Dalriada Guest House
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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Dalriada Guest House
Five en-suite rooms at Achachork, just north of Portree on the road that climbs towards the Old Man of Storr, with breakfast, wifi and parking included and a lounge for guests. The position is the whole argument, and it cuts both ways: you are already pointing up the Trotternish road when you leave in the morning, which matters if you want to be at the Storr before the coaches — and you need the car to go back down into the village for dinner. Take it if you are driving; skip it if you are not.
Best for: Drivers who want an early start on the Trotternish road and do not need the village on the doorstep.
Outside Portree on the road towards the Old Man of Storr: no coach stop at the door, and the village is a drive rather than a walk.
Essential information
Strengths
- Five en-suite rooms with a guest lounge
- Breakfast, wifi and parking included
- On the Storr road at Achachork — car needed
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Location
- Portree, Isle of Skye
- Outside Portree on the road towards the Old Man of Storr: no coach stop at the door, and the village is a drive rather than a walk.
- 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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