Crinan Hotel

This is a really charming hotel. It’s beautifully situated overlooking the water, with wonderful views. The staff are extremely friendly and courteous; we particularly enjoyed chatting with the two South African guys. A real highlight for me was the food: the local seafood was really delicious and everything was perfectly cooked, from the poached eggs to the sea bass. The public rooms are very nice, especially the bar and lounge. Bedrooms are a little dated, but very clean and comfortable, with very good cotton bed linen and good pillows ( there were actually loads of pillows, so bound to be one to your liking). I’d definitely return.

What a lovely hotel. So warm and welcoming, fantastic staff team, owner very attentive. Nothing was too much trouble and we were made to feel at home and what was the best thing our doggo was made so welcome too. The room was great with s turning view and the biggest bed I've seen which was so comfortable. Beautiful touches like fresh flowers and stunning original art works everywhere. The food was devine, breakfast appetising with lots of choice and the seafood bar was amazing. Can highly recommend a stay at the Crinan Hotel

We visited for couple of days lovely place beautiful view lovely staff very helpful and very polite in very end of visit when we paid the bill and checked out we had a very strange conversation with lady who works there or own the place ?????she ask where you came from??So I answered from Chester !!!!!She said no you not !!!!!!!!!Or maybe I don’t know Chester accent!!!!!!!!!!!!!Ive been shocked I didn’t think this is real !!!!!!I feel horrible bad I didn’t know what to say’s even but who ever was that person she definitely don’t know how to talk with people.Iam obviously from different countrie and I have a different accent but I live in Chester from more then 20 years and iam your customer please have some respect to people we are all living on the same planet 🌎!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Very rude!!!!!!

Stayed for two nights with my partner for his birthday. We both had such a lovely time. Our room was on the 3rd floor with a balcony overlooking the water - absolutely stunning to wake up to each morning. The staff at the hotel were excellent, very warm and welcoming and nothing was too much trouble. We had dinner and breakfast each morning and the food was outstanding- delicious! I’d absolutely recommend this hotel to everyone and we are looking forward to visiting again and exploring more of the beautiful scenery around the area.

I had read some terrible reviews about this hotel before deciding I would take a risk and book. More fool me. Such was the shambles and the web of deceit however, I never actually managed to get beyond the booking stage. In short the hotel after a Fawlty Towers like exchange on the telephone withdrew an offer that was advertised on their website. It was I have to say an unsavoury and shambolic episode. I dread to think how badly the hotel must be run, if they manage to pee off potential customers before they can even make a booking. Perhaps I should have taken more notice of all those other terrible reviews after all!

Stayed for 2 nights for the art/music themed opening weekend of the 2024 season. Had a super time - we always do. Entertainment and staff were terrific - professional and pleasant. Food is first class. Love this eccentric, comfortable hotel.

This is my wife Candis and i's second trip to the Crinan Hotel. This Hotel seems to get better with every visit. We stayed for New year and it was Magical. This Hotel never fails to surprise me with outstandingly kind staff and incredible food. Everything in our room was perfect, my wife decided to catch up on bathing time as I'm not sure she took one step out of the bath between arrival and leaving. I did read a review talking about the size of the TV's !!!!!! first of all they are perfectly average TVs but more to the point no one goes to a place that beautiful to watch TV. in summary it was only our second stay at the Crinan hotel but will not be our last

Good coffee and scone at the basin - very welcome after a lovely walk. Thanks to Niamh and Robert for such friendly service. Stayed two nights in the hotel and had an excellent stay. Lovely big comfortable room with a glorious sea view. Helpful staff and nice food. Would recommend.

Firstly the good things-the location is stunning. However, the hotel itself didn't match it. On arrival we were shown to a room on a cold third floor(No 31) and the room had no heating on, cobwebs on the ceiling and a TV the size of my ipad!. Asking if another room was available we were shown a room(No 8) that was better but the shower didn't work and we were told we could use the shower in the next door room! Third time lucky we were offered a room( No 28) that was a decent size, warm but still had a damp stain on the bathroom ceiling and also on the bedroom ceiling. Being late we accepted this but felt let down having seen the website showing lovely rooms. The restaurant wasn't open and all evening meal were served in the bar area. It had plastic table clothes on the table and the menu was what you expect in a bar area but the food was fine and the staff helpful. The Lounge areas were cold- lovely fireplaces but no fire and when we asked the staff if they were lit they said they would have to ask the owner -but the fireplaces remained unlit during our stay. Next morning the breakfast was served in a cool restaurant and was OK and the staff again were fine and helpful.We decided to give it a second chance and stay as we wanted to explore the area. When we returned our room had been "serviced" but the cups hadn't been cleaned the tea and coffee replenished and the small amount of toiletries we had had in our room had not been replaced. After a further night stay with no improvement we decided to leave a day early -very disappointed at what had looked a good hotel from its website. The whole experience was a huge let down having made a special trip to visit this hotel. It was cold throughout, unloved and neglected and certainly not worth the money. It had little a**osphere and with the communal areas being cold did not encourage you to linger. It is a hotel that has not kept up with the standards required in this modern age and with its poor maintenance and decor can not even be classed as shabby chic or quirky. I would certainly not visit again unless there had been major inves**ent or change of ownership ( or both) which is a shame as it is a beautiful location in a lovely part of Scotland. One to be missed!