Guest Directory

Welcome to the Tongue Hotel.

It is our absolute pleasure to welcome you to this special location in the Scottish Highlands.

Throughout your stay with us, we invite you to explore and experience as much of the local area as you can. Please do speak to a member of our team if we can be of any assistance during your stay.

I hope you enjoy your stay with us.

Yours sincerely,

Marcel Wassen

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Breakfast: 8.00am - 9:30am

Lunch: 12.00pm - 2:15pm

Dinner: 6.00pm – 9.00pm

We provisionally book a table for all guests on your day of arrival. Your reservation time will have been confirmed at check in. If you would like to book a table for any subsequent evenings, please speak to a member of staff.

All guestrooms and corridors are equipped with smoke detectors. Fire alarm call points are located appropriately throughout the Hotel.

Please read any fire emergency information provided, including the layout on the back of the door in your guestroom.

Should you require assistance in an emergency, please notify a member of the team upon check-in.

In the unlikely event of a fire, please dial ‘9999’ from any phone in the Hotel property and indicate your location.

Check-out time is 11.00am.

Should you wish to enquire about late check-out and applicable charges, please contact a member of our team.

Hair dryers are supplied in the room. Should you require an iron and ironing board, these are available from a member of the team.

Munro Highland Hire 01599 534353 / 07818 446962

Kyle Taxis 01599 534323

The nearest bus stop is located outside the Tongue Hotel. Times and ticket fares can be found on The Durness Buss Link website (www.thedurnessbus.com) . From Tongue you can get the 803 bus to Durness and Thurso.

Before setting off for a longer journey we advise checking the Traffic Scotland website (www.traffic.gov.scot) for up to date road information.

Our team members are happy to help you plan your journey.

The Plockton train station is a 10-15 minute walk from the Plockton Inn. Trains run daily between Kyle of Lochalsh and Inverness. There is no ticket station on the platform but it is possible to buy tickets on the train and up to date train times can be found on the ScotRail website (www.scotrail.co.uk) or free ScotRail app.

The nearest bus station is in Kyle of Lochalsh and times and tickets can be found on the Scottish City Link website (www.citylink.co.uk) . From Kyle you can get buses to Skye, Inverness, Fort William and Glasgow.

Before setting off for a longer journey we advise checking the Traffic Scotland website (www.traffic.gov.scot) for up to date road information.

Our team members are happy to help you plan your journey.

If you’d like to know what’s going on during your stay, please speak to a member of the team.

The area around Tongue was an historic crossroad for Gaels, Picts and Vikings. Tongue House, just down the road from the Hotel, is the historic Seat of the Clan Mackay after they abandoned Castle Varrich (Caisteal Bharraich) which had been their Clan Seat for many years.

Tongue saw a key battle between a Jacobite treasure ship and two ships of the Royal Navy in 1746 which resulted in the Jacobite crew trying to slip ashore with their gold. They were then caught by the Navy, supported by local people who were loyal to Hanover, which cost Bonnie Prince Charlie

valuable support in the run-up to the Battle of Culloden.

More recently, during the Highland Clearances, many people who were cleared from the interior of Sutherland moved to Tongue. The Gaelic poet Ewen Robertson (1842–95) lived in Tongue his entire life and is most famous for his song “Mo mhallachd aig na caoraich mhòr” “My curses on the Border sheep” mocking, among others, the Duchess of Sutherland and Patrick Sellar. There is a monument to Robertson in Tongue.