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Das MacDonald Houstoun House ist ein ehemaliges kleines Schloss (naja, eher Landsitz) in stilvoller ruhiger Umgebung. Alles alt und englisch gediegen (sorry, Scottish), da verzeiht man dem Haus Stilbrüche wie moderne Türen und abblätternder Lack an den Zimmertüren. Dafür gibts einen hervorragenden Service und eine kleine exzellente Küche mit lokalen Produkten aus der Umgebung. Alleine das Restaurant verdient einen Besuch.

Service bei Check-in und Frühstück schlecht ( schlecht ausgebildet, unfreundlich, überlastet, unflexibel). Typisches Businesshotel, hektischer Ablauf beim Frühstück. Zimmer im Anbau mit Renovierungsstau. Bis 24 Uhr und ab 6 Uhr laute Betriebsgeräusche vor den Fenstern ( Motor/Pumpe) . Sicherungseinbehalt (Betrag fast doppelter Zimmerpreis). Aufpreis für Nutzung der Kreditkarte.

We stayed at Houstoun House recently for a night, and found it to be a pleasant place. The spa was nice (albeit busy) and our upgraded room was immaculately clean and well-furnished. The inevitable Philips TV was predictably awful, but the bathroom was clean and well-appointed, despite having a shower curtain over the bath instead of a dedicated cubicle.The biggest failing with Houstoun House is the price of its food - ¿¿17.50 for a breakfast is extortionate, which is why we chose not to eat here and therefore can't comment on the hotel's culinary aspects. Also, we could hear someone in the next room sneezing, which suggests the sound insulation isn't up to much, but despite this, we did enjoy a very good night's sleep.The grounds are lovely, and the buildings have real character, although there was quite a bit of outdoor walking and many stairs separating the reception desk and our room. In heavy rain, that wouldn't be ideal. However, on a dry day, this is a very pleasant place to stay, and the staff we encountered were very knowledgeable and pleasant.

Having to travel to Aberdeen on the Friday we decided to cut our trip in half by staying overnight around Edinburgh, our hotel of choice was full so we decided to give the Houstoun Hotel a try.This is a very pleasant hotel, great atmoshpere and the food at both dinner and breakfast was very good, the room we had was clean and well kept and was in an annex to the main hotel. We used the spa on the afternoon of our arrival and it was clean however the pool was a little cold for a spa pool but not too bad.The down side to our visit was some people from a wedding party, after dinner we decided to have a drink in the hotel bar, the bar had a number of men stood around it and I asked politely if I could get past them to get served to which I was told to **** ***, not wanting to cause any situation I moved from the bar and reported this incident to the hotel recieption, it was as if I was speaking polish, all I got was blank faces from the people behind the hotel reception desk, not wanting anymore hassle we returned to our room for the evening.The hotel is cannot be blamed for the clientel they attract but should have done something about it.Doubt if we will return

on arrival we were greeted by a nice receptionist, who checked us in quickly and explained where everything in the hotel was, the room was lovely and spacious with a big four poster bed,and very quite, it was just what we needed for our 3 night stay, as we didn't know the area we asked the receptionist about things in the area to do, she was very informed and told us about local restaurants, shopping centres and the like,as people have said the grounds are good, and nice to have a walk around, the breakfast is very good, with lots of selections, you wont go hungry, after reading a few bad reviews about the food on here, we were a little apprehensive about eating there, but we had dinner in the jeremy wares restaurant, and all i can say is wow, i had the steak and it was great, the misses had the chicken and she is a really fussy eater but she loved it, our little boy had the mac and cheese and he ate it all, now the best bit for me was the dessert as im a dessert kind of guy,now i have had some nice things in my mouth, but i ordered the drambuie trifle,and it was out of this world, it was the best thing i have ever eaten,if i lived closer i would be there every week for it, the serving staff were very good, even giving me lots of time with the wine list, i know im fussy, lol, about three quarters through the meal jeremy wares came around to our table and asked if we were enjoying the meal and had a chat and he did that with every table in the restaurant, now for someone with his condition that cant be very easy and i doff my hat to him for doing it, now i read that people are saying that it is to expensive, i think if you eat steak pay steak prices, just dont expect to eat steak and pay spam prices,we had a little problem one night when our little boy somehow change the code on the safe in the room so we couldn't get in it as he forgot the numbers he pushed, i reported it to the staff who got on it right away and sent someone down to open it up again, now for somethings that arn't so good with the hotel, bar prices, expensive, but so are every hotels, kids activities, there is only the pool nothing else, we stated in a puma hotel at the end of 2012 for 4 nights and that had 2 big kids rooms, one for young kids with a soft play area and one for older kids with a few table tennis tables fusball table 3 or 4 playstations pool tables and a few other things, that was great for the kids, but this hotel doesn't have anything,i hope they take note, and on another thing, its just a pet hate of mine,PHONES AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE, i wish every hotel would ban then, would we go back? yes, we enjoyed our stay, it was nice and relaxing before the schools went back.