Pitlochry - nice place but shame about the attitude. (Pitlochry in General)

Member Name: Nathan

Product:	Pitlochry in General
Date:	19/09/06 (78 review reads)
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Advantages: Edradour distillery.

Disadvantages: Don't try the fishing!

Lovely scenic place nestled in the east side of Scotland completely let down by the people who work there.

For example: Go into woollen shop which has two floors, ground floor for men’s clothes, first floor for women’s. Ask shop assistant why ladies section is closed off – response “We should be closed for Gods sake!”

We thought ok then obviously the lady is just having a bad just a one off occurrence…

Next morning we try to hire a boat on the loch to do a bit of fishing from the “Pitlochry boating station” positioned on the loch down the end of “Clunie Bridge Road” Never in all my life have I met such an unpleasant mother and son combination! We were told that we would have to leave a £40 cash deposit for the rod, a credit card AND our car keys as a deposit for the boat! We aren’t talking luxury boats here either just crappy rowing boats with tiny outboard motors! After I laughingly explained that all our valuables were locked in the car he shouted out to his mom “Ma, there’s people here trying to steal our boats” – at first I thought he was joking but then his mom came out shouting “Away with ye yer scunner go back to where you came from, we don’t need your type around here!”

Well as you can imagine we checked out of our hotel immediately. The hotel manager didn’t charge us for the second night saying “Oh no they’ve done it again” obviously we weren’t the first to suffer such racial abuse…

Shame really because the place is nice but the people who work there just have no idea how to treat other people let alone tourists…

The one highlight of our visit to Pitlochry was our trip to the Edradour distillery – a scenic place set on the outskirts of Pitlochry where to our great surprise and relief we met a lovely man called Frank!

Summary: One to avoid at all costs...