Reading through the reviews on afternoon tea we must have gone on a bad day. A Sunday afternoon treat with my Mum and Sister was not quite the experience I would have expected from Gleneagles and at £59 per head with a 12.5% (non optional) service charge added on we feel slightly aggrieved.... The service was slow, the staff, whilst pleasant were certainly not 5* hotel standards and on the scuffy side. The amuse bouche was the first serving - which was luke warm soup served in a tiny cup.... it was tasty so we said nothing....Our savoury platters were delivered next, twice we had to ask for our tea. We were half way through our delicious, burnt on bottom 1 inch piece of sausage roll, shriveled lettuce leave and 3 dried up fingers of sandwich by the time the first pots of tea arrived. Most expensive sandwiches on the planet when you think it would have taked 6 slices of bread to make for the 3 of us! The cakes platter looked slightly more appetising, although the slice of lemon drizzle and the green coloured sponge had possibly spent a weekend in the sahara on route to Gleneagles. Our second pots of tea were again delivered as we were munching through our cakes - the order was mixed up with mum getting wrong tea - this was changed although the tea cup wasn't..... The bill arrived promptly to enable us to make way for the 3.30 sitting.... It was definitely an experience and we did enjoy our time together, however, when you work hard and pay for something you hope is going to be special it is very disappointing when you leave feeing extremely ripped off....
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