Recently travelled through Castle Douglas on our way to the ferry in Stranraer when we felt we should stop over. The Imperial Hotel had vacancies and with such a warm welcome we could not refuse. We were greeted by an Irish man and from there on in we felt it was home from home. We dined at the hotel and had a few night caps, it was as if we had our very own maître d . We had a great night it was a fantastic start to our family holiday and we will definately stay in the Imperial again if only to find out the Irish mans name.

The Imperial Hotel was very disappointing. Our rather small room was decorated c. 1980 and the shower was of the same vintage - and despite the fact that smoking in hotel rooms has been banned for a few years, it still had a slight smell of stale smoke. The welcome was friendly enough and when we asked for breakfast at 7 am we were assured that a continental breakfast would be left out for us - but we went along at 7 am and no breakfast. As I was about to spend the day doing a mountain bike race this was a dreadful start to the day. I can recommend that a good breakfast is to be had at the Old School Tearoom a few miles along the A75 towards Stranraer - but I cannot recommend the Imperial Hotel. The charge of £39 ppn puts it in a bracket with many hotels of a significantly better standard, and it seriously fails to match up.

another return to one of the most friendly hotels
within the area, david and his staff can not do enough for guests, meals, service and accomodation are all excellent, David will talk about golf all night, and still serve you drinks !!,
a big bonus point, excellent value all round.