4 of us recently stayed here 2 nights. ornamental frogs everywhere, the accomodation is old fashioned and in the bedroom the sachets of milk were one week out of date so i emptied them all in the sink, however after the room had been cleaned i checked the replenished milk and again it was the same as the day before out of date. in the morning when breakfast arrived there was a poached egg, 1 rasher bacon, 1/2 tomato and an uncooked potato scone placed on a plate which was the size of a side plate and needless to say wasn't very pallatable and the toast was burnt. next morning i asked the man who took my order if i could have my egg and potato scone fried.he looked very embarrassed and apologetically told me they didn't have a frying pan! again it was poached egg and watery mushrooms. when our toast arrived it was burnt again and i had to request some more lightly cooked toast. i think his wife did the cooking and kept well hidden away until it was time to pay the bill. when we were paying the bill i told her that the milk sachets in the bedroom were out of date and she looked at me and said "oh! that's the chaimbermaids fault". no apology, she wasn't bothered. wouldn't go back there.

We stayed at Glenbervie for one night in June 2011 (we were booked elsewhere but had to stay there because our original BB choice was not accepting any guests on that night). We were received by the land lady (who didn't even bother to introduce herself or ask us about our names or anything else for that matter), she showed me our room (which was a twin en-suite on the ground floor - really noisy because the breakfast room was just opposite our room and the attic in front of our room was the main guests sitting area). The room was rather small (unsuitable for two people with TWO - of course!!! - suitcases), the toilet was tiny and in the whole everything seemed clean but once you paid attention to the details things became uglier! We were told that breakfast was strictly from 08.00 - 08.30 (!!!!!!) and it was all that the other guests reviews here say - absolutely fixed! No choise! My coffee mug was dirty, I had them change it for me but NO apologies were given, but in all we didn't touch much of our breakfast (wouldn't trust cleanliness). On top of everything, my friend woke up in the middle of the night to find a cokroach in our room, which she didn't manage to kill and we spent half our night searching whether it might have found its way inside our things! When she told the landlady in the morning the answer she got was "Oh, it must have come through the window" (!?!!!!!!!!?!???) Of course no apologies were included here either.
After having spent 10 days in Scotland and having stayed in several BBs and Hotels I must admit this was the worse experience - not really or -at least- because of the room or the breakfast, but because of their behaviour. This is not what scottish hospitality is in reality. Go anywhere else, they will make you feel at home and you will be saying goobye as if you were leaving a dear friend. These people acted like professionals, knowing they would propably never see us again so why should they care??? And all that at a price 30% higher than what we paid to stay in a 4-star hotel downtown Glasgow, with an excellent choise for breakfast and the nicest staff ever!

A reasonable guest house which was clean and looked after but far too many cushions and nik naks - it was extremely cluttered. The bed was comfortable and the location was good with nice views across the bay from the lounge and breakfast room. Our bedroom looked out over a bowling green. The breakfast was basic but lacked the black pudding which would have added a touch of luxury. They advertise parking for six cars but these are end on end so some car shuffling is required if you are first in and want to be first out. The hosts weren't overly welcoming but were polite They weren't available when I went to ask for an extra lamp for our room.

Clean (ish) and comfortable, with reasonable view over Oban Bay, its up a hill, after all. The rooms are quite small and the en-suites are even smaller, but do the job. Breakfast is served between 8am and 8.30am, even at weekends, definitely too early, and mine host nearly had apoplexy when my wife asked for peppermint tea, come on, this is 2010, but not at the Glenbervie apparently, also its cooked breakfast, or not, no choice, not even porridge, essential in Scotland in July and August, and we had to ask for more toast, as well.
Summing up, Ok, but definitely overpriced for what you get.