Hotels in Scotland
Sta,—On my return from a 1,000-mile tour of rorth-west, north and central Scotland, I find in your issue of May 19th a statement by a correspondent, J. Reid Christie, which in the interests of veracity (and of the Scottish Tourist Board) should not be allowed to pass unchallenged and uncorrected. Mr. Christie writes: " One has only to travel in the hotels of-the Hightands to experience how the Catering Act has poisoned the friendly and contented atmosphere, and turned peaceful homes into places with the atmosphere of snooping factories." On our tour, which took us up the west coast to Cape Wrath, along the north coast to John o' Groats, down the north-east coast to Inverness, and home through Speyside and Perthshire, our experience completely refutes this assertion, for in the eight hotels in which we stayed overnight and in the fifteen or more others in which we had meals we found not only good food and excellent accommodation and service,' but courtesy and con
sideration from both managers any! The combination of comfort and kindliness which we met with inWs Wry widespread and representa tive list of hotels made f our holiday most enjoyable, and gave us cause for pride that our Scottish hotels are able and willing, in spite of the provisions of the Catering Act, to cater for all the needs of even the most
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