Eglinton Hotel

EGLINTON HOTEL, Ardrossan. Thomas Butcher, Manager.

    This first-class family and commercial Hotel has been established for over a century, and is the leading house in its way in Ardrossan. The building has a handsome exterior and is very substantially built, the “Eglinton” coat of arms, finely emblazoned, surmounting the front. The entrance hall is particularly good, and leading from
it is a noble marble stairway. The public rooms on the ground floor are excellently fitted up in the best modern style, are extremely comfortable, and supplied with every convenience. They comprise a neat buffet, cheerful coffee room, commercial room and billiard room. Upstairs are several suites of rooms, sitting rooms, parlours, dressing rooms, and some twenty well-kept bedrooms. To the rear is the posting department, excellently housed.

    The house has a wide-spread reputation for good catering both in food and drink ; these important matters receiving the special attention of the courteous and experienced manager, Mr. Thomas Butcher. He spares no pains to make his guests feel at home, and has evidently considered their comfort and provided for it to the uttermost. Under his able management the excellent traditions of hospitable treatment, which have so long been associated with the establishment, are more than maintained, and the business flourishes accordingly. The commercial and tourist classes of travellers are good patrons, while special terms for short periods attract not a few business men from Glasgow and the surrounding towns. Altogether, considering the high standard kept up, the tariff is one of the most moderate we know of. Arrangements have been made by which any visitors so wishing can be met at the station with vehicles. There is no doubt, with the completion of the new docks in course of construction, this will be one of the most important hotels in the West of Scotland.

    We may also mention that Mr. Butcher is lessee of the refreshment room in connexion with the Caledonian railway station, Ardrossan, where the refreshments supplied are of the best kind and at very low prices. As shewing the facilities which Mr. Butcher has at his command, we refer to an extract from the “London Caterer”, 15th October, 1888 — “Our subscriber, Mr. T. Butcher, of the Eglinton Hotel, Ardrossan, N.B., catered on the 3rd ult. for the largest number of guests ever provided for in that town, the occasion being the opening of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. The Artillery Drill Hall was converted into a luncheon saloon, where a sumptuous spread was placed before the guests, giving unqualified satisfaction to all present”.

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