Captain's Cabin
Highlands Argyll & Bute Drimnin
- From £165 a night
- Sleeps 2
A contemporary West Coast Scotland cabin that’s fit for a captain on the Sound of Mull
The Captain’s Cabin is an architect-built bolthole for two on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands. It offers a contemporary, comfortable and stylish place to stay that overlooks the stretch of water between the Scottish mainland at Drimnin and the nearby Isle of Mull. It’s more than three hours’ drive north of Glasgow and the nearest motorway, and eight miles from the closest A-road and shop. You reach it after driving that distance on a single-track road and a further mile on a private drive. This place is peaceful, remote and romantic. Perhaps it should be no surprise that The Captain’s Cabin inspired a book.
Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith penned a novella based on the property, also called The Captain’s Cabin, and inspiration must have come easy. This place offers ever-changing views across the Sound of Mull from its elevated position atop the flat roof of a whitewashed old chapel. The space downstairs is a totally separate dwelling, home to the housekeepers who keep this cabin and two others, AirShip and PilotHouse, spick and span. All three are drop-your-bags-dramatic places to stay, with curved walls clad in aluminium, but each is a unique design.
This one is an elliptical shape set on the large flat roof of the chapel, giving you a huge balcony that stretches all the way round. Inside, you have everything you’d expect from a holiday home, with a nautical theme to tie it together. There’s a bedroom with charts on the wall and a bathroom with a toilet and shower, but the best part is the open-plan living room and galley. A wall of windows helps make the most of the views, and comfy seating is set around a log burner (instead of a TV). A lantern hangs over a coffee table made from a barrel; nautical instruments decorate the walls.
Should all this inspire you to take to the water, you can hire a kayak on site and paddle out into the sound or walk down to Drimnin Bay for a swim. You can hire bikes too, and there’s a ferry to Mull from Lochaline, back down that single-track road, where there's also a shop and a place to eat. It’s about half an hour’s drive and the ferry takes 20 minutes. Tobermory is the destination most people want to visit. But you could always just stay right here and keep half an eye on the water while reading The Captain’s Cabin.
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Contact Website 07768 88 712 4 Captain's Cabin, Druim Na Cracaig, Drimnin, Argyll PA80 5XZGetting There
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