Columba Hotel

Location is perfect for 4-minute walk to the compact city centre, so 2-3 days is enough for walks along the river, parks and old town. Great art gallery and museum and castle - though the castle is Victorian repro not medieval. Day coach tours are available for all over the Highlands and islands. Bedrooms are very spacious and well maintained, not tired as I had read before my stay. Also very quiet - no noise transfer between rooms or floors. Huge bed, tea, coffee, ironing board, hairdryer. Buffet breakfast had everything - cereal, yogurt, pastries, fruit and juice to full fry-up. Good coffee. Genuinely lovely staff - after a 12-hout coach tour, I had a quick call from reception to let me know the restaurant would be closing in 15 minutes. Mary, London

Hotel sits across the river from the main shopping area of Inverness. It was about a 10-15 minute walk to the train station. It's definitely an older hotel - there's 2-3 hotels along this street, which seems to be the prime hotels for big bus groups. All the staff were very friendly. We had very spacious rooms facing the river and the castle. There's a sign at front desk stating that housekeeping comes by every 2 days. We stayed 5 nights and not once did housekeeping clean the room even after mentioning after 3 nights. We did not prepay for breakfast but it is easy to add the morning off. The buffet had a decent selection. There was really only one member of staff working at breakfast, needing to check people's room numbers, clean tables and replenish items. With all members of a bus trip arriving at breakfast at the same time, items were depleted very fast. There's a nice bar to relax in after a day touring the sights.

We stayed one night - a Saturday in May 2026. Highly recommend you contact them before arrival to confirm the bed configuration. We thought we had communicated we needed the room set for twins on arrival - but it was not. The gentleman working the front desk wasn't really equipped to change the configuration and struggled to help with sheets - which he did eventually sort out. Price was high - but given Saturday on a bank holiday weekend, we understood. This is not a luxury hotel. But it is very conveniently located on the banks of the Ness right near the heart of the city. Short walks to everything. Right across the river from the castle. If you have a car, you'll need to use the church parking lot a couple blocks down from the hotel - not too far.