Slightly disappointed with the hotel, it is in beautiful surroundings and looks lovely from the outside, it’s a bit tired on the inside although they are in the midst of refurbishing, the main foyer carpet was old, worn & thread bare, our room was nothing special and despite being recently refurbished still had the old and very dated furniture in it, although it had a beautiful view, Tea/coffee facilities were sparse, no water in the room for drinking, the Gin Palace was basically a green house with bottles of gin in it, the dining room which had been refurbished was so out of place in the hotel and looked like an Ikea cafe, the menu was very poor and disappointing with not one Scottish dish on it, they didn’t have the seafood bisque and the waitress said they had never had it since the menu came out!
We had the gin tempura prawns and the pea/cod risotto and it was very bland and tasteless, the pineapple & coconut crumble & rum raisin ice cream which was basically tinned pineapple sprinkled with coconut & cooked in the oven! There was not a bit of crumbled near it, breakfast was fine, all you needed but was a bit sparse as it wasn’t topped up, in checking out we asked if they would like some feed back so we said about the food/menu &. Restaurant setting saying maybe managers would like to know and she seemed most uninterested and offered no Apologies, we never got the chance to use the spa/ leisure facilities, so can’t comment, and it appeared really well set up for young families and children with activities etc but again can’t comment, there is a fantastic little gift shop with some beautiful Scottish gifts and little different things and a very lovely woman running it whom we had a lovely.
Chat with, I would say an ok stay but nothing that would make us want to return.
We had the gin tempura prawns and the pea/cod risotto and it was very bland and tasteless, the pineapple & coconut crumble & rum raisin ice cream which was basically tinned pineapple sprinkled with coconut & cooked in the oven! There was not a bit of crumbled near it, breakfast was fine, all you needed but was a bit sparse as it wasn’t topped up, in checking out we asked if they would like some feed back so we said about the food/menu &. Restaurant setting saying maybe managers would like to know and she seemed most uninterested and offered no Apologies, we never got the chance to use the spa/ leisure facilities, so can’t comment, and it appeared really well set up for young families and children with activities etc but again can’t comment, there is a fantastic little gift shop with some beautiful Scottish gifts and little different things and a very lovely woman running it whom we had a lovely.
Chat with, I would say an ok stay but nothing that would make us want to return.