Welcome
Burnside Cottage a sylish Eco-friendly B&B (holding a Gold Award from Green Tourism). It is situated 800m off the North Coast 500 route, a 10 minute drive to John O'Groats & a couple of minutes to the Gills Bay Orkney ferry. It has views out over open countryside with the Isle of Stroma & Orkney beyond.
The property and car park are all on one level. The B&B suites are spacious with their own seating & dining areas. All meals in the b&b are served via room service.
We welcome any enquiries from guests with disabilities so we can discuss their needs and all reasonable attempts will be made to meet these.

Level access
There is level access from the main entrance to:
All meals are served via room service & both suites have dining areasAll meals are served via room service & both suites have dining areasAccess with steps
There are steps from the main entrance to:
Burnside Cottage & The Pig Shed communal gardens & car parkPicnic bench to the left as you leave the guest exitLawned areaLevel access bedrooms
Hearing
General
Getting here
For further information on accessible travel in Scotland, go to Transport Scotland.Travel by public transport
Pentland Ferries sails from Gills Bay to St Margarets Hope on Orkney. It is a short 1.25 mile drive or a 25 minute walk although there is no footpath and the road can be difficult for those with disabilities.
Travel by taxi
Due to being just a husband & wife team we do not have the capacity to offer a transfer service for visitors.
Parking
The carpark is flat and on the same level as the guest entrance. There are no steps into the property but there is a raised 2 inch threshold plate in the doorway




Arrival
Path to main entrance
Main entrance
The road past/to the building, and driveway into the carpark, does not have a pathway. There are no steps into the building but the doorway does have a 6cm high threshold plate. The door is hinged and opens to the left into a corridor that leads to the two guest suites.


Getting around inside
Bedrooms








Place to eat and drink
All meals are served via room service & both suites have dining areas
The main guest entrance is 730mm wide, the guest corridor which leads to both suites is 810mm at narrowest point & the doorways to both suites are 745mm.
We offer an extensive breakfast, and optional evening, menu which we send out via email at time of booking. Our evening menu requires pre-ordering by 10am on the day of dining.
Our menus are very vegan friendly (over 50% vegan) and all meat is organic/higher welfare. We will always try to cater for specail diets where possible but ask guests to notify us of dietary requirements at time of booking.
We do however use nuts extensively in our kitchen and so cannot guarentee our dishes are nut free.
All meals are served via room service.


All meals are served via room service & both suites have dining areas
The same as The Grey Suite Dining

Getting around outside
The guest entrance leads out onto a concreted area. To the left is a picnic bench and wall mounted ashtray with 2 double height repurposed tractor tyre planters with large bamboo plants. Straight ahead and to the right are 3 parking spaces (2 for the b&b and 1 for The Pig Shed self catering studio). The car park is surround on two side by garden areas. The one to the side is laid with pebbles and has 3 more single height tractor planters, the other is a lawned area with pampas grasses with views out over open countryside with orkney beyond (behind the cars there is a gravelled driveway before the lawned area)..



Smoking
Picnic bench to the left as you leave the guest exit
There are no steps from the guest suites & out of the main entrance and onto the smoking area/carpark etc apart from the 6.5cm threshold plate in the main doorway.To the left as you walk out of the guest door is a picnic bench sitting on a flat concrete area conected to the guest carpark. Near the picnic bench is a wall mounted ashtray.
Terrace
Smoking area & picnic bench
There are no steps from guest suites, out through the main guest entrance and to the terrace apart from a 6.5cm threshold plate in the main doorway. As you walk out of the guest exit there is a picnic bence to your left. This doubles as a smoking area as there is a wall mounted ashtray there.
When fully booked there is a maximum of 8 guests that can stay at any one time (this includes both the b&b and The Pig Shed self catering studio).
Lawned area
The lawned area is located infornt of the car parking spaces. It has a 6.5cm step onto it. It has 2 large pampas grasses on it and is surrounded by wild borders and has views out over open countryside with Orkney beyond.

Customer care support
We have an outside electric socket that can be used depending on the weather. We are also able to charge mobility items within our private garages.



Emergency evacuation procedures
Due to the fact that we only have 2 guest suites, and a self catering studio, & as we serve all meals via room service there is only a small area of the property that guests have access to. Our firesafety plan is designed to ensure that all guests can be safely evacuated in the event of a fire.
Customer care support
Burnside Cottage is operated by a husband & wife team who live on site (Kacey & Stephen George). Kacey's professional history before purchasing the B&B was in Adult Mental Health, Children's Homes, Childrens Social Care & Secondary Schools. Within all of these areas she has undertaken disability awareness training.