Good Points.
: Staff very courteous and helpful.
: Room nice size and clean.
: Breakfast good.
: Free wifi
: Parking.£3.50 per day.
: Price £99 for 2 night bed & breakfast plus dinner for 1 night.
: Tea,coffee,hot choc and biscuit in room
: Iron and ironing board supplied.
: Location fine taxi to New Street £7

Bad Points
: We where on the 7th floor and the water pressure terrible worst shower ever.However our daughter was on the 5th floor and
the water pressure was fine.
: A little tired and dated.
: TV on the wall at the end of the bed not alot of space between bed and tv resulting in nearly hitting my head when getting up
during the night.
: Hairdryer rubbish,in fairness most in hotels are.
Would i stay again yes but i would ask for a lower floor.

Arrival = locked car park and a ten min wait.

Keys impossible to use on doors and so far not good. Will we make it to day two?

Being originally from Birmingham, I've long been aware of the Strathallan Hotel and it's semi-iconic status within the city - because of its' position and 'circular' design - but on all of my return visits to the city of my birth, I've never stayed there. Until now.

Arriving on site and first impressions are not great as the exterior is in need of some tlc - when's an iconic shape not an iconic shape.... when it's dated perhaps? My other half - who's from Sweden and thus doesn't have my historical links with the place - certainly looked on with trepidation as we pulled up in the car.

But parking was easy (I'll come back to parking later) and the reception was a bright and warming place. The staff were proefssional rather than necessarily welcoming. Our (Standard Double) room was absolutely fine. Clean, looked like it had been recently updated, warm, flat screen TV, Wi-Fi signal receiving. So good start. The bathroom was very small though, with nowhere to even put one (let alone two) sponge-bag. We also had a moderately annoying dripping tap. One design fault here though... the bathroom door had an obscured glass panel which means if the bathroom is used during the night then light streams through the glass panel and floods the rest of the room. Bit dumb and totally avoidable.

Didn't eat in the Hotel but the restaurant "looked" fine and was certainly well attended - we ate at ASK two minutes walk away which we enjoyed very much.

Just a couple of further thoughts.

Our room was booked for two people well in advance, so why did the hotel only lay out one set of towels (hiding the other set at the back of the wardrobe)? And secondly, when the design of the hotel is partially formed by the fact that the rooms are above the hotel's own (circular) multi-storey car park I found it a little unecessary to be charged an extra £3.50 for parking. To be fair this charge was well publicised within the booking information in advance, but just a bit unecessary in my view.

Wanted a room for a night near the Botanic Gardens where attending a Friday night function.
Concerned by a real mix of opinions in Tripadvisor reviews. Looked at other hotels nearby, but their reviews were consistently bad - so decided to give it a go!
Paid £15 extra for Executive room. Room was excellent - large and recently refurbed. It also benefitted from being on 6th floor so noise wasn't a problem. Partner not impressed by ironing board!
Receptionist didn't know where Botanic gardens were - major attraction less than mile from hotel! - and was generally unwelcoming. He also tried to charge £3.50 for car park which I didn't accept.
Receptionist the following morning was excellent and knowledgeable.
Breakfast was good - functional rather than personal, but more than adequate and staff good in this area.
Hotel looks dull from the outside, but our experience was very good.