About The Boat Hotel: Special Breaks Rates !!! Spring Packages from £ 25.00 B&B The Boat Hotel at Boat of Garten is a privately-owned Victorian sporting hotel set in the heart of the Spey Valley. Surrounded by magnificent panoramas of the Cairngorm Mountains in an area about to be granted National Park status, the picturesque village of Boat of Garten is famed for being the home of the UK's major Osprey colony.