| the homely restaurant features a chandelier and regular live piano music, and there's also a cosy bar with a fireplace. it's a 13-minute walk from the pickaquoy centre arts and leisure complex. some rooms have 4-poster beds. check-in time: 3:00 pmcheck-out time: 10:00 am. a 5-minute walk from st magnus cathedral, this classic hotel occupies a former hospital dating to 1824. warm, traditional rooms offer en suite bathrooms with showers
Kirkwall Airport 7 min
Lamb Holm (12 min) Churchill Barriers (11 min)
Built to protect the important anchorage at Scapa Flow, this causeways were built in 1939. Pier Arts Centre (22 min)
Art and art museum Orkney Wireless Museum (10 min) Ring of Brodgar (17 min)
Dramatic upright stone circle dating from the late Neolithic period, with ditch and causeways. Standing Stones of Stenness (15 min)
Remains of 4 Neolithic standing stones with a central hearth area once used for cooking. Maeshowe (14 min)
Tours are offered of this large neolithic chambered tomb illuminated by the setting midwinter sun. Burray (17 min)
Orkney archipelago island with guesthouses & heritage centers, plus sailing, diving & canoeing. Highland Park Whisky Distillery (3 min)
Guided tours through an 18th-century, malt-whisky distillery that conclude with a wee dram or two. Balfour Castle (44 min)
Castle and architecture Italian Chapel (12 min)
Catholic chapel built by Italian POWs in the 1940s using scavenged materials, like old ship timbers. Bishop’s and Earl's Palaces (5 min)
Enduring stone ruins of 2 ornate palaces built in the 1100s & in 1606 in the Renaissance-style. The Orkney Museum (4 min)
Exhibits & artefacts on the area's history from the Stone Age to present day in a 1570s townhouse. Scapa Flow (14 min)
Historic waterway with a sandy beach & rustic backdrop known for its many wartime shipwrecks. St Magnus Cathedral (6 min)
Soaring, multi-hued sandstone originally founded by the Vikings, Britain's most northerly cathedral. | 
