My friend and I stayed at this hostel in high anticipation - we heard it had a reputation to be jam packed full of entertainment opportunities, both from the variety of fellow backpackers who were likewise fun-minded and the abundance of exciting things to see and do in Pitlochry.

Boy did they get that wrong.

Our room was an 8 bed dorm and we were the first to arrive and settle at about 2pm. The beds were solid timber with a mattress the thickness of a slice of spam (and almost as smelly). But that's OK, we had experienced worse and this really wasn't too bad. High anticipation of who was going to join us that afternoon and evening in our 'mixed' dorm room.
3pm - we had finished our first two beers, no sign of other life.
4pm - 2 more beers and still just us.
5pm and...no, still just us, 6 beers the worse....
5:17pm - enter Gandalf the Wizard! Well, a very softly spoken Lakes District rambler in his late 40's who had a striking resemblance to Ian McKellen, or Gandalf the Wizard - one and the same really. Nice guy actually, but he was the sum total of our fellow dorm inhabitants that night.
Not that I'm complaining but you can imagine my disappointment when he didn't so much as fight a Balrog, let alone flash off the odd fireball!
But it's a decent enough hostel, in a town that is, well, quiet.
We ended up going for a curry, more beers, and then in bed not too late.

Our advice - stage here, if you have to, but move on...quickly...