Name: Loch Maree Hotel
Address: Talladale, Letterewe, Achnasheen, Achnasheen, Achnasheen, IV22 2HL, United Kingdom
Rating: 7

24-hour reception

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Loch Maree Hotel

Achnasheen

We stayed at the Loch Maree while traveling the NC500. The owner was very courteous, offering to carry out bags on arrival and departure. The building is exceptionally clean and well decorated. We enjoyed a warm breakfast and strolling by the beach in the morning. Our room was quite spacious and had all the amenities we needed. I highly recommend. 

Excellent stay!

Stayed in Loch Maree hotel in late September. 
Cannot rate this hotel highly enough. 
This hotel has only been recently taken over under new ownership as of this month from what we were told. 
Daniel who was running the hotel the night we stayed could not have been any friendlier or helpful, the consummate professional. He made us feel at home from the moment we entered with his warmth and endearing sense of humour. 
We stayed in a beautiful bedroom overlooking loch maree, the room was incredibly comfortable and we couldn't have asked for more. 
We had dinner in the hotel that night. We both had starters, mains and shared a desert. An absolutely beautiful meal cooked to perfection, could not fault a single thing from start to finish. 

When we come back to Scotland the Loch Maree hotel will be a place we will be staying in again. 

Thanks again Daniel for the 5 star treatment you gave us and best of luck going forward, wishing you all the best. 

Joey and Róisín (Ireland) 

New hotel owners doing a terrific job 

Great stay, if you want something that is slightly different and more of a homely feel stay here, 
The pre ordering of food actually really works well, it didn’t bother us in the slightest and I liked the set dinner time.
Accept it would only work if you can guarantee you would be there in time though.
Host Daniel was amazing, he is honestly the hardest working person I’ve ever met and is friendly and knowledgable.
Good Views of the Loch from our room. 

Lovely stay

This place is stuck in the sixties. Decor is old and faded. Plumbing does not work, tap fittings don't match, 
toilet cistern does not work. Food again from 60's. Fish very dry and overcooked. Needed to order breakfast previous night. I could go on.
The owners have sold up.
It needs a complete refurbishment and a new chef.
There is so much potential with the lovely views of the loch.


Avoid

When we first saw the Loch Maree Hotel, we were enchanted by it. The car park was nice and big, the building itself looked in quite good condition, it had a coat of arms in gold on the front and you could see a teeny bit of the loch at the back. It had a rather large stone, in the car park in Scots gaelic saying that Queen Victoria had stayed at an Inn at Loch Maree in 1867 - if I remember correctly. Seeing this had raised our expectations slightly.

We entered the building and it was gorgeous. A nice cream/beige carpet and nice, old fashioned, paintings and furniture/decor. When we went to check in, that's when issues started to arise. The lady was explaining to us that we had to order food (for both dinner and breakfast) via notes in our rooms and put it into a box downstairs. Personally, not our preferred way of doing things but okay. Then I said to her, "My mother here, has coeliac disease. Meaning that she needs gluten free food." and the reply we got was "Oh." This started an alarm bell in my head.

Anyway, we went up into our rooms and they were quite nice. The one we had booked with a view of the loch had a big bathroom but had the odd little paintwork issue and a quite warm bathroom. However, that room you could get WiFi in. The one with "no view" still had quite a nice view of the car park, again a lovely bathroom but had an issue getting the tv box to work. (Loose cable) But that room, you didn't have WiFi in. We were disappointed, however, with a former monarch staying there that you just had tea & coffee to make drinks in your room. We would of expected fruit teas, hot chocolate, etc. Whilst we were ordering food for the evening meal, I checked the booking confirmation email and checked the special requests and did see that when we booked months ago that I had informed them about my mum having coeliac disease. I showed her the email and showed it to our other guest who had to use our ordering notebook (as there wasn't one in his room) and we all hoped that dinner and breakfast would go okay. (At this point an alarm bell was going off in their heads.)  

Dinner- We go down to dinner. In the dining room, you get a great view of the loch and a lovely big fireplace. On our order, we made it clear which one was for the gluten free person and what wasn't. We got drinks and mum had to go to the bathroom (she has type 1 diabetes too). We got our food whilst she was in the bathroom and one of us had ordered the same chicken dish (Non GF). When the food came, it wasn't made clear to us, which was gluten free and which wasn't. Looking back, we should have asked but (luckily) mum wasn't affected. Mum asked for dessert (which you didn't have to pre-order) for just some ice cream but they couldn't do that, even though another dessert (we're pretty sure) had ice cream included.

We had a reasonable rest of the evening and the bed/s were comfy. The guest lounge had nice decor.

Breakfast - Me and my brother had ordered bits of a cooked breakfast. (As well as a few other bits - but none of that was toast.) Mum had ordered yoghurt and GF toast if available. (There may have been something else.) We got the yoghurt and cooked breakfasts okay (they were quite good if recalled correctly) but me and my brother got given brown toast. We shared a confused look with each other and we both ate a slice and we said to mum, this isn't gluten free. Mum's face dropped.

Check out went okay but mum said to the lady there, "I'm not giving you a high review."

Overall, it's okay/quite good of you haven't got any food allergies/intolerances but if you do - avoid.

P.S. We're well aware that it said in the dining room, that they cannot guarantee everything would/could be allergen free. But potentially messing around with someone's immune system like this is very dangerous.

Fit for a Queen once but, sadly no more...

Had a one night stay on the NC500 trip.
This is a nice hotel, the couple running it are wonderful, and the evening food was very good. The only thing that let it down for us was the dated bathroom, no shower and tired decor, the bathroom also had a horrid musty smell probably as it had no window. It needs a little revamp in the room around the edges and carpets. We had a comfortable nights sleep and a very friendly welcome from the staff.

Good

I love this hotel . Met by the very friendly owner and even though we were late and hungry she very kindly said it was no trouble to make us something. Checked in and went to our room . A fabulous luxurios room with outstanding view. Everything was thought off bed was extremely comfy. We were trwated to a glorious tadting steak and guiness pie and clootie dumpling with custard all I can say is delicious and overlooking a crackin view. All in all a real gem and although this was only 1 night for buisness we will definetly be back for a short break . Thank you for everything .

A Real Gem 

We found our visit disappointing and overpriced for what was offered.Lukewarm welcome from the owner. The room was very tired and in need of redecoration. Bed comfortable.Preorder breakfast which is fair enough when there are staff shortages but quality average at best particularly the toast which was akin to cardboard.

Outside the hotel needs maintenance and a good tidy up. Broken slab at main door and junk lying about on jetty.

Sad to see what must once have been a splendid hotel fallen on hard times.

In need of TLC

Really lovely little hotel right on Loch Maree. Very comfortable room with a view looking over the loch. We did not eat dinner here, but the breakfast was home cooked and nice. 

My only negative is due to a miscommunication with the check-out time - Booking.com emails said 10:30, but it was actually 10:00 and one of the owners was none too pleased we were still there at 10:10 - I felt scolded even as I showed the email I received. We had no problem getting out within the next 5 minutes but that interaction could have been handled better.

Comfortable place with a great view

My husband and I stayed here for 3 nights at the end of June.  We had a lovely room with stunning views over the loch which was very clean and was well equipped with a kettle, tea/coffee etc, bottled water, hairdryer and tv.  We also had wifi.

Raymond and Caroline, were very welcoming.  I have limited mobility and wanted to stay at the hotel during the day to chill out.  Our hosts couldn't be more accommodating this.

As a two-person operation, with some help from their grandson, we did not find pre-ordering breakfast or their checking out procedure a problem.  The breakfasts were excellent.

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