We stayed for 1 night at the sinclair bay hotel as part of our uk roadtrip honeymoon!!! We were very pleased when we arrived to be shown to a big room with huge ensuite bathroom and told we had been upgraded for free as the hotel was'nt very busy,very nice and appreciated. The staff that we met were all friendly and helpful. The room was huge as was the bath room with a bath and plenty of HOT water!! (Also had an overbath shower but we didnt use that.) We were a bit concerned about being over a pub on a Saturday night,and although the pub seemed very busy we could'nt hear any of the noise from our room which was great. Very comfortable huge bed. Clean and a nice room. The only bad point i am sorry to say was breakfast,or rather a lack of breakfast!!! When we checked in the lady asked what time between 8.30 and 9.30am we would like breakfast, we said 9am as we had to drive on to Blackpool that day!! We went down to the breakfast room at 8.55am and there was no one about, we sat there until 9.10am and then decided to take our luggage out to the car so we could leave as soon as we had had our breakfast, we did this and then came back into the breakfast room at about 9.15am.....still no sign of anyone so we really didnt have the time to hang around and wait so ended up leaving our room key on the reception desk and driving to the local Tescos in Wick for breakfast!!! Shame as otherwise i would have given this hotel a glowing review. I was then quite put out that they charged my card the full rate for bed and breakfast when they clearly knew they had'nt come down in time to even cook us our breakfast!!! The local area is,well to put it bluntly dead!!! John O'groats is roughly 9 miles from the hotel but once you have been there thats about it. There is the town of Wick not far but we recieved a somewhat frosty reception when we went into a pub there,which was obviously a "locals only" type place so be careful where you visit.

Clean, basic, friendly, remote. Rooms and water a little cold at first. Breakfast is great so long as you don't expect fruit and different types of milk. Bar food nice. Good beer.

Went up on work business to wick. Hotel look the part on the internet but how wrong can i be.
checked in had to wait for service. got the key to my room and the first thing i saw was it had no curtains. the window overlooked a pelican crossing. The TV could only pick up channel 4 and there was a sink that had no hot water.
The dinner was nice only highlight of the trip and the pints were good too. went for a walk round the town of keiss it was OK but i wouldn't go out of my way to stay there. The toilets and shower wasn't in the room so it was a mare when you sleep naked and need to use the toilet or shower when you had to share with other guests. The rooms ad hall way on the 2nd floor smelt like fish that went off. The beds were uncomfortable. if you like a holiday up there or a trip to John O'Gortes Stay in wick or thurso.

The staff were great as were all the locals we met.
The children were treated like the little people they are.
The rooms actually had proper mugs in not those silly little teacups.
The family room was the best we have stayed in. A seperate room for the boys but still behind our door.
Darts pool and lots of board games kept us all happy.
Clean if a little dated but we like that!
Breakfast was great you just choose exactly what you would like from the hot food listed. Tea coffee toast/bread juice and cereal all there for you to help yourself
The owner left the bread etc out for us on the morning we left very early so we could just make our toast ourselves. One of many little things they did that make a big difference