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The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant

3.0 star property

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Double Room, Ensuite | Terrace/patio
Exterior
Restaurant
Double or Twin Room, Ensuite, Sea View | Exterior
Double Room, Ensuite

Reviews

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Housekeeping
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant

Explore the area

Map
43 Market Street, Macduff, Scotland, AB44 1LL
  • Macduff Marine Aquarium
    ‪4 min walk‬
  • Banff Museum
    ‪20 min walk‬
  • Duff House
    ‪3 min drive‬

Room options

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Double Room, Ensuite

Double Room, Ensuite

  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

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Deluxe Double Room, Ensuite

Deluxe Double Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

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Double or Twin Room, Ensuite, Sea View

Double or Twin Room, Ensuite, Sea View

  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds OR 1 King Bed

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Standard Single Room, Ensuite

Standard Single Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Double Bed

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Double or Twin Room, Ensuite

Double or Twin Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

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Deluxe Double Room, Ensuite

Deluxe Double Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

Deluxe Double Room, Ensuite, Sea View

  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Double Sofa Bed OR 2 Twin Beds and 1 Double Sofa Bed

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About the area

Macduff

With a stay at The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant in Macduff, you'll be a 4-minute walk from Macduff Marine Aquarium and within a 5-minute drive of Banff Museum. .This hotel is 1.4 mi (2.3 km) from Duff House and 2.6 mi (4.3 km) from Inverboyndie Beach.

What's nearby

  • Macduff Marine Aquarium - 4 min walk - 0.4 km
  • Banff Museum - 20 min walk - 1.7 km
  • Duff House - 3 min drive - 2.3 km
  • Portsoy Pottery - 13 min drive - 14.2 km
  • Inverboyndie Beach - 19 min drive - 4.3 km

Getting around

  • Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) - 71 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Market Arms - ‬3 min drive
  • ‪Rockfish Cafe - ‬7 min drive
  • ‪Annies Cakery - ‬7 min walk
  • ‪Baobab - ‬3 min drive
  • ‪Boyndie Visitor Centre - ‬8 min drive

About this property

The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant

Hotel in Macduff with a restaurant and a bar
The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant offers 19 accommodations. Housekeeping is provided daily.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 19 guestrooms.
Enjoy recreation amenities such as karaoke or take in the view from a terrace. This hotel also features complimentary wireless internet access and wedding services.
At The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. Breakfast is available for a fee.
Featured amenities include complimentary wired internet access, a business center, and luggage storage. Event facilities at this hotel consist of conference space and a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.
The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant has a restaurant on site.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi and wired internet

Parking and transport

  • Free extended parking on site

Food and drink

  • Breakfast available for a fee
  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Things to do

  • Karaoke

Conveniences

  • Luggage storage

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Wedding services

Business services

  • Business centre
  • Conference space
  • Meeting room

Outdoors

  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • No lift

Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at 2:00 PM

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

National rating

This establishment has received its official star rating from VisitScotland, the National Tourist Board for Scotland.

Property is also known as

Knowes Hotel
Knowes Hotel Macduff
Knowes Macduff
The Knowes Hotel Macduff, Scotland
The Knowes Hotel
The Knowes & Restaurant
The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant Hotel
The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant Macduff
The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant Hotel Macduff

The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant Reviews

Reviews

9.0

Wonderful

Rating 10 - Excellent. 103 out of 170 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 45 out of 170 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 15 out of 170 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 170 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 170 reviews

9.2/10

Cleanliness

9.2/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Colin

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

New rooms amazing

Stayed here few times didn’t think could improve but investment in new rooms took to a different level looks amazing
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Carol

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

8/10 Good

Joan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great night away Hotel

Lovely refurbished rooms but when we checked in the air con was at 13c so it was very cold. We wore our coats on till room heated up. Shame as the room so cold we ended up going out sooner. Shower very good, nice bedding and good breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

6/10 Okay

Andrew

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a difficult one. It’s a local business providing much needed jobs and obviously trying to improve. It seems the food/restaurant side of the business is the main income, however there’s parts of that neglected as well. First impressions are good but, when you really look, chairs are scuffed and torn and not of an acceptable standard. Likewise the rooms. First impressions are good but when you actually look you see poor quality finishing and poor quality maintenance. They are charging around £120 (depending on when you book), but in reality this is a £60/70 room hotel. When we stayed, there was only a couple of rooms booked and it shows why. There’s only a few hotels in the area and they are obviously price sensitive to them, but sadly they don’t actually match the competition so are overpriced. I’m not saying don’t stay there, I’m saying it’s overpriced for what is offered.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

8/10 Good

Vincent

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

The Knowes Hotel & Restaurant

Really frirndy staff, nothing too much trouble, Nice restraunt on site, small comfortable bar. Hotel ounder going refurbishment atthe moment so a lot of noise duringthe morning. I inadvertently bookes a rrom that was blocked off from dayligt due to building works, in fairness this was reflected in the price.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2024

10/10 Excellent

Joanne

Business traveller

Lovely hotel

My stay at the hotel as always was really good! Staff are really friendly and my room this time was great as I was on top floor so really quiet. Food is amazing!! £10.40 for a glass of wine is quite steep though.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

Louise

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely hotel, brilliant view, friendly staff, and delicious food! Would definitely stay again.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

8/10 Good

Alexandra

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Superb views over the rooftops to the sea. Varied tasty food menu choices. Good shower, plenty hot water. Friendly staff. Great location for an evening walkabout watching the sun set over the sea.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Irene

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Colin

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Amazing young staff at heart

Amazing young at heart , great young staff so welcoming & polite & helful credit to the hotel Rooms very modern clean & comfortable Food amazing great view from restaurant over the sea definitely recommend Amazing xxx
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Neil

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great stay

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Doreen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Joanne

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Mixture bit over all lovely hotel

The first night was fine, bar staff great and bubbly. Apologies for not having a sea view from my room as there is construction work going on. Did seat me at the window for dinner. I was wakened @ 6.30am with noises coming from down stairs. Second morning it was 8an with banging noises. Really nice hotel though and once complete would stay again
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Neil

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great service
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
stayed a few times here , staff friendly , nice area good food nice rooms
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Rhona

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Lovely overnight

Nice, modern clean room. Breakfast was first class.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Everything was perfect we had two main meals on the evening, and a fantastic breakfast in the morning out of this world many thanks.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Neil

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent value for money
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tammy

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Wonderful stay

Brilliant hotel, staff super friendly and helpful, food was delicious and views are amazing. Highly recommended
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kimberley

Business traveller
Great food and service. Quiet and clean room.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Stuart

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Shona

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

John

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
On or second a 3 week trip through Scotland. The best nights sleep, best dinner and friendliest staff we have ever met. Yes I am telling all my fellow travellers about this wonderful place. The parking is on a slope, so park at the top if walking up hill is a issue. Best of the Best, Thanks you for such a wonderful stay.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Geoffrey

Liked: Room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023