Shieldaig Lodge

Gairloch, Highland

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.