Kinloch Lodge Hotel and Restaurant

The restaurant food was of a poor standard, and not worth the money. Our room was dated and would benefit from a makeover. Very disappointing and overpriced. We would not recommend the Kinloch Lodge to others.

My wife and I had a great stay at the Kinloch lodge. Beautiful views, the friendliest of staff, and delicious professionally prepared meals were just some of the highlights. Everyone made sure our stay was as comfortable and relaxing as possible. This was our first stop in Scotland and it definitely didn’t disappoint. We would return in a heartbeat.

Outstanding, and worth every special penny. We stupidly assumed you could not eat if not a resident - how wrong we were. The most spectacular and delicious lunch. Such a great warm welcome, and all homely and cosy on a March day. Would go back there in an instant, and stay if one could - highly recommend it all round.

Really disappointed. Staff were lovely, but otherwise didn’t like the overpriced rooms - ours had dirty cushion covers. There were static caravans next to the hotel - presumably for the staff. The staff cleaning made us late for our day trip by half an hour as they were cleaning our room and told us we had to wait! - not an issue normally but this was around 9am when we’d gone to breakfast. The food was ok but not great. One day food was terrible and none of my family ate much at all! The paintings are printed copies and the fakeness just reverberated throughout our stay! There were signed letters from Isabella all in different handwriting. Don’t pay attention to the instagrammers making money from their reviews. Skye is lovely. This place not so much!

Kinloch Lodge (like on previous visits) provided our best dining experience on Skye. Beautiful dining room (if you don't mind a few eerie paintings) and very professional and friendly (but unobtrusive) service. All dishes were excellent (the risotto starter was simply stunning, the monkfish was expertly cooked (we were hesitant as it is so hard to get just right). Not cheap but worth it.

We were disappointed with our stay particularly as my husband had been 7 years ago. As other reviewers have said you have access to lovely drawing rooms in both buildings and the bar is very cosy. The views from the property are spectacular. Lunch when we arrived was delicious. However, our suite in the south lodge was dated and worn. Dinner was very disappointing given the reviews we had read and breakfast was also disappointing. You don't go somewhere like Kinloch Lodge to feel you could have made a better meal yourself. Such a shame - perhaps the normal chef wasn't working over the Easter holidays. We had many lovely meals in our trip around Scotland so there is a lot more competition now for lovely locations with delicious food.