The Strontian Hotel

The staff provides exceptional service, while guests enjoy comfortable, clean rooms with fantastic views. The location offers stunning landscapes. The breakfast is praised for its variety and quality.

The front of house couldn’t have been more helpful or friendly. The room was very clean and comfortable. However, when I am on holiday I don’t like to be told exactly when I am to have breakfast. 8.15 is not a relaxing start to the day. Perhaps 8.45 or 9.00. I would have liked to have plain yoghurt, not over sweetened fruit flavoured yoghurts. The breakfast, apart from the egg, had been prepared in advance. The bread was supermarket white and the brown ran out. There was a croissant in a plastic packet. Though there were fresh strawberries and blueberries - much appreciated. The Bothy, despite being right on the sea, didn’t have any lovely fresh local seafood, which I had hoped for. The helpings were enormous. I did go out to a very good restaurant for my second night.

The Strontian hotel is in a lovely position overlooking Loch Sunart and just a short walk to the village centre. There is plenty of parking and check-in was welcoming. Our room (no 6) has views of the loch and is a good size, nicely decorated, and comfortable. The en-suite is also roomy and comes equipped with toiletries and nice big towels. There is a cosy and comfortable residents’ lounge downstairs and an attached bar and restaurant called the Bothy. I’m not normally a fan of hotel bars but as expected, this one is like a local pub. I based this expectation on my upbringing in rural Lanarkshire and working in a remote, Country House Hotel, where I found out that in areas with limited facilities, any bar will be treated as a local. Bar meals are served in a pleasant conservatory style room and we enjoyed some excellent fish and chips for supper. Breakfast is served in the main hotel dining room and from the usual array of cold starters we enjoyed juice, fresh fruits and yogurt. Our choice of cooked breakfast included “square” sausage (aka Lorne sausage), which was a bit of a treat as for some strange reason, although Lorne sausage is an iconic Scottish food, most hotels and B&Bs don’t serve it. We also enjoyed tattie scone, haggis, black pudding and thick-cut bacon with eggs, mushrooms and tomato. The word “substantial” is clearly most apt here and it certainly set us up for the day. The Ardnamurchan peninsula along with neighbouring Morvern and Argour is off the main tourist track and has a lovely, almost remote feel,to it. It’s a great area to explore and the Strontian Hotel makes an ideal base. Julie is a perfect host and it will certainly be our hotel of choice on future visits.