4/10 Poor
Tony
1 Nov 2024
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Balamory.....
Having stayed in this hotel many times over the past 30 years i never thought it possible to ruin such a good hotel with decoration.....
Entering the property from the road it looks like a lovely country hotel with ample parking and beautiful grounds, what you would expect from the Village group
Then you enter what was once a magnificent reception area with great staff all of whom always done their best to make us feel welcome etc
Well some idiot at Village has had an idea to change the interior into a Balamory theme park
Never in my life have i seen so many colours along one bedroom walkway
It doesn't look ludicrous it looks far worse than that
The bedrooms have had a YMCA face lift, cheap and nasty springs to mind
Nowhere to put suitcases, coat hangers from the teletubbies website
The room we were in which was 357 gave a new meaning to minimalistic
The paintwork was all marked and it has just been done so what will it look like in 6 months
The (restaurant) has been gifted a family feel with some very odd helter skelter commanding the centre of the room, the tables and chairs are out of some backstreet cafe i mean it looks ludicrous
I did read it was to give a family atmosphere well they have failed, it looks like a kids funhouse
Mentioning kids, it must be the norm to allow them to run up and down shouting at the top of their voices everywhere you go they are there screaming
No reception as such just a serve yourself box where customers are left to sign in themselves
Tony
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2024