The King's Arms Hotel hosts annual society dinners, private parties of up to 70 seated guests, birthdays, christenings and funeral teas, in its dining room and Courtyard Restaurant. The hotel is a family-run former coaching inn on St Andrew Street in Castle Douglas, in Dumfries and Galloway, in the south-west of Scotland, with bedrooms upstairs.
Seminars and company events
The hotel does not sell meeting rooms or seminar packages, but it is the regular host of several annual dinners with speeches, among them the Waterloo Dinner, the Galloway Cattle Society Dinner and the Castle Douglas Burns' Society Supper. For an association, a club or a company that wants a dinner with speeches and drinks in a small Scottish market town, the Courtyard Restaurant is the room the hotel puts forward. Events are planned by phone with the owners, who tailor each one to the group.
Rooms and capacities
The dining room takes private parties of up to 70 seated guests. The Courtyard Restaurant is set up for dinners, speeches and drinks. Diners can also eat in the bar and in the coffee lounge, which gives a group a place for pre-dinner drinks before moving through.
Accommodation
The hotel has en-suite family, double, twin and single rooms, with a full breakfast included in the room rate. Dogs are welcome in the hotel, though not in the dining room. The hotel describes itself as a golf hotel, and it sells golf packages for courses across Galloway, along with stays for cyclists, motorcyclists, walkers, birdwatchers and stargazers, which suits a group that wants an outdoor activity around its dinner.
Catering
The kitchen is led by chef Jordan, who mixes Scottish cooking with international influences and buys from local butchers, bakers and independent suppliers. Portions are generous, and buffets are prepared for receptions and family occasions.
History and setting
The King's Arms was a coaching inn before it became a hotel. David and Pauline Fulton bought it in 1994. David is the fourth generation of his family to run hotels in Castle Douglas: his great-grandfather took a licence in April 1920 for The Globe on King Street, the hotel later renamed The Imperial, which the family ran until 2008. Pauline has worked alongside him for more than three decades. Castle Douglas is a market town in the Stewartry, known locally for its independent food shops.
Getting there
The hotel is at St Andrew Street, in the center of Castle Douglas, in Dumfries and Galloway.
