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5 out of 5
Kildrummy Inn
Kildrummy, Alford, Scotland

Reviews

9.6

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 65 out of 82 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 14 out of 82 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 2 out of 82 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 82 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 82 reviews" "

9.8/10

Cleanliness

9.6/10

Staff & service

9.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

10/10

Eco-friendliness

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10/10 Excellent

Charles

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Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

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Nice hotel
Nice friendly hotel, good food, comfortable room. Would have liked an earlier check in than 6.0 pm will stop again if in area.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Karen

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Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

David, Northumberland

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Unique country inn in Aberdeenshire hills
A most comfortable and hospitable unique country inn - there are very few now left in the area-with excellent food, staff and service representing good value for money. The inn has received many deserved accolades for its cuisine and service. There are also 4 miles of trout and salmon fishing on the Upper Don making an ideal fishing break.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Very nice place staff very nice couldn’t fault the place evening and breakfast menu excellent very comfortable place to stay
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

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Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Sheila

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Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Ann

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Excellent place to stay and eat.
This was an amazing place to stay out away from any real close towns. The food was excellent- not cheap but well worth the cost! The service was outstanding! I can not say enough good things!
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

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Great food
Amazing restaurant. Fantastic breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Excellent
Excellent welcoming host. Fantastic breakfast Rural tranquility Very clean
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018

10/10 Excellent

Eamonn

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very good food and friendly service
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

kc, Surrey

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Lovely rural Inn
Fabulous place to stay with superb food and great hosts.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

10/10 Excellent

Kathleen

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Disliked: Room comfort
Great hospitality,excellent food, very clean Inn
The hospitality of the owners was excellent, very friendly and welcoming and exceptionally helpful. We had booked an evening meal and was truly not disappointed as the food was good excellent, having already experienced Michelin star restaurants I would have to say that the food was very much in the same league. I was cycling very early in the morning for the Etape Royale and would have missed breakfast but they kindly left me cereal. My husband dropped me off and returned for his breakfast which he said was out of this world and complimented the chef several times. If I had to pick out one downside to the stay it would have to be the bed, it was not comfortable at all. I hardly slept and my back was aching in the morning my husband also felt the same, a new mattress would benefit this room immensely. Overall excellent hospitality and food.

10/10 Excellent

James

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Excellent restaurant with rooms in rural setting
Extremely warm, welcoming and comfortable. Restaurant meals, both dinner and breakfast were excellent.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

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8/10 Good

Mature couple , H

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Very pleasant Inn
Very comfortable but quite small Room was not very big but well looked after and spotless Dinner was excellent. Staff were helpful and very pleasant

10/10 Excellent

we enjoy good f

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To celebrate our engagement
I wanted to take my partner Laura to a nice hotel outside of Aberdeen with nice food and a quiet place to relax. One of my work colleagues had been to this lovely inn many times and recommended it to me and said the food was lovely . I booked a room and a table for the Saturday and Laura was delighted with the room and the food was fantastic as was the staff we will be going back again later this year . I would recommend this inn to everyone. Regards

10/10 Excellent

David

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10/10 Excellent

Richard H, Texas

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Lovely Inn
Loved the Kildrummy Inn. So welcoming after a long drive to be greeted and made to feel comfortable. The dinner was delicious as well as our breakfast the next morning. We will stay there again.

10/10 Excellent

Eleanor, R , Alford

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Beautiful quiet friendly hotel
Meal was truly out of this world ,Amazing!!Service & staff are friendly , room was well worth the money ,very clean . Definatly recommend this hotel A++++++++

10/10 Excellent

W Needham, Durham, NC

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A really great inn!
There might not be enough superlatives to say about the Killdrummy Inn. This has been an inn since the sometime in the 1850’s or so. It is now a joint venture of brother in laws David and Nigel and their spouses and they have thought of everything. The staff makes you feel at home. The bar is cozy and makes cares just slip away. The rooms have been completely remodeled are tip top. When you stay, make sure that you take at least one evening meal in one of the best restaurants in Scotland. Breakfast is great also. There is a reason the David is one of the top chefs in the UK. When you are here you are in a wee bit of history, so enjoy!

10/10 Excellent

Margaret, East Lothian

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Excellent value for money.
We chanced upon the Kildrummy Inn on our motoring trip and were extremely happy with all aspects of the hotel. Sadly, though, we happened to arrive on a Tuesday which is the day the kitchen and bar are closed, so we were disappointed not to have the chance to sample the evening meal. If it was of the high standard of the breakfast, we missed a treat!.

8/10 Good

Glen, Orlando FL

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Great time, would go back!

10/10 Excellent

J, New York

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Lovely traditional Scottish Inn
Lovely traditional Scottish Inn, lots of character. Very friendly attentive staff, very good service. We didn't have an evening meal in the Kildrummy Inn but the breakfast was excellent and the restaurant has a great reputation locally.

10/10 Excellent

Rainer, Hong Kong

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will come again
Very friendly crew, the food is very good and highly recomended

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Comfortable small hotel with great food
Food couldn't be improved, delicious, dinner and breakfast. Comfortable room, good shower

10/10 Excellent

suestar, melbourne australia

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Friendly luxury
Enjoyed our stay at friendly kildrummy inn. Breakfast was gourmet. Would love to return

10/10 Excellent

Bill, Boston

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Very comfortable small inn in lovely countryside
Very friendly staff. Comfortable room and bath. Outstanding meals - breakfast and dinner.

10/10 Excellent

joanne, edinburgh

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Great hotel in beautiful location
Very comfortable hotel with excellent restaurant. Friendly and helpful proprietors and great location close to the Grampians.

10/10 Excellent

george, b

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nice quiet hotel
The room was very clean and fresh and the staff were friendly

10/10 Excellent

Tim & Carol, Orkney

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Country hotel with fishing
We chose the hotel because of the availability and access to fishing on the river Don. The owners and staff were very friendly and welcoming from the outset. The hotel is located in lovely countryside and looked welcoming even in pretty poor weather when we arrived. Our room was comfortable, spotlessly clean and well appointed. The outstanding feature of our stay was the food. The menu was limited to three choices of each course, (varied daily) and everything that we tried was cooked to perfection. The breakfast was more than adequate to keep us going until we returned in the evening ready for dinner. Fishing on the hotel's water was excellent - the best river fishing that I have every experienced, despite some questionable weather during the week. There was lots of space for the 4 rods available each day and David was very knowledgeable about conditions and what flies/techniques etc to try each day. We will definitely be back.

8/10 Good

ricky, hertfordshire

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Lovely Hotel with Service to match
Very happy with the stay and the service was attentive and not obtrusive. David the chef/part owner was fantastic, nothing was too much trouble. Room was pleasant and a little cosy as I had to leave the suitcase in the hallway outside the bathroom. Breakfast was super, lovely warm croissants and homemade marmalade,followed by full Scottish and a vegetarian option the following day. Location was great for our 2 day ski trip at Lecht, which was a 30 minute drive through beautiful countryside, crossing the River Don about 4 times which me and my son found very humorous!

10/10 Excellent

GARY, Leicester

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Hotel stay
This hotel is well worth a vist the food is top noch the breakfast was the best i had ever had my daughter said is was like being at gordon ramseys i entend to return for a week with my wife.

10/10 Excellent

Cathy, Australia

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fantastic
Absolutely delightful. The comfort of the room and friendly host was wonderful. The food was the best I tasted during my three week journey in Scotland. I would recommend this Inn to anyone wanting to experience top class food and accommodation in a lovely setting.

8/10 Good

Skybluejambo, Edinburgh

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Nice place. No food on a Tuesday!
After a long days driving my disappointment to find there was no food or drink being served on a Tuesday was frustrating to say the least. Would have been nice to have been offered some sort of of food. Had to drive 15 minutes back the way I had came to have a meal. The offering at breakfast was super and I'm.sure if I ate meat would have been brilliant. To be honest the hotel was lovely and homely on the inside but the lack of food served on a Tuesday meant if I had known, I wouldn't have booked.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Hard to find
This is a nice inn with a good chef. We found it pretty difficult to find as it's not exactly where the sites tell you.

10/10 Excellent

Ruth , Southampton

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Clean and bright
Friendly staff and lovely clean room. Excellent food. Easy to find and plenty of parking - would definitely stay here agin

10/10 Excellent

Chuckie, Aberdeen

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Can't be faulted
Very welcoming and friendly. Very comfortable bed and excellent standard of refreshments provided in room. Breakfast was superb with a great selection of fresh local produce. We will definitely recommend it to others.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Very welcoming
We were made to feel very welcome, the food was prime quality and the setting ensured a very relaxing stay.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Excellent
Evrything was just perfect

10/10 Excellent

Anne, Edinburgh

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Simply Excellent
We had had some difficulty booking a room for one night in the Aberdeen area on our way further north so Kildrummy was something of a shot in the dark. We were delighted and would go back tomorrow! Everything about this small hotel speaks of attention to detail, the highest standards combined with a friendly welcoming manner from everyone. Our bedroom was spotless, the bed was comfortable, there were comfortable armchairs as well as tea and coffee making things. The highlight was the food. We had dinner and our meal was outstanding - way beyond our wildest expectation of a country inn. The standard of cooking was superb. One of the owners looking after the bar before dinner spotted a quiet celebration and our dessert had birthday greetings written in chocolate. Superb!Its

10/10 Excellent

john, assie

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great place
good bed,food,staff

10/10 Excellent

Geoff, Cornwall

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WOW - we want to go again and again
Expected an ordinary B&B - but found a gem -- super friendly staff - nothing too much trouble. Food has to near the top of the review - we booked based on location so to find 'fine dining' was a real bonus. Breakfast was "quality" - fantastic choice for a small B&B. Book ahead for the evening meal - the restaurant is much bigger than the B&B but very popular. Portions are not huge - but every mouthful is to savour. Easy to see why the Chef has so many awards. When you get up from the table you feel completely satisfied and can drift into the lounge bar and slump into the big chairs. For a whisky drinker the bar could take a very long time. Something makes all the guests want to chat - one evening we thought it was getting near 11 - to find it was well after midnight. When we had to leave early for the airport we got a knock on the door to check we were up - and breakfast !! at 5am.

10/10 Excellent

Derek, Salt Lake City

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Great Scot!
We showed up about three hours early with our two small kids. They let us check in and took great care of us while we were there... Great location, the castle right down the street was a perfect way to spend the afternoon

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Hotel so nice that we asked to stay an additional night but it was already booked full.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

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restaurant with rooms!
Arrived to find restaurant and bar closed on Tuesday!! Room just big enough to swing a cat in - shame I didn't have a cat as it could have just chased the birds away that were lodging outside the window in the 2 nests against the windows! Great night sleep with birds tweeting , not! No chance of a return visit

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Great food and service
Our room at the Kildrummy Inn was small but very clean & comfortable, the situation was perfect for castle/garden visiting in Aberdeenshire and both breakfast and dinner were excellent. The owners were very welcoming and all awards are well-deserved.

10/10 Excellent

V & D, Edinburgh

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Great food and service
Kildrummy Inn is a real find - very friendly welcoming owners, small but very clean & comfortable room, perfect location for visiting castles and gardens in Aberdeenshire and excellent food both breakfast and dinner. Definitely worthy of it's awards.

10/10 Excellent

LW, USA

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This is a small roadside inn with a great chef and the "newest" feeling room we had during our 32 days in Scotland and also the smallest. Great bed and linens! It is located on a narrow country road not close to anything at all except sheep, which is very relaxing if you don't try walking on that road! It is a perfect stop on the way to or from Balmoral and castles in the area, but inconvenient as a base to come back to for a second night. Plan to eat dinner there and make that reservation with the room as the restaurant was surprisingly crowded with locals. Breakfast was wonderful with homemade everything including the jam!

10/10 Excellent

Travelhappy64, Edinburgh

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Fantastic Area.......beautiful.
The lounge area is inviting, the choice of malts amazing. Unable to eat at the hotel on Tuesday, but fully intend to return with friends at a later date. Chef relaxed and happy to chat, overall a welcoming atmosphere, however it was all too short. I suspect that within a few years this may become a hotel/restaurant to visit...on the up!