Cuillin Hills Hotel
The main village of Skye, and the only base on this page that is on the island: where to sleep if the island is the point, rather than where a tour collects you.
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Cuillin Hills Hotel
A family-run independent hotel above Portree Bay, roughly ten minutes on foot from the centre of the village, with free parking. Its own website describes the setting as "fifteen acres of mature private grounds" — the hotel’s figure, not a measurement of ours. The trade is the obvious one: you get the quiet side and the view over the bay, and you walk back up the hill after dinner. This is the upper end of what Portree offers. Its own website quotes a review-site placing, which we deliberately do not repeat: the reason to choose it is the grounds and the position, not a badge.
Best for: Travellers who want a quiet base with a view over the bay and do not mind the walk into the village.
On Skye, not at a departure point: no tour in our selection is picked up here. Portree is where the island days are spent.
Essential information
Strengths
- Private grounds the hotel puts at fifteen acres
- Ten-minute walk from Portree centre
- Free parking on site
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Location
- Portree, Isle of Skye
- On Skye, not at a departure point: no tour in our selection is picked up here. Portree is where the island days are spent.
- Travellers who want nights on the island, not a pickup point.
Good to know
- No tour in our selection starts on Skye. Six of the eight leave from Edinburgh and two are day trips out of Inverness, so a room in Portree is for the island itself, or for a trip you drive yourself.
- Arriving without a car takes a while. Scottish Citylink service 917 runs from Inverness bus station to Portree Square in 3h12–3h20, four times a day in summer (06:10, 08:30, 13:15 and 17:45; timetable valid 6 June – 18 September 2026), via Loch Ness, Dornie, Kyle of Lochalsh and the Skye Bridge. From Glasgow the fastest connection is 6h25. There is no direct coach from Edinburgh.
- Skye is wet, and high season is not the dry part of the year. The Met Office station at Prabost, near Portree, averages 1,769.05 mm of rain a year against 755.02 mm at Inverness, and August averages 124.89 mm against 90.10 mm in May (1991–2020 averages). An overcast day here is the statistical norm, not bad luck.
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