Ulva Hostel

Bearnus Bothy on Ulva makes into the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/apr/19/best-places-stay-highlands-islands-scotland-hotels-inns-bothy Anyone who binge-watched Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel will know how picturesque the little community-owned, car-free Hebridean island-off-an-island of Ulva is. A short boat ride from Mull, it’s just 7½ miles long by 2½ miles wide. A 5-mile tramp from the pier (next to the… Read more

Due to a last minute cancellation, we now have availability from Monday 30th – Monday 6th April in the hostel. To book go to our website at https://ulvahostel.co.uk/ or email on ulvahostel@gmail.com or Whatsapp on +44(0) 7538 969 697. Read more

Last weekend, Ulva hosted five guests, three folk from St Andrew’s University from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, who are Dendrochronologists – otherwise known in the archaeological world as tree-ring scientists – and Gordon Gray Stephens from Native Woodlands Cooperative Scotland. All were on the Isle of Ulva to ‘age’ and study the… Read more

And the final push to get everything ready for re-opening Ulva Hostel later this month. Back at the end of October, it always seems that there’s plenty of time to get all the jobs done, but there never is – especially with the weather playing its part – but we think we’ve done well this… Read more

Given that the weather has been so dry and not too cold, I took the chance – or rather I was made to – paint the south gable end of the hostel, as that takes the majority of the weather due to the direction it faces. For reasons that I can’t explain, I always paint… Read more