This is how it should be. Charming, not super smart, with good wooden doors and slightly scuffed furniture. Large bedrooms with antique furniture and fireplaces, and modern large bathrooms. Excellent food served by charming local waitresses. Cosy bar with a huge selection of whiskies. Best of all is the sparky manageress who manages both you and the hotel with verve and wit - and who realy does know her whiskies

My husband and I stayed here for one night and had high hopes after seeing the lovely pictures on the website, but sadly the hotel did not live up to this for us.

On the plus side it is situated in lovely grounds and has a lot of period charm. The bed in our room was comfortable and the en-suite interesting in that you had to go down a flight of steps to get to it!

Negatives were that our room was on the small side even though we had booked one of the "master rooms", and the window opened onto what I think was some sort of service entrance below, so we were disturbed by coming and goings from here. There seems to be no level of sound-proofing, and as our room was situated very close to the main corridor we were disturbed by banging doors and people going past and upstairs. The noise from the rooms upstairs was considerable as you could hear every step made and every door being opened and closed, and people flushing their toilets and running showers etc.!

We hadn't realised that the hotel was totally geared up to fishing, and as a result we were woken by noise from upstairs as some of guests got up before 5am (I assume to go fishing), so we got no sleep after 5am and had a very disturbed night.

We did not sample the restaurant for dinner as the menu seemed very limited and as a coeliac I was concerned at having to ask for gluten free food. My husband did have breakfast (I did not as I was feeling a little queasy), and he was most disappointed in the breakfast, especially considering that the hotel prides itself on excellent quality food. He said that the bacon was underdone and very fatty, the portions were small, the toast was cold and of poor quality, no better than standard supermarket own brand bread, when he was expecting homemade or speciality bread, and the coffee was poor quality and insipid.

We were kept waiting in reception to check out despite ringing the bell several times for attention and in the end my husband had to go and look for someone in the dining room as we could not wait any longer due to having a ferry to catch. We would not choose to stay there again and didn't feel like we received good value for money.

We had a three day mid week break at “The Forss House Hotel”.
We were greeted on arrival by Anne, who deserves the reputation of being a helpful, warm and professional lady.
The room and meals were of a five star standard and could not be faulted.
We had the added bonus of, by chance, meeting some old friends.
A comfortable and relaxing three days.

John and Frankie .

Wanted a quiet night ahead of a trip to Orkney but hotel not quite what I expected. Room a little small with 'old world' charm and furnishings. Lots of noise from banging doors and extremely hot in night - no air con or ventilation.
Didn't sample the evening meal after being put off by the menu - not enough choice. Breakfast was adequate but not exceptional as I had been expecting.