We took our long dreamed of vacation to Scotland and my very avid golfing husband had to visit St Andrews and play; he loved it. (If your not a golf player the city offers about 1/2 day of sightseeing.) We stayed at this hotel at the recommendation of friends and were very pleased; service, rooms, breakfast, helpfulness was all great.

The room and shower/bath were wonderful and spacious in this hotel, as was the location---only a 2/3 minute walk from the Golf Course! My favorite spaces were the dining area and the lounge in the front of the building. The bay window niches with chairs and tables overlooking the fantastic surroundings are a great spot to sit and have tea or a chat. Good breakfast and good service at breakfast. My only suggestion is that a bell hop would be a nice addition to this hotel, as we had been traveling by train all day with heavy luggage and it would have been nice to have someone help us up the steps to the entrance and deliver our bags to our room:-) Be sure to check out the pub underneath the hotel called "Ma Belle's". Great burgers and cut fries/chips and a nice selection of alcoholic beverages.

Gone the days were you could submerge yourself entirely in a bath, unless you book a superior room at the St Andrews Golf Hotel. This hotel on The Scores (in relation to the first golf course ever built, or so I hear) offers a tastefully decorated room with a splendid view on the bay, and a bathroom the size of an average London flat!
The Molton&Brown bathroom provisions are pretty, of course, but there are no amenities to add a little bath foam or soak to the water (as the bottles of soap, wash, etc. are attached to the wall). You can always manually transport it if you’re determined enough! And I was, because the water had such a strong chlorine smell that I thought I was bathing in a swimming pool.
The shower is of a fabulous walk-in kind, and the water is warm, but the water pressure is very disappointing for a quality hotel (I can get a much better shower at a Holiday Inn Express, for a third of the price.).

The large bed was a delightful sight after a tiring day, but slightly less comfortable than I anticipated. The large mattress turned out to be two singles, and the division in the middle bothered me. The pillows ware also a funny mix between bags of cotton balls and one containing feathers – the most comfortable one.

And then, as I lay down wearily and drifted off to a blissful sleep, there it was: a ticking clock. You try to ignore it first, but the simple gesture of ignoring draws even more attention to the object of your frustration. So lights came back on, and thankfully, it wasn’t too high up. After dismembering it, I returned to sleep. Half an hour later I was wakened by shouting and drunken laughter. Didn’t last too long though, I suspect this was around the time the bar downstairs closed.

The screeching of sea gulls will soothingly wake you at the break of dawn. Thankfully, a nice breakfast awaits you in the not so very cosy, but very serious-looking breakfast room. The most pleasant surprise here was fresh juices, delightfully chilled on ice. There’s the usual selection of pastries, cereals and fruits, and a choice of hot breakfast too. It’s a good call to put various types of fish on the breakfast menu, but I couldn’t tell you if it was really ‘fresh from the bay’ as I only had a bit of scrambled eggs. (Which were nice and fluffy!) Staff is friendly, but not particularly chatty.

Would I recommend staying here? Difficult. It certainly was a hotel of a very good standard, but overpriced to my opinion. For example, all rooms in the Da Vinci Hotel in Eastbourne are of an equal standard to the Superior room I had in this hotel, also with a magnificent location in a popular seaside town, and the price was – a lot – lower (about half the amount I paid here). It is just lacking an eye for detail, a level of care which you expect when paying the price for it.

St. Andrews Golf Hotel is a lovely hotel just 500 yds from the 1st tee at the Old Course.

Rooms, food and service are great.

Will stay here again when I return.