Kinlochleven, Scotland • Scotland
At the head of Loch Leven, Kinlochleven is a working village in the Scottish Highlands in the PH postcode area — on the A82 between Glencoe and Fort William, around twenty-five miles south of Fort William itself, with the West Highland Way finishing in the village. It is a place shaped by hydro power, surrounded by some of Scotland’s busiest outdoor terrain. KrewBase rents whole serviced houses and flats here with bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in and one monthly invoice for your business.
Kinlochleven was built around its smelter, and that legacy is the housing: solid, plain terraces and semis laid out for workers, plus newer chalets and cottages around the village. It does not look fancy, but it works — proper heating, gardens and parking that takes a van. We check a property genuinely suits a crew: drying space for wet gear, a kitchen that feeds several people and broadband that has been tested, not promised.
The village sits at the meeting point of several worlds: hydro power and renewable energy in the glen, forestry on the hills, and the busiest tourist corridor in the Highlands on the doorstep, with Glencoe a few miles north. Road maintenance on the A82, outdoor-centre and visitor-facility work, and building jobs for local estates all pull crews in. Winter or summer, they need somewhere warm for weeks at a time — not a hotel rack rate.
Everything runs on the A82. Fort William is about twenty-five miles north, Glencoe village ten miles south, and the road east to the central Highlands crosses Rannoch Moor — beautiful, but weather-prone. In winter we shortlist with conditions in mind and we check heating seriously before anyone moves in. If your site sits off the main road, tell us and we will be honest about drive times rather than booking you somewhere that leaves the crew an hour from the gate.
The whole property is yours for the booking, with gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband all in our name. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in — Highland connectivity varies street by street, so we check the actual address. Parking is confirmed against your vehicles, five or more in the house means two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with fresh linen comes as standard.
Maintenance comes to us: one message and we deal with it. Your business receives one monthly invoice paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew size. Two people or ten, a month or six — the process is the same. Give us the site postcode and dates and we will be straight with you about what fits and what does not, before anyone packs a bag.
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.
The village is small, so we also check Glencoe, Ballachulish and the Fort William side before answering — but we normally come back with a shortlist within a couple of hours of your enquiry. You get the site postcode, headcount and dates to us, and we confirm what is genuinely available rather than quoting wishful listings.
The ones we place will. Heating is the first thing we audit in Highland properties — boiler condition, insulation, how quickly the place warms up after a cold snap. A crew coming off a wet hill at four in the afternoon needs a house that dries kit overnight, not a draughty cottage with a storage heater.
Kinlochleven itself, Glencoe and Ballachulish to the south, the Mamore side towards Fort William to the north, and across the moor towards Tyndrum for jobs on the eastern side. We shortlist by honest drive time on the A82 and the side roads, weather included, not just mileage.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are in our name and included in the rate. Because Highland broadband is patchy, we speed-test the address before check-in and we will tell you straight if a property is limited. There are no utility accounts for your crew to manage.
Hotels here price for tourists, not for a six-week job. A whole house gives your crew a kitchen, laundry, drying space for wet gear and parking right outside, at a steadier weekly cost. It is also a proper home for people working far from theirs — which shows in how they turn up on site.
We do. A problem gets one message from your crew to us, and we chase the landlord and the trades until it is fixed. Nobody on the job should be negotiating with a letting agent about a boiler on a Sunday night — that is exactly what our fee covers.
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If Kinlochleven is short on the right house for your crew, Inverness is the obvious back-up, roughly 60 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Inverness page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Kinlochleven? 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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