Lochgoilhead, Scotland • Scotland
Lochgoilhead is a small village at the head of Loch Goil in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, in the PA24 postcode area, reached by the B828 off the A83 between Dunoon and Arrochar. KrewBase houses crews working across Argyll in whole serviced properties here, with bills, Wi-Fi and parking all in and one monthly invoice going straight to your office each month.
Housing at Lochgoilhead clusters along the lochside and the lower glen: stone cottages, chalet-style homes and bungalows, many with gardens running down towards the water. It's low-density and quiet — exactly the kind of place where a crew can park three vans, dry gear outside and not bother a soul, with the glen doing the rest. Evenings are quiet in a way crews coming from city jobs notice straight away — and sleep tends to improve with it.
We filter hard for year-round practicality. Some lochside stock is geared to summer lets, so we check central heating, hot water capacity for full occupancy and winter access before a property earns a place on the shortlist. A house that's charming in July can be grim in February, and crews get the February-checked version. That filter is what separates a workable winter let from a summer cottage with good photographs and a cold bathroom.
Crews based around Loch Goil are typically covering work across Argyll: forestry and land management in the surrounding glens, road and infrastructure maintenance along the A83 and the local routes, utilities and energy work in this off-grid-flavoured corner, and housing repairs across the scattered communities along the coast. Tourism-related building work adds a summer layer, but the trades demand runs well beyond the visitor season.
It's a remote base, so placement is chosen deliberately — if your sites cluster around Dunoon, Inveraray or the Arrochar end, we'll tell you honestly whether Lochgoilhead is the right sleep or one of those towns is, because a lovely house in the wrong glen is still the wrong house. Honesty at the quoting stage saves everyone a season of wasted miles, so that's how we run it.
There's no through-road: the B828 drops from the A83 at the Rest-and-be-Thankful corner down to the village, so every journey out starts with that climb. Dunoon is the nearest proper town by the ferry and road combination, and Glasgow is reachable for supply runs via the A83 and A82 when the job needs the city. Supplies come the same way, so we time provisioning runs to match the crew's rest days rather than the working ones.
We shortlist by real drive times from your actual site list, and we flag the single-track reality — ten miles here is not ten minutes. Arrival days get planned around daylight and weather rather than just the clock, and we build the same slack into changeovers that the geography demands. It adds a little planning to every arrival, but it removes the nasty surprises that poor planning would bring.
Your crew takes the whole house with council tax, heating, electric, water and broadband in our name. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in — glen geography means we check the specific property, not the postcode, because signal can die between one cottage and the next — and parking is verified against the vehicles coming. If the signal at a cottage is weak, we say so and look at alternatives — or a different solution — before anyone commits.
Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are included, maintenance is ours to arrange, and your company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, no minimum crew size, no minimum stay — the arrangement is built around the job, however remote the job happens to be. The crew's only job is the job; the house, like the bills behind it, is ours to worry about.
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.
As much as you can give — the village is small and suitable stock is limited, so two to three weeks lets us secure the right house rather than the only house. Send dates, headcount and the site list early and we'll do the rest, including the honesty check on whether Lochgoilhead is the right base at all.
Yes on both. Parking is confirmed against your actual vehicles, and broadband is speed-tested at the specific property before check-in — loch and glen terrain makes coverage patchy, so we test rather than trust a coverage map. If the connection fails mid-stay, it's our call to chase, not the crew's.
The village itself and the Loch Goil glen, with alternatives around Dunoon, Inveraray or Arrochar considered honestly against your site locations. If the job isn't really a Lochgoilhead job, we'll say so and place the crew where the drive makes sense — that's part of the service, not a sales loss.
One monthly invoice covers rent, council tax, utilities, Wi-Fi, cleaning, linen and any maintenance, paid by card. Your accounts team gets a single bill and a single contact — nothing for the crew to pay, claim or chase, however long the job runs or how remote the glen feels.
No minimums. A couple of people on a short job book the same way as a full crew on a long contract, and extensions are usually possible if the job overruns and the property is free afterwards. Small crews are never squeezed out just because the geography is dramatic.
We do — the crew phones us, we arrange the tradesperson and absorb the cost. Remote locations make response times longer, which is exactly why we only use well-maintained properties and check heating, water and access carefully before anyone moves in. Prevention matters more when the nearest supplier is over the hill.
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If Lochgoilhead is short on the right house for your crew, Glasgow is the obvious back-up, roughly 33 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Glasgow page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Lochgoilhead? 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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