St Magnus Bay Hotel

The history and unique location. Great artefacts and the most amazing food!!

Nothing!

The location is absolutely superb - overlooking St Magnus bay with lovely walks from the front door. I liked the restaurant very much and had the most delicious meal of scallops - best I’ve ever had and the breakfast was also fantastic. The staff were unfailingly polite, friendly and helpful - giving us advice as to where we could walk. The rooms were comfortable with a kettle and tea-making stuff and the water was nice and hot. It’s a little dated, but that was part of its charm and I will be booking again.

It didn’t bother me, but some people may find the absence of a lift a problem - unless I missed it!

Superb location Excellent restaurant

Decor dated and obviously work in progress to update the hotel (yet still high price per room)

Large room. Great views.

A little renovation required.

The bedroom, the food selection and quality, the staff.

It is a little isolated but that can be a plus also. The public areas were needing a little renovation.

This hotel was a lovely surprise. We had quite a nice room (many have sea views but ours didn’t) with a comfortable bed. The restaurant was good and it was a perfect position to explore the northern islands and areas of Shetland. I would stay here again. Breakfast was also plentiful and tasty. Coffee wasn’t great but that is Scotland. Slept well and ate well - can’t ask for much more!

Lovely breakfast each day in a beautiful dining room overlooking the bay. Fresh tea and coffee according to your taste accompanied the breakfast and other hot/fresh items if desired if the hot items were already a bit picked over when you got to breakfast in addition to the granola/cereal/yogurt/toast etc offered.

Everything was great. The room was clean and comfortable and we slept well. Dinner and breakfast were delicious and we had drinks in the bar in the afternoon. Easy to walk right out the door to do the beautiful Ness of Hillswick walk (highly recommend)! There is also a wildlife sanctuary and we were able to see some adorable baby seals. Doing anything else in the area is quite difficult without a car so I do recommend having one if possible or else plan very carefully (we were lucky enough to get someone from the hotel to drive us to Eshaness and our cab picked us up from there instead of from the hotel as originally planned).