The Great Western Hotel
Hotel in Oban
3-Star Hotel
Reasons to book
Great price for your budgetOne of the lowest cost properties in the area
Includes essentialsPool, Internet / Wifi, TV and more
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About this hotel
Hotel in Oban with a 24-hour front desk and a restaurant
This hotel features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a snack bar/deli. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include self parking, a 24-hour front desk, and express check-out.
The Great Western Hotel offers 79 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. These individually decorated and furnished accommodations include desks. Cable television is provided. Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
This hotel features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a snack bar/deli. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include self parking, a 24-hour front desk, and express check-out.
The Great Western Hotel offers 79 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. These individually decorated and furnished accommodations include desks. Cable television is provided. Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Amenities
Pool
Internet / Wifi
TV
Map of Oban
Available Rooms
Standard Double Room
1 Double
Sleeps 2
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Standard Twin Room
2 Single
Sleeps 2
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Double Room (with Sea View)
1 Double
Sleeps 2
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Standard Single Room
1 Single
Sleeps 1
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Twin Room (with Sea View)
2 Single
Sleeps 2
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Reviews
4.0
Was ok
5.0
Staff Excellent Food Great
The only Issue I Had Was Theres not Enough Parking , so i Parked Off site
Got Pa3space Next Morning .
If you left to go for a Drive you put a Blue Cone in your Parking Space For You to come Back too
In my eyes once you've left carpark it Should Be Available To Any other Guest in hotel
Take You're Chances Once You Come Back to Hotel
1.0
Terrible stay, mouldy walls in the room, bugs in the bed, window broken, shower broken. The hotel overall looks like it’s falling down, multiple areas where it looks like there have been leaks. Parking a nightmare too.
4.0
The single room I had had a sea view, and was very pleasant and clean. The staff were friendly.
4.0
The room was good overall, very spacious with all the amenities you can expect. And for the price I paid it is more than what I expected. Plus, breakfast (buffet) was very good. Only downside is that the building is old so things may break. During my stay my bathroom light kept breaking. The hallway downstairs smell a bit. However, those are small enough that they didn't affect my experience.
4.0
A well situated Victorian hotel on the esplanade in Oban. The hotel is in need of refurbishment and we understand that this is to commence over this winter. Very polite and welcoming staff are to be commended and helped to make our stay very enjoyable. We shall return in the future and hope to see a lovely hotel returned to the quality it so deserves. Thank you.
1.0
I stayed in a twin room with my son for a hospital visit. The room was very dated but the cleanliness was hideous with dirty towels cups and kettle to the filthy lamp shades. The mattresses were also terrible you could literally feel every spring
5.0
Lovely hotel and the locations is just perfect! Central to everything and all within easy walking distance. Had room 309 again which was a lovely high floor with a wonderful view.
5.0
Fantastic value hotel in a great location. Only a couple of minutes walk from the centre. Room was basic but had all the essentials. Staff were pleasant and accommodating. Asked for a late check out the night before I was due to leave and was sorted in minutes (did charge £25). Would thoroughly recommend and will be my choice when I come back to Oban.
3.0
Room was clean with convenient location and good breakfast. Service was subpar, staff didn’t seem very engaged. Bathroom was horrible, the shower needed fixing while we were there and mould was present throughout.
4.0
Hotel itself was fine, everything was quite old, but everything was functional. Parking is a mess though. They dont have enough parking for everybody, so it is first come first served. If you see a cone in front of an empty spot, it is taken. You will need to use a public lot if they run out. Luckily there are 2 right next door.
4.0
Food in the restaurant was amazing and the view spectacular. Staff were friendly.
2.0
The staff of the hotel were lovely and the location of the hotel was ideal. The view from the lounge area onto the water is superb.
When we arrived at the hotel we had to wait around 30 minutes after check in until we could enter our room. The room we paid for was a double but the bed was much smaller than a double and overall the room was very cramped. The housekeeping was very minimal, little to no cleaning, just a top up on the tea and coffee station and the amount of dust we found on top of the wardrobe and curtains was unreal.
During our last night we got woke up by a fire alarm at 3am and had to wait outside during a storm, turns out there was no reason for the alarm.
Overall the staff were brilliant and the exterior of the building was beautiful. I just feel robbed for the price I paid for the room I got.
1.0
The accommodation is very outdated and in major need of closure for an upgrade. The heating in the room wouldn’t go off, there was mould in the bathroom and all over the hotel with a lot of water damage.
5.0
Comfortable room 130, no view from windows just a slated roof.
Food was great, bar service slow.
Good value.
3.0
it was not so clean. our room did not had any view. it had just a window over the hotel rear. the parking was fine in front of the hotel which is great for a hotel in the city center. the location of the hotel is great. breakfast was average. staffs are good people.
3.0
Old hotel need updating
3.0
Fabulous views from lounge, & from some rooms. One of our rooms looked refurbished, (the other could do with being done) basic, modern fittings, clean & tidy. Well equipped - toiletries, hair dryer, usb charging points, kettle etc.
Plenty choice for breakfast. Very helpful staff.
Creaky floors, carpets worn in places - some areas look tired.
3.0
No car park available at the hotel but it would have been helpful if the front desk agent had told us we had to pay to park in the lot that was indicated.
3.0
It is an old building with a lot of history that will treat each person a bit differently. While it is modernised and they certainly have some very nice and "modern" rooms, I stayed in a small single room which you might not know even exists in the hotel. So you should keep these points in mind if you're planning on staying alone.
The room suited me fine enough and I had an absolutely fantatic view, however the only place in the room without squeaky floorboards was the bathroom and on the bed and I could also hear my neighbours floors squeaking and anyone who walked past in the hallway. That being said, my only real problem was that it was way too light in the room at night and this made me sleep poorly, the door unfortunately didnt stop the outside hallway light enough and there is a green light indicator next to the door that I wasnt sure what it did, this light also majorly contributed to lighting up the room far too much and there didnt appear to be a way to turn it off for more than some amount of minutes before coming back on.
Apart from that all the staff seemed kind and professional.
And it was very clean.
3.0
Tired hotel, they have started to upgrade bedrooms but we had one that had not been touched, dirty carpets, mould in bathroom and dirty windows with worm stained dark furniture and in need of a new bedroom door
1.0
Dated hotel in poor condition. Stained carpet, cracked basin, peeling lino, shower curtain - Great Wesrern? Not sure what your definition of 'great' is.
3.0
No on site parking available so we had to park in public car park along the road even though my wife is disabled. Room had wallpaper/paint flaking from walls. Window frame was rotten and filled with paper. Breakfast ingredients were of very poor quality and not the usual choice you would get in most hotels. Good views ( through the filthy windows) would not stay here again. Oban is lovely though. Just stay at a different hotel.
4.0
Staff themselves were fine. The hotel requires maintenance and car parking for all guests rather than me spend a night worrying about my car being in a council car park amongst all the drunkards I could hear. Water stained room ceiling and what looked like a blood stain in the bath but turned out to be missing enamel
Good breakfast selection but none of it hot, not even the coffee. I'll not be returning to this hotel
10.0
Great location Welcoming staff.
8.0
Located across from the waterfront. Easy access to shopping and beautiful views.
2.0
Extremely disappointed. No parking as advertised. Room not clean. Bathroom smelled of sewage. I did not stay two nights as planned. Only one. I requested a refund for the second night.
4.0
Overnighter on way back to London.
Comfortable enough stay, decent room overlooking the sea, good breakfast and overall satisfactory stay.
Hotel a bit tired in places as is the room but for 1 night ok
Would stay again
2.0
My husband and I recently stayed at the Great Western Hotel, Oban in August 2024. We booked and paid for a superior room with sea view prior to our stay. We were extremely disappointed with the condition of the room and how filthy it was. To start with the bath water wouldn’t stay in because of a faulty plug, under the rim of the toilet bowl was absolutely disgusting, the shower screen would not open past the taps, the grout and the silicone was mouldy, bath panel had water damage, carpet had big bleach mark and was stained throughout and was frayed round the edges, the fire escape window in the bedroom would not stay open (nothing to hold it up ), draught coming through window had to be plugged up with toilet paper, bedroom walls badly needed painting. Hotel corridors also badly needed painting. Carpets on staircase are threadbare, wallpaper coming away from the walls (in the corridors). Outside handrail was held together with gaffer tape..
Don’t waste your hard earned cash on this substandard hotel with incompetent staff.
6.0
A listed building, a once very beautiful and grand hotel is positioned on the beautiful seafront.
Unfortunately it has had some major flood damage at some point and is yet to be rectified. The maintenance has sadly been neglected and needs a complete overhaul by the new owners.
It has changed hands and has very friendly and accommodating staff.
The food and buffet breakfasts were lovely and plentiful.
Unfortunately the cleanliness was extremely poor with no excuse for the fresh dust and old grime on the woodwork and in particular the skirting boards in the bathroom ( months of not dusting/wiping over has caused ingrained dirt).
Once the new owners do all the maintenance ( and have a word with the cleaners), this will be an absolutely wonderful hotel to stay in.
The beds seem to have been replaced very recently and are just so comfortable.
1.0
The room was very noisy as the floor boards in the room above creaked throughout the night. There was no lock on the window and the window lead straight to a roof valley, so the room could have been accessed from outside. There was no heat regulator on the hot water tap in the sink, so water was very hot. Overall, the hotel looked tired and decor needed updating.
6.0
The hotel is in a great location, staff were really friendly but hotel and certainly the room I was in requires modernisation and redecoration, old and tired springs to mind, limited parking at front of hotel is convenient
4.0
Was assured at time of booking that I would have a parking space - there were none left when I arrived and the receptionist couldn't care less and told me to park in the paid public car park next door. The place is in need of a total refurb. Would have been spectacular in its day but is very run down and dated. My room - supposedly a 'Deluxe Double' was grim. Lovely view out to sea through rotten, draughty windows. Dirty carpet, filthy bathroom, cups stained and looked like they'd not been washed. Bed wasn't even put together properly. TV cut out when i used the hairdryer. Grossly overpriced with unhelpful staff. Room was freezing cold and heater in bathroom didn't work either. No hot water in the morning. The only saving grace for this place is the location and the views.
4.0
No parking available despite what booking says. We were told they would try to reserve a sport for us on the second day and to come back later to ask for it. When we went back, we were told rudely that they don't reserve spots (despite the explicit directive by staff The day before) but you could clearly see several empty spots blocked with cones (reserved spots) in the front.
The whole hotel is rundown and dirty. There are weird stains on the carpets and mold on the window corners. We even had mold on our showerhead and there was lots of dust in the corners of every room. We are generally not picky but this was the worst accommodation we stayed at.
10.0
Location and views - pleasant staff
5.0
We had a sea view room & travelled with our little dog .staff friendly & helpful . Loved the view from our window
6.0
that you had to book parking at the hotel which cost £6 per night .or go to a car park and pay parking.
the food was average .
the room we had did not have a good view. although
the lounge and dining room had great views.
2.0
Water pouring down inside the bedroom
4.0
The breakfast was delicious with a wide selection
6.0
Good enough for the cost and friendly staff.
Some parts showing their age, stair carpet, creaking floors but probably to be expected in a property of this age
FAQs
How much does this hotel cost compared to others in Oban?
The average price for a rental in Oban is $245 per night. This rental is $157 less expensive than the average.
Is parking included with this hotel?
Parking is not specified as an available amenity at The Great Western Hotel. For more information, we encourage you to contact the property about where to park.
Is there a pool at this hotel?
Yes, a swimming pool is available for use at The Great Western Hotel. Enjoy the water!
Is The Great Western Hotel pet friendly?
Unfortunately, this hotel is not pet-friendly. Try searching again and filter for "Pets Allowed"
What amenities are available at The Great Western Hotel?
We found 3 amenities for this rental. This includes pool, internet / wifi, and tv.
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