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Hotly anticipated surfing resort, home to one of the world’s most advanced surfing wave pools, opens to the public

Scotland’s leisure and tourism industry is making waves as Lost Shore Surf Resort, the nation’s first inland surf destination, officially opens its doors on the 11th November. Located in Ratho, near Edinburgh, this game-changing £60m attraction boasts Europe’s largest and most advanced wave pool, positioning Scotland as a new global hub for adventure tourism.

Set within extensive grounds, Lost Shore Surf Resort offers a range of amenities including luxury accommodation, a waterfront bar, café, restaurant, surf school, surf shop, The Surfskate Academy, Spear Sauna, and wellness treatments.

As the largest investment in Scottish sporting infrastructure since the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the resort is expected to welcome over 160,000 visitors annually, create more than 130 jobs, and contribute £11 million to the local economy each year.

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00:00Hi, I'm Gabby Souter from the Scotsman and I'm at the new Lost Shore, the 60 million
00:06surf resort that's opened in Rathoe. As well as Europe's biggest wave pool, it also includes
00:12restaurants as part of their canteen development where you'll find Siverinos, as well as Five
00:18March and Rafa. There's also accommodation to suit families from Armadillo. We caught
00:24up with Andy Haddon and Ben Larg, Scottish big wave surfer.
00:30I'm so proud to be opening on Monday and just to see the efforts that so many people have
00:35made and to get to this moment, it's not just really exciting for someone like myself, it's
00:40just seeing, looking around and seeing the excitement on everyone's faces, so a massive
00:45moment for us. Well it's just totally unique for Scotland and why I'm so proud of bringing
00:50it to a community that I grew up in and that I know and using my own networks around here
00:56is I believe this is a place where people can make their own adventures. We have the
00:59surfing, we have the accommodation and we just have what we think is a great place for
01:04families to come and eat and drink and watch the action. We think we've got something for
01:09everyone. We also have wellness facilities and so on too. In terms of the surfing itself,
01:16these are some of the best waves running in Europe right now. The professionals will tell
01:20you that, they've just come out of the water with their eyes on stops. It's also an amazing
01:24day one surfing experience and everything in between that is dialed in. So this really
01:30is for everyone and I've yet to see anyone in the last week leave this lagoon without
01:34a smile. It's absolutely amazing, it's been a long time coming so I think when I was 12
01:40years old I never really expected it to go the full way and we'd really have a wave pool
01:45in Scotland but yeah, dream come true. Believe it or not it's just as good so I think and
01:50especially coming to train here, obviously it's very consistent so I think from a training
01:58point of view it's going to be absolutely amazing for me, especially in summer time
02:02where we don't get as many waves. So I got to surf, I think it was the B3 setting, so
02:08the one below the biggest wave. I mean you're going to understand when you stand up on your
02:13first wave what you get out of it, it's just pure delight basically. It's like there's
02:18no feeling like it and I think that's what gets everybody hooked on surfing. In fact,
02:22sounds a little corny but one of the wave garden guys said this is not a machine that
02:26makes waves, it's a machine that makes smiles and I have to say that's exactly what's turned
02:31out in the last week or so. Hi, I'm Lisa Ferguson, one of the audio visual specialists. And I'm
02:36Gabby Souter, life scientist of the Scotsman. So today we have came along to Lost Shores
02:42and got a surfing taster session and I have to say I've never been a surfer before and
02:49it was absolutely amazing. How did you find it? You were better than me, I fell off quite
02:54a few times and I didn't manage to stand up but I still loved it, it was brilliant fun.
02:58One of those things that all the family could enjoy, I would 100% recommend coming along.
03:03Everyone can enjoy it, whether a beginner, novice or experienced. And they have wetsuits
03:07so you don't have to bring your own. How did you find it? It was great, we had a mixed
03:11group so some people had more experience and some had less and they were really good with
03:15all of them. I was probably the most rubbish. Behave, I know you weren't. The instructors
03:21were amazing, they were very good, they made you feel comfortable in the water, especially
03:25if you're not the most confident in the water. They made you feel safe, they gave a good
03:30explanation on how to do things and yeah, it was just a great wee day.

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