...if there's one thing you do in skye make sure you try their kippers!

wonderful building - well maintaineed, good food...the drawing room is great.

We planned to spend four nights at Viewfield House but my wife only managed two after breaking her ankle by slipping on an innocuous-looking slope. She was air-lifted to Inverness for repair, whilst I (disabled - she is my "carer") stayed the full four, and then an extra night as a guest of Hugh MacDonald, the Hotel having closed for the winter.

We had fallen under the spell of the place by day two, and I do recommend spending more than one night to sample Viewfield's delights to the full. Our room on the ground floor came with excellent twin beds and an en suite for the disabled furnished to the level of the best hotels. Breakfasts were of a high standard with a good choice: the black pudding in the "full Scottish" was the finest I've tasted. Dinner menus had been designed by an expert around the fresh produce available locally. The food was brilliantly cooked with vegetables "to die for": fish still with the smell of the sea and beef as good as Scottish beef should be.

The staff were well chosen and trained. They took a delight in ensuring our stay was as enjoyable as possible, and in particular took great care of me. I recommend the drawing room and its view of the loch, for a gin and tonic before dinner and a malt whisky after, with be-kilted Hugh drawing the guests into a country house atmosphere. The roaring log fire in mid-October also helped to mellow proceedings.

We stayed at the Viewfield House two nights of our Scotland trip, planning for it to be the most expensive and nicest of our hotels/b&bs. The house is beautiful, old, historic and the service was very nice. However, the room was a bit uncomfortable. The bed was small (double) and the matress a bit "chunky." The bathroom was acceptible, but the shower/tub was awkward.

Hugh MacDonald, the owner, was nice and greeted the guests every evening in his kilt and engaged all of us in chit-chat. Though it seemed to be a chore for him at times, rather than an enjoyment.

The dinner we had at Viewfield House was dissapointing. We had great meals throughout our visit in Scotland and were expecting the same at Viewfield, but it was lacking. Appetizer consisted of Smoked Herring (quite awful) with a main dish of either Pork with Apricot Stuffing or Baked Flounder (which tasted like Salmon). The Pork was tasty but we were given only a few slices and the Flounder was loaded with bones to pick through. Dessert was touted as some sort of Chocolate Cake with cream, but it looked and tasted like a Duncan Hines Brownie sitting in cream.

Overall, Viewfield House was nice...but not great. Portree is a small town, so the B&Bs are quite limited.

The other B&Bs we stayed at on our Scotland tour were quite a bit more enjoyable (not to mention affordable) than our stay at Viewfield.

We have just returned from a tour of Ireland and Scotland and I am coming onto TripAdvisor to give insight into the good and bad of places we stayed and ate. To start I'm sorry the last review went badly sometimes some things happen but to write a bad review and never step foot through the door is a shame. The last reviewer missed out on what thought was THE best place we stayed on our trip. To start we arrived late not having any reservations and just before dinner. We were able to get one of the last rooms in the house, ensuite with a double bed, (yeah doubles suck but when your tired ). We were able to get dinner, a 4 course affair ( some of the best food we ate on our trip ) using the family silver, and drinks after were served in the drawing room by a fire. The home has been in the MacDonald family for many generations and Mr. MacDonald has done a perfect job of catering to his guests needs. Please e-mail me if you want to learn more. For the price we paid we were very impressed with the food and pampering service from his staff.