I'll be posting a number of images later but here, briefly, is what I discovered today.
WIFI - exists but seems to be good in one lodge, less good in another, and poor in the third. But there is free wifi, all day every day, in The Bistro (their bar and restaurant).
Bedding, bedlinen - supplied
Towels - not supplied
Kitchen cleaning - supplied
Toiletries - not supplied
Toilet paper - supplied
Door keys - 2 supplied per lodge
The lodges are comfortable but not luxurious. The bedrooms are quite small and as per their website, each lodge has a double bedroom, a twin-bed room, a single room, and a 2-bunk room. On the ground floor, the living-room, kitchen and dining-area are all sort-of open-plan and there is one bedroom, a bathroom with toilet, hand-basin, bath and shower. Upstairs are all the other bedrooms, a bathroom with toilet, hand-basin and bath, and a separate toilet with a hand-basin.
They do not supply any sort of "welcome pack" but point out that it is quite common to find tea, coffee etc, left by previous residents. This cannot be relied on, however, and I'll come back to this point later.
The Bistro is open more-or-less 10am to 10pm daily. It is a bar, cafe, and restaurant and you can sit all day with a cup of coffee and hit their wifi. We (my family) are going to eat there to check it out, possibly this weekend. We have eaten there before ( it was quite good) but there has been a name-change and management change since then.
The "welcome pack", or rather, the lack of it. So that you don't need to worry about food-shopping on your day of arrival, I propose to stock each lodge with a basic survival pack, as follows:
Coffee, tea, semi-skimmed milk, sugar
Bread, butter, jam,
Plain yoghurt, cheese
Sugar-free muesli
Anyone who needs gluten-free foodstuffs, let me know. I have already offered to get gluten-free item for one person; a couple more would be no problem.
On a very fine late-winter afternoon, the overwhelming impression was that "The Loch Tay Highland Lodges Park" is a really nice place, nicer than I previously thought. There are fine views out over Loch Tay and the southern hills, our three lodges are tucked away in a quiet corner, and the whole place just feels good.
Photos will follow. Stupidly, I shot Raw not Jpeg, so I will have to process them first. Dang!
