Your Hosts
Your hosts, Jim & Denise Campbell also enjoy a good meal and company, together they will ensure that the house is comfortable during your stay. We use locally farmed produce wherever possible.
Hot Tub and Sauna - 2010
During 2010, we plan to have a hot tub and sauna in our new conservatory.
Just relax, take in the view over the sea, islands and sound?
Availability
If you can’t find your preferred dates, give us a call, we may still be able to accommodate you.
All rooms have showers en-suite, king size beds and Egyptian linen & quality cotton towels. Robes can be provided for those guests using the sauna & hot tub.
Welcome
Thank you for visiting the Castlehill website. We are a top end 4 Star B&B with Visit Scotland. We achieved excellent commendations for our accommodation, food, hospitality and facilities. The 2010 Orkney events listings are now published on our Noticeboard to help you plan your holiday or short break to Orkney.
Our website should give you enough information to enable you to consider Orkney and all of its splendour as a great place to spend your holiday or short break. If you have been to Castlehill this year, why not write a review on Trip Advisor & share your experience with others.
Having said all this, we also hope you will decide to stay with us. We will always do our very best to ensure that you have a great time at Castlehill and and that you will will want to recommend us to your friends or visit us again. Our food, breakfasts & evening meals are highly rated & recommended by our guests, we can tailor a menu to suit your needs. We source our meat and fish & shelfish locally and can assure you of the highest quality produce for your gastronomique enjoyment.
The Orkney Islands are very friendly and offer the opportunity to relax in peace and quiet as well as offering a great choice of outdoor activities in some of the most beautiful surroundings in the UK – offering clear, clean air – big skies – miles of coast and ever changing seas.
There is lots to do and see, yet plenty of time to relax, enjoy the peace, quiet and tranquility of Orkney.
Your journey to the Orkney Islands can be either by road and sea or air links. Whichever route you choose to travel, your journey will take you through some spectacular scenery which will entice you to return to explore, time after time.
The Orkney towns and villages offer some fine restaurants, good local shopping and interesting places to visit. Evie is where we live, there is a post office, shop and village club/bar (open to club members, guests and visitors). The village is about 25 mins from Stromness and Kirkwall & 35 mins from the airport.
Our nearest town is Dounby, 12 mins, where you have a selection of small shops, medical services, petrol, diesel at the Co-op. There are two hotels, the Smithfield and the Merkister - famous for its fly fishing on Loch Harray.
Good Food!
We're happy to provide evening meals or packed lunches as a private service to guests for which an additional charge will be made. We aim to use only the best local produce to ensure your enjoyment. Feel free to make further enquiries by using the 'contact us' form.more info...
Local Attractions
Castlehill is placed just below Burgar Hill, an established RSPB nature reserve on the ancient heather – peat moor. We are very close to some of the best loch fishing in Scotland - with Lochs Harray, Stenness, Hundland, Swanney & Boardhouse all offering brown trout fishing - renowned all over the world. Sea trout are also native in the area and have been caught in Stenness, Harray and shoreline bays.more info...
Orkney offers a wide variety of facilities & attractions so you can just relax or be as active as you feel you need to be. This together with the natural beauty of the archipelago makes Orkney an ideal location for a UK holiday or short break.
The Orkney weather is often sunny and dry during the summer months.
Off-season it can be mixed weather conditions. The air is also clean and fresh.
We have a large attractive house overlooking the Eynhallow Sound, Rousay, Wyre, Westray and many of the northerly Orkney Islands. The house looks over spectacular, panoramic sea views. The RSPB site at Burgar is behind the house and you can often see, owls & hen harriers, terns, duck, gulls and a whole range of moorland and small birds. Our bedrooms to the rear have top hung windows, ideally suited to watching and photography.
We are very close to Evie beach - a sandy bay, seals are often seen as are heron, curlew, snipe, orca & minkie whales, porpoise & sea otter have also been spotted around the coastline. The beach is only a few hundred yards from - the Broch of Gurness, a magnificent Viking & Pictish archaeological village. Evie is also close to the heart of the World heritage site including - Skara Brae (6 miles), Maeshowe, Ring of Brodgar & Standing Stones of Stenness. To the north end of the island, there is Earl’s Palace at Birsay and the Borough of Birsay. Again fine coastal views, waves and an abundance of wildlife are to be enjoyed.
