Rooms are Ok, if you don't have noisey neighbours but that's not hotel fault, lovely surroundings. Food is … well on a Friday night it's like very poor school dinners. We opted for the fish pie with creamy sauce… erm… well we had a small pie dish with a baked mashed tatties topping and what can only be described as a very very dry and no and I mean NO creamy sauce what so ever… no sauce… nowt! With it I had a ladle of carrots and neeps and another scoop of mashed tatties… did I mention there was no sauce! Oh I forgot my starter of chicken liver pate… well the scoop of warm pate with 2 very small oatcakes and a bit of lettuce was well… how it sounds! Now we saw the rhubarb crumble come out to a couple next to us so I asked what it was like "loads of crumble and very little rhubarb and very little custard … " the lady to the left had waited 45 mins for her trifle to be delivered and after having one spoonful got up and left… so we opted for the crumble but made sure to ask for more custard… it arrived 90% crumble 3% ruhubarb 7% custard which means it was very dry… again. Can't fault bar staff, really nice and polite. Serving food staff concentrate far too much on coach parties and seem to ignore other guests, we really struggled to get there attention. As for breakfast… well that was really good, no problems whatsoever. I would like to ask the management to sit down and have a fish pie with the accompanying veg and scoops of tatties and ask themselves if that is acceptable… scoops went out in the 70's … it doesn't take much to make a meal look or taste good, surely peas would be better with fish and even pour a sauce over the top of the pie… or even put some decent fish in the pie. You have a lot of foreign visitors especially German and I would hate to think that they go back home thinking that is what Scottish food tastes like. Overall hotel is a good budget hotel and a great place to explore its surroundings but I would eat somewhere else in the evening.
Can't fault bar staff, really nice and polite. Serving food staff concentrate far too much on coach parties and seem to ignore other guests, we really struggled to get there attention. As for breakfast… well that was really good, no problems whatsoever.
I would like to ask the management to sit down and have a fish pie with the accompanying veg and scoops of tatties and ask themselves if that is acceptable… scoops went out in the 70's … it doesn't take much to make a meal look or taste good, surely peas would be better with fish and even pour a sauce over the top of the pie… or even put some decent fish in the pie. You have a lot of foreign visitors especially German and I would hate to think that they go back home thinking that is what Scottish food tastes like. Overall hotel is a good budget hotel and a great place to explore its surroundings but I would eat somewhere else in the evening.