Bosville Hotel

$600 US for a room that was so small they could not fit a chair and had just enough room to walk around the bed. And there wa peeling wallpaper. And while the room was correctly listed as no view-the window looked out at a mud garden 2' from the window. This is more than twice what luxury hotels cost us in Inverness and Edinburgh. I booked it on Booking.com so perhaps Booking.com should help make sure its properties aren't total rip offs. I asked Bosville if there was an error in the rooom cost and they replied that it was exactly right.

We stayed 2 nights at the Bosville in Portree and found it to be the perfect base to explore Skye from. Portree is tiny, so any hotel within the city will have you a 5-minute max walk to anywhere else in the city. Our Premiere Double room was spacious, comfortable, and very tastefully appointed. It felt luxurious and upscale with lots of visual details and amenities for us to enjoy and feel well taken care. We had a great view from our room of the bay in one direction, and the street below in another. Breakfast in the restaurant was plentiful. They brought a continental plate over for the table each morning, which included croissants, yogurt, and fruit, plus you could order from the extensive breakfast menu, which included plenty of vegetarian options. The espresso machine was broken our first morning, but the French press coffee gave me the as-strong-as-I wanted-it-to-be coffee fix I needed. There is no official parking for the hotel, so if you're lucky enough to get one of the spots directly in front of the hotel, it's kind of like winning the lottery. We found it easy to park just up the road (heading out of town) about a block away...no parking limitations allowed us to leave our car there for 2 days. (And, worst case scenario, there's a long-term paid lot [Bayfield] not too far...but we didn't have to use it.) The only quirk was in the spacious and luxurious bathroom...there's no shampoo / conditioner / shower gel /shelf in the shower. There's a small soap shelf, but putting the provided shampoo/conditioner/gel bottles on top of it…well, they wouldn't all fit there, and pressing the dispenser makes it seem like that might break if sitting on top of it...so we had to put those provided items on the floor of the shower to use them. It seems like a basic thing to have a shelf for those in the shower, or wall mounts for them, as they have in almost every other hotel we've ever been to. We loved this hotel, its location, the service, and found it perfect to explore Portree and Skye.

We spent three nights at the Bosville Hotel. The room was spacious and the bathroom was very modern and also roomy. There was both a bathtub and a shower. There was plenty of shelf space for your necessities. The hotel is right in town in Portree, which makes it convenient to walk to things, but there is also noise. The hotel has no free parking, but I think there is a pay lot not far away. Walls and floors are thin, and we were upstairs from the bar. Luckily, they closed at 11. There is no elevator at all, so everyone needs to climb steps to get to their room. Fortunately, one of the friendly staff will carry your heavy bags up the stairs. The carpet was bunched up and pulling away from the sill near our bathroom. The bed and pillows were not very comfortable for me. The rest of the furnishings were plain, but in good shape. Breakfast was quite good, and all the hotel staff were friendly and helpful.