The Green Park Hotel's Public Areas

The principal lounges, halls and the lounge bar bar of the hotel are all spacious, fresh and full of light.

As is inevitable in a family run county house type hotel, the background and enthusiasms of the owning family emerge clearly. There is thus a generous availability of books - over three thousand to choose from - throughout the hotel and there is a wide range of pictures and paintings in public areas and bedrooms. The persistent artistic thread running through the selection is that the subjects should all be on a Scottish theme, or be painted by artists living in Scotland. Alfred Allan from Fife is well represented, with his two latest commissions being 'On the way to Ben-Y-Vrackie' which is in the main stairwell, and 'Children playing on the West Sands' which is currently in the bar lounge.

The hotel's main lounge is reached from the front hall of the hotel, and is made up of what would have been the two principal rooms of the original Victorian building. The original drawing room section of the lounge has a particularily nice corniced ceiling.

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Every day from approximately 11am until around 5pm, the principal sideboard in the main lounge is laid with a complimentary tea and coffee buffet, which guests are invited to help themselves to. Fairtrade Colombian ground coffee, Fairtrade decaffienated Colombian ground coffee, teas, biscuits, and gluten-free biscuits are made available. From around 1pm ( earlier if Alistair is on duty ) a selection of home made cakes and homemade gluten-free cakes are added to the buffet. Please take at least one of the cakes each, as Alistair has great difficulty in passing by the buffet, without doing a spot of "quality control" as he calls it.

On the way from the main lounge to the dining-room you will find the jigsaw area, which has become the domain of Julie ( Melrose ) from housekeeping. Since being appointed the Green Park's first ever 'Jigsaw Coordinator', Julie tells us that jigsaws are beginning to take over her live. While Julie has been given a considerable budget to procure new jigsaws, she is delighted that guests continue to bring favourite jigsaws with them, to leave at the hotel and add to our library.

The sun lounge is reached from the main lounge, and enjoys sweeping panoramic views of the gardens and Loch Faskally. Binoculars are placed around the bay windows, in the hope that you can add to the nature reports in our 'Nature Diary' to be found on the piano in the main lounge. Red Squirrels have recently taken to helping themselves from their feeder, which is strategically placed at the foot of the giant Lebanese Cedar, to the left of the sun luouge.

The sun lounge dance floor is a well kept secret, except over the Hogmanay period and our January weekends. Every weekend in January the lounge furniture is rearranged to free up the dance floor, and you are invited to strut your stuff after dinner with our resident musicians. We make no apology for the musical mix, which is very much in the traditional ballroom and Scottish styles. Break dancers are urged to ply their craft elsewhere.

The bar lounge is towards the left of the reception area as you enter the hotel, and is not always manned. To attract attention, either ask at reception or shout 'fire' loudly - the latter should certainly bring someone running.

Situated in the lobby of the first floor of the Garden Wing is our Video Lounge. Scottish railway journeys of old, local wildlife, and other material of a non-taxing nature can be viewed at your leisure.

As mentioned already above, books, paintings, and quiet reading areas are a feature of the hotel, and can be found throughout the building. Please wander the corridors and public areas at will, and make yourself at home where ever suits.

Why not view our tour of the hotels public areas?