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Hilton Grand Vacations Club Craigendarroch Suites Scotland
Ballater hotel with spa and indoor pool
Escape to Hilton Grand Vacations Club Craigendarroch Suites Scotland, where rural tranquility meets modern comfort. Unwind with a spa treatment or racquetball/squash, then recharge in the gym. With free WiFi and a helpful staff on hand, you'll feel right at home.
Wonderful
Popular amenities
- Spa
- 24/7 front desk
- Gym
- Laundry facilities
Main amenities (12)
- Weekly housekeeping
- Restaurants
- Full-service spa
- Indoor pool
- Fitness centre
- Sauna
- Steam room
- Children's pool
- Hot tub
- 24-hour front desk
- Self-serve laundry
- Hair salon
Feel at home (6)
- Free cots/infant beds
- Children's pool
- Playground on-site
- Cookware, dishware and utensils
- Television
- Laundry facilities
£170
includes taxes & fees
20 Nov - 21 Nov
Why we love this property
Wellness retreat
The full-service spa offers facials, body wraps, and pedicures for pure indulgence. A hot tub, steam room, and fitness area complete this national park haven.
Breakfast and dining
This hotel offers a restaurant for delicious meals. Continental breakfast is available for a perfect start to the day.
Room options
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Studio
Exceptional
Highlights
Heating
Free cots/infant beds
Kitchenette
Mini-fridge
Flat-screen TV
Blackout curtains
Hairdryer
Private bathroom
- 30 sq m
- Sleeps 2
- 1 King Bed OR 1 Queen Bed
Suite, 1 Bedroom
Exceptional
Highlights
Separate sitting area
Fireplace
Heating
Free cots/infant beds
Kitchenette
Mini-fridge
Flat-screen TV
Sofa bed - double
- 48 sq m
- 1 bedroom
- Sleeps 4
- 1 King Bed and 1 Queen Sofa Bed
Junior Suite, Fireplace
Wonderful
Highlights
Separate sitting area
Fireplace
Heating
Free cots/infant beds
Kitchenette
Mini-fridge
Flat-screen TV
Blackout curtains
- 42 sq m
- Sleeps 2
- 1 King Bed OR 1 Queen Bed
Suite, 2 bedrooms, 1 King, 1 Queen Bed (bi-level with stairs)
Highlights
Separate sitting area
Fireplace
Heating
Free cots/infant beds
Kitchen
Mini-fridge
Dishwasher
Flat-screen TV
- 42 sq m
- 1 bedroom
- Sleeps 6
- 1 King Bed, 1 Queen Bed and 1 Double Sofa Bed
King or Queen Studio
- Sleeps 2
Junior King or Queen Suite with Fireplace
- Sleeps 2
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About the area
Braemar Road, Ballater, Scotland, AB35 5XA
About this property
Hilton Grand Vacations Club Craigendarroch Suites Scotland
At Hilton Grand Vacations Club Craigendarroch Suites Scotland, you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Balmoral Castle and Cairngorms National Park. You can grab a bite to eat at the restaurant and visit the spa to be pampered with massages, body wraps or manicures and pedicures. An indoor pool, a fitness centre and a hot tub are other highlights. Fellow travellers love the helpful staff.
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Hilton Grand Vacations Club Craigendarroch Suites Scotland Reviews
9.0
Wonderful
9.6/10
Cleanliness
9.0/10
Staff & service
8.4/10
Amenities
9.2/10
Property conditions & facilities
8.8/10
Eco-friendliness
Popular mentions
RoomService staffRestaurantLocationTownsFoodBreakfastSpaViewBedWhat guests liked
- The property features clean and welcoming pools, including multiple options, that were enjoyed by guests. (6 reviews)
- The evening meals were delicious and good value, and the Keiller restaurant offered high-quality food. (3 reviews)
From real guest reviews summarized by AI.10/10 Exceptional
We have stayed at Craigendarroch several times before, always in one of the lodges. This time we chose a Junior Suite in the hotel.
Everything was even better than expected. Lovely accommodation, friendly staff and great facilities.
We will definitely return.
Joyce
Joyce, 6-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
The location is gorgeous, the staff are excellent and we got an upgrade to a suite that was beautiful and had a lovely balcony. Could have not asked for better!
Giulia
Giulia, 1-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
First class all the way 👍👍
Michael
Michael, 2-night trip
6/10 Good
Nice. But no breakfast.
It’s a very nice hotel. The pool has been redone and is much better but changing rooms pretty average.
Public areas nice.
But. No breakfast at a hotel like this is absolutely outrageous. They offer a bag of bread to toast yourself in your room.
Christopher
Christopher, 1-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Beautiful location
Great location for us. We are touring Scotland and we stopped here after driving through Cairngorm National Park on our way to Stonehaven. We spent 2 wonderful nights. Every meal was fantastic and Lucie is amazing. She is so friendly & kind and a very hard working waitress who was there all day from breakfast to dinner. She took great care to insure my meals were gluten-free and dairy-free. She is an asset to the establishment. The pool, hot tub and gym were clean and welcoming. We were there on a very hot day for Scotland and they brought us an extra fan to help cool the room. I enjoyed walking the gardens, so beautiful and peaceful. The coffee in the room for the french press was delicious . We enjoyed our stay and if ever we return to Scotland we'd book again! Thank you!
April
April, 2-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Third time at Cragendarroch says it all.
Richard
Richard, 1-night trip
8/10 Very good
Expensive
At £220 a night a few simple things like robes, biscuits and even a disposable show cap might have been included. We stayed in a very nice room in pitlochry the next night for just under £100, basically we felt the hotel was expensive.
Alan
Alan, 2-night trip
8/10 Very good
Short Stay
Lovely Hotel, although a way out of Ballater. I assumed it was a short walk into the town going by the website however this is not the case. Nice room although a fare walk from reception with two lifts to negotiate and luggage. No offer of help with luggage or even a trolley! Room and bed very comfortable, although the bathroom was incredibly small.
Not sure it was worth the price we paid for the stay.
Neil
Neil, 1-night trip
8/10 Very good
Having searched for and booked a hotel with a spa I was disappointed to learn the spa was only open 3 weekdays and not at all at the weekend. On arrival I discovered the advertised swimming pool and leisure suite was closed for refurbishment for the next 8 months. I also found it odd to be asked to pay for a continental breakfast having paid £150 for a single overnight stay. The hotel itself was lovely, staff fantastic but I was left feeling as if I had been sold a pig in a poke.
Hazel
Hazel, 1-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Good quality hotel in a fantastic location
It didn’t let us down. We primarily chose the hotel because of the location, which I cannot recommend enough. Perfect for our one-night trip to get away for the weekend. Beautiful scenery, fantastic walks on the door-step (Burn O’Vat a particular delight, literally felt like you were walking through a waterfall into a different world), and a lovely, well kept village to wander round for an afternoon.
We chose the Hilton primarily because it had a pool and because we expected a good level of quality given the brand reputation. It didn’t disappoint. We went for the smallest room, which was still plenty large for us, and the facilities were just as advertised. Good cleanliness, professional staff and a comfortable bed. The restaurant was particularly good, better than expected, and worth staying in the hotel rather than going down into the town from our opinion. The one negative was that they don’t do a ‘hotel breakfast’ service, only a continental room service option which looked expectedly overpriced. Brunch begins at 10am, but the options are limited (no full Scottish breakfast!). However, given the number of good cafe options in Ballater this wasn’t a problem and not a deal breaker for us.
A very enjoyable stay, would have no qualms about returning and doing it all again.
Daniel
Daniel, 1-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Suite immaculate and well equipped.
Tonia
Tonia, 1-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Excellent pool/spa
Simon
Simon, 2-night trip
4/10 Fair
For £300 a night the view of the car park was unacceptable plus constant noise from the room above made to spoil my birthday treat.
MamieTekle
MamieTekle, 1-night trip
8/10 Very good
Good friendly hotel in amazing location.
We had a lovely stay in The Hilton overall, however we did have to move rooms as the first room we had was very noisy with people walking and moving around above us being very audible. This is due to the fact that it is an old building with squeaky floorboards and poor noise insulation! The next room was lovely but very very hot due to being above the swimming pool and the sun shining directly into the room for most of the day. It could do with some air conditioning to help! The staff were really pleasant nad helpful, the hotel is clean and rooms very well equipped. We had room only therefore did not try the breakfast on offer, we did have dinner in the Keilor Restaurant one night which was average, perhaps even a little disappointing in terms of the food quality and the restaurant is also very noisy! There are some great places to eat down in the town of Ballater so we chose to go there instead which was fantastic.
Verified traveller
3-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Exceptional in every way.
Vernon
Vernon, 2-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Lovely hotel in a beautiful area
Gary
Gary, 3-night trip
8/10 Very good
The hotel was very clean and staff were great. Rooms look like they have just been upgraded.
Only negative would be that the bar on a Saturday night closed at 10pm.
David
David, 2-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Place was so peaceful. Staff friendly and helpful .room was lovely clean lots off space lovely balcony with view .could not find a fault at all .will definitely be back
Kenneth
Kenneth, 3-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
On accommodation alone, 5 stars. Staff were lovely and accommodating. Restaurant was good but just that. Service excellent but food unexceptional. Okay but I've had better. A lot of it felt bought in rather than developed and cooked on site.
Hugh
Hugh, 3-night trip
6/10 Good
We stayed in one of the lodge suites - 2 adults 2 kids. Beautiful room in a lovely building. Disappointing was the breakfast options. Hot breakfast only available from 10 am. A reasonably priced (for hiilton!) continental breakfast was available for delivery between 8 and 9 if you pre booked the night before (we missed that detail)). Another annoying detail was check out at 10 am! 10 am on a Sunday morning is pretty brutal!
PETER
10/10 Exceptional
Hogmanay Stay
Fantastic stay over the Hogmanay period. Beautiful room and friendly staff
Alice
Alice, 2-night trip
8/10 Very good
Shortened stay
Poor check in and out due to very late check in (4pm) and early check out (10am) for aSunday check out and no cooked breakfast available until 10am.
james
james, 1-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
The staff at this property were very kind and helpful, I was pleasantly surprised with our stay and would love to stay again in the future, thank you!
Luna
Luna, 3-night trip
6/10 Good
Gym & wet areas werenice as was room
Front Desk staff was only good for twlling you what they couldn’t do: get a taxi, get an extended checkout, find a shuttle service, etc.
Housekeeping did minimal cleanup - left kitchen dirty, next to nothing in room cleaned.
Will NEVER come back here!
BUELL
BUELL, 2-night trip
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