The Bosville
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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The Bosville
Nineteen rooms on Bosville Terrace, above the harbour and in the middle of Portree, with the Dulse & Brose restaurant and the Merchant Bar in the building. If the point of a night on Skye is to eat well and walk back without getting into a car, this is the straightforward answer in the village. Two things worth knowing before you click: the hotel is run by Perle Hotels, and its old address, bosvillehotel.co.uk, is dead and now answers with someone else's certificate, so ignore it; and Booking.com still lists the property under its former name, Bosville Hotel.
Best for: People who want to sleep in the village itself and reach dinner on foot.
In the centre of Portree, a few minutes from Portree Square — where the Citylink coaches from Inverness, Fort William and Glasgow stop.
Essential information
Strengths
- Nineteen rooms in the centre of Portree
- Above the harbour, restaurant and bar on site
- Dinner and the village within walking distance
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Location
- Portree, Isle of Skye
- In the centre of Portree, a few minutes from Portree Square — where the Citylink coaches from Inverness, Fort William and Glasgow stop.
- 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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