An excellent small and quiet hotel, well appointed and comfortable. Run by the owners, who produce high quality food and very good, unobtrusive, service. They very quickly assessed what interested us and pointed us unfailingly in the right direction. There is lot's so do in the area, especially if you like wild scenery and well-kept stately homes, plus of course fishing, shooting etc.

This property is labelled as a hotel but it definitely has a guest house atmosphere, for example you have to ring the doorbell every time you want to come in, breakfast is only served between 8 and 9am (even on Sundays!), and check out time is very early - 10.30am. We also thought the £130 per night bed and breakfast rate a very high price for the extremely small room and bathroom we had. On the plus side the house is spotlessly clean and nicely furnished and the breakfast was excellent.

We stayed a couple of nights at the Culdearn Hotel in June 2011. It is a very well appointed small hotel with about half a dozen rooms.

The accommodation was very good. We had a choice of room and plumped for a spacious room up on the top floor. Our room had all the usual features including a comfy big bed, TV, kettle, and was relatively uncluttered with good quality fixtures and fittings. There was an internal phone and WIFI in the room and a power point nice and handy for a mirror (for my wife to do her hair!)

Pre-dinner drinkies and canapés were served in a warm and inviting lounge.

Food was very good with a good choice using local ingredients and an impressive wine list which ranged from ££ to £££££. My wife is a picky eater but Culdearn rustled up a tasty fruity starter for her without any fuss.

The only comments I would make were that firstly, the hotel was very quiet over our two night stay. We appeared to catch a lull between two particularly busy periods. Although it was nice and peaceful, the owners made us very welcome with, literally, personal and attentive service.

Secondly, mobile phone reception was poor inside the fine old granite building. Some would view this with dismay, some with delight!

I/we stay in up to 40 hotels per year and this remains a firm favourite and certainly in our top three. If you like old fashioned comfort (large rooms, fine cooking, proprietor driven, lots of attantion to detail) then it doesn't come much better than this.
This is not a cheap hotel but it is a luxury one with the added attraction of being small so that every user feel as if they receive a very personalised service.