Top Things to do in Mainland
7 Transportation in Mainland That You Shouldn't Miss
The aptly named Mainland is the main island of Orkney, a collection of Scottish islands with serious Viking cred. On West Mainland you’ll find the Heart of Neolithic Orkney, prehistoric ruins that include a chambered tomb, stone ceremonial circles, and Skara Brae, a well-preserved Neolithic village. Cap off your visit with a hoppy glug from the Orkney Brewery. Over on the East side, marvel at a collapsed sea cave known as The Gloup, take a provincial stroll through St. Mary’s Village or just dip your toes in at Mill Sands or Dingieshowe Beach.
Restaurants in Mainland
1. Island Travel Orkney
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5.0 based on 6 reviews
We offer tailor made taxi tours of the Orkney mainland in our comfy 8 seater. Let us safely drive you to explore the many great sites our beautiful island has to offer. Prices from £40 an hour for up to 4 people and £60 an hour for up to 8 people. Self guided at the sites. Step on guides available for an additional fee. We look forward to showing you around our island.
2. Orkney Highlights Tours
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5.0 based on 4 reviews
Bespoke driver guided tours of the highlights of Orkney and the North Highlands of Scotland. Step on guiding on your coach or car if your prefer.
3. Scenic Orkney
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
I am Gail. I do tours throughout the Orkney Islands. I have many years experience and knowledgeable of the Islands and its history.
4. Stagecoach Bus Tour Orkney
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4.5 based on 50 reviews
*Please Note: The T11 tours will be postponed until further notice* The Orkney Isles are famous for their dramatic cliffs, early cultural museums and historical stone monuments from Neolithic times. Stagecoach bus route T11 will give visitors the opportunity to visit some of the Islands highlights including Skara Brae, The Ring of Brodgar andThe Standing Stones of Stenness, all for only £16 per person! Departing Kirkwall daily at 10am, you can admire the spectacular scenery from the top deck of our bus. Don’t forget you can join and leave the timetabled route at any point and connections are available using other Stagecoach services. Outwith built up areas, all our services run on a ‘hail and ride’ basis. So provided you can get to a safe spot on the main roads, simply make it clear to our driver that you’d like to get on board. If you are travelling in a group you can even give us advance warning of your group size and where you’ll be boarding.
5. Craigies Taxis
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4.5 based on 44 reviews
Reviewed By dianepattinson111 - Cumbria, United Kingdom
Would highly recommend a trip with Craigies Taxis. From our first email to them, to picking us up at Stromness Ferry and taking us around for 3 hours, everything was done professionally and enjoyably. Archie was a great guide who told us lots of things we wouldn't otherwise have found out on our own. Our party of 7 last Friday thoroughly enjoyed our trip.
6. NorthLink Ferries
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4.5 based on 604 reviews
Let NorthLink Ferries take you on a voyage of discovery to the islands of Orkney and Shetland. With NorthLink Ferries, travelling to Orkney and Shetland is more convenient than ever before. Choose from up to three sailings a day from Scrabster (near Thurso) to Stromness in Orkney and nightly sailings from Aberdeen to Lerwick in Shetland - with four of these sailings going via Orkney's capital, Kirkwall.
Reviewed By Travel_Teddybears - Glasgow, United Kingdom
We just did the round trip of Scrabster to Orkney, Orkney to Shetland, Shetland to Orkney and Orkney to Scrabster. This review of for the section Orkney to Scrabster. You dock in Orkney in Kirkwall quite late, well we docked at 10.30pm and had a bit of a mad dash across the island to get the boat moored up in Stromness ready for the early morning sailing. We had a cabin booked. We used to do this trip years ago, and quite a few things had greatly improved. We got to book in quite late at about 5 mins to 11 so were just in time. We had a lovely cabin booked, and were also booked into the Magnus lounge. The lady who walked us on said we had missed the lounge as it was closing, but it was such a shame she asked the girl on the boat to let us go in anyway. This we did and were given a huge plate of sandwiches, enough for 10 people !! cake, biscuits, 2 large double drinks, as many soft drinks as we could carry and newspapers. It really was excellent and all free with the cabin. The lovely girl even helped us carry every thing down to the cabin. I was a bit worried as we were the cabin by the slamming main door, but apparently we were the last on and everyone else had gone to bed. So we had a great picnic, nice hot shower, watched tv. It was quiet, never heard a thing, and all you could hear was the boat engine starting up in the morning. It was very very rough, storm something or other. But the boat still went. We went up and they still did an excellent cooked breakfast, free with the cabin and plenty of extras to choose from. Stunning and magnificent views. Arrived on time. It was great.
7. Orkney Cabs
We are a recently formed taxi company providing a reliable service for locals and tourists alike. We pride ourselves in our well maintained clean cars and uniformed drivers. We are open daily from 6am (earlier bookings available) We can provide cars for all occasions from a general taxi hire, Airport/Ferry transfers, Private Tours of the Island or transporting teams for sporting events
