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The white front of the Ship Inn on Stonehaven harbour.
Aberdeenshire

The Ship Inn

An inn of 1771 on the edge of Stonehaven harbour, with malts, real ale and a sun terrace.

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Welcome

The Ship Inn has stood on the edge of Stonehaven harbour since 1771, and it has the best seat in town for watching the boats come and go.

It is a small, friendly hotel now, with eleven rooms upstairs, most of them looking over the harbour.

The lounge bar is the heart of it: a long collection of single malt whiskies, Scottish craft gins, draught beer and real ales, and an outdoor terrace where on a sunny day half of Stonehaven seems to be sitting with a pint and the sea in front of them. It is a good place to meet the locals, or to sit and watch the seaside life go by.

Next door the restaurant serves home-cooked food from a varied menu, made with local produce, and tables can be booked ahead. Stonehaven's harbour front is lined with good places to eat and drink. Dunnottar Castle is a cliff-top walk away to the south.

Round the cornerThe Marine HotelA harbourside bar serving the beer of its own brewery, six°north, and some of the best from Belgium.1 min by roadSee itThe white front of the Marine Hotel on the harbour at Stonehaven.
Before you go

On the edge of the harbour, with a terrace, a restaurant and eleven rooms.

Tables can be booked.

Where
The harbour, Stonehaven.
Rooms
Eleven.
Where it is

Stonehaven.

Close byAround Stonehaven.
  1. Plated chicken with tagliatelle and artichoke on a white-clothed restaurant tableTolbooth Seafood RestaurantA seafood restaurant upstairs in Stonehaven's Tolbooth, the town's oldest building, on the old pier, with fish landed in the harbour below.Under a mile2 min by road
  2. The white front of the Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven with its sign about the deep-fried Mars bar.The Carron Fish BarThe Stonehaven chip shop where, the story goes, the deep-fried Mars bar was first fried, in 1992.Under a mile1 min by road
  3. StonehavenStonehavenUnder a mile1 min by road
  4. Connie & Ruby's shop interior with a red counter and colourful trinketsMy Beautiful CaravanUnder a mile1 min by road
  5. Man in chef's cap leans from serving hatch at thebayfishandchips.comThe Bay Fish & ChipsUnder a mile3 min by road
Directions
The white front of the Marine Hotel on the harbour at Stonehaven.BarsThe Marine HotelA step away
The ice-cream counter at Aunty Betty's under its painted ceiling.CafeAunty Bettys0.9 miles
Swimmers and sunbathers round Stonehaven's open-air pool on a sunny day.AttractionsStonehaven Outdoor Pool0.9 miles
A ruined clifftop castle enclosed by sea stacks, waves breaking against the rocks belowAttractionsDunnottar Castle1.0 miles over the water
The white-streaked sea cliffs of Fowlsheugh above blue water, a seabird in flight.AttractionsRSPB Scotland Fowlsheugh4.6 miles
Waterfall dropping from grassy cliffs into a sheltered sea inletAttractionsRSPB Fowlsheugh4.6 miles
Grass-topped limestone cliff with a thin waterfall dropping into the seaAttractionsCrawton Waterfall4.7 miles
The white Creel Inn at Catterline with its sign, a lobster creel on the terrace.RestaurantsThe Creel Inn6.3 miles
Rowing boat "The Gray Starling" sits among wildflowers overlooking a rocky sea stackAttractionsCatterline Bay6.5 miles
Stay nearby

Places to stay near The Ship Inn, and when each is next free.

Timber cabin with metal roof and decking surrounded by woodland treesNorth Lodge and River Cabin
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Banchory
  • 14 miles from The Ship Inn
Free 11–13 NovA stone farmhouse covered in climbing ivy stands behind a gravel drive, seen through overhanging pine branches.Cuttieshillock
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Strachan
  • 14 miles from The Ship Inn
Free 16–18 OctA stone cottage with dormer windows sits behind a low blue gate, a rose-covered archway framing the front door.Gamekeeper’s Cottage
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Strachan
  • 14 miles from The Ship Inn
Free 2–4 NovA stone steading with a slated pyramid roof and a chimney stands behind a green nameplate sign, a chair visible through the window.No 2 Steading Cottage at Glendye
  • Sleeps 4
  • In Strachan
  • 14 miles from The Ship Inn
Free 18–20 OctPlaces to stayEvery stay in AberdeenshireAll our places to stay nearby, to search by date and by who is coming.See them all
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