Loch Shiel Hotel

In many ways more like B&B rather than hotel. Public bar downstairs. Breakfast very nice and owner friendly and helpful. Set in a small village with very nice surrounding countryside. My only criticism would be that it was quite expensive for a B&B.

We have just returned from our weekend at Loch Shiel Hotel. We booked this hotel as we planned to go and visit all the stunning beaches and possibly camp out one night. The hotel was better than our expectations! Fun and friendly bar! Lovely and cosy. We were happy to find board games :) breakfast was lovely and we LOVED our meals for dinner. Fish was huge and the macaroni cheese was delicious and well sized. Fab prices too. Staff were very friendly and welcomed our dog Betty . The hotel owner (sorry I'm terrible with names) even offered to drive us to one of the local beaches! We will definitely be back and bringing our children next time. Thank you so much for having us :)

Though some aspects of our 2-night stay were OK, there were a number of negatives. Firstly, it seems unforgivable if you are paying well over £100 a night that you cannot get access to the hotel until 1600. We arrived at 1540 and found a Belgian couple and a Dutch couple who had been waiting outside for 90 minutes to get in. It was raining quite heavily, so touring around on their bikes was not an attractive alternative. There is not much else to do on a rainy Scottish day in Ardnamurchan. The room was a bit basic, and the couch had seen better days a few years ago. Of the 18 places we have stayed in since the end of May in Portugal, Greece, the UK, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, this was the worst and poorest value, followed by the Travelodge in Richmond. The other unforgivable thing was that it seemed that recently they had fitted new carpets at least in the stairs to the bedrooms and in the bedrooms themselves. What was amateurish and unforgivable was that the doors had not been taken off their hinges and planed down to reflect the thicker carpets. The result was that fire doors would not close automatically or were very difficult to close, meaning that they were left open almost all the time during our stay. I am not sure what would have happened if there was a fire. The food at breakfast and dinner was OK but it was nothing special. Dinner was not particularly good value. If we were visiting the area again, we would choose self-catering accommodation. I recommend anyone else to consider the same.