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Great dining at Rowan!
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4.0 |
Guest name: Alias34632, Sweden
Guest type: Honeymoon
stayed in Jul 2008
We stayed at Rowan for one night during a one-week tour in Scotland.
Location: 2-3 miles south of Aviemore. Nice location - in the woods - if you are driving.
The hotel: nice older house, with "character" as some other reviewers wrote. Plenty of parking space.
The room: we stayed in room 8, which was nicely appointed with a very fluffy bed. Note that the rooms on the last floor are under the roof so the ceiling is not very high and it can be a problem if you are tall. Fortunately, we are not :-) One funny bathroom "feature" that we observed at Rowan is that you have to push a button outside the bathroom to turn on the hot water in the bathroom - this could have been worth a note in the room. We had instead to walk down to the reception and get the full explanation (as there was no phone in the room).
Dinner: here came our "wow" experience. Both my wife's duck with rhubarb and my chanterelle risotto with spinach proved excellent, outstanding in presentation and delicious. If you stay at Rowan, EAT THERE!
Overall a very good stay with the dinner as the most memorable experience!
My ratings for this hotel are:
4.0 Check in / front desk
4.0 Value
4.0 Service
4.0 Rooms
4.0 Location
4.0 Cleanliness
Nice Room, Great Food, Great People.... and they take dogs
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4.3 |
Guest name: Baxie, County Durham, UK
Guest type: Honeymoon
stayed in Jun 2008
The Rowan Tree Country Hotel is a great place to spend a few days. We stayed twice recently on our way up to / back from the far north of Scotland. The hotel is located close to the main A9 but far enough away not to be affected by road noise.
On our first visit we stayed in Room 5 on the first floor - a spacious room with 6ft bed, plasma tv and views of the loch and mountains. The bathroom was quite small and let the room down a little.
On our second visit we stayed in Room 9 (an attic room with sloping ceilings on the 2nd floor). This room was also nice with a beautiful 5ft sleigh bed. Again spacious with plasma tv and a better bathroom - although im not a fan of carpet in bathrooms. Being in the attic the room was slightly cheaper and I think i'd pay the extra to stay on the 1st floor.
The hotel is a few miles from Aviemore so dining options are aplenty, but why waste your petrol when the hotel has such a great restaurant. The food is first class although the wine list is a little overpriced. We planned to eat in Aviemore at least once but ended up eating in the hotel on all three nights.
As the chef is so good its no surprise to find that breakfast is also superb with one of the best choices of fresh fruits ive seen in a hotel plus the usual fry up which was excellent.
All in all this hotel is a great choice and given it takes dogs we'll be stopping here again soon.
My ratings for this hotel are:
5.0 Check in / front desk
3.0 Business service
4.0 Value
5.0 Service
4.0 Rooms
5.0 Location
4.0 Cleanliness
Great location, fantastic food
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4.5 |
Guest name: fbirder, UK
Guest type: Honeymoon
stayed in Jun 2008
We stayed at the Rowan Tree for three nights, using it as a base for birdwatching in the area. It was perfectly sited for all the local birding hot-spots and the reviews on here made it sound great.
What I didn't realise was that the birding from the hotel would be so good. From the car-park we saw Buzzard, Woodcock and had the amazing experience of an Osprey flying directly overhead. Loch Alvie is only a short (5 min) walk away. Goldeneye and Common Sandpipers were there in abundance.
We'd read about the great food, but we still weren't prepared for what we found. Dinner in the evenings was of a style and quality that I would expect in a top London restaurant. Yes, it was slightly more expensive than the food elsewhere in the regions. But it was cheaper than I'd expect to pay for London.
My ratings for this hotel are:
5.0 Check in / front desk
3.0 Business service
5.0 Value
4.0 Service
4.0 Rooms
5.0 Location
5.0 Cleanliness
Fantastic Hotel, Beautiful Location & Very Scottsh
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4.9 |
Guest name: Duffcam, Glasgow
Guest type: Honeymoon
stayed in Jun 2008
We booked this hotel lastminute on laterooms website for a bank holiday break and have been back twice since! The hotel is small, cosy and very homely feeling. The rooms are individually designed and pretty luxurious considering the price! The food is absolutely fantastic and locally sourced. There are not enough superlatives to describe this place and I would highly recommend it to anyone!
My ratings for this hotel are:
4.0 Check in / front desk
5.0 Value
5.0 Service
5.0 Rooms
5.0 Location
5.0 Cleanliness
Fantastic!!
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5.0 |
Guest name: WestSussexPussycat, West Sussex
I stayed here with five friends in January 2007, for my birthday, it was so enjoyable that two of us returned for a five night New Year's break.
The hotel is lovely and welcoming, the people are very friendly and helpful and the food is so good (and served in huge portions!!).
I am a vegetarian and a fussy eater and Monique e-mailed before my trip to check that the seven-course New Year's Eve menu was OK for me!!
The location is very scenic and both times we've had snow, which made it picture-postcard perfect. I will definitely be back and cannot recommend/praise this hotel/owners highly enough.
My ratings for this hotel are:
5.0 Check in / front desk
5.0 Business service
5.0 Value
5.0 Service
5.0 Rooms
5.0 Location
5.0 Cleanliness