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Events in St Andrews

One event a year moves hotel prices in St Andrews, and this is what it does to them. Where to stay, how long each district is from the venue, and how to get here.

Illustration: coastal links golf at dawn, dune grass bending in the wind, grey-blue sea beyond an open green, flag against soft Scottish light — The Open · Illustration — a generated image of the kind of scene, not a photograph of the venue.

What is on

Dates	Event	Type	Booking
11–18 Jul 2027	The Open Championship	Tennis & golf	Closing

The weeks the city fills

11–18 Jul 2027
The Open Championship
Worst: Final round at ×3.2. Cheapest: Practice days at ×2.

Against what the same hotel costs four weeks earlier — our estimate, not a live rate. Outside these weeks St Andrews prices like any other month.

Getting here

Airport	Code	To the city
Edinburgh	EDI	90 min
Glasgow	GLA	120 min

Trains: Leuchars.

Where to stay

The Old Course, St Andrews

District	To the venue	Price	What it is
St Andrews	10 min walk	$$$$	A town of 17,000 with the first tee at the end of the street; a few hundred rooms
Dundee	40 min drive	$$	The nearest city, across the Tay; real hotels, half the price, a bus or a car
East Neuk	35 min drive	$$$	Fishing villages down the coast — Crail, Anstruther, Elie — and holiday lets
Cupar & Leuchars	25 min train	$$	Inland Fife, next to the station the trains actually stop at
Edinburgh	100 min train	$$$	An hour and a half each way, and the only place that cannot sell out

Elsewhere in United Kingdom on the same dates

Goodwood Festival of Speed15–18 Jul 2027 · Chichester