it private, my very own fiance requested if we must always swap our already deliberate honeymoon to France with a visit to Scotland midway via the primary episode.)
Searches round “Ardross Citadel” jumped 4,500% in comparison with the final 5 years, Locations to Journey found.
To know if a “Traitors”-themed journey to Scotland is as candy because it sounds (properly, with out the “homicide” and “banishment” however hopefully with the breakfast unfold) TPG went straight to the supply, “The Traitors” Season One and Season Two star Kate Chastain, who you may additionally acknowledge from “Beneath Deck,” to seek out out.
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“Scotland looks like you’re in a film,” Chastain instructed TPG. “I imply, the fog that rolls in looks like a manufacturing, but it surely’s pure. And simply the castles and the sheep dotting alongside the verdant, rolling hills; it is fairly picturesque, and it feels very magnificent.”
For Chastain, filming in a Scottish citadel was a stark distinction to dwelling on the excessive seas on a yacht. “Nicely,” she defined, “they’re each fairly good, if I have to be trustworthy,” earlier than including that one of many largest modifications for her was the nation’s abundance of timber. “You realize, I’ve seen sufficient palm timber and seashores to final a lifetime, which sounds very spoiled. Scotland was such a stunning change of surroundings.”
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It was additionally a method to “showcase my sweater and jacket assortment as a result of that was by no means one thing I obtained to do on ‘Beneath Deck,'” she mentioned. And it is true; the style sport on “The Traitors” is nearly pretty much as good because the mendacity.
If you end up planning a visit to Scotland (for a actuality sport present or not), Chastain desires people to do not forget that “the climate can actually change on a dime” and that “whenever you’re choosing out your outfit, a sweater could be nice within the morning, however then by the afternoon, the solar is out and you’re operating via a scavenger hunt sweating.”
Whether or not she’s serving rich visitors on a yacht constitution or avoiding “the [surprises] round each nook” of Ardross Citadel, Chastain is all the time taking in her environment.
“An enormous spotlight to each tv exhibits that I’ve accomplished is attending to expertise the tradition of the areas that we movie in. Scotland’s tradition is simply so sturdy, and it is not one thing I essentially would have been in a position to expertise had I not accomplished ‘The Traitors,’ Chastain mentioned. “And to have Alan Cumming because the host, who’s Scottish himself, [was] such a privilege.”
Fortunately for us, “The Traitors” has already been renewed for a 3rd season.
have your individual Scotland expertise (sort of) like ‘The Traitors’
Although we won’t all head to Scotland and be hosted by Alan Cumming, there are many methods to go to Scotland on a visit impressed by “The Traitors.”
Sadly, Ardross Citadel is not open to the general public aside from sure situations like filming a TV present or internet hosting a personal occasion like a marriage (hopefully my fiance does not learn this), however there are many castles you can go to or keep in.
One other SLH possibility bookable (for now) via World of Hyatt is Inverlochy Citadel, a couple of two-hour drive from the present’s filming location. Accessible beginning at 25,000 factors per night time, this citadel resort has charming rooms, rowboats on the loch, a billiards room and a handful of eating places the place you possibly can dramatically meet your fellow vacationers one after the other.
Hilton Honors loyalists could be excited to listen to that the DoubleTree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro, roughly an hour northwest of Edinburgh, feels rather more like a grand manor worthy of “The Traitors” than some other DoubleTree you have ever seen earlier than. Charges begin round $100 or 40,000 factors per night time — and you will even get a cookie throughout your keep.
However should you’d moderately be the king or queen of your individual citadel (or, at the least, a great chunk of it), Airbnb has loads. In Dunblane, you possibly can hire an condo in Kilbryde Citadel beginning at $155 per night time, whereas an condo within the manor home of an 1889 Victorian mansion begins at simply $145 per night time.
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If Scotland’s not within the playing cards and also you simply need to keep in any citadel, you possibly can all the time search the “Castles Class” on Airbnb to seek out what’s out there to hire all over the world.
Or, should you’d moderately simply have an off-the-cuff tour of 1 (most likely since you’re afraid of being banished or haunted by the ghosts of “Traitors” previous), Balmoral Citadel, the British royal household’s Scottish property, will open to the general public from March 23 to Aug. 11.
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