Ardanaiseig Hotel

We visited this hotel due to its location originally.10miles from the nearest main road the hotel is in a stunning location overlooking Loch Awe. Long walks, a day trip out and a swim in the loch fantastic couldn't recommend it's location more. Staff were excellent, hotel could do with modernisation in places but overall amazing trip and would go back.

This is definitely not the place to stay if you are wanting to sight see in the area. It takes a long, long time to get to the hotel, and the nearest restaurant is at least 40 minutes away. Given the price and reviews, we had high expectations. However, in a month-long tour of the UK and France, this was definitely the most disappointing place we stayed. Ironically, it was also the most expensive. We stayed in bed-and-breakfasts and 4- and 5-star hotels the whole month - all surpassed this hotel for cleanliness, quality, and friendliness of staff. This hotel was pretentious, but without the quality to back it up. However, the hotel and grounds are in a beautiful setting, and the scenery around Scotland was definitely not lacking! Other highlights were hiking around the hotel. I'd only recommend the hotel if your focus is to enjoy the grounds and get away from it all.

The setting is remarkable. It's a long drive from the main road but peaceful once you get there. The hotel is the only local option for food, so, though service and food were very good it was a bit monotonous. There is a lot of deferred maintenance, many carpets were threadbare. Beautiful setting is a great mittigator.

From the drive in to the departure a sight to open your heart. Attentive and professional staff took care of all our wishes. I cannot give a higher recommendation.

Magic place

Fine food at a very reasonable price

Nice place to be (a little far from everywhere), nice restaurant (nice staff but strange where you are telling "Hi guys!" as a welcome …) but, at that level of hotel, charging 11£ for a pic-nic bag with only 2 sides of poor white bread and a slide of ham with just an additional biscuit is a little bit too much!

Vi stannade två nätter i juni och var ännu inte helt vana vid att köra bil på "fel" sida av vägen och ännu mindre vana vid små smala enfiliga vägar, som vägen visade sig vara till hotellet. Kringelkrokig väg med svår sikt emellanåt. Vi bestämde därför oss för att inte utforska området med bil dag två, utan stannade kvar i hotellområdet. Vi hyrde en liten båt de hade där och åkte på egen tur ut på sjön intill och upptäckte på egen hand öar och t om ett slott i närområdet. Jättemysigt. Hotellet är speciellt och lite annorlunda. Kändes fräscht och rent. Personalen mycket hjälpsam. Ta med myggmedel, det kryllade av små knott-liknande myggor på kvällarna. Finns nog mycket mer att upptäcka i området runt hotellet, fina vandringsstråk gissar jag. Priset är ganska dyrt, men upplevelsen var fin och väl värt det.

Very remote location - but beautiful Best described as faded elegance and perhaps slightly pretentious First rate restaurant - excellent food and wine choices Fairly expensive rooms considering relative lack of facilities Attentive staff

It is a fine building at the end of a lovely drive and in a great location which ticked all the boxes of what we were looking for. Ultimately though we were left feeling a little disappointed by our experience. We only stayed one night for a brief getaway and having booked on line and seeing it was pet friendly we took our dog. A few things fell short of what we expected: Pet friendly - true ish but for an unannounced fee of £20 (what for ?? - it stayed in our room in a cage we brought) Dinner - hobsons choice of a tasting menu for £50 each (plus wine) - so we resorted to the steak pie in the pub 3 miles away. Breakfast was extra and while nice and served by lovely staff at £16.50 each wasn't worth it. At approximately twice the cost of the next competitive hotel around - and we expected more - a room described as with a garden view, while nicely decorated and clean was a bit of a dim box without any view worth calling as much. The whole hotel was too hot - (surprising I know) and though they have lots of wonderful open fireplaces there wasn't one fire alight on a wet February weekend ! Drop the temperature by 10 degrees C and light the fires and it would have been perfect. The gardens are very overgrown and sadly lots of scrap and rubbish (fire pits, plastic shotgun cartridge wads, scrap trailers, fridges old sinks and loos). With a little effort (and a lot of gardening) it could be a really great place to stay