Isle Of Eigg, Scotland • Scotland
Set among the Small Isles in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, Eigg carries the PH postcode and reaches the mainland by ferry from Mallaig. It's a small, community-owned island, and crews who head there are usually supporting housing, infrastructure or energy work. KrewBase arranges whole serviced accommodation with bills in our name, tested Wi-Fi and one monthly invoice to your company — planned around the ferry and the realities of island life, not a hotel booking bolted on at the end.
Eigg's accommodation is a handful of houses and self-catering properties rather than a rental market, so a crew stay has to be built around what's genuinely available. That means whole-property lets, checked properly before anyone books a ferry: sleeping space, cooking facilities, heating, drying room for wet gear, and where the work vehicles will live. We deal with the island's logistics as part of the booking — food deliveries, fuel, laundry — because on Eigg those details make or break a stay. Plan early and the whole thing runs like a mainland job, just with better scenery.
Crews travel to Eigg for the work that keeps a small island functioning: maintaining and upgrading housing, the pier, tracks and community buildings, plus the island's well-known renewable energy systems and estate management across the Small Isles. Contractors, surveyors and tradespeople tend to come for defined spells rather than commuting, which is exactly the pattern our serviced lets suit. Your crew lives in the community while the job runs, and we make sure the living side is sorted before they step off the boat.
Eigg is reached by the Small Isles ferry from Mallaig, around an hour's sailing, with the A830 from Fort William bringing you into Mallaig from the mainland road network. Sailings can be disrupted by weather, so we never plan a crew arrival the day before work starts — there's always buffer built in. Once on the island everything is close, and if the job covers other Small Isles or the Ardnamurchan coast, we factor that into the accommodation choice and the travel plan from the outset.
Every Eigg booking is a whole-property, fully serviced let: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, and the island-specific checks done in advance — heating, hot water, cooking equipment and drying space. Maintenance problems come to us, not to your site supervisor, and we arrange cleaning and linen around the length of the job. Your company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card with no booking fees. Because the island's stock is limited, we ask for as much notice as possible — a few weeks changes what's achievable.
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.
Yes, with sensible notice. Eigg has a small pool of houses and self-catering properties, so we arrange whole-property lets matched to the crew size and job, then plan around the Small Isles ferry from Mallaig. The earlier you call, the more options we can line up and verify properly.
By the scheduled ferry from Mallaig — roughly an hour's crossing, with vehicle bookings taken in advance. Mallaig connects to the mainland via the A830 from Fort William. We build weather buffer into the travel plan so a cancelled sailing doesn't cost you a day on site.
Work vehicles travel over on the ferry and there's space on the island, but arrangements vary by property, so we confirm parking as part of the booking. Nothing is assumed — the crew arrives knowing exactly where the vehicles go and how kit moves between the house and the site.
Everything is included: heating, power, water and broadband, all in our name, with Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in. On an island we also check the practicalities — fuel, hot water, laundry — so the property is genuinely ready for a working crew, not just holiday-ready.
One monthly invoice to your company paid by card, covering rent, bills and servicing, with no booking fees. It's the same simple arrangement we run for mainland crews — the only difference is we need to plan the booking further ahead because of the ferry schedule and limited stock.
Yes — small teams on short island jobs are as welcome as long stays. There's no minimum crew size, but there is a practical limit on how fast a booking can come together on an island, so contact us as soon as the job's confirmed rather than the week before.
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