Sands Hotel

Amazing place. Food is amazing. All freshly made. Lovely and clean rooms and excellent service. Warm welcome

Delicious food in a lovely location with very friendly staff. Good fixed menu on Father's Day.

This is one of the best hotels I have stay in. The food was excellent. The rooms were very clean and comfortable, and the staff were very friendly and helpful. I would recommend this hotel to everybody, definitely worth 5 stars.

Amazing food at restaurant And great staff amazing service and

Excellent food and drinks for a work night out. Salmon and prawn cornet followed by Sands curry - all delicious!

Very friendly staff, spotless rooms, great menu with lovingly cooked local ingredients. Couldn't ask for better.

A fabulous hotel. Astounding views. Very kind helpful staff. Our room was gorgeous, big comfortable bed, lovely bathroom - well equipped. Great breakfasts, lavish dinners. Enjoyed it so much.

Absolute superb food quality, ambience, and customer service with a smile. Prices are mid-high, but extremely good value for money for the quality of dishes. Wifi available too. Probably one of the top 3 restaurants in Orkney.

Convenient for ferry, small and quaint beside the sea shore and fishing boats. Lovely suite for family with everything you wish for and comfortable. Food delicious. I had the hand dived scallops and they were superb. Breakfast is ordered the night before and the menu is extensive and good sized portions. Overall top quality. I would stay here again and recommend.

Sands Hotel provides a perfect, secluded base from which to explore Orkney. While the village of Burray doesn't offer the amenities of Stromness or Kirkwall, it offers instead quietude and charm. Sands Hotel is prettily situated on Waterside Bay along Burray Harbour. Each of the six ensuite rooms overlooks the water and the folksily painted fishing boats in dock.

We were fortunate enough to book the Waterside Suite which provided more than enough space and sleeping accommodations for five, as well as a kitchenette. The rooms were comfortable, modern and clean. Breakfast (ample and delicious) is included with the price the room as well, served in the hotel's ground floor restaurant. Evenings, the restaurant's bar fills with colorful locals enjoying a beer or a game of snooker. It's a convivial place to partake in a dram of Orkney Scapa whisky or a pint of the iconic Dark Island Scottish ale from the Orkney Brewery. Kirkwall may be livelier, but there's something to be said for the peace and solitude provided by Sands.