Dunalastair is a traditional country hosue hotel, full of Scottish tartan and Scottish artefacts and very quirky! It is a nice hotel for 3*, however it is overpriced and has very unhelpful and unwelcoming staff!

You are basically forced to have a 3 course meal @ £25 per head and if you do not want 3 courses you can eat in the "dirty" pub for £16-17 for 1 main course and not alot of food. I would expect a hotel like this serve traditional home cooked Scottish fayre e.g steak/venison pie, steak, roasts and basic soups @ £5-£12 per course served with plenty of fresh vegetables. Unfortunalety this is not the case with limited choices, small portions and far too expensive for what is served.
The lounge bar prices are again City prices which I feel is unnacceptable, but guests staying @ Dunalastair Hotel are basically a captured market as there is nowhere else to go!

bedrooms are fine, issues with water in showers though

Breakfast a joke when it is buffet style, everything is put out at different times in the hot plates!

Unfortunately also there are a couple of "front of house" staff who definately make your stay very unwelcome! You feel you are a total inconvenience and after driving 3-4 hours you would expect at least a smile and some chat as to where you have driven from.

I believe small country house hotels should be run by the owners who have passion and want to make their guests experience something to remember!!

Returned from a two night stay in this hotel last week. We were very pleased with our room, we had one of the superior rooms with a king size bed. Very comfy. It was a bit cold the first night but the staff kindly provided a heater for us. Lovely scenery round about. The only thing that I think could be improved on is the menu etc. I think the prices were a bit steep. They would be better provindg more smaller options on the menu, rather than having to take three courses, or if you wanted in the bar or lounge, having just the one course (and at £16 for the main) was a wee bit expensive.

On saying that though, all of the staff were very friendly and helpful and we actually plan to go back there in a few months.

The Dunalastair Hotel itself is lovely and our room was very comfy with a super kingsize bed, nice clean fluffy towels in the en suite shower room, tea & coffee facilities (we found in the wardrobe), freeview etc. Slight downside here was that our room was on the ground floor and on the 2nd night we had guests in the room above us, i do totally understand that the hotel is an old scottish building but the floorboards upstairs are better than any alarm clock i have ever owned.
The absolute downside of our stay was the hotel receptionist.......in the personality stakes she scores at least a minus ten! We were met on our arrival with a glare over the top of her glasses which never ever turned into a smile of any description, very unhelpful and curt but the final straw was on returning on our first night to collect our key we were very sharply and rudely told 'to stop talking as she could not hear the people on the end of the phone'. LIVID is not the word, needless to say i never exchanged one single word with this person the rest of our stay (my partner was a bit more forgiving or we would have been out of there).
The rest of the staff were lovely.
On another note i know they say the bar across the way from them is not actually part of the Dunalastair (so why plug it as much) but it is barely above spit and sawdust type bars and i can imagine it being full of drunks at the weekend. It consists of 6 pine tables and assorted chairs, a pool table and a wood burning stove. I am sorry but if i wanted to pay £15.95 for a main course it would not be in this type of establishment. Maybe in my youth when drink and a barn dance were all i was looking for.
Sorry guys but this is definately not Scottish hospitality at its best!

Went here for a weekend and had the superior room.

The room was huge, it had a bath and separate shower the room was spotless. There is a tv with free view and also a DVD player.

The lounge was lovely to sit in and have a drink. We went over to the stables bar that is the public bar and it was a really good night. Drink prices were very reasonable.

Breakfast on one of the mornings was Buffett style and was difficult to actually get any food as everyone was taking more than they would eat however the next day it was table service. The food was lovely. Didn't eat in the hotel other than breakfast.

The staff were all really nice couldnt do enough for you so in all we had a great stay