For two of us on Groupon a room worked out at £54 a night (£27pp). We were trying to guess the full price while we were there - maybe 50% more??? - we'd probably pay that...

No, go on the website and you can book a 'standard room' for two and pay £138 per night!!! If that's for the same room we got then no way could you recommend it (and if not, then why give Groupon people the older, darker, colder, rooms if you want them to return?).

Anyway, presuming no-one ever pays the silly full price, for what we paid it was as you expect - fairly decent. Rooms and bathrooms are a bit dated (old TV, 80's avocado etc), but large, clean and the bed was comfy. I was woken every time someone drunk murder mystery guest staggered through the corridor after midnight, so it wasn't that quiet unfortunately.

Sadly there was an irritating amount of niggly little things broken or not right (the shower was a nightmare) - a handyman could easily sort most of it, but you wonder if they even have one, the whole place seems so short staffed and maybe even short of money. Even the ornamental couch at the top of the stairs in lots of the photos is smashed.
It's all a bit sad as it's a nice old hotel with lovely surroundings and the staff were all nice, if a bit rushed (and perhaps sometimes a tad too informal).

Breakfast was very good, but the evening meal was a mixed bag considering it was £15 for two courses. The wife's garlic mushrooms and haggis-stuffed chicken was really nice, however my soup felt like something out of a tin and the beef main was annoyingly bad. Even the table next to us was laughing about how indedible it was - thin dry slivers of beef with so much chewy fat I had to spit a lot of it out. Plus a little basic dry veg and a tiny yorkshire pud. They'd throw better stuff in the bin at a Toby Carvery, never mind somewhere charging over a tenner a main. Everyone complained (as they had done the night before), and the (admittedly sweet) staff apologised, but there was no impression the kitchen knew or cared. Great sticky toffee pudding though.

Anyway, if you happen to be travelling through and you can get a sensible price then you could do far worse than travel 10 minutes from the motorway - it's certainly got more character than a holiday inn, if not quality or facilities (but the breakfast is better).

If boozed-up, hammy murder mysteries are your thing then there seemed to be lots enjoying that.

If I was in the area then I might consider it again (at a cheap rate), but it wouldn't be first a choice for a luxury romantic weekend away.

We had a group booking of 4 rooms for the weekend. The Murder Mystery was well presented and engaged all of the people who were present.The consensus was that the breakfast was very good,the dinners on both evening were value for money,the dish of the weekend was a close run affair between the apple crumble on the Friday night and the sticky toffee pudding on the Saturday night.Sticky toffee just edging it.The Staff at the Hotel lived up to their very good reputation from the reviews I have read about the hotel before our visit.The rooms were clean and the beds were very comfortable.
Three of the rooms were very nice the fourth room was not as nice as the others and may not have been refurbished.
Our overall opinion is that the weekend was most enjoyable and well worth the money.We will recommend the Tinto Murder Mystery Weekends to our friends.

We are just back from a murder mystery weekend and which we thoroughly enjoyed.
There were a few things which were dissapointing about the hotel bedrooms, the one we were in was quite tired and cold, the bathroom very dated(avacado colour suite) with no hot water and no hot shower but on the plus side they were clean. The staff were very friendly and the restuarant food very good.
The murder mystery is good fun and you make friends as well and one ends up with a huge bar bill (lol).

The room was a bit shabby, but clean enough, and comfortable. The hotel has it's own oldy-worldy charm, I liked it, my husband wasn't too keen. We didn't eat at the restaurant in the evening, but our breakfasts were excellent. The service was friendly.