journeyman wrote:Hi all
Anyone got an update on the Inchbae hotel - I read that its in new ownership and more bike friendly - anyone got direct experience of this? Plus last year I had good service for meals etc at OBH but read some less than enthusiastic posts compared to previous years. Is the OBH still the hostelry of choice or does any one know what the hotel in Rosehall at the foot of Glen Cassley is like in term of hospitality towards tramps on wheels? Ive got more questions for later too...
JB
I posted (possibly earlier in this thread) about the Inchbae being in new ownership, that info came from the owner posting on STW but I don't know anything beyond that. Someone like Scotroutes is a lot closer and might know more.
OBH: this changed hands about 18 months ago(?) and with the very dry spring last year there wasn't much fishing being done which is the main part of their trade so I think the new owners were a bit stressed. On my third night I stopped at their bothy and chatted to them for a while and they visibly became less tense when the talk moved away from what we were doing, i.e. the HT. The barman/member of staff who in previous years was bike friendly has also moved on, Ian Fitz might know more, the barman who was there last year certainly dot-watches as he told us Shona and Rich had scratched when we mentioned the tandem.
Not been to the hotel in Rosehall, I think some have used it from time to time, maybe even stopped there.
Slightly off-route is the Overscaig Hotel
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=241747 ... &A=Y&Z=120 but my wife rode past there last summer and it was shut and up for sale. Their website would suggest it's open but looking at the tariffs page, the prices are from 2016 so perhaps not.