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A sea-view room at The View in Thurso, a bed with a mustard headboard facing tall windows over the bay.
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The View, Thurso

Nine newly refurbished rooms with kitchenettes on the seafront at Thurso, the former Marine, looking over Thurso Bay to Orkney, with self check-in.

Welcome

On the seafront at Thurso, at the top of the North Coast 500, the building long known as The Marine has a new life.

Bought by a young family business, Bide Hotels, and refurbished, it has reopened as The View, nine rooms looking out over Thurso Bay.

The best of them face the sea, with tall windows over the water and, on a clear day, Orkney on the horizon; the penthouse at the top has its own balcony looking out to Dunnet Head. Every room has a kitchenette, good coffee and a comfortable bed, and check-in is by a code sent before you arrive, with a real person on the phone at any hour.

It makes an easy base for the far north, with the surf at Thurso East, the Orkney ferry at Scrabster and John o' Groats all within reach. From October to March, on the right night, the Northern Lights can be seen over the bay.

Close byOliveOlive calls itself ‘a shop within a shop’: an informal coffee shop and dining space.2 min by roadSee itOlive café frontage with dark timber cladding and a street lamp beside it
Before you go

Rooms booked on Bide's own site; self check-in by PIN, with someone on the phone day and night.

Where
38 Shore Street, Thurso, KW14 8BN.
Rooms
Nine, each with a kitchenette.
Check-in
Self, by PIN.
Where it is

On Shore Street on the seafront in Thurso, KW14 8BN.

Close byThurso.
  1. Bedroom with oak furniture, purple throws and a cast-iron fireplacePennyland HouseA B&B on the edge of the town.Under a mile3 min by road
  2. Couple stand outside The Captain's Galley Seafood Restaurant beneath a hillsideThe Galley, ScrabsterA seafood restaurant in an old ice house on the harbour at Scrabster, cooking fish landed at the port, with a vaulted stone dining room.2 miles6 min by road
  3. Castletown Chip ShopCastletown Chip Shop6 miles12 min by road
  4. A surf lesson on Dunnet beach seen from the air, learners on boards in the white water along the long sands.Surfing in CaithnessThurso East and surf lessons at Dunnet.10 miles21 min by road
  5. Dunnet HeadDunnet HeadThe most northerly point of the mainland.13 miles24 min by road
Directions
Olive café frontage with dark timber cladding and a street lamp beside itCafeOlive0.5 miles
Forss House from the air, a white house among woods on a loop of the River Forss, fields and the sea beyond.AttractionsForss House Hotel5.8 miles
Sandstone facade of the Ulbster Arms Hotel with white bay windows and chimneysRestaurantsUlbster Arms Hotel7.6 miles
Waves roll onto a sandy beach beneath a headland dotted with housesAttractionsDunnet Beach7.7 miles
A turreted white mansion with stepped gables and tall chimneys stands behind a low stone wall on a lawn.CaithnessHouse of the Northern GateSleeps 18 · 9.5 miles
White lighthouse tower with black lantern room rising behind a stone wallAttractionsDunnet Head Lighthouse13 miles
Stay nearby

Places to stay near the rooms, and when each is next free.

A turreted white mansion with stepped gables and tall chimneys stands behind a low stone wall on a lawn.House of the Northern Gate
  • Sleeps 18
  • In Caithness
  • 6 miles from The View
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