Dunvegan and Duirinish
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Dunvegan is a useful base, with a tourist office (Mon-Sat 9am-5.30pm; tel 01470/521581) and several excellent hotels and B&Bs dotted along the main road, such as the converted traditional croft Roskhill House (tel 01470/521317, stay@roskhill.demon.co.uk; £50-60). Other possibilities include the beautifully situated Silverdale (tel 01470/521251; under £40), just before you get to Colbost, or the luxurious Harlosh House (tel 01470/521367; £90-110; April-Oct), four miles south of Dunvegan. There's an excellent lochside campsite at Loch Greshornish, eight miles east of Dunvegan on the A850 (tel 01470/582230, info@greshcamp.co.uk; April-Sept).
The culinary mecca in the area is the expensive Three Chimneys restaurant (tel 01470/511258, www.threechimneys.co.uk; closed Sun), located beside Colbost Folk Museum; if you want to stay for bed and breakfast as well, there are six fabulous rooms at the adjacent House Over-By (£150-200). More reasonably priced meals can be had at An Strupag in Lephin (tel 01470/511204), deeper into Glen Dale. There are welcoming fires and good food at the sixteenth-century Stein Inn (tel 01470/592362, www.steininn.co.uk; £40-50), in Stein, and outstanding seafood at the Lochbay Seafood Restaurant (tel 01470/592235, www.lochbay-seafood-restaurant.co.uk; closed Sat & Sun); you can also stay for bed and breakfast (Easter-October; £50-60). Eating in Dunvegan is a little problematic; however, there is a snug café attached to Dunvegan Bakery (closed Sat afternoon & Sun).
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