Scottish Holiday Cottage Booking Sites Recommendations

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Posted here for traffic. Thinking of booking a holiday cottage with a view in Scotland next year, either by the lochs or the sea.
Be nice to go somewhere relaxing where we can go for family walks and bike rides and watch the stars at night.
Can anyone recommend any reputable websites to take a look at?

I booked a gorgeous lock side house through wild new

Sorry! Wilderness cottages. For next year as we weren't going anywhere this summer even before Covid. Going to get the Caledonian sleeper train too.

God my spelling has gone to pot. Loch side, on the West coast.

I genuinely hope you have a great time, but if stars are very important for you, remember that they are not much in evidence in north Scotland for several weeks around midsummer. It barely gets dark some nights, with sunset there around 10.00-10.30 pm at present, for example.

Please ignore the following if you and your children are all experienced cyclists - I really don't want to be off-putting or patronising:

It might be an idea to check with the booking company that local roads are suitable or - even better - that there are traffic-free cycle tracks and (eg) forest paths nearby. As I expect you already know, Sustrans does booklets about traffic free routes: www.sustrans.org.uk/get-your-traffic-free-route-guides/

There are also special Scottish 'family friendly' cycle routes:
www.visitscotland.com/blog/cycling/family-friendly-routes/

I only say this because I remember a heart-stopping moment when I came across two tourist children happily cycling far ahead of their accompanying parents on the 'wrong' side of a bend on a narrow, twisty, hilly local single track road. There was a ditch on one side of the road and a rough stone wall on the other - ie nowhere easily to get out of the way of approaching traffic, which would not have seen them in time to stop. To the children, it just looked like a quiet, empty road, but local people and delivery van drivers drive along that stretch really rather fast. I think that probably applies to many 'quiet' rural roads in England, Wales etc as well, however.