Kincraig Castle Hotel♡

Guest review

8.0

Only negative was the evening meal. Did not justify the price. Table service was excellent but the quality of the food was below par for the price. For example: a starter from the kid’s menu and a burger from the main menu for the same kid ended up costing £25 for the burger, due to how pricing works. Everything else about the hotel was lovely but next time we would go out to eat. Breakfast, on the other hand, was exceptional, especially the cooked breakfast. Tasty, healthy, well presented… We have to assume there is a different chef doing breakfasts.

Guest review

4.0

From the photographs, Kincraig Castle Hotel potentially offered so much but delivered on nothing. My room, whilst large in size, was tired with mildew on the blinds and furniture from the 70s. A most uncomfortable bath. Dinner was dreadful. The location was the bar with 70’s style small metallic looking round tables squeezed in. My starter of homemade scotch egg was bland and tasteless and looked as if a small child had made it! It was accompanied by large pile of salad leaves and carrot. The waiter brought a bottle of dressing which turned out to be vinegar. I had to ask for salt and pepper as the cruets hadn’t been laid on the tables. My main course was absolutely inedible: the asparagus was grey, slimy and probably from a tin. The broccoli was equally grey and dreadfully overcooked. The sweet potato mash was horriblel having been over spiced and the tiny fillet of farmed sea bass was soggy and unpleasant. Breakfast was equally poor. How do you serve a grey sausage that has no caramelisation? Definitely a hotel to avoid! This is supposed to be a 4 star hotel!

Guest review

6.0

We chose this spot since there was nothing available in inverness (due to a marathon) where we would have stayed to visit the highlands. The area outside is pretty but the hotel needs updates and renovations badly. The windows are in terrible shape and I think there was mold in the room we stayed. There was no thermostat for heating so it was either too hot or too cold with the system in the room. Also they need more staff. We like to give a shout out to Vijay who helped us during our stay with check in, showing our room, taking bar orders, and server breakfast. They had two other people on Saturday night and that's it while they had two large parties of people go were also staying as hotel guests.

Guest review

10.0

The meals were superb, staff friendly full of local information. We stayed 3 nights and used it as a hub to travel both north and south The sitting room and bar are fit for Royalty!

Guest review

8.0

Very warm welcome at check in and helpful explanation of the facilities available at the Hotel. Clean room.

Great!

8.0

This castle is adorable. It's farther from Inverness than anticipated but nevertheless we enjoyed our stay. A few notes, the staff is SMALL. The daytime housekeepers double as evening bartenders and restaurant servers. The restaurant is quite good, but service is slow. The front desk lady is delightful and they made all efforts to accommodate our needs. (They rolled a cot into our room for our son, it was lumpy and uncomfortable but an extra mattress helped!) The room and bathroom and really the whole place is quirky and creaky like you'd expect, and walking the grounds was wonderful. It was essentially a B&B in an old mini-castle, and just what you'd want staying in ancient Scotland. (For a couple days, we wouldn't have wanted to stay there much longer.)