Established in 1785 as a coaching inn, the Argyll Hotel is attractively situated on the main A83 road from Tarbert and lies about 10 miles north of Campbeltown.

The hotel was established in 1785 as a coaching inn and made a convenient stopping off point for the Campbeltown to Tarbert mail coach. Once owned by the Duke of Argyll it was originally called The Bellochantuy Hotel (pronounced “Bellochantee”). In September 1939, just after the outbreak of war, the hotel was sprayed by machine gun fire – not as first thought by an enemy plane but by a British pilot testing out his guns regardless of the alarm he was causing.