Bed and breakfast on Main Street, Tobermory, Isle of Mull. Run by Ruth and Alasdair, open March to October, breakfast included.
Tobermory
The house
Carraig House is the red one on Main Street: three floors and an attic of rooms that look across the harbour to Calve Island, with breakfast in the front room at eight.
5
rooms, each with its own shower room
8–9.30
breakfast every morning, included
£120
a night for two, in our smallest room
Carraig is Gaelic for rock. Main Street itself was cut out of the cliff behind it in the 1780s.
Rooms by floor
Every room looks over the bay. Choose by the bed, the size and how many stairs you fancy.
A stay, hour by hour
A stay, hour by hour
4pm Arrive
Check-in from 4pm.
Ring the bell by the red door and one of us will carry your bags up. Arriving after 8? Call ahead and we will leave the key.
7pm Evening
The evening is yours.
The restaurants and shops of Main Street are a few doors either way. Ask before 5 and we will book you a table.
11pm Night
Voices down after 10.30.
The hall light stays on all night, and your key opens the front door whenever you get back.
8am Breakfast
Breakfast from 8 to 9.30.
In the front room: the full Scottish, kippers or porridge, cooked to order from the card you ticked last night.
10.30am Leave
Check-out by 10.30.
Leave your bags in the hall and see the island. Ferries leave Craignure for Oban every two hours.
8 to 9.30am
Breakfast is cooked to order and comes with the room.
The full Scottish
Bacon, Lorne sausage, black pudding, an egg how you like it, a tattie scone, grilled tomato and mushrooms.
Grilled kippers
A split, oak-smoked herring with butter, lemon and brown bread.
Porridge
Oats cooked slowly, with cream and honey, or with salt the old way.
The island
Staffa’s columns, puffins on Lunga, a white beach at Calgary: most of north Mull is a day out from the door.
Plan a day outFrom the guest book
We booked Coll for three nights and stayed five. You wake up to the bay through the gable window, and the bath at the end of a wet walk is worth the climb.
Ruth had our boots in the drying room before we had our coats off. The tattie scones alone are a reason to come back.
Our ferry was two hours late. Alasdair left the hall light on and a note with the key, and breakfast the next morning was worth the wait.
Ulva is small and right for two walkers. The packed lunches for the Staffa boat fed us all day.
Kippers at nine, puffins on Lunga by eleven. That is a good morning.
Warm, spotless and right on the harbour, with an armchair at the window for the boats going out. We have already asked for Calve again.
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Read the guest bookGetting here
Train to Oban, ferry to Craignure, 22 miles up the island. Or the ferry from Kilchoan, which lands in town.
Train to Oban
The West Highland Line runs from Glasgow to Oban. The station is next to the ferry terminal.
Ferry to Craignure
CalMac sails Oban to Craignure up to 10 times a day in summer, 3 to 5 in winter. Book a car space ahead in summer.
22 miles up the island
Craignure to Tobermory is 22 miles (35 km). Buses run from Craignure, or drive.
Or from the north
The CalMac ferry from Kilchoan, on Ardnamurchan, lands in Tobermory itself, a few minutes from our door.
Ask for your dates.
Tell us when and how many and we reply within a day, usually sooner. Or ring Ruth on 01632 960 418.