Duck Bay Hotel & Restaurant Reviews Summary

Category: Restaurant Alexandria

Address: Auchendennan Lodge, Argyll & Bute, Auchendennan Road, Alexandria G83 8QZ, United Kingdom

Phone: +441389751234

Rating: 4.3
based on 541 reviews.

Room Quality

Pros:

  • "Our room no 26 was absolutely fantastic! Fabulous views over the Loch."
  • "We had a room with a balcony with Loch Lomond right outside our window."
  • "Room was fantastic spotlessly clean."
  • "The room is also very spacious and was spotless!!"
  • "Our room was a standard double, and a fair size! Nice, clean and cosy."
  • "Rooms were spotlessly clean with bed change and clean towels every day."
  • "The rooms look to be new-ishly renovated and have modern bathrooms."

Cons:

  • "Cramped rooms, crowded and loud restaurants."
  • "Too far out though without a car, very expensive if you had to use a taxi all the time."
  • "Disappointed. Paid for upgrade to lochview room which was poorer than original room."
  • "For 200-250 pounds a night, you’d expect something larger than 19sqm room, a small double bed with uncomfortable pillows."
  • "Rooms very small and needed refurbishing."
  • "The room was freezing when we went in the toilet was even worse."
  • "The rooms are so small that there's no place to open the suitcase and no closet."

Service Quality

Pros:

  • "The waiting on staff were polite..helpful and extremely hot on reading the room."
  • "Staff efficient and helpful."
  • "The food was 10/10 as well as quick service and friendly attentive staff."
  • "Staff are mega friendly, couldn't do enough to help. Very attentive."
  • "Staff are some of the best I’ve come across, professional, friendly and extremely helpful."
  • "The staff were so attentive throughout the whole hotel."
  • "Staff were great & attentive."

Cons:

  • "The food at lunch was good, although with more terrible service."
  • "Service was horrendous, Arrived at 3:45, was still waiting for my mains at 5:00PM, asked to cancel the order."
  • "Horrible First Impression: When we walked in at 11:45am, there was no 'Welcome to DuckBay hotel, how can I help you'."
  • "The staff could have been friendlier."
  • "The staff weren’t really that polite so therefore I don’t really recommend it."
  • "Found the staff to be quite rude and gave off the impression they couldn’t be bothered."
  • "The staff here seem to have ZERO customer service training."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Lovely food & friendly staff. A great menu choice."
  • "Service was very good and we treated ourselves to a shared seafood starter, which was delicious."
  • "Great presentation of food. Value for money and amazing atmosphere."
  • "We had afternoon tea here a week ago & it was delicious."
  • "We booked in for a meal and had some wonderful food and plenty of drinks to compliment."
  • "The food In the restaurant was pretty standard, steak, burgers etc but it was all cooked perfectly."
  • "Room, staff and food were lovely."

Cons:

  • "Food was average bordering on poor."
  • "The food looked and tasted like it had been kept warm all day."
  • "The hot chocolate was very watered and you could taste the chocolate powder."
  • "Had the chicken salad which wasn’t edible as it was absolutely drenched in dressing!"
  • "If you get an average meal in KFC then whatever, but to order a £90 steak and have it over cooked, with the wrong sauce and the wrong side is not good enough."
  • "Two dishes arrived quite cold with dry satay chicken with obvious shop bought sauce and naan."
  • "The fish was on the turn smelt very fishy and one taste was enough and it wasn't very warm."

Location & Views

Pros:

  • "Set right on the edge of the loch with great views."
  • "Lovely view of LL. Loch Lomond. Perfect relaxing location."
  • "It was beautifully decorated for autumn and we got a lovely view over the loch."
  • "Absolutely stunning views of the loch and hills."
  • "And the views are just beautiful, they've got a really nice area outside to sit."
  • "This place has an awesome view of the loch."
  • "Restaurant is right on the edge of Loch Lomond with terrific views."

Cons:

  • "The only thing good about this hotel is the location, with it set on the waterfront."
  • "Lovely setting, over looking the loch."
  • "Wow! Nestled onto the shore of loch lomond, the views over lunch were beautiful!"
  • "Such a special place set in the most scenic of places, right on the water's edge of Loch Lomond."
  • "Even the view from the window over Loch Lomond is stunning."
  • "What a wonderful restaurant. A lovely family lunch. Situated right next to Loch Lomond with great views."
  • "Fantastic hotel right on the Loch with Terrific views."

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "The prices were very reasonable. Could not fault this place in any way."
  • "We had a lovely well worth the money cream tea."
  • "Good choice of foods on the menu, food and drinks arrived in good time."
  • "The service was good the food really nice not a bad a flat white too."
  • "The best quality-price restaurant I've ever been to."
  • "Very reasonably priced, expected it to be more expensive!"
  • "Great food-seafood sharing platter for 2 to start with-a huge portion for 2 at a very reasonable price."

Cons:

  • "Thought though that £17.90 was a bit pricey for 2 cappuccinos/1 Americano and 3 scones with butter/jam."
  • "But £3.80 for a small bottle of coke? Come on that's some mark up."
  • "All in all for what we paid we expected good service in a good location."
  • "Not worth the money for main meals. The haggis starter was good."
  • "All in all a very average experience would not return..."
  • "Our experience today was very poor given the cost and setting."
  • "Felt way too rushed ! Didn't like being constantly watched in case they could get more money from us."

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