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Glenbrittle Campsite And Cafe
Glenbrittle Campsite
Carbost
Isle Of Skye (Browse area)
IV47 8TA
Tel: 01478 640404
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Pitches: 120 pitches & 36 electric hook-ups
Open: 01/04/2024 to 15/10/2024
01/04/2025 to 15/10/2025
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 Tent Pitches |
 Caravan Pitches |
 Motorhome Pitches |
 Small Campervans |
 No Glamping Units |
 No Statics for Hire |
 No Statics for Sale |
 Seasonal Pitches |
 Electric Hookups |
 Hardstanding Pitches |
 No Fully Serviced Pitches |
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Not Members Only |
 No Rallies |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
 Motorbikers Welcome |
| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 No Gas Exchange |
 No Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 No Freezer / Fridge |
 Motorhome Point |
 No Wifi Access |
 Shop On Site |
 No Bar |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway On Site |
| Activities |
 No Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing On Site |
 Wild Swimming On Site |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 No Horse Riding |
 No Cycle Hire |
 No Golf |
 No Tennis |
 Beach On Site |
 Watersports <5 miles |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
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 Coastside Pitches |
 Public Transport <5 miles |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
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| Date of Visit: August 2016 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Cc43 |
20 reviews from this member |
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 The location of this site is wonderful, right underneath the Cuillins, and beside a beach. A lovely place to sit and admire the view, and plenty of opportunities for walking. This means it is remote, however easily reached on a single-track road with plenty of passing places. No mobile signal, but there is a payphone. Staff very friendly and helpful.
Facilities are generally clean and good, although as other reviewers have mentioned, they are very much at one end of the site, and more dish-washing would help.
Midges sometimes irritating in the evening. 
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| Date of Visit: August 2016 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
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| Reviewer: Bikerhiker |
16 reviews from this member |
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Great location to head up into the Cuillin or even a beach holiday as many families were doing. Showers and toilets were clean & tidy with plenty of hot water for the dishes. Yet again a chair would be handy to dry your feet. Quite a big site spread out over several fields. If I went again I would camp away from the hordes of door slamming camper-vans which tend to cluster near the toilet block. Car owners were just as bad, with no regard for anyone else. I was on a bike, so once I was unloaded, I was done. The swarms of midges might have been a factor with many people seeking shelter.
Handy shop and landline phone with current weather info displayed. Shop is open 8am to 6pm. Most people were stocking up in Broadford on way in. Lovely views and great to hear happy children enjoying a proper holiday! Pity there's no bar but managed without!
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| Date of Visit: June 2016 |
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| Reviewer: S-and-G |
10 reviews from this member |
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The location is perfect, by a beautiful beach at the end of a single-track road. Whatever you are oriented the view is nice. Grass is well mowed and pegs get in perfectly.
Sheeps and rabbits live inside the campsite.
Toilet/shower block is on a edge of the campsite so it can be a bit of a walk to go there. Per sex: many toilets, 2 showers, 2 sinks. The dish-washing sinks are inside the gender perimeters (sorry for my english) which is not very convenient.
There is a small shop too.
We really recommend the walk from the campsite which goes to Allt Coire-Lagan (small lochan at the top-end, enjoyable but needing a bit of light scrambling), then way back via Loch an Fhir Bhallaich then Allt Coire na Banachdich waterfall.
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| Date of Visit: May 2016 |
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| Reviewer: Stevedavid43 |
1 review from this member |
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Fantastic views, very welcoming and helpful, we had the most amazing time and the weather was wall to wall sunshine, so I am sure that helped. The campsite was basic but clean pick the time you have a shower and you will be ok as there is only two in the men's but they are free and hot.
The staff were very helpful and easy going. Nothing seemed to much trouble for them
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| Date of Visit: May 2016 |
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| Reviewer: Tedthebudgie |
51 reviews from this member |
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Spectacular setting surrounded by the mountains and the sea. Large site with reasonably well defined pitches. Small shop selling essentials and hot drinks. Breakfast items available.
Facilities decent. However, this is a big site. Come school holidays expect queues for the two showers in the gents!
Coolish evening mid-May and midges were a problem. A net is essential.
£9 for tent and one person. Reasonable.
One gripe. If you work at the site and are testing your new car stereo, perhaps do it at a lower volume or elsewhere?
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| Date of Visit: September 2015 |
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| Reviewer: Cazcharles |
1 review from this member |
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Best views of any campsite in the uk
Spent three nights here and thoroughly enjoyed it
Facility's were very clean and adequate but I'm no glamper!.
Dog Friendly, not loads of kids
A beautiful place to escape to and ill be back in 2016 as three days isn't long enough to explore the island
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| Date of Visit: June 2015 |
Unit: Campervan |
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| Reviewer: Walters-world |
13 reviews from this member |
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A perfect site for 'getting away from it all', as the drive out there should tell you. The scenery is lovely (if you can see it!). This is the second time we have been here and unfortunately both times it was misty and raining so we haven't been able to enjoy the full experience of the site (e. G. Walking the hills and beach - as I am a fair weather walker!). This time we only stayed one night on our tour of Scotland.
The facilities were clean and tidy, and as the site was not very full there were no queues for the showers.
I'm glad we opted to go without an electric hook up as I wouldn't have liked to be in the 'car park' that was for the 'vans wanting electric. You would also have had everyone walking past your 'van to get to the toilet/shower block.
If you are going for more than a couple of days be prepared by bringing food as the shop is expensive and does not have much stock.
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| Date of Visit: August 2015 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: PaulaMB |
19 reviews from this member |
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We had great hopes for Glenbrittle but felt that it was trying to be a bit 'too cool'.
Amazing location, the weather was not kind to us and we left early, having had 40mph winds and rain, when the forecast was for 45-55mph gusts. Our tipi tent is bulletproof but we were struggling a bit for things to do after days of rain with a 9 year old.
The facilities are OK, just OK. There is a coffee shop which serves food (I think) and a little shop selling camping items and basic provisions.
Showers are 20p for 8 minutes, mine only managed a pathetic trickle of water which wasn't great. Some people were putting two coins in meaning a long wait as 16 mins plus changing time is a long time when there are only two showers and lots of campers. No loo roll in the toilets.
We felt that the site was a bit 'grabby', fairly busy, just had a very commercialised feel to it which we didn't expect. I don't want a coffee shop and cafe on a site, I want a decent free shower (and enough of them) and loo roll in the toilets when I have paid a decent price.
£22 pn for two adults plus a child.
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| Date of Visit: May 2015 |
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| Reviewer: Arniesdad |
18 reviews from this member |
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I have visited this site many times in the last ten years or so and will always love the spectacular setting and air of peace that seems to exist at Glenbrittle. Although mostly used by hardy adventurers conquering the Cullins there are usually a few non-hook-up campervans around and a fairly small area next to the amenity block for electricity hungry motorhomes, and they will have to be hungry as the extra hook-up price is £7 a night! (most I have heard of in Scotland?). My main grumble, and the reason for Glenbrittle dropping out of my top three Scottish sites, is that money has been spent in the (very handy) shop on site on buying a state-of-the art coffee/cocoa machine and providing a kind of breakfast service whilst any money allocated to the shower block seems to have gone on security and not the basic facilities. I appreciate the efforts of the owners to provide a basic free facility for non-campsite walkers, and this is to be applauded, but the campsite-only section is now I reckon, below standard (and charges for the showers - admittedly only 20p but for anyone who has already paid £7 for a hook-up it really taking the. ). I just think owners of sites should go and use the facilities themselves and see what they think! Moan over - it's still a beautiful site and I will still come here albeit without hook-up.
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| Date of Visit: August 2014 |
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| Reviewer: Angef |
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We arrived at Glenbrittle at 1pm hoping to get a hook up, not realising they had to be pre-booked. Realising the 2 campervans in front of us were doing the same, we decided we weren't going to be lucky and get one, so we opted for no electric.
Im very fussy about toilets/showers, but the scenery and setting of the site just blew all that away, and that's saying something for me!
Set right next to the beach and at the foot of the mountains, the location is simply stunning. Lots of walks go from the site, so perfect setting if you want to hike/ramble. The shop has a map of a popular walk you can do which it seemed lots of fellow campers did, us included, and we weren't disappointed.
The site is set 6 miles down a track with many passing places and not in bad condition at all, so don't let that put you off.
Yes the toilets are not the best, but they were relatively clean, I had to queue for the shower but 20p for 8 minutes was ok, all the time I was there no one took the full 8 minutes. I don't like spiders but there weren't that many, probably fattened up on the many midges.
The shop does sell midge nets - but at a price ! you can get these for a quarter of the price before you travel and you really will need them when the wind drops. But this is Scotland and its to be expected and really not much you can do about it other than be prepared.
The pitches are big, and the earlier you get there the better choices you have as this site does get very busy later on in the day. When reception is shut you can pitch where you like and pay later.
I would have no hesitation going back to this site, even though I like good facilities, the setting and scenery more than compensate for the toilets (which weren't that bad and ive seen far worse) !
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