Ulva Hostel
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Explore Ulva and Gometra from Ulva Hostel
To make a booking please click on the link below, or email us at ulvahostel@gmail.com or call or Whataspp on +44 (0)7538 969 697
We are now closed for the 2025 season (from the 1st November), and will re-open in April 2026. Thank you to all our guests who have stayed with us this year – which has been very busy – and hope to see you again in 2026.
We will be open from 1st April – 31st October 2026– if you are unable to book for your chosen dates via our booking link below, do contact us to check whether those dates are available, as sometimes we can help.
Camping: We have a small number of camping pitches, which are available by pre-booking a pitch. Unfortunately we cannot take unbooked arrivals, as the hostel is not manned.
Explore The Islands of Ulva and Gometra
Ulva Hostel at Ardalum House, allows people to stay and explore Ulva at their leisure. (Prices below are for the 2026 season)
Bunk room beds for £26 per person per night
(Separate Male/Female Dorms)
Private Rooms for £68 per night (Two double rooms and one twin room available)
Whitetail or Puffin Yurt at £80 per night. (Puffin – twin bed, Puffin – large double bed).
Whole hostel exclusive hire (multi-night discounts apply for any stay over 2 nights)
Hostel Availability and Bookings
To book either a bunk room bed, private double room or the entire hostel, please go to the Ulva Hostel booking page which is hosted on the Independent Hostels UK system.
Alternatively contact us through this website, email ulvahostel@gmail.com or call on 07538 969 697
Ulva Hostel
Ulva Hostel is located on the remote Isle of Ulva. The hostel can accommodate up to 14 people in three double rooms and two four-bed bunk rooms.
Isle of Ulva
Ulva is a remote island off the west coast of Mull. It has no roads and no cars and is accessed by a small foot passenger ferry that runs on request Monday-Friday 9am-5.30pm from April-October. (For crossings outside of this period, please contact us).
Ulva Ferry
Ulva Ferry is the gateway not only to Ulva, but also for Gometra, and for boat trips to the other islands off the west coast of Mull – such as the Treshnish Isles and Staffa.
“Ulva was no nest in which the soft or unthrifty could hope to survive…Its weather was dramatically uncertain and inclement…but for all that, it knew days of azure beauty, sombre purple calms when the sea was like a sheet of olive glass, and nights when the summit of Ben More stood in sharp and frostily-white relief against a soft-starred east under the moon.”
— M H Ellis ‘Lachlan MacQuarie His Life, Adventures and Times’ 1947
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