Dornoch Hotel

Amazing friendly staff doing their best to accommodate us.

If you’re headed to Dornoch you should strongly consider Dornoch Station. Incredibly unique hotel with terrific food and great “hang”. We were there to play Dornoch Golf Club. The hotel is a short walk to the course. Our room had an incredible view of the course and the water beyond. Wonderful breakfast in the morning. Just can’t recommend highly enough.

This place is beautiful. Very close to restaurants and shopping. The golf course is right there. A great breakfast was offered. Our room was plenty big and the staff was very friendly during our stay. They have a lovely front porch you can sit on and a great lobby area.

If not for the location to the golf course we would probably not choose this hotel . The room was small and not particularly clean ( dusty). Wine glasses were not clean . Room was extremely hot with no way to regulate temperature. Bathroom was tiny . No adequate storage space in room . Room was not serviced by housekeeping until late afternoon. Automatic service charge added to already exuberant prices (£9 for a pint ). Evening meal served in bar arrived luke warm . Breakfast was good with lots of choice . Snooker table in the bar area is a bonus if you like that sort of thing but other than that you are better off staying across the road at the Royal Golf Hotel.

We were really excited about staying at the Dornoch station and sadly it didn’t live up to our expectations. We were on the second floor at the end of a corridor which had the most unappealing smell. Housekeeping was based beside the room so not sure if this was the reason. The windows and fire door were kept open which we assumed was to alleviate the smell. The room was a great size although too dark for my liking, also lacking was an area to style hair. I assumed due to the recent refurb that I wouldn’t have to negotiate a step in bath to access the shower, however accept I should have requested a walk in shower. Breakfast on day one was disappointing due to having to chase staff to provide orange juice, glasses, bowls. It also took 30 minutes to provide the tea and coffee we ordered on arrival. Day 2 was much better and on both days the staff were very pleasant. Lastly being charged £16.50 for a glass of wine was a bit excessive in my opinion. Checkout was a long process due to one person being on duty which was quite frustrating as was evidenced by other guests complaining.

The hotel has been refurbished to a high standard. Bedrooms are beautiful. Lovely Floris products in the stunning bathroom. The whole hotel is so welcoming and stylish. Great bar with huge snooker table. Fabulous breakfast too.