The Royal Hotel

Close too all amenities

Warm welcome and great support for my new puppy while staying there, great value and will return

Friendly welcome by staff

Warm welcome and excellent staff

Reviews of this hotel are binary - people either seem to love or really dislike it. I stayed based on the excellent price. I was "upgraded" from a single to a twin room, quite possibly because the single room was one floor above a Christmas party and the twin was on the fifth floor. The room appeared to have been redecorated quite recently though the furniture seemed to date from the 1990s. Yes, some of the carpets on the stairs are worn. Yes, the floorboards are creaky and uneven (the building is centuries old!). Yes, there are bumps, scrapes and chips on the walls and doors. But - the bed linen was fresh and clean, the mattress comfortable, the shower powerful and hot, and the WiFi fast. What more do you want for the money? Oban has more than its share of "faded charm" Victorian hotels; I'd happily stay here again

Good quality food and great staff.

Overnight stay most helpful sorted TV as to modering for me as I am Dilxie

Findings as anove

This was night four of my Inner Hebrides holiday on the MV Hebridean Princess. Night 4 on a long very long journey from the south coast. The hotel is imposing, central, very convenient for the railway station, the ferry port and the town centre. It is a "grand" hotel in the tradition of Victorian grand hotels. The staff are friendly, helpful & knowledgeable and gave me the advice I needed. Not withstanding I'd booked in March, I was up on 5th floor in a room which was fine for one night but might have become a little claustrophobic after a few days. But it had everything I required, the bed was comfortable, the bathroom clean ( if lethally slippery with its glazed ceramic tile floor) It had a desk, a window which opened, WiFi and a TV. The furniture does look like it was purchased in a 1950s auction, but it works. Given the slightly "tired" appearance of the hotel I fully expected to find a Gideon's Bible in the bedside drawer. Supper was a mistake, it was all a bit burghers or spag.bol. or scampie/lasagne/ mac.cheese & chips and the choice of beers was limited to cold lager, cold Guinness or chilled John Smiths, probably the world's worst bitter. In the morning I took one look at what was on offer for breakfast and stuck to toast, marmalade & tea. It's clearly a very popular, friendly & successful hotel which merits a solid FOUR. It just needs a more imaginative menu, a good range of Scottish real ales, a bit of a brush up and thicker walls between rooms.

Our stay was most enjoyable, the staff were very helpful. Our room was spacious and clean but would have benefitted a second chair.

You advertise a pool table...the actual thing that you have should be thrown in a skip,it was one of the reasons for choosing your hotel, table was a huge let down

Right in central Oban convenient to bus depot an ferry. Lots of restaurants

Really comfortable room soft pillows and so clean staff absolutely amazing very good breakfast,no complaints also entertainment in the evening.would definitely recommend great value for the price .

This is one of the worst hotels we have ever stayed in , the hotel was run down and in a terrible state . Vastly overpriced. The soup was great and the staff were excellent but I won’t be back

Clean, bed OK, decent breakfast

Single room very small , breakfast average at best

Pleasant hotel, ideally located , a stones throw from the harbour and all amenities, easy walking distance to the same. Car parking was available ,just managed to squeeze in next to the 4x4's!! Room was good ,bathroom was excellent , breakfast was very good , so all in all no complaints.

The whole hotel desperately needs a full refurb. Its old , stale and really does need attention

Really comfy beds, fab breakfast, but couldn't get the shower to work, no instructions so couldn't figure out how to start it.

Property is old, but well maintained.