The Isle of Skye City Guides answer the questions every first visit raises: which dinners to book weeks ahead and where to eat when Portree is full, how to reach the Fairy Pools and the Storr before the car parks fill, how long the single-track drives really take and which corners of the island still feel empty at midday. Skye is far bigger than the map suggests, so the guides split it into areas you can cover in a day. Each one is a short, honest list that tells you why a place deserves your time, what to order or look for and one practical tip, and it opens in your browser as soon as you have paid.
About the Isle of Skye City Guides
- 56 places
- 3 guides
- 6 languages
- Works offline
- Print or PDF
- Instant access
- Free updates
The three Isle of Skye guides
Food guide
20 places
Tasting-menu dinners worth planning a trip around, oysters and langoustines straight off the boat, harbour chips, walkers’ inns with whisky and the cafés for lunch and cake.
Things to do guide
18 places
Trotternish ridges and the Fairy Glen, the Fairy Pools and Sligachan, a boat into Loch Coruisk, Dunvegan Castle, Neist Point and Portree harbour.
Day trips guide
18 places
Four loops around the island, from dinosaur footprints at Staffin and the Coral Beach to Talisker Bay, the Cuillin, the ferry to Raasay and the quiet south in Sleat.
Why an interactive guide beats a list
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Your own notes
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Every place opens in Google Maps, and the day route puts your picks in a sensible order.
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Works offline
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Three places from the guides
The Oyster Shed
Carbost Beag, on the hill above Talisker
Half farm shed, half food truck, looking down on Loch Harport. You order on a tablet, then eat oysters raw or grilled, scallops, lobster or soft-shell crab at benches inside the barn. A dozen oysters with fries is one of the cheapest good meals on the island. From the food guide.
Misty Isle Boat Trips
Elgol pier, at the end of the B8083
No road reaches Loch Coruisk, so this family boat does the work: it crosses Loch Scavaig, usually past seals, and leaves you about an hour and a half on shore among the Cuillin peaks. Plan on roughly three hours for the whole outing. From the things to do guide.
An Corran Beach
Staffin, Trotternish
Dinosaurs walked across this rock slab some 165 million years ago, and their footprints are still there. Check the tide first: they show only when the water is low. At high tide it is simply a quiet beach with the Quiraing behind it. From the day trips guide.
Plan your days on the Isle of Skye
Day one: drive the Trotternish loop north of Portree, starting early at Brothers’ Point or the Fairy Glen, then the Skye Museum of Island Life and An Corran beach at low tide, and finish with a booked dinner in Portree or chips on the harbour wall. Day two: be at the Fairy Pools at first light, stop at Sligachan Old Bridge, take a boat from Elgol to Loch Coruisk, then eat oysters above Talisker and end the day at the inn in Carbost. For a rainy or slow day, spend the morning in Dunvegan Castle and its gardens, tour the Talisker distillery, or take the short ferry from Sconser to the distillery on Raasay for a long lunch facing the Cuillin.
Questions about the Isle of Skye guides
What do the Isle of Skye City Guides include?
Three guides covering 56 places: food, things to do and day trips, spread over Trotternish, the Cuillin, Dunvegan and the far west, Portree, Raasay and Sleat. Each entry explains why it is worth going, where it is, opening notes and one tip you can use.
How do I receive the guides once I have paid?
The links show up on your order confirmation page and in the email that follows. They open in the browser of any phone, tablet or laptop, with no app to install and no account to create.
Can I use the Isle of Skye guides without internet?
Yes. Load each guide once while connected and it will work offline from then on, ticks and notes included. Opening a place in maps needs mobile data.
Which languages are the Isle of Skye guides available in?
The guides open in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. You can switch the language inside the guide at any time.
How much do the guides cost?
One guide is £4.49, two are £7.99 and all three together are £12.48.
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