Meldrum House Country Golf Course

Excellent food Food drinks: Excellent food Service: 5 Location: 5 Hotel highlights: Luxury

This is an excellent hotel....it is truly dog friendly. The staff make the hotel. The facilities are excellent and the staff are very friendly and helpful. We used it as a base to explore the area and spent 3 nights their. It is also very good value with superb breakfasts Rooms: Our room was spacious with a separate bath and shower Food drinks: The food was excellent and and very tasty. The bar had a very wide choice of drinks especially whiskies Noteworthy details: A very good place to explore the wider area from. Rooms: 5 Service: 5 Location: 5 Hotel highlights: Luxury, Great view, Quiet, Great value

Actually so disappointed.. booked a night here to have one fancy night in our little holiday. We booked a stables room, expecting the cute country hotel aesthetic, exposed beams, bath and such... got 'upgraded ' to a room in their new extension bit, which is the most boring generic millennial grey room, that wasn 't cleaned properly or maintained very well. To add insult to injury there was only a rain shower with a handheld option that didn 't maintain a steady temperature, no bath.. any girlies will know what a nightmare it is to attempt to shower in one of those things without getting your hair wet. We requested to have the actual room we booked, to be told it wasn 't available, and no other options were available, and the receptionist 'could only apologise '. Their big selling point of the 'upgraded ' room is the view over the golf course.. except you can 't particularly enjoy it for the people playing golf can see right in, and you also have to tolerate the lawn mowers at 8am in the morning. The fraying blinds in the bathroom had a bunch of little bugs rolled up into it.. didn 't really appreciate the bug shower when I put it down.. the wall next to the toilet had mystery splashes on it, that I 'm trying not to think about.. and the room furniture is chipped/scratched along with the skirting boards, and the sofa is ripped in several spots.. all in all it just felt in bad nick. There was also some private event event on, meaning the lobby was overrun with children at several points.. which wouldve been nice to know beforehand, as we felt uncomfortable being in certain areas of the hotel. I won 't hold the hotel accountable for an event attendee telling us to get out of the way of them as the hotel was being used for a private function, but it didn 't really help the experience. Dinner was very hit and miss, the saving grace was our lovely waitress.. however.. we were stood around the restaurant desk for quite some time before someone noticed us, despite booking in advance.. the bread served was dry and unimaginative. The starter of a crowdie tart was nice enough, but the pigeon was tough, and at that sort of price I 'd expect tendons to be trimmed off. The steak was well cooked, but the 'truffle fries ' that it comes with are actually just slathered in copious amounts of mayo that barely hints at the idea of truffle oil. Serving the lemon sole whole is fine, but please give me the correct cutlery to deal with it.. it was swimming in so much butter that it went over the edge of the plate when it was put in front of me, and seriously lacked any sort of fresh element to cut through the copious amounts of grease. We actually asked the dauphinois side to be removed from the bill, that 's the first time in my life I 've seen a chef that can make dauphinois dry.. the pineapple dessert was excellent, and a lovely surprise to an otherwise mediocre dinner. Also... a dinner menu with zero vegetarian options in this day and age.. come on.. Breakfast was not much better, and feels very dated, and stingy.. the porridge was ok, and the salmon was generous.. however the buffet element was sad.. I 've seen better breakfasts at premier Inn and ibis.. two box juices, two kinds of yoghurt, undercooked mini pastries going stale under a hot lamp, two kinds of melon cut paper thin and some boxed cereal isn 't really £17 pounds worth of breakfast to be honest.. seconds of the elements on the menu are not available.. At checkout the receptionist promised for a manager to contact me to see what could be done.. still waiting on that.. but overall the front desk staff seem to have no agency themselves. Sadly put a damper on what was supposedly the most exciting piece of our holiday. Quite happily staying at a cute Airbnb down the road now for a quarter of the price. Rooms: Tired, badly maintained, unclean Walkability: Don 't come without a car, it 's impossible to get around and the hotel is down a mile long drive way Food drinks: Sad, dated and lacklustre food across the board.. the wine menu is ok, breakfast drinks are poor Rooms: 2 Service: 1 Location: 3

The Riverside Retreat Lodge was a peaceful escape by the riverbank. The gentle flow of the river and the surrounding nature provided a sense of calm. Our lodge room was cozy, and we could watch the river's gentle dance from our window. The lodge staff were gracious and provided excellent recommendations for riverside activities. This is a place where the river tells its stories. Rooms: 5 Service: 5 Location: 5

Lovely old hotel in parkland golf course setting. The domes in the garden are very popular. Peaceful setting Rooms: 4 Service: 4 Location: 4