Stayed for two nights as a family of four during Easter holidays. Booked due to easy access to Edinburgh, without the bustle of staying in city centre and spa facilities a nice bonus. We had booked two rooms, one double & one twin as our children are now teenagers. On arrival rooms clean but very dated, felt like we’d stepped back into the 1990’s. Bathroom had a bath with shower curtain for shower. Shower very poor, lacked any power & flush on toilet terrible. Cold tap ran warm, unsure if drinkable, so went out & bought mineral water. Window handle broken in our room, broken handle just sat on windowsill. Notes around room written in Russian which at first we just thought was odd. Children sat on floor in corridor outside our room playing, again just thought this was odd to begin with. Spa facilities again a bit dated, but clean & were nice after a busy day round Edinburgh. Breakfast was buffet style, when we went down told we must sit at one side of dining room, again we just thought this a bit odd. Breakfast ingredients basic, but well cooked & liked the buffet style. Then my son noticed one guest at other side of room putting around eight boiled eggs in his pockets. As we all looked he then pulled a lunch box from his rucksack & filled it with all the cooked meats & bread off his plate. He then proceeded to go back & forth to the buffet filling his plate & pockets with mainly boiled eggs, meat, bread, butter, croissants, yogurt pots & then tipping in his bag. Over the two mornings we noticed others doing the same, frequently refilling their plates & tipping into bags & lunch boxes. To begin with our children just found this amusing. However we soon realised that due to the amount of additional food being taken we had to compete to get our breakfast. I went to get some butter to go with my toast, all taken only margarine left, asked a staff member, who brought me two small packs I then shared with my husband. Red jam was in a bowl ? strawberry, no marmalade or the little individual packets you get in hotels usually. Soon became apparent why, they would just be taken. No blueberry muffins or smoothies, as stated on website menu, fruit choice limited, again I guess as it all would be just taken. When dishing up my cooked breakfast, a lady leaned right over me & took last four slices of bacon. Final straw was as the first guest we saw taking food was leaving on second morning, he opened each of the hot plates & took what he could with his hands. At this point a staff member was next to our table & I pointed this out to her. She was very apologetic but explained she had watched this going on for a year but as they are Ukrainian’s living at hotel the staff aren’t allowed to say anything to them. We then realised the other things we thought was odd was because the hotel was more geared towards looking after the Ukrainian people living there permanently than towards its holiday guests. The first night we ate out locally, the second night we inten