Outer Hebrides · Scotland
Amhuinnsuidhe Castle
A baronial castle on a Hebridean sea loch, taken by the week with its own ghillies
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Amhuinnsuidhe was built in the 1860s on the shore of Loch Leosavay, with the North Harris hills behind and a waterfall running past the front of the house into the sea. It is not a hotel and never sells individual rooms: parties take the whole castle for the week, fully staffed and catered.
The estate is best known for its fishing. Salmon and sea trout run through a chain of lochs and short river systems, and the tariff includes the work of four or five resident ghillies alongside all fishing and a day's red deer stalking. Twelve guests in eight bedrooms is the standard let; the full house takes eighteen in twelve.
It is a serious sporting proposition rather than a spa break, and among the most striking places to stay anywhere in the Hebrides. The rest of Harris — Luskentyre, the Bays road, the Clisham — is on the doorstep.
At a glance
What to expect
- Whole-castle exclusive use
- Salmon and sea trout fishing included
- Resident ghillies
- Red deer stalking
- Full staff and catering
- Twelve bedrooms sleeping eighteen
- Private sea loch frontage
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