Crossapol, Scotland • Scotland
Crossapol sits on the Isle of Coll in the Inner Hebrides, PA postcode area - a tiny settlement on an island reached by ferry from Oban, with a single main road running up the machair to Arinagour. Work here is island work: small crews, ferry timetables, weather windows. KrewBase places crews in whole serviced accommodation for jobs on Coll, with bills in our name, Wi-Fi confirmed before check-in, parking sorted and one monthly invoice for the company.
Coll has no hotel strip and no big estates - housing is a small stock of island cottages and houses, much of it let privately, spread between Crossapol, Arinagour and the townships along the main road. Crews need somewhere with reliable heating, drying space for wet gear and parking by the door. We filter for exactly that, and where island availability is tight we shortlist mainland-side bases around Oban and build the ferry crossing into the job's logistics.
Crews come to Coll for the practical business of keeping an island running: maintenance on housing, piers and community buildings, telecoms and power work, and local construction and repair jobs. Community energy and estate work bring their own crews too. Stays tend to be short and shaped around weather and ferries rather than a fixed site programme, so we plan bookings flexibly from the outset - tell us the rough dates and we'll work around the crossing.
There is one road on Coll, so drive time is rarely the issue - the ferry from Oban is. The crossing runs via Tiree and takes the best part of three hours, and sailings can be weathered off, so we build slack into arrival plans and shortlist accommodation with the crossing in mind. Vehicles come over on the ferry, and most crews bring one van and share. For multi-island work we'll suggest a base that keeps the next sailing short rather than chasing a map pin.
The same whole-property standard applies even at this scale: all bills in our name, Wi-Fi confirmed before check-in, heating that copes with an Atlantic winter, and a weekly clean and fresh linen where the stay allows. Houses sleeping five or more get two bathrooms, and maintenance calls come to us first. The company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, and no minimum crew or stay - island jobs don't run to neat patterns, and we don't pretend they do.
Send us the requirement — town, dates, headcount, vehicles and any shift pattern we should know about. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold, not a search we have just started. You pick, we confirm, the crew moves in, and we stay on it for the length of the job. One monthly invoice, card payment for limited companies, no booking fees.
Where island properties are available, yes - we place crews in whole houses with the usual bills-included standard. Coll's letting stock is small and seasonal, so we also hold mainland-side options around Oban and present both, with ferry times, so you can weigh a Coll base against a mainland base with crossings built in.
Island bookings are planned with weather slack from the start. If a sailing is cancelled we work with you on arrival times, and where a booking genuinely can't start because of the crossing we adjust rather than charging for nights nobody could use. Tell us the ferry your crew is booked on and we'll shape around it.
Yes. Oban is the mainland gateway for Coll, and many island jobs work best with the crew mainland-side and crossing as needed. We shortlist whole properties in and around Oban with parking for the van, and quote the ferry crossing alongside so the logistics are clear before anyone travels.
Rent plus council tax, gas, electricity, water and broadband, all in our name. Wi-Fi is confirmed working before check-in, parking is matched to your vehicles, and stays beyond a week include a weekly clean and fresh linen. One monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees - that's the whole price structure.
We do. The crew reports to us and we arrange the fix through local trades, accepting that island response times depend on weather and ferries. Heating and hot water issues are treated as urgent. Keeping the property working is our problem, not your office's.
The site or work location, crew numbers and bedroom split, rough dates, and how many vehicles are coming - including whether the van crosses on the ferry. From that we shortlist island or mainland-side options with ferry times and drive times, and quote one clear monthly price per property.
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Need beds in Crossapol? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
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