Stayed for two nights in a single room. Cost £30 per night, booked by email.
It is about 10 minutes walk from the railway and bus stations and city centre, across the river (easiest route across the suspension footbridge), in a fairly quiet residential area.
There are five rooms, three of which are singles.
The room was small, but pleasant, overlooking the front. There was a modern TV, some storage space, and washbasin, but no chair or table and not en-suite. There are two toilets/showers which were fine.
Breakfast was good with an extensive choice.
The owners were away, and their son looking after the place, so I did not encounter the experience others have portrayed here.
The website says there is a guest lounge, which seemed to not exist; there is a lounge where breakfast was served but marked ‘private’. And the supply of drinks mentioned by others did not exist, (there was limited coffee but no tea in the room).
I needed to leave by 7.30 on my final morning. Breakfast is listed as starting at 7.00, and this was confirmed in the email when I booked. However, it actually starts at 7.30 and could not be earlier. I was given a packed breakfast, which was of considerable quantity and variety.
These points did not cause any inconvenience to me, and the packed breakfast really worked out better than having it there early, and I would not normally expect a B&B to provide breakfast that early (7.30 is early anyway). But ... the website should give accurate information on facilities and when booking why tell me about breakfast at 7.00 if this is not the case!
Based on my visit, I would rate this as a quite good B&B but nothing special. It did not fulfil all expectations but is probably similar to other places (but which do not claim to be more).
I went on the Jacobite cruise to Loch Ness (3 hours, £19), and visited the battlefield at Culloden - an easy bus journey. I would recommend both.
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31 May 2011
Hi Martin,
Thanks for your review,
I'm surprised to hear you write that we you were unable to have an early breakfast, when I asked you what time you would like breakfast the previous evening you said that you had to leave at 7am, I don't start serving cooked breakfast until 7am, that is why I offered you a pack lunch which you were happy to receive consisting of 2 coronation chicken rolls, 2 bags of crisps, 2 cakes, 2 biscuits, a banana & a carton of orange juice.
I had another breakfast to serve at 7am so if you were requiring breakfast at 7am it would have be no problem to serve you a cooked breakfast, I'd be surprised if any Guest House in Inverness would serve a cooked breakfast at 6.30am.
That's a good observation about the private sign on the guest's lounge door, it has been there since before we bought the house & I've never thought about removing it, I'll remove it today.
I must apologise for not offering you a cup of tea or coffee on your arrival, I always offer guests a complimentary cup of tea or coffee with biscuits & cakes on arrival if I have time to make it & sit to chat with them for 10 minutes about things i recommend to see & do in the local area.
Hopefully you enjoyed your stay enough to visit us again in the future.
Kind regards
Garry Clark
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