This review is for the restaurant. We ate here twice during our stay at the Hilton. The lasagna and…read morefish and chips are great, the pizza so so. The waffle dessert was heavenly, definitely go for that!

Great food (we had the lasagna and fish & chips), cozy interior and staff were friendly. We will be…read morebooking a room here next time we are in town!

Great little hotel with nice rooms and great food. Very friendly staff and owners, close to many…read moreattractions near Ballater and Braemar. Best breakfast I've had anywhere!

I really enjoyed staying here. It was quiet, the room was decently sized, the bed was really…read morecomfortable, parking was easy, we could make coffee in our room with a French press (I loved that touch), and the staff were so kind. I would definitely stay here again. It is also family friendly and has an indoor pool and hot tub. The hotel is a 3-minute drive to Ballater (a lovely bakery, and two wonderful restaurants we tried are located there). It is great in terms of location to the town and other things to do: Royal Lochnagar Distillery, and Balmoral. The only downside was the shower was fairly tight, but common in the UK.

Hilton Grand Vacations Resorts don't have the best reputation in the states, but this location is…read moretop notch and one of the favorite Hilton hotels we have ever stayed at. What a great lodge / manor house atmosphere with beautiful large rooms that are well appointed and in exceptional condition. Service throughout the resort was top notch and the restaurant and bar areas were great as well. The bed was very comfortable and the shower was wonderful. Really the only negative is the slightly limited parking near the main building but everything else was perfect!

DO NOT BOOK THIS HOTEL - Bedbugs will bite you!…read more I can not emphasise enough how bad this place is. I travel with work all the time and this is the very worst hotel I have stayed in anywhere ever. This building is uninhabitable. Please for your own safety avoid at all costs. Rooms are not cleaned between visitors. There are bedbugs in the mattresses. I sat on the bed for about half an hour on arrival and got multiple bites. The waste bin had a soiled diaper/nappy in it, the carpet was stained and dirty, the bathroom floor was not clean. THERE WAS NO HOT WATER. Electric sockets were not safe, the door was not locked when we arrived at our room and looked like it had previously been forced. In communal areas there were bags of dirty linen littered around the corridors, evidence that there were water leaks, and pest control devices that indicated that the hotel knew that there was a problem. I'm amazed that this place remains open - surely it contravenes health and safety laws. Please don't take a risk on this place.

I've stayed here a few times over the years when visiting Aboyne, and strangely I've developed…read morequite a soft spot for the place. Maybe it's the faint lingering atmosphere of Victorian grandeur that somehow manages to cling to the place, the antique safe set into the wall by reception, or the grand stained glass hunting scene window in the lounge bar - it certainly isn't for the tartan carpets, that's for sure! Our room was huge and really warm from the enormous Victorian cast-iron radiator - they certainly knew how to engineer a heating system, those guys! The heating system didn't extend to the en-suite bathroom sadly, so that was a little perky in the mornings. The slightly decrepit sash windows don't help much in the draughts department either. There is free Wi-Fi in the reception and bar areas, but not in the rooms. I actually prefer that as I always have trouble sleeping if there's Wi-Fi in the room. The bed was clearly of recent vintage, and was nice and cosy if a trifle hard for my taste. There was the usual room trimmings of wall-mounted telly (a little small for the size of room it must be said), hairdryer, tea & coffee making set - and a big comfy sofa by the window to relax in with a book. Rather strangely, there was no convenient power point for the kettle or the hairdryer - you had to move the kettle over by the door to get power, or grovel under the dresser to find a socket. The room light was rather uninspiring- a single M16 downlighter in the centre of the ceiling that was more suited to being part of an emergency lighting system it was so pathetic- honestly, you would be better off with a candle. You had to turn on both bedside lights to be able to see anything at all. Breakfast was the usual Scottish hotel fare, although in their favour the hot food is cooked to order and not sitting under a heat lamp for ages. And they have porridge. The evening menu wasn't too inspiring either, so we ate elsewhere. Like I say, despite its faults and decaying Victorian grandeur, or maybe because of that, I actually quite like the place. There's not a great deal of hotel choice in Aboyne anyway, so just embrace the worn comfortable atmosphere of the place and enjoy that genteel Victorian vibe.