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Exciting Aviemore rooftop bar plans which will give customers commanding views over to the Cairngorms are being recommended for approval tomorrow (Friday).

Macdonald Aviemore Highland Resorts Ltd has applied for the addition to the Aviemore Hotel which used to be the Freedom Inn.

It is part of wider plans to expand the existing hotel by adding two new floors to the building, together with changes to the external appearance of the hotel.

The operators want to add 25 additional rooms over floors three and four together with the creation of the sky bar on the fifth floor.

Sky bars have become popular haunts through-out the world.

They include Ozone which is perched at 1,570 feet – and 118 floors – at the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong on the West Kowloon waterfront and Peakaboo in New York City which is one floor above The Edge, the tallest viewing platform in the western hemisphere, with the sky-high cocktail lounge hovering nearly 1,150 feet above Manhattan.

Whilst if approved, the Aviemore sky bar would not quite scale the same heights, the venue would prove spectacular views towards the Cairngorms.

Members of the Cairngorms National Park Authority;s planning committee will consider the application tomorrow when they meet in Grantown for a busy agenda.

All images: Mabbett

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