Loch Ness Gate House

Very well situated . A nice place to stay

DO NOT STAY HERE!! Location and surrounding amenities are fabulous! The food in the Lock Inn was superb. No communication around who and where we had to be to check in. Managed to find a random cafe worker who was cleaning and he told us the code to the room key and where we could park. He was helpful to be fair to him. We then spent a lovely evening having a few drinks and enjoying an evening cruise of Loch Ness which was FAB. The rooms are basically a conversion of the shop loft space so not much head room. No hotel contact info or local emergency needs etc. there is no fire escape info of any kind in the rooms, it’s all very dodgy tbh. With no one to speak to about things and it was late so we tried to get some sleep except at 1am the fire alarm control panel kept us up all night with a high pitch beeping every 5 seconds!!!! As there was a fault with the alarm. Various other guests kept trying to silence his alarm which set the full fire alarms off on at least two occasions. My wife went to sleep on the car for a bit due to the torture of the beeping. Again, still no one to contact about this at all. We left the room as soon as the sun was up at 6am.

If sleep/comfort isn’t important…. The bed was very hard on our backs, so we did not sleep well. The slanted roof made it difficult to walk around the room without hitting one’s shoulder or head. The room was tiny.

The room was well presented, although the tv in the front rooms was in an odd spot. I had an issue with my room with the window which I had to open and it wouldn’t close, and an awful smell in the room coming from the bathroom. I sent a message to the owner, he and his wife turned up within the hour and sorted the window and the smell. This was great service and I really appreciated it.