Whaligoe, Scotland • Scotland
The road drops off the A99 at Whaligoe, a tiny former herring port on the Caithness coast in Scotland, in the KW2 postcode area, a few miles south of Wick. There is no hotel here and never will be. Crews working across Caithness stay in whole serviced houses arranged by KrewBase, with bills, Wi-Fi and parking included and one monthly invoice going to your company.
Whaligoe itself is a scatter of stone cottages and a handful of newer bungalows around the famous harbour steps. Most crews working this stretch of coast are housed in the slightly larger settlements within a short drive — Wick to the north or the strung-out villages along the A99 — where there are proper family houses with driveways and gardens rather than fishermen's cottages with no parking. We shortlist by how far the house is from your site, not by parish boundary, and every property is walked through and checked for heating, damp, hot water and broadband before it is offered.
Caithness keeps crews busy with a mix of construction, local infrastructure and housing work, and with the energy activity around the Moray Firth — wind, grid connections and the maintenance that follows. There is also steady demand from healthcare staff covering the county's hospitals and care services, plus agricultural and food-production work inland. It is a big county with a small population, so contractors travel further here than most places — which is exactly why being housed near the site matters.
The A99 is the spine of the east Caithness coast, running north into Wick for shops and services and south past Lybster toward Latheron, where it meets the A9 for the long run to Inverness. Most site runs here are measured in tens of minutes rather than miles — the roads are good and quiet. If your site is on the west side, around Thurso, we shortlist from that side of the county instead. Tell us where the gate is and we work backwards from drive time, which is the only sensible way in a place this spread out.
You get the whole property — no shared corridors, no strangers. Bills sit in our name, Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, parking is confirmed against the vehicles turning up, and crews of five or more get two bathrooms as standard. A weekly clean and fresh linen keep the place decent, and maintenance calls come to us, not to your crew. It all lands on one monthly invoice, paid by card, with 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.
Not in Whaligoe itself — it is a hamlet. But within a short drive along the A99 there are proper family houses in and around Wick and the coastal villages. We shortlist by distance from your site, so the crew stays ten minutes from the gate rather than driving from Thurso.
Within two hours of getting your site location, headcount and dates. Stock on this coast is limited, so for longer bookings we would always rather you call early — but short-notice placements are something we handle regularly. You get real addresses, not a promise to look.
Every house we offer has been walked through: heating sized for a Caithness winter, hot water for the full headcount, broadband speed-tested and mobile signal noted. A cottage that fails those checks does not make the shortlist, whatever the view is like.
Yes — parking is confirmed against your actual vehicles before check-in. The modern bungalows and family houses we favour on this coast almost always have drive space, and where a property falls short we simply do not offer it. We would rather lose a house than park a crew badly.
That is how every booking works: one monthly invoice covering rent, all bills, Wi-Fi, cleaning and linen, paid by card. No booking fees, no per-night extras, no chasing receipts from the crew. One supplier means one payment run for finance.
KrewBase does. The crew reports a problem, we arrange the fix with the landlord and trades, and your site manager hears about it only if we need access. There is also a weekly clean, which keeps the house in good order and flags small faults early.
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Need beds in Whaligoe? 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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