Oban, Scotland • Scotland
Oban sits on Scotland's west coast in Argyll & Bute, PA postcode area, where the A85 meets the A816 and the ferries leave for the Hebrides. KrewBase places working crews in whole serviced houses and flats here — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in and one monthly invoice for the company. Whether your lot are maintaining the harbour, working island contracts or keeping the town's tourism trade ticking over, we'll get them housed near site without the hotel bill.
Oban's housing is a mix of stone tenements round the harbour, traditional terraces up from the seafront and bungalow plots on the outskirts. Crews do best in the terraces and semis: room for vans outside, a proper kitchen and a living room to dry gear in. We skip the tight one-bed flats in converted guesthouses and shortlist houses with real parking, two bathrooms where five or more are staying, and heating that can handle a west-coast winter.
Oban is a working port as much as a holiday town. Crews come through for harbour and ferry-linked maintenance, marine engineering, fish processing and the steady cycle of building and property upkeep that a tourist town needs. Further out, housing development and energy work across Argyll & Bute pull tradesmen through the town, and the council's roads and infrastructure jobs keep small gangs busy year-round.
Everything in Oban runs off the A85 and the A816. The A85 heads east through Glen Lochy towards Tyndrum and the central belt, while the A816 runs south down the coast towards Lochgilphead. For island contracts, the CalMac ferries sail from the North Pier. If your job is further afield, we shortlist by drive time from site rather than postcode — a house ten minutes from the pier beats a cheaper one forty minutes up the road.
We let the whole property to your crew — nobody shares with strangers. Bills go in our name: council tax, utilities, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against your actual vehicles. Five or more in the house means two bathrooms as standard, and a weekly clean with linen change keeps the place respectable. Maintenance is our problem, not your gaffer's — one monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay.
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.
Two hours from your call for a standard request. Tell us headcount, vehicle sizes and where the job is, and we'll send vetted options round Oban with drive times. For urgent same-week starts we flag what's ready to move into that day.
Yes. Plenty of Oban contracts are island-based, with the crew sleeping ashore and commuting by ferry. We look for houses near the North Pier with early-morning parking that's actually big enough for vans, and we plan the shortlist around sailing times so nobody misses the boat to work.
We check parking against your actual vehicles before you book — van sizes, trailer, the lot. Oban's older streets can be tight, so if a property can't take the crew's vehicles we don't put it on the shortlist. Simple as that.
Yes, everything goes on one monthly invoice — rent, all bills, Wi-Fi and the weekly clean, nothing itemised separately to argue about. Payment is by card for account companies, no booking fees, and your office deals with us rather than chasing five separate suppliers at month end.
West-coast weather is no joke, so heating and hot water are checked before check-in, and broadband is speed-tested so your crew can stream, call home and do their online tickets without it becoming your problem. If a house falls short on either, it comes off the shortlist.
We do. If the boiler or anything else plays up, your crew calls us and we sort it with local trades — the company isn't landed with midnight phone calls, and the house stays fit for the duration of the job.
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Need beds in Oban? 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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