Lazy Crofter Bunkhouse

The rooms were pretty packed up. The washroom was tidy, and there was a big living/ eating area. There was parking- lot across the accommodation. But the price we paid for one family room was expensive considering services provided for just one night.

The best bunkhouse I've stayed in. Clean, well kitted out, beautiful location. You would actually be happy to rent the whole place for a family holiday- not a normal level of "somewhere to park your head at night" at all! Perfect

Super place, clean and has all the amenities you need. Visiting off peak was great.

We were very unimpressed with our experience here. It's very expensive for a plain drab room with some bunkbeds, but my main issue was that it didn't feel as though any consideration had been given to what the guests actually needed or wanted. It was difficult to find, instructions unclear, and when I found the hostel there was no one there. Went back out the front and called a number stuck to the gate only to be told to go back to the Spa which I'd just carried all my bags past five minutes ago. Payment in cash was fiddly and for the price I couldn't believe we had to pay to rent towels as well- a real rip off. I went back an hour late to collect towels and the Spa was closed and number went straight to voicemail. No one around to help after 6.30pm. The kitchen is well equipped but the cooker etc was very inefficient, and the hostel was freezing. My main issue was that there was no way to lock the front door of the hostel, any of the rooms, and you couldn't even lock the shower doors. Not being able to lock the shower door in a mixed shared bathroom is absolutely not acceptable. When I asked about looking the door to the private room we had paid for I was told 'we don't lock anything here, it's the safest place in the world.' Firstly, you don't know anything about the other guests so that's hardly relevant and secondly, I don't think it's appropriate for the owners to decide what level of risk I should accept. Also pictures show beautiful grassy spaces with amazing views, but you're not allowed to use them so feels like false advertising. Also being told to check out by 9.30 and strip your own bed which I don't generally mind doing, but overall it felt like the owners wanted to take as much money as possible and put the bare minimum into the guest experience.

Lazy Crofter Bunkhouse Durness||The position of this hostel is quite perfect. Perched on the top of a small hill overlooking the village and the see, yet only a two min walk to the centre of the village. Communal bed rooms have lots of room in them but I would not recommend the private bunk rooms as they are the smallest I have ever seen. (it would be a benefit to guests if management turned the two very small private rooms into one resendable room by only removing a small partition wall at a minimum loss to their profits). The sitting/dining room is very cottage like and so very comfortable. kitchen is quite large for the size of the building and is adequate for all your cooking and so are the toilets, showers and washing rooms with lots of hot water. (note to the management it would be a great help if there was shelves and coat hooks in the washing areas). There is an excellent out door sitting/dinning timber patio to the front of the building with fantastic views, which was great to sit in for your meals when the weather permits as it did when we were there. Wifi was very good. You have to park your car in the village car park, only 2min walk which is medium size but starts to fill up about 4pm,. I don’t think the front door is locked night or day which I think is great because in my younger days of living in the Scottish Highlands we did not lock the doors, I don’t think we ever had any keys to do so. ||About one mile down the road from the hostel are some caves and well worth a visit, the work in them is voluntary so do leave a donation to keep the work going through the winter. There is also a hippy village and the beaches are so fantastic you cannot stop taking photos of them.||If this review has been of help to you please tick the box.

At the end of our trip North on An Turas Mor, we had two nights here. Arriving just before the Spar shop (opposite) closed, Robbie got us into the place and made sure we were all sorted||There are limited choices for eating out in the town but having eaten at Smoo Hotel on the way into town, we settled in for the evening. Sharing the place with four others, we had an enjoyable evening of conversation with lovely views out to sea.||The place is immaculately clean, bedrooms, self catering kitchen and washing areas. The communal dining room and lounge had comfy sofas and a big table with bench seating.||The washing facilities are great with clean and very hot showers, towels (lovely fluffy white ones!) can be ‘hired’ at £2 a stay.||We had a two person bunk room, described (correctly) as small, there is still full sized single beds, a lockable storage locker, bed side light and power sockets. Although fully double glazed, the place was warm and all window could be opened.||Kitchen was well presented, effectively the equivalent of two full kitchens, clean, electric coolers, microwave, toaster and fridge.||No issue stripping the beds at the end of our stay, it all helps keep the costs down.||As a base to get to or travel from, this place works well for those not looking for frills, just clean and comfortable accommodation. The local supermarket was excellent - especially the fresh pastries.||After a long trip on a bike this bunkhouse was ideal.|Would happily stay again!

Myself and 13 friends booked out this bunkhouse for 3 nights, and were told it was a safe, friendly, comfy place to enjoy a holiday. Don't be fooled! No warm welcome which is described on their website, no welcome at all! No washing facilities as promised, run down cookers you struggled to open the door, broken toilet seats, broken and worn chairs in the "beautifully decored lounge", a stale smell throughout the building, was told to shut up at 7.30pm when we were laughing , (felt like a naughty toddler!) 1500 quid she got for this house that belongs in the gutter. Oh, and as for safe lockers, my picture enclosed will show no locks at all, and no locks that work on any toilet facility either. No lock for the front door either, so left open to all and sundry while we went out exploring. No hospitality, nothing as promised. Don't waste your money, time, or manners on the host. Will not be back. Oh...and for all this trouble we were kindly asked to strip our beds to help them out .s 1500 pound between us should cover a wee hospitality refresher for the rude bint! 😉

Ok so it’s a hostel I didn’t have that high an expectation but from the photos that were shared amongst our group prior to heading off I was well impressed it looked amazing !! |Amazing location although photos are deceiving it’s well away from the beach in fact it’s on the main road into Durness and all it’s lovely through traffic thankfully the nc500 was still relatively quiet !||We paid for the full hostel for our party of 13 grown up females with teenage children at home ! Yeah ok we’re BIKERS ! But we’re not rowdy by any means and being told to keep the noise down before7:30 !! We were having a laugh and having a sing song ! Other guests ? Where ? ||Warm welcome ? Didn’t happen ! Soaked tired exhausted bikers need warm cosy spaces to dry wet clothes ! Laundry room was warm not that warm so we had to crack on all the heaters in all the rooms ! |Laundry facilities well there was none the washing machine/ dryer wasn’t plumbed in but a nice shiny new one still in the box was sat outside on the porch !! |The lovely lawn you see in ‘their’ photos we’re not allowed to use that ! It’s for sole|Use of the lodge behind the bunk house |The bunk beds aren’t full height and adults can’t sit upright in them !! Fanbloodytastic ! |Huge dining table you can’t get into the bench seats because it’s jammed between the wall and the sofas ! |Sofas and two armchairs weren’t very comfy and had food and rubbish down the arms which I discovered when I dropped an earring down the side ewwwwww ||Kitchen was fairly well stocked with utensils etc and besties so wash before you uSe anything, one of the oven doors dragged along the floor and wouldn’t close |But I suppose at least it was functional ||Did I mention we booked sole use of the hostel !! Thank fook ! Cause no locks on the showers or bedroom doors front and back door unlocked our entire stay we weren’t given a key ! Again thankfully it wasn’t busy because I would have been freaking out big time ! Lockers tried and failed to get any that worked so gave up |Tv didn’t work ! Oh the carpets one of the women caught her toe on the frayed chords and dove head first thankfully into someone else who caught her ! ||Me I slept great in fact so much so everyone thought I was dead at one point ! Major plus side to having health issues once I’m|Out I’m out like a light ! ||Oh the parking how can I forget that !! It’s not even next to the hostel it’s down the road round the corner behind the spar and secure by a chain that’s not even locked !! Oh and it’s a gravel car park !!! Not bike friendly especially not when you’re tired wet and unwell yep poor Saphira got dumped on the ground and her panniers broken !! |At a cost of approx £115 for three nights per person it’s way way overpriced for what it is !!