The hotel in a tiny Buchan village with connections to king of rock and roll Elvis Presley is on the market.
The owners of the Ban-Car Hotel in Lonmay are selling up after 24 years.
Tina and David Gibbins took on the property in 1999, but have now decided the time is right for someone else to take the helm and embark on a new phase of their lives.
Their children, Scott and Stephanie, are now grown up with their own families.
Mrs Gibbins told the Press & Journal that she and her husband has "taken it as far as we can" and that it now "needs someone new to take it to the next level and bring new ideas".
She said: "I think it's just like everything else, you just come to a point where we're ready to take things a bit easier."
Economic asset to the area
As well as being a hotel of 21 bedrooms - including accommodation for three staff members - and a bar, the Ban-Car is an important economic asset to the local community and employs more than 40 people of all ages, with the youngest being just 14.
There is also a function hall, with weddings being a big part of the business.
Lonmay is a very long way from the US but this village, it is generally agreed, is where the ancestors of Elvis Presley had their roots.
The small cluster of houses, six miles from Fraserburgh, was the focus of a flurry of publicity earlier this century when it was firmly established that the Pressleys of Lonmay were linked to the Presleys of Tupelo.
The singer's family had always claimed to have Scottish roots.
Great excitement
And Scots author Allan Morrison stirred up excitement in 2004 with the news that he had traced the king's ancestral roots back to the small village in the North-east where, he says, Elvis's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather lived in the 1700s.
The offspring of his marriage, Andrew Presley, emigrated to North Carolina in 1745 and started the American branch of the family.
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