We took my partner's parents here to celebrate a birthday and I was embarrassed to have chosen this hotel.
The rooms are grotty and depressing. Whoever decorated them should've gone to Specsavers first. The overall appearance of the hotel is shabby and crying out for a good spruce up. The food was bland and unappetising and was very overpriced. My partner ordered a starter of local smoked meats and was presented with four small slices of meat....at a cost of £7. He also suffered a bad pint of ale later that evening.
Don't fall for the website patter or you will be very disappointed. It's a shame, because it promises so much and delivers so little. This hotel should be advertised for what it is - cheap and nasty.
The hotel's only saving grace was the bar area with open fires, but even they could be doing with a bit of a clean.
I agree with the previous review - this hotel sums up all that is wrong with the Scottish hotel industry!!

Don't stay here, unless you are conducting research and want to see all that is wrong with Scotland's hotel sector in one example. Hotel is run down , dirty, smelly, dated and an an absolute disgrace at this money (£105 B&B family room). The literature in the bedroom hadn't been updated since as far back as 2002, bar menu the same. The bar is warm and freindly, staff ok and food indifferent. Management are a big problem however. We started our meal, ate two courses, waited half an hour for our plates to be collect. When we tried to order desert we we told (rudely) that it was now after 9.30 (it was 9.35) and therefore too late to place an order. So they will happily serve two cousres but pass that 9.30 deadline and you wont get a third! The situation only arose because their service was so hopelessly slow. I complained to the manager who acknowledged what had happened but did nothing about it. This hotel needs a massive facelift and new management before I'd consider a return visit.

We seem to have fared much better than previous reviewers. We booked a standard (rather than a superior) room which was on the 2nd floor. No lift but we were helped with some of our luggage. The room was clean and pleasant enough, with a nice view over the garden, and had a tray for making tea or coffee.

The meal we had in the restaurant was excellent. It was a Friday evening and the bar & restaurant were both busy, so the service wasn't fast, but not exceptionally slow, & we were in no hurry. Maybe it would be rather slow if you were dining with children.

We thought the Moulin was a very good place to stay in Pitlochry.

I have nothing against this hotel, they didn't do anything to upset me, so this review is as objective as I can make it.
First of all the room was filthy, there was still rubbish in the wardrobes and stains all over the shelves. The bathroom was covered in mould and the shower curtain did nothing to stop all the shower water pouring all over the floor. They pride themselves on the four poster beds in each room, however a creaky old badly made pine bed with falling off garish tartan curtains hardly made for a good nights sleep.
Now the room was the best bit, the restaurant was like something out of Ramsay's kitchen nightmares. There were 3 menus served by the one kitchen, the bar, the restaurant and also the dinner bed and breakfast menu. Between them I'd say there were a total of nearly 30 main courses available. Considering we were the only people in the restaurant (this is a June weekend!!) there is absolutely no way that the food can be made from fresh ingredients. Not only that but it tasted awful. All the cuttlery on the table was filthy, we looked on the other tables for clean tableware but could not find anything clean to replace it. The bar food did look a bit better at least, after all they can't go too wrong surely with sticking a few chips on the side of a microwaved meal? However the bar suffered from the kind of lingering air of decay that makes you wish that there was no smoking ban so at least the musty smell would be disguised.
This place is not cheap either, clearly benefitting from the high number of tourists in Pitlochry without having to bother about actually providing any kind of decent service. We did, by the way,mention the cleanliness of the room when we checked out, we might as well have complained to one of the empty beer barrels stacked outside the brewery for all the interest this provoked.
Stay away from this hotel, Athol palace hotel isn't that much more money..