皇家飯店

Stayed one night, arriving Wednesday 3 July 2024. Second time we've stayed here. We had a four poster room overlooking Melville Square -- in fact same room we'd had on first visit. Very comfortable bed. Big bathroom with lashings of hot water. Two very minor quibbles. Only a continental breakfast available on this visit, as opposed to cooked that was available in March. Secondly, we noted that a wee bit more attention was needed by cleaning staff as we found a fair amount of dust in some parts of room -- headboard, light fittings, for example. However, still happy to give a 5, and would be happy to stay again.

Dined in the pub. £17.50 for one piece of fish and a skimpy portion of *possible* supermarket fries. Rip off. A few months ago you got two pieces of fish, a large portion of REAL chips, and peas. Quality has drastically gone down hill, yet prices haven’t changed one bit. Fish was great, but very sad to see another business trying to squeeze every last penny out of you. Won’t be coming back until prices reflect the quality of food. I strongly recommend dining elsewhere, there are plenty of options in Comrie. Your £ will go MUCH further. Such a shame to see a once quality pub, go down the route of jacking up prices and reducing quality.

Went to the bar for a 'bar supper'. Normally we'd have a couple of mains and a large glass of house red each. This time we added a sweet. Bill came to over £80. Just too much for what is essentially a nice bar supper. Alas it's going to impact on us going again, a specially as we are regular visitors to comrie. We'll go to the Deils Caldron just up the road the cost us similar but the food experience much better as it's a 'proper' restaurant. Sorry Royal but your quality price ratio is very uncompetitive considering the competition.

Booked for dinner with my wife and my friend, stood at the bar like 3 spares for ages until eventually served, once we got seated all looked fine with nice table setting and seating, we had to wait a while to get served but the food came out quickly. My fish was just amazing however the chips where dripping in oil and my wife’s steak pie was just dreadful, totally tasteless, to be honest it even looked tasteless, the cheeseboard was just great and my chum had the crème brûlée and he thought this was heaven. So it’s a mixed review, the Royal is just lovely but the food is definitely hit and miss, a hotel like this should have kick ass fish and chips and steak pie to die for but this was a very kind 5/10. So much so that we did not stay for drinks or coffees so the poor performance cost them probably £50 in drinks.

We booked a table online to dine in the Garden Room and received two emails confirming the reservation. However, when we checked in at reception we were told that we had booked a table in the gazebo in the garden. This was untrue and in fact there is no option to do this online. The receptionist was abrupt and unpleasant stating that no tables were available inside so our choice was to either sit outside in the rain or leave- we chose the later and will not be returning.

We’ve been coming to the Royal for 35 years and we’ve just enjoyed one of the best meals here! The seabass and also the chicken curry were both great, and so we tried the ‘Royal Mess’ dessert which was equally good. Great to see the Royal getting back to its best