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The Royal Highland Hotel

3.0 star property

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Lobby
Lobby lounge
Front of property
Classic Double or Twin Room | 1 bedroom, in-room safe, desk, blackout drapes
Room amenity

Reviews

8.2 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • 24/7 front desk
  • Room service
  • Bar
  • Breakfast available
  • Laundry

Explore the area

Map
Station Square, Academy Street, Inverness, Scotland, IV1 1LG
  • Inverness Castle
    ‪6 min walk‬
  • Inverness Cathedral
    ‪8 min walk‬
  • Eden Court Theatre
    ‪11 min walk‬
  • Inverness (INV)
    ‪13 min drive‬

Room options

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1 bedroom, in-room safe, desk, blackout drapes

Classic Double or Twin Room

8.2 out of 10
Very good
(65 reviews)
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

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Cozy Single Room | 1 bedroom, in-room safe, desk, blackout drapes

Cozy Single Room

8.6 out of 10
Excellent
(11 reviews)
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

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1 bedroom, in-room safe, desk, blackout drapes

Cozy Double/Twin Room

7.2 out of 10
Good
(10 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

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1 bedroom, in-room safe, desk, blackout drapes

Single Room

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(3 reviews)
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

Triple (Without Cot)

  • Sleeps 3

Double Room

  • Sleeps 2

Double Single Use

  • Sleeps 1

Twin Room Single Use

  • Sleeps 1

Twin Room 1/2 Pax

  • Sleeps 2

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About this property

The Royal Highland Hotel

3-star hotel in Inverness City Centre
This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a snack bar/deli. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a coffee shop/cafe, coffee/tea in a common area, and concierge services. Housekeeping is available once per stay.
The Royal Highland Hotel offers 84 accommodations with safes and coffee/tea makers. Plasma televisions come with cable channels.

Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. This Inverness hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and portable fans. Housekeeping is provided once per stay.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant, a coffee shop/cafe, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of meeting rooms and limo/town car service.

Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This eco-certified hotel also offers a vending machine, multilingual staff, and coffee/tea in a common area.

The Royal Highland Hotel is a smoke-free property.

Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge on weekdays between 7:00 AM and 9:30 AM and on weekends between 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM.
Ash Restaurant - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
Gallery Cafe - Onsite café.
ASH BAR - Onsite bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Awards and affiliations

Eco-Certified Property
This property participates in Green Tourism Program, a program that measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy.

Languages

English, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Offsite parking within 0.01 miles (GBP 7 per day)
  • Limo/town car service
  • Limited onsite parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available

Food and drink

  • Continental breakfast available for a fee 7:00 AM to 9:30 AM on weekdays and 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM on weekends; GBP 9 to 12 per person
  • A bar/lounge
  • A coffee shop/cafe
  • A restaurant
  • Coffee and tea in common areas
  • Snack bar/deli

Restaurants on site

  • ASH BAR
  • Ash Restaurant
  • Gallery Cafe

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities
  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Free newspapers in lobby
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk
  • Vending machine

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping (once per stay)
  • Multilingual staff
  • Wedding services

Business services

  • Meeting rooms

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Assistive listening devices
  • Elevator
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible lounge
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible path to elevator
  • Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
  • Wheelchair-accessible restaurant

More

  • 3 floors
  • Banquet hall
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided
  • Blackout drapes

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Plasma TV with cable channels

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Electric kettle
  • Limited room service

More

  • Connecting rooms available
  • Desk
  • Heating
  • Iron/ironing board
  • Portable fan
  • Safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3 PM; Check-in end time: anytime
Early check-in subject to availability
Early check-in fee: GBP 10.00
Contactless check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10:30 AM
Contactless check-out available
Late check-out subject to availability
Late check-out fee: GBP 10
Express check-out available

Special check-in instructions

Guests will receive an email within 24 hours before arrival with check-in instructions; front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets allowed for an extra charge of GBP 20 per pet, per night
Service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees
2 total pets
Restrictions apply; for more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are available for GBP 50.0 per stay

Property payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for continental breakfast: approximately GBP 9.00 to 12.00 per person
  • Offsite parking fee: GBP 7 per day (0.01 mi away)
  • Pet fee: GBP 20 per pet, per night
  • Service animals are exempt from fees
  • Early check-in fee: GBP 10.00 (subject to availability)
  • Late check-out fee: GBP 10 (subject to availability)
  • Rollaway bed fee: GBP 50.0 per stay

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Safety features at this property include a carbon monoxide detector, a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, and a first aid kit

We should mention

The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation
Construction is underway at a neighboring building and there may be noise disturbance from the construction work

National rating

This establishment has received its official star rating from VisitScotland, the National Tourist Board for Scotland.

Property is also known as

Hotel Royal Highland
Royal Highland
Royal Highland Hotel
Royal Highland Hotel Inverness
Royal Highland Inverness
The Royal Highland Hotel Hotel
The Royal Highland Hotel Inverness
The Royal Highland Hotel Hotel Inverness

The Royal Highland Hotel Reviews

Reviews

8.2

Very Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 417 out of 1002 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 324 out of 1002 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 166 out of 1002 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 60 out of 1002 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 35 out of 1002 reviews

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.4/10

Staff & service

7.8/10

Amenities

7.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Irene

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Brilliant hotel right from train station nice area for shop pubs and they have a lovely bar great pint walk to river side hotel 5star
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Rosemary Margaret

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Convenient for the station. Clean bathroom. Room needs updating. Window didn’t open.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

6/10 Okay

Gill

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness
Old traditional hotel .One small elderly lift , slow ,and kept getting stuck ,so long waits. Breakfast buffet ok but not great. On the plus side the hotel is in an great position for getting around Inverness on foot .
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Melody

Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2025

6/10 Okay

Eric

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Random stay for a couple vacation.

I must credit that it is pretty well maintained for such an old hotel. Quite suprise to see the tiny bottles, shampoo, body bath coz most hotels have changed to refillable bottles in support of sustainability efforts. The bed is really tiny. Definately not even a queen. Maybe a super single plus. Sink is choked to the brim & drains very slowly. No refrigerator, no A/C, just a fan. Parking available but at 1st come 1st serve. Gonna be lucky coz non residence are hogging the lots & the hotel does not help manage it. Overall, the location is a plus. Very centralised & walkable to most attractions.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Anthony

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Great location pity so noisy from street outside hotel
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

cem

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location, great value for quality
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Vignesh

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great hotel! Only issue was the shower wasn’t ideal at all. Our room didn’t get hot water in the shower, and when we got hot water then it barely came out of the spout.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Elden

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This property was close to restaurants, bars with music, Leakeys Book Store and a market. We had a wonderful time. Parking lot is small. Beautiful old hotel!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Kristin

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Super cute place right by train station. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Comfy bed with large bathroom.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Marie, Aberdeen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
It is a nice hotel but perhaps a bit dated. It is right next to the train station so very convient.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Bryan

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Station

A wonderful old hotel, so convenient for public transport users, especially the train. Well that was why it was built. It would always be my first choice of places in Inverness. If you wish to be negative you could say finding the upper rooms is not straightforward. To me, that's a great characteristic - you may find yourself coming down by the right or left side of the wonderful staircase - it's very bonnie.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

6/10 Okay

Dana

Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The hotel is just outdated - carpets could use a deep clean, shower grout needed some upkeep and some of the wall paper is coming off due to age. The staff is friendly and this hotel is centrally located.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Fiona

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
A lovely traditional Hotel right next to the Train station and a short walk to the bus station.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Lee

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Nancy

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent location for train travel & catching tour buses. Lots of shops & restaurants in easy walking distance. Staff was very helpful & pleasant.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

6/10 Okay

Raffaele

Business traveler
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Rooms were very dated with damaged furniture (desk) and dented electric heater on the wall. The restaurant was very overpriced - £25 for basic fish and chips which had raw batter - and service was lacking. After waiting to get someone’s attention for about 15 minutes, in an almost empty room, I got up and order a drink at the bar. Better options in the area for the price.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

6/10 Okay

David

Traveled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Expected better fro the price

The location is good next to the station and the hotel has character. However there was a lot of noise from outside the room, including the cleaners vacuuming the corridor at 0745 on a Sunday morning. We stayed two nights but the room was not serviced by housekeeping, apparently reception should have explained that a note has to be hung on the door for the room to be serviced, but that information was not passed on and was not written down in the room. The room was in the mid-pricing point, so I expected better service and less noise.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

2/10 Terrible

RICARDO

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Hotel is falling apart. The window of the toilet in the room could not close properly, heating not working as it should, smelly elevator. Staff ready doesn't care about anything. Terriible ans expensive breakfast. Avoid at al coats.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

Historic hotel historic rooms

The hotel is a historic building and undoubtedly shows its age, at least in the room I had. I had a cosy room on the 3rd floor which was exactly that, cosy, but did the job. Hotel location is excellent right by the train station
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

David

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very convenient and great value for money. Quit at night not like others in town. No Gulls or roudy crowds squalling all night
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Brenda Lee

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Grand old hotel with magnificent staircase. We enjoyed the breakfast, afternoon tea and cocktails in lobby. It is right beside the train station and very convenient location to catch bus to airport
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good value for money and well located.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Neil

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025