Mansfield Castle

Professional staff, warm welcoming on entrance, beautiful room and amazing food Cheese cake was delicious. Thank you all for such amazing stay

Had an really enjoyable stay at this quaint hotel that is full of character. Breakfast was lovely and delicious. Would come again.

A lovely hotel, very comfortable, everything you need for a night's stopover on a long drive. Nice bar/restaurant, very good food and reasonable prices. Friendly and pleasant staff

Comfortable, clean and unpretentious. Super friendly and helpful staff. Amazing food. You can have formal or casual dining and the menu is the sane for both venues. The hotel is a very short walk from the town centre and train station, and is situated close to the A9 if you are driving around the Highlands. Rooms have a trouser press, coffee making facilities and a laundry service if needed. Very quiet rooms at night. Breakfast was excellent.

Old building but what would you expect from a castle? Full of character and interesting architectural features. Gordon was particularly helpful in the bar. The food was good in the restaurant, certainly would return.

Nice building with some castle like features. Rooms were nice and spacious, well furnished. Bathroom was very nice, with a nice deep bath. Meals were good, albeit a bit expensive. We found the Hotel to be quite cold, and that woke me up a few times overnight. Staff were all great and made our stay more enjoyable. Can't fathom out that room called the crab shack. Totally ruins the bar.

Mansfield Castle Hotel Tain. be warned! Heads up to all dog owners and English doing the NC500 or travelling via Tain. During our recent journey with our dogs to Orkney via Eastern route we searched for dog friendly hotels and the Mansfield Castle Hotel in Tain came up. On checking in the atmosphere from the receptionist was at best dour and oddly uninterested, essentially we were read a list of don't many relating to dogs and not welcoming at all.

Unfortunately looking back the experience went downhill from there. Essentially dogs were allowed to accompany you in the bar, we were reluctant to do this given the receptionists behaviour, however seeing another guest had the dog with them we thought hey ho. No sooner had i entered the bar I was accosted by the owner who was happy to make a grand scene in the bar, asked other guests if they minded essentially pitting guest against guest to the point i left the bar back to the room.

The other guest with dog was Scottish - did I mention we were English! Basically the hotel owner is nationalist bigot and little man bully. The hotel is beyond tired - there was a cracked and hole in our bath, an electrical repair in the hall outside our room was such that you stick your fingers though and touch the wires! The place has a few rooms in the castle the rest of the accommodation was in a 80s built annex that was musty. Whilst we were there there was a poor guy in a wheelchair - this annex serves as their disabled access, however to access to rooms he had to negotiate a 5 step!

Best of all fire doors are wedged open - so zero concerns given for the lives and safety of the guests. The only conclusion I van draw is the owner is keeping himself comfortably on the back of the NC500 guests. The whole place is vile and you really feel sad for the staff cowed by this guy and the real lack of other employment. We have reported the place to tourist Scotland, the Hotel booking sites but really the people who need to know are you guys planning your NC500.

I am not saying don't stay there but want to share our experience of the place. Lastly the best illustration I can give after all the furore and scene caused, during which the Scottish dog owner was not even spoken to, the owner sent the barman over and offered to buy us a drink.pretty damping of his attitude towards his guests really Mansfield Castle Hotel avoid if you're from South of the border or a dog owner.

The hotel is situated just of the A9, (the NC500 route). It is a lovely, very charming hotel with loads of character. It was really quiet as it was the end of November when we visited. Nevertheless, Julia and the hotel staff made us feel very welcome. We stayed at Mansfield Castle in order to travel around the NC500 and to do different road trips each day.

The hotel is situated on a kind of housing estate near to a school. It advertises a town with a cafe, hotel, restaurants and pubs and we thought we could walk in to town each evening for dinner etc. The town of Tain is really quiet, with not a lot going on. In fact, it looked like half of it was closed so we ate in the hotel every night (the food is really good I have to say).

If you are looking for something a little livelier, Tain is definitely not the place for you. If you are looking for a stop over with a hotel that has plenty of character then you will not be disappointed. Speak to the hotel direct to see if they can do a better rate, we did.

Wonderful place to stay. Short walk into town. Lovely Victorian furnishings, and friendly staff. Breakfast was delicious, and served by a very cheerful server. When we had issues with our shower (temp knob was stuck to scalding hot) the manager opened up a secret passage in our room, connecting to another so that we could use that shower instead, as the handyman couldn't be found.

If I could it would be 4.5 stars. Nice grounds, beautiful wood interiors throughout, plastered wainscoting in the upper halls, comfortable lounge and bar. Room was huge for Europe. Nice to have some space. Breakfast was overshadowed by the great cooking at our previous hotel. Sticky toffee pudding however was a work of art. No lift and many stairs.