Many previous reviewers have rated the Castle as 5*. I have to confess being rather underwhelmed. The gardens were a bit disappointing and the price seemed steep. Yes, the building is a fairly impressive imitation of a French chateau, I suppose.

A lovely place to spend a day. We enjoyed the falconry displays as a highlight and the castle had lots to explore and see. The gardens were lovely and the cafe was great, tasty well priced food and a good atmosphere and warming open fire. Well worth a visit

Lovely castle to visit, stunning location atop the sea with marvealous views. The Cafe needs a refurbishment, take Highclaire castle as an Inspiration. Personal very friendly and helpful, restrooms clean and prices are acceptable for a tourist spot.

This castle is worth the trip. The inside is beautiful with furniture, tapestries and paintings. There isn’t much info on the history, no audio tour, but they have a view information panels. The highlight of the visit was the Falconry show. It was EXCELLENT, the presenter had exceptional knowledge and the birds were well trained. The gardens were beautiful as well.

Walking up to the castle it doesn't seem so impressive. The best views you get from the garden looking up. Located close to the coast. Great café as well, excellent food but more expensive than at other locations. Every coach operator visits it, especially in the morning. Do like I did, go and grab a hot drink, by the time you have finished the groups have gone through the interior. Loads of info and guides around. Excellent displays, furniture, porcelain, stunning bouquets with flowers of the season in every room. Museum in the garden. Falconry twice a day. Spent half a day and loved it.

Dropped by here pre-opening time on our long drive to John o' Groas from Dornoch, so didn't visit inside. However, its possible to park at the lot behind the castle and walk the minor road beside the castle circling around and towards the seafront for a frontal view of the castle and grounds. A beautiful sight.

Having travelled by motorbike, the two young men on the reception were kind enough to look after our motorcycle helmets for our visit inside the castle. This was very kind and very welcome. We had a poor experience several years ago at Urquart Castle who would not offer the same courtesy. Dunrobin staff were definitely more customer focussed. Well done!

The day was spoilt by an angry, miserable member of staff in the library who was shouting at everyone. Me for having my handbag on my back. She kept shouting, you with the rucksack, I didn’t have a rucksack on it was a small handbag you can put on your back. I was not stopped from going in with it, and nobody other this woman said anything, She then shouted at a lady whose flash had gone off. She was rude, officious and out of order. Completely spoilt our visit after looking forward to visiting. People said thank you to her and she completely ignored them. Generally staff were uninterested. The cafe was a sad and sorry place, we didn’t bother even with a cup of tea. Take a leaf out of The Castle of Mey, the staff were amazing, couldn’t tell you enough about the house, and nobody mentioned my handbag 😀 The cafe in The Castle of Mey is beautiful, with fabulous staff.

What a beautiful setting, the rooms were lovely with plenty of detail, they had a wee treasure hunt for the kids, but really it was spot the 6toys In the rooms, which to be fair the girls enjoyed and it was easy for them. There is alot of jewelry on show which is cool. Maybe I missed it but I wanted more of a time line to see when and who owned the house and why. Seems a very English owned family. Although I did see reference to marrying in to Scottish blood. The museum is pretty impressive although morbid. I'd like to think I'd rather see these poor animals on show than they just go to waste or thrown out. But it's hard to fatholm the amount of animals that were killed for sport back in those days...... The giraffe and elephant stand out but all of the animals really. So make sure you can handle that before you go into the museum. However there are some very cool pictish artefacts and incredible jewelry and fossils also kept withi. The museum whihc is interesting. The falcon show was really good. The knowledge and the birds were incredible. The man who did the show was so nice and happy to answer questions, again our girls loved this and made the trip worth it for them. They enjoyed walking aoru d the gardens. But other than that there is no park or anything for children. And dogs are not allowed. All in all 3hours is about right and the falcon show is on twice one around 1130 & 230pm

This is a true fairytale castle. The castle is wonderful with lots to see and do. The tearoom is good and had a great selection for lunch although it was Berry busy on the day we went to visit. However we were not waiting long and the haggis and baked potato with pepper sauce was excellent. There is lots to see in the castle and you could spend a lot of time looking at all the things on display. The real gem here is the castle gardens. These are spectacular and you can totally lose yourself in them. The highlight for our family was the falconry display in the gardens. This was a great event and very popular, so if you want a seat for it get there at least 20 minutes before it starts on busy days. The museum is interesting and has come good things to explore. Well worth the price of a family ticket.