Isle of Eriska Hotel, Spa and Island, an SLH Hotel

Beautiful location and grounds, walk around the island well worth it, take your time and enjoy the great views, saw red squirrels and deer. Looked out for otters but no joy. Make sure you walk to the highest point for the views. Best use wellies(available at hotel) or walking boots.|Our room was spacious, peaceful and with a comfy big bed, B&O music streamer a nice touch. Antique wardrobe and drawers a bit knackered but part of the character I suppose. Lovely open fire and very comfortable lounge and bar areas.|Foodwise main restaurant closed for kitchen refurb, so we ate at the Deck. Great views at breakfast time. Breakfast was good but not 5 star. Tea good, coffee average. Granola needs improvement totally lacking imagination. If the chef needs some ideas take a trip to the Black Bull in Sedbergh and see what a quality breakfast is! We had dinner twice, the first meal was good 4 out of 5, the second meal was truly excellent 5 out of 5. |We had a nice relaxing swim and Jacuzzi in the Spa.|Service provided by all staff was excellent.|This is not a cheap hotel, think part of the cost is the premium for the peaceful island location, excellent service and the wonderful House. All in all we had a lovely stay hence the 5 out of 5 overall.

Fabulous location, room was beautiful. Staff were amazing and very attentive. We had our two year old with us and they were all very accommodating and kind with her. ||I'd highly recommend the hot stone massage, Nicola was fabulous. Best massage I've ever experienced. |||We were lucky enough to see the otter, wild deer and a sea eagle!

My wife and I had a long weekend, staying in one of the Hilltop Reserves. We booked bed, breakfast and evening meal package. |The accommodation was great, spacious and clean. |We had a dog with us and the accommodation was ideal. |The build was a couple of minutes walk from the main building path was steep in places and a bit muddy so could be improved on. |Food and service in the main building was excellent as was the presentation of the food. |We used the spa each day it has a small but well equipped gym|And a lovely pool. My wife had a hot stone massage which she said was great. |The island has lovely walks and lovely views

We had a short one night stay and loved it. Highly recommend it. The property and grounds are gorgeous. The suite and the hot tub were superb. Service is warm, prompt and food is great. The ambience was so inviting and warm - highly recommend the experience. We had an issue with our fireplace and really appreciate how it was dealt with by the GM.

The hotel and its grounds are beautiful. The staff were very friendly. We enjoyed a wonderful and delicious afternoon tea by the roaring fireplace in the lobby. I would definitely recommend this place. One thing to note: The roads leading to the hotel are narrow and single track, so that can be challenging especially in the dark.

Regarding the food, not greatest for vegans. The presentation is flawless yes but taste wise not the greatest. They also seem to not understand dietary requirements. We were given gluten free bread but not gluten free. Breakfast also nothing at all on the menu. Please tell the chef to thoroughly wash the spinach, grit was present. The staff were nice to leave me chocolates in my room for my birthday. However, I mentioned I can not eat dairy and therefore asked to please change, the biscuit also, but nothing was done about it. Our dinner bill was charged to our room so we didn't even get a receipt from dinner. Somehow, 50 pounds was added, and we didn't even know why, our fault for not checking. Considering we paid over 500 pounds for 1 night, you would expect better.

Loved our two nights here - the food was outstanding, the room was gorgeous, service was friendly but not overly attentive and the pool and spa treatments were the icing on the cake. And all in the most peaceful island setting with lovely views. Highly recommend.

As most reviews say this is a beautiful place ! Buildings , the rooms and the island absolutely beautiful… But! Food was a little disappointing. We had booked afternoon tea which was put on the table and our backsides were hardly sat down! It consisted of the most basic of sandwiches 4 scones and some cut up cakes which I’m sure we got served for dessert that night and at £40 a head you can’t do that! No French pastries no sausage rolls!!! Very basic ! Oh and one cup of cold coffee no pot in sight. That night had to have our fine dining dinner in the deck restaurant because of some work being done in the main restaurant but there was no mention of this when booking. So a bit disappointed with that. Need to let people know about these things. We had our 3 course fine dining dinner in under an hour and it was just ok and expensive…don’t know what the hurry was🤷🏻‍♀️ then at breakfast we waited ages for our food it was quite a nice breakfast though.|If the restaurant and food side was just a bit more polished and tweaked it could be fabulous and it would justify the prices and 5 stars for me but sadly it wasn’t…

The Isle of Eriska Hotel has been named Scotland's "most romantic spa break". This is a beautiful and remote hotel - you get to stay in an old manor home - the grounds are gorgeous and the customer service is very attentive. This is definitely a recommend

Heartbroken. *lengthy review, as per email request to put grievances in order for "eligible" refund* I will update the hotel response when the correct person of authority finds it within this time frame to speak to me directly. We were here for maybe two hours tops then left. We came here for our honeymoon, we've been planning this trip since December. They are SO expensive, and being as my husband and I both are hotel bartenders in Dallas, our standards are high. It's absolutely nothing like the pictures provided, we feel like we were completely catfished, it's falsely advertised. We traveled for 2 days to be here, they charged 40 & 50 pounds for grocery store wine that costs 7 and 13 pounds. The building is old, things are falling apart and the repairs at the hot tub were slapped together with a caulk gun. There are "fire exits" which are other hallways throughout the hotel that are filled with miscellaneous trash and food aprons, I accidentally caught some employees sitting down on the stairs on their phones, these staircases looked like they hadn't been cleaned in years. The sauna and steam room were out of order, which is half of the spa amenities advertised on the website. When we returned to our room there was already a man inside our room trying to "change our bedding" why? We had just put our bags down! We packed up, and went back downstairs. This mysterious Gm had already left and I spoke to the receptionist employee who offered an upgraded room and a complimentary bottle of champagne which I can only imagine costs 10 pounds at the store plus a headache) but as I had explained this is not what we signed up for and we left. Someone called us to apologize and I asked for a refund and he said I will do that for you, I'll call you tomorrow I said thank you and checked into a different (better) hotel "No.17" which I'll address later. But upon the next day not only did I not get this phone call but I get a message through Expedia which he was arguing with me, from what an I had complained about to the receptionist, so we were playing 3rd party telephone, unwilling to speak to me directly. Whilst I was expressing my decision to leave the hotel based off of the amount of money it had cost versus the realistic advertised to an employee, I get an email within seconds stating that they would charge me fully due to "customer quality assurance" and that we left due to personal reasons. Part 2- I get a reply email through Expedia right after we hang up that says we've decided to charge you anyways, (I had paid 500, and they charged me another 700, right after they got my complaint to make sure they got their money) I called the receptionist again who claimed to be unaware of these emails, and told me to come in tomorrow (4.15.24) and to talk to the Gm at 11am which this person is supposed to be present, and again I got a written email from this Gm through Expedia, which said in summary, don't do that, put it in writing. Which is absolutely what I'm doing, on my honeymoon, instead of enjoying it. Will update review upon response Update* 4.26 They stopped answering my phone calls but answered when I called from my husband's phone. They are unwilling to get into contact with me and so I am disputing the charges through my bank.

Prior to the 5 tier lockdown restrictions coming into place in Scotland, we managed to escape and enjoy a 2-night getaway to Glencoe, which is approximately 30 miles north of the hotel. As soon as we drove through the island gates, we could tell we were arriving somewhere special, and although we knew the hotel was situated on its own island, we didn't actually think about the small bridge we would have to drive over to get there (this did terrify us a little!). Thankfully, we made it in time for our 6pm reservation which meant we could enjoy some welcome drinks along with some canapes on the front lawn in the sunshine, before being seated for our meal at 6.30pm. The menu itself is a 3 course set menu with 4 options to choose from for each course. We each decided to get something different so that we could taste and judge each other's food choices. However, one dish that really caught our attention was the Lobster special. Neither of us had ever tried lobster before (and where better to try than at a Michelin Starred restaurant?) but neither of us wanted to give up our starter choice either... After much deliberation, our waitress came to the rescue and suggested we upgraded our meal and add this dish as its own course to share! It was devine! All of the dishes were plated beautifully and tasted absolutely stunning - one of our favourites was the Apple Tart Tatin (apparently also a huge hit with the hotel residents - it never gets removed off the menu!). If you're visiting this corner of the world - it's certainly worth the travel for such a treat! For our full review, please visit our blog https://www.sandlblog.com/post/staycation-isle-of-eriska

Don't waste your money or time coming to this place. For one, if the "Michelin" star hotel is "booked up" you're stuck with THE ONLY one other option which is a disgrace of a restaurant. What is even more disgraceful is that the concierge assured us that it is the "same team" of chefs cooking at both. If that's the case, that Michelin star needs to be promptly removed. I won't bore you with the details about moldy cottages (see images) or the horrible food. If I were to sum it all up, this place is run by people who do not have any passion for the hospitality business or some foreign investor who thinks he/she knows better than the local managers are telling them. Either way, this was the worst place we stayed in during our stay in Scotland. It was also the most expensive and the most difficult to get to.

We stayed at the Isle of Eriska hotel on September 4th-6th. My wife and I were taking a tour of Scotland with our son on the way to drop him off for college at St. Andrews. Although the accommodations were very nice we were very disappointed with our dinner. We ordered the tasting menu for the 3 of us. We did not find any of the courses very good. The cod was bland and we had better langoustine in pubs. The service was the worst part. We sometimes had to wait approximately 1/2 hour between courses to be waited on and during a 9 course meal this was quite irritating. It seemed the waitstaff had no clue about what they were doing. Sometimes they would stand 5 feet from our table and were obviously discussing whether the should come over and sometimes they just disappeared for 1/2 hour at a time. We just gave up and walked our before our final course. We had just had a 9 course tasting menu at Kinloch Lodge on Skye two days before and it was the opposite experience...great food and great service. The bar at Eriska for pre-dinner cocktails was no better. It seemed that other tables were given light appetizers with their cocktails and we received nothing. When we checked out we were asked about our experience was and when we told the gentleman at the desk he seemed shocked and told us he was sure we would her from the hotel. Almost two months later and nothing.