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| Hotel Eilean Iarmain - Built in 1888,
this small, privately owned hotel has retained its Victorian charm and
old-world character. Hotel Eilean Iarmain is situated on the small rocky bay
of Isle Ornsay in the south of Skye, with expansive views over the Sound of
Sleat to the Knoydart hills. The 16 bedrooms are decorated and furnished in
traditional style and include four new suites, housed in the restored
stables, one of which is specially suitable for disabled guests. Each
bedroom has its own charm: 'The Tower Room', paneled in old pine, and 'The
Leabaidh Mhor', with a canopied bed from nearby Armadale Castle, to name two
of them. There are log fires in the reception rooms, and a paneled dining
room where candlelit dinners can be enjoyed overlooking the bay. The dinner
menu, of five courses, combines imaginative cooking with the variety of
fresh local produce, including fish and shellfish landed at the old stone
pier, oysters and game from the estate, home baked bread and oatcakes. The
extensive wine list has been selected by the proprietors with the aim of
offering some unusual wines with fascinating historical provenances, as well
as a very good range of more famous wines. Hotel Eilean Iarmain is open year
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| Kinloch Lodge is
an elegant country house dating from the early 1600s, whose gardens slope
down to meet the sea loch, Na Dal, on the Isle of Skye in the Highlands of
Scotland. It is the ancestral home of Lord Macdonald of Macdonald, High
Chief of Clan Donald, who runs it as a small, very personal hotel with his
wife, the world-renowned cookery writer Claire Macdonald. In 1998 the
Macdonalds built a new house adjacent to the Lodge and in similar style,
known as Kinloch, providing 15 bedrooms in all. The setting is romantic,
beautiful and incomparably peaceful. Secluded between a wooded hillside and
the sea loch on two sides, the surrounding area is fascinating for those who
love and appreciate nature, with notable flowers and plants, five golden
eagles on the hill behind the house, seals galore and a colony of otters.
The bird life is varied and plentiful. Here, in view of Skye and the
spectacular Cuillin Hills, the Macdonalds dispense the warmest hospitality
from their family home. The atmosphere is very relaxed, with comfortable
rooms decorated in traditional country house style, log fires and a
five-course dinner that features the freshest of ingredients that are
naturally available in season. |
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