Scalasaig, Scotland • Scotland
Scalasaig is the main settlement on the Isle of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, in the PA61 postcode area, served by ferry from Oban. It is a small island community, not a town, and crew accommodation here takes genuine island planning — which is KrewBase's job. We arrange whole serviced houses for crews working on Colonsay, with bills, Wi-Fi and parking included and one monthly invoice to your company.
Scalasaig clusters around its pier and hotel, with the island's houses scattered along single-track roads toward Kiloran and the west coast. Stock is a mix of traditional island cottages and more recent detached builds, with almost nothing in between. Cottages bring character but can be short on bathrooms and drying space, so we lean toward the newer detached houses for crews — driveways, practical kitchens and room for wet gear matter more than harbour views.
Everything we shortlist has been physically checked: heating that can handle a Hebridean winter, hot water for the full crew, broadband speed, and parking for the vehicles coming off the ferry. On an island, a bad housing choice cannot be fixed on Tuesday, so we get it right before the crew sails.
Island work is practical and varied: renovation and upkeep of houses and holiday properties, estate and farm building maintenance, small-scale renewables and grid work, and telecoms upgrades. The Hebridean islands also pull in healthcare staff on rotation, and council and utility crews move between islands on rolling programmes. None of it is glamorous, and all of it needs people staying weeks at a time.
The pinch point is always the same — a skilled crew booked for a job on an island with no hotel stock and a tiny rental market. A serviced house for the duration is usually the only workable answer, and arranging it is precisely what we do.
Colonsay's lifeline is the CalMac ferry from Oban, a crossing of around two and a quarter hours, with a less frequent service than the bigger islands — so crews and materials travel on a timetable, not a whim. Van space must be booked ahead, and we build the ferry schedule into every plan we make for a Colonsay job, including which sailing the crew should aim for on day one.
On the island itself the roads are quiet and everything is minutes apart, though single-track stretches with passing places set the pace. We shortlist houses by real drive time from your site and by how they work with the ferry timetable, so nobody is racing a sailing they cannot make.
The let is the whole house, with electricity, heating, water and broadband in our name and inside the rent. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, parking is confirmed against the vehicles arriving on the ferry, and for five or more we insist on two bathrooms. A cleaner comes weekly with fresh linen, and any maintenance problem is ours to chase with island tradespeople, not the crew's.
Your company gets one monthly invoice, card payment, no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. Island contracts are often short and weather-dependent, so extending is normally a quick conversation rather than a renegotiation. Send the site details and start date and we will shortlist within two working hours.
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 — houses exist, but the island's stock is small and scattered, so shortlisting properly matters more here than anywhere. We check heating, bathrooms, broadband and parking before offering anything, and we plan around the ferry timetable so the crew arrives with the keys already sorted.
By CalMac ferry from Oban, roughly two and a quarter hours. Sailings are less frequent than on larger islands, so van spaces and foot passenger tickets need booking ahead — we advise on which sailing to target and build the timetable into the job plan from the start.
All of it — electricity, heating, water and broadband are in our name and inside the rent. Broadband is tested before check-in because island speeds vary, and we tell you in advance what to expect, along with mobile signal at the property.
Yes. One monthly invoice covers rent, bills, the weekly clean and linen, paid by card. There are no booking fees and no per-person deposits, which keeps island jobs simple for your finance team even when the weather has other ideas about the schedule.
Tell us and we extend. Island work slips constantly — ferries, weather, material deliveries — so extensions are routine and normally confirmed within a day. The crew stays put, the bills stay in our name, and the invoice simply continues.
We do. The crew reports to us, we arrange the island tradesperson or bring someone over on the ferry if needed, and we pay. A broken boiler on Colonsay is our emergency, not the foreman's, and there is nothing for the crew to reclaim later.
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Need beds in Scalasaig? 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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