Shieldaig Lodge
Field-sports fans and whisky aficionados beat a path to this Victorian hunting lodge, in a ‘glorious location’ on a vast wooded estate by Loch Gairloch. More
Good Hotel Guide Review
Field-sports fans and whisky aficionados beat a path to this Victorian hunting lodge, in a ‘glorious location’ on a vast wooded estate by Loch Gairloch. Readers returning after a 38-year absence found much had changed – ‘for the better’, though they regretted that the fires were not lit. Refurbishment has been ‘expensively carried out, in a rather austere, masculine style’, with deep leather sofas and modern tartan and tweed furnishings. The lodge is a sister to the very different but similarly characterful Widbrook Grange, Bradford-on-Avon (see entry). Other readers praised the ‘friendly staff’, the ‘tasteful decoration’ and the ‘first-class comfort’. Some bedrooms have a loch view; a suite has a bay window, a hand-carved four-poster, a roll-top bath on a plinth. Jerome Prodanu’s three-course, three-choice menus use estate and home-grown produce to create ‘delicious food’ such as pan-seared pheasant breast with fondant potato and celeriac. Guests shelling out for a shellfish gastro experience board a creel boat for a tour of the bay, returning with the day’s catch to be served up as a feast. (Pauline and David Waterhouse, BW)
Hotel details
Address
Badachro
Gairloch
Highland
IV21 2AN
Scotland
Telephone
01445 741333
Bedrooms
12.
Open
all year.
Facilities
lounge, library, bar, restaurant, snooker/private dining room, in-room TV (Freeview), wedding facilities, garden, 26,000-acre estate (fishing, red deer stalking, falconry centre, motor boat for charter), public areas wheelchair accessible.
Background music
in lounge, bar and restaurant.
Children
all ages welcomed, family room.
Dogs
allowed in 2 bedrooms (£20 a night) and bar only.
Credit cards
Amex, MC, Visa.
Prices
B&B doubles from £159, singles from £126, family from £190. Set-price menu £49, 5-course tasting menu, on request, £69.
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