Excellent location close to Old Course and the British Golf Museum. Very clean, up to date and elegant furnishings. SatelliteTV. Very friendly and amenable hosts. Fantastic breakfast with excellent variety and high quality selections. Great place!

Because the owner, Bill, was such a nice fellow, it's with regret that I have to give Amberside a below-average grade. I enjoy staying at B&Bs in the UK in part because of the homey, comfortable atmosphere and the ability to linger in the front room over a good English breakfast. But at Amberside, unlike the other B&Bs on the same row, the front room has been closed off to guests, leaving no common area at all, and guests are supposed to have ungenerous continental breakfasts (cereal and toast) in their small rooms.

The rooms themselves are pretty standard B&B rooms -- reasonably nice but not lavish -- but the need to have a little breakfast table and fridge in each one for the little breakfast (see above) makes them pretty cramped.

So, while I very much wanted to like Amberside, I found it pretty disappointing.

For anyone looking to stay at St Andrews, it can be difficult to get accommodation, and then you are left with very few choices. I would not have chosen to stay in the Amberside, and if I had a choice again I would stay somewhere else. The room was ok, bright and airy but the decor was awful, the en-suite was tiny and the whole thing felt like it wasn't the cleanest. The breakfast was typical of b&s everywhere- no better and no worse. The owners were friendly and the location was good but I thought it was completely over priced for the standard of the accommodation.