My wife & I have just returned from what has become our annual tradition, to visit Inverness and to stay at the Kingsclub.

It is our chance to properly relax, recharge the batteries and plan the year ahead. The Kinsgclub is perfect for this. Shame the Whisky people up the road have "Glen Of Tranquility" taken, as it suits the Kingsclub perfectly.

We first stayed when owned as the Inverness Marriott, then several stays at the Kingsmill and now our second visit to the Kingsclub.

Our room, with balcony (604) overlooked the Golf course, was spacious, clean and very comfortable.

We used the Spa ( couples massage ) and the Leisure Club. The Spa was fantastic, my back & shoulders have never felt so good.

The breakfast was fantastic, loved the smoked salmon & smoked haddock. It was enough to keep us going all day. Plenty of choice, though i wasn't too keen on the croissant's, they should be proper size, not bite size.

We didn't use the hotel restaurant as there were a couple restaurants in Inverness we wanted to try.

The best bit though are the staff, always friendly, helpfull and enthusiastic. We were always greeted with a smile and friendly conversation.

In my opinion the difference between a good hotel and a great one, is the staff. You may have the best property in the world, but if the troops aren't happy then the guests won't be either...it may only say 4 star above the door but it's 5 star service.


Stu

We won this stay in the Kingsclub (part of the Kingsmills Hotel) at a charity night. The Kingsclub is in a separate new building accross the car park from the main hotel. Our room was lovely with a large sheltered balcony with table and chairs overlooking the golf course. The room was very clean and well set out with everything you could need, including a very welcome cafetiere and lovely fresh granules, crabtree and evelyn toilettries and a huge bed.

Breakfast in the morning was served in the dining room of the Kingsclub and not in the main hotel. I rarely eat a cooked breakfast but this was freshly made to order and delicious. The gentleman serving us in the morning - he may have been the Kingsclub manager - was truly helpful and efficient and made us feel very welcome.

All in all i would definitely recommend this hotel.

This was our third overnight stay here, and it really is a pleasant experience. It's around 15 minutes walk into Inverness centre so is a great base to operate from - even if you have to take a cab it's only around a fiver.

The staff are good, they're friendly and professional. The rooms do vary, and on one occasion there was a fault with the heating which turned the room and bathroom into a sauna (along with accompanying puddle of water); this should have been picked up by housekeeping, but we were relocated after a conversation with management who were genuinely apologetic. Some rooms are a little old-fashioned, others are huge and lovely, and the beds....book a king and you'll never want to get up in the morning. We recommend this place to friends coming up to visit, and some have stayed in the resort/spa part of the hotel where rooms are considerably more expensive - however, the consensus from them is that the main hotel is nicer and has more of an atmosphere.

There is something about this hotel which just wants to make you come back - it gives the feeling that staff really care about the guests, and the smiles are genuine. Better mention the breakfast: suffice to say you probably won't want lunch!

They offer deals from time to time, so it's worth checking online on the hotel site as we've found you can get better deals direct with them on some occasions.

We stayed in this Hotel in January 2012. Our room was right through the back through a rabbit warren of corridors and stairs. The room itself was tatty and needed some attention - you could see the bathroom has had many "patch-up" jobs and the shower cabinet needed a good going with a scrubbing brush to get rid of black slimy mould around the seals. Depsite adverstising Sky Sports 1,2,3 & 4 in the bedrooms our outdated tv only had BBC1 and Channel 4 working. To be fair I found the staff very pleasant and professional and we had to test this as none of the lights worked in the room on arrival. We ate in the Restaurant for two nights and it was again, average. The soup of the day was Minestrone from a tin and I would skip desserts althogether - rice pudding was luke warm and rice was not fully cooked, the apple tart tatin had been forgotten about and was in a sorry state when it did arrive and the Chocolate Brownie was cold and missing the promised ice cream from the menu.