Name: Scalloway Hotel
Address: Main St, Scalloway, Scalloway, Scalloway, ZE1 0TR, United Kingdom
Rating: 9

24-hour reception

Smoke-free property

No elevators

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Free Wi-Fi

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Parking

Free parking nearby

Pets Not Allowed

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Scalloway Museum

Tingwall Airport

Sumburgh Airport

Scatsta Airport

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We are on Shetland doing some sea kayaking and wanted somewhere nice for our wedding anniversary. We understand that the Scalloway Hotel is now under new management and has recently been refurbished. 
Young staff but very friendly and helpful, room was very clean with a sea view and the food was lovely 😋😋😋.
Highly recommend 👍

Scalloway Hotel. 

 For 10 days this autumn, I had a most comfortable stay at the Scalloway Hotel.  My room was spacious with new bath; the bed with wool comforter was super comfortable!  This historic building doesn’t have an elevator, but there are  first floor rooms. The hotel has a lively pub as well as restaurant.  The breakfasts were extensive including Eggs Benedict, smoked fish, locally made pork sausages as well as blood sausage.  Eggs were custom prepared including omelets.  There was a large selection of breads, pastries, yoghurt, fresh fruit, cereals and jams.  Service was attentive and efficient.  The pub opened for dinner at 5 PM and each day filled up quickly with a lively crowd.  Dinners in the pub included new selections each day using locally sourced produce, meats and fish.  The mushroom and also carrot. soups were fabulous! The appetizer of scallops and parsnip puree is a must.  The fish and chips were perfectly prepared with the exact amount of crispiness in the coating of the succulent, super fresh fish inside.  I enjoyed some of the best seafood I have ever eaten here.  The homemade “Sticky Toffee Pudding” is best described as “unforgettably delicious.”  The restaurant is more formal with a similar menu, but I was content to enjoy the pub each evening and the its guests where I met great people from the local area as well as travelers like me.  Best of all though  were the owners and staff all of whom were so warm and welcoming, and so eager to help all of their guests have a nice time.  

A great hotel and restaurant in the beautiful Shetland Islands.

Reviews indicated that that Scalloway Hotel was one of the best in the Shetlands, and that the dining room was the best restaurant.  Since we were celebrating my wife's birthday during this trip, I contacted the hotel prior to arrival, to make arrangements for flowers, a dining room reservation, and even a birthday cake.  We had requested a harbor view room, and as mentioned in a prior review, were surprised to find our "harbor view" was substantially blocked by a building across the street.  Fortunately, for us, Caroline (one of the owners) who was taking care of us, offered us one of the best rooms in the hotel (#31) - with an unobstructed view of the harbor; 4-poster bed; sensational mattress, furnishings, heated bathroom floor, etc.  The requested flower arrangement was excellent (and accompanied us throughout the rest of our Shetland travels); the dinner in in their 2-star dining room was superb (my wife is a vegetarian); and the chocolate birthday cake was "over the top" (we shared most of the left over cake with the staff).  The rest of the staff were all very pleasant, very personable, and very professional.  Also, Scalloway is an excellent, mid-island location for travels almost anywhere in the Shetland Islands.

Exceeded our expectations

Although we live in Shetland, we decided to have a mini staycation and spent two glorious days exploring the Shetland mainland, and finding some beautiful places that we did not already know. We chose Scalloway Hotel as our base, and were, as always, impressed by the overall experience. We were kindly given room 311, which is one of the best in the house. It is beautifully furnished and displays outstanding local art. There is a terrific gin list, for our pre-dinner gins and tonic. Dinner was wonderfully fresh and beautifully cooked. Lobster and local fillet steak cannot be beaten. I was particularly impressed by the excellence of the wine list, with an outstanding Macon at only £35.
Breakfast was also delicious, with outstanding ingredients. Scalloway Hotel continues to be head and shoulders the best hotel and restaurant in Shetland.

Still outstanding!

Just stayed 3 days and 2 nights here and all I can say is what a lovely hotel, with great owners, friendly staff and great food. 

I read the 'terrible' reviews before I booked here and after establishing they were just moaning for the sake of moaning I booked up.  I'm glad I did. 

You will not be disappointed here. So, do as I did, and ignore the 'ones that are never happy' comments and book up!

I'm planning to return on a pleasure holiday trip by motorcycle and I will def book here. 

Thank you again

Lee

What a lovely hotel and staff

We arrived at the Hotel in Scalloway which was just across 
The road from the the town harbour.
This is a family run hotel and we were checked in by publicans wife Carolyn McKenzie 
Rooms were spacious and Internet and Tv channels were 
All excellent . 
The hotel has a dining room serving fresh local Seafood 
Which is wonderful and a very cosy bar area serving 
Really good Barfood .
Breakfast was served in dining room and all made to order.
They have lovely staff and everyone is helpful 
On what we should see and visit.
A wonderful hosts Peter and Carolyn McKenzie and 
A charming hotel serving great food 
Highly recommended.

Beautiful Shetland 

Following a more than disappointing experience at The Cornerstone, this newly revamped and reopened hotel came to the rescue for lunch suitable for a coeliac.  Helpful lad in the bar and kitchen cooking fresh food to order.  Nice fresh and clean atmosphere in the bar although two huge tv screens are a bit excessive?

Lunch Saviour

This hotel has gone into administration in March 2020. Such a shame as the food was outstanding and the local beers were freat. A friendly owner and good staff. I hope it reopens soon. If it reopwns I will surely be back. 



Now gone into administration as of March 2020

The hotel was comfortable. The room was not huge but was more than adequate for a short stay. The food service, however, both breakfast and evening dinner was of a very high standard. Local produce immaginatively prepared was available on a wide ranging restaurant dinner menu and a good choice was on offer at breakfast

Fine Food and Good Hotel

The hotel is fine,nothing special but comfortable. The bar is a really a locals pub as well the hotel bar so a good atmosphere and good food .
The restaurant is very good...good scallops, lamb rack with very well done bit of breast . Perhaps the strawberry sorbet palette cleanser did not work between the two of them  but otherwise very good
 Friendly informal service.  

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