I took Papa Shanley to Silloth on Solway a few weeks ago for our now annual away day. I played 36, while my father sat out the afternoon round.
It takes some scheduling to get there - 2 hours plus from Edinburgh, for example - but I recommend visiting if you can. Perhaps the members would get bored after having played it several hundred times, but I sat in the clubhouse at about 8:00 p.m., with a well deserved pint, wondering if I could get out and play another six holes. (I didn't.) I could sit by the corner window looking out on the course for hours on end during the high season.
I'd describe it as "Royal Troon, which I have seen in person but not played, except on a far more interesting piece of property." We played it in a NW wind, apparently the opposite of the typical wind. That did make for an unbalanced of nines, with a bunch of driver-wedges on the way out, with driver-hybrid the weapons of choice on the way back. I'd love to have seen it in the conventional wind, in which I understand it plays the overwhelming majority of the year, but I'd a grand time there.
I enjoy blind second shots, with seven (humble brag alert: I birdied it second time around with a 50° wedge to three feet pin high) as particularly fun example. Perhaps I simply miss links golf, having played a decent amount of it as a junior in East Lothian, but I enjoyed the intellectual challenge that SoS poses. The only criticism I have involves the routing of the eighth green, the ninth hole (postage stamp par three), and the tenth tee. Perhaps also the walk back to the sixth tee from the fifth green.
(I believe the club wants to do some work on the holes early in the back-nine. They have a display in the clubhouse detailing proposals, but I didn't want to photograph it without their permission, and then I forgot about it.)
The folks at the Queen's Hotel B&B are magnificent as well. I can recommend staying there.