The Winnock Hotel

We travelled through Storm Eowyn for Burns Weekend and only arrived at 7.30pm on a Friday evening delayed due to many road closures, so it was straight into evening dinner. Due to the storm on our first evening we had short power cuts and the water was off, luckily the Winnock has its own backup generator. On the Saturday after the storm The Winnock lived up to expectations and was as good as our previous visit. Our room was a family suite with a double and single bed, nicely decorated with good furnishings it had an En-suite bathroom with both bath and shower. Beware of the heated towel rail! Ours was very very hot. The bed was large and comfortable. The great thing about this hotel is the excellent quality and presentation of the food. Because they had over 100 guests staying and staff shortages the service in the restaurant was slow at times. We were on an all inclusive board so there was plenty wine served with dinner and drinks in the bar later. The entertainment was again Scottish themed with Music and Scottish Dancing and on the second night some Scottish history and demonstration of 17th century weapons. On Burns night prior to the entertainment we had the ceremony of Addressing the Haggis with the famous Robbie Burns poem enacted, The hotel is lovely and cosy on cold winters nights. What was a little disappointing is that they didn’t have the log fire burning on this visit. The hotel hospitality was very good considering the storm on day of arrival. On our day trips the hotel kindly provided us with packed lunches consisting of 2 Sandwiches, Crisps, a Cereal Bar and Cartoned Drink a lovely touch. One problem we had on our last night was the fire alarm going off at about 5.30am, after about 30 seconds it stopped. This happened a further 3 or 4 times, you don’t know if these are real emergencies or just false alarms. We are already considering the Winnock for Twixmas this year. On departure we were all presented with a Hot Toddy, a nice finishing touch. We would recommend the Winnock if you want something traditionally Scottish that is warm and welcoming,

After staying in the Buchanan Arms in January, we decided after a fab overnight staff we would go back . Unfortunately it was fully booked . So we decided to book The Winnock Hotel. After reading reviews I was a little skeptical . However I thought ok it's only one night ! What a surprise, staff at reception on arrival were lovely, we were directed to room 10 . The room was spotless modern and definitely no foisty smell we dumped bags and went to meet friends in bar had food which was lovely . In morning we had breakfast again it was lovely. Can't fault anything in this hotel , will definitely be back.

We were a party of 8 attending one of the hotels ****** mystery weekend. We had a great weekend, rooms are comfortable, food was great and service excellent. We enjoyed a lovely local walk as well as a boat trip, (It only takes a short car journey to Balloch for this). Would have no hesitation in returning to this lovely hotel!

Just been on a Burn's night special with David Ogden's coaches. The place was clean, the staff were brilliant and the entertainment on "Burn's night" was fantastic. The breakfast was OK but the evening meals were excellent. Our room was a bit cold ,so l rang reception and an additional heater was provided within five minutes. We will definitely be back.

the room was outdated the foosty smell and coldness this is where we ended up after leaving the buchanan arms hotel as this was also very dirty when calling down to reception as there was a fight which broke out in the next room there was no answer only good thing about this hotel was the evening meal breakfast was cold