Thistle Aberdeen Caledonian Hotel

A functional hotel with spacious rooms and modern décor. Great that its walking distance to city center. Nothing that remarkable but nothing wrong either.

I’m mixed on this hotel. It could be five star (for Aberdeen). It’s got a great, central location and the refurbished rooms are very nice. The staff is nice enough but the hotel has a very automated feel to it. The concierge was no help in assisting us in finding a restaurant, our family couldn’t get through to us via their weird phone system. The hotel is good, just a big *off*.

used to use this years ago
was in at a works do duringthe summer v nice grub laid out
bat uninspiring
handy for town murder for parking

The Caledonian hotel used to be a charming and unique hotel in classical English style, high ceilings, leather couches, four-​poster beds, etc. Unfortunately, a recent refurbishment has turned it into a modern design hotel, now it features plastic chandeliers, purple walls and zebra-​pattern rugs, turning it into a generic business hotel, indistinguishable from any other bad-​taste modern hotels anywhere else in the world, with a rude and personality-​less staff to match.
My parents had booked the Balmoral Suite especially, as they have stayed there many times, and have been very pleased. Upon checking in they were informed that they had been moved to a different much smaller room. Complaining was met with little understanding, since the new room had the same price class.
In addition the bad interior decoration described above the room featured an empty mini-​bar, a fancy senseo coffee machine with no pads and a shower that turned on and off by itself.
The next morning breakfast had been moved from the usual dining room to the café next door, where a uninspired breakfast buffet was setup, once we received plates and cutlery after asking a few times it was ok though.
For the price, the room, hotel, breakfast and staff were all a huge let-​down. I would avoid at all costs, for a nice upmarket hotel in Aberdeen give the new Malmaison a try.