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Gardiesfauld Youth Hostel

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Uyeasound, Unst, Shetland
Uyeasound
ZE2 9DW
Tel:  01957 755259
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The original plan when travelling to Unst was to camp somewhere because we thought it would be fairly hard to find decent budget accomodation on this tiny island.

Imagine our horror then when after disembarking from the ferry, the rain and wind combined to make our lives living hell. Our faces dropped when we realised we'd have to put a tent up in this torrential storm.

It was then that we saw the sign. Not an official hostel it terms of being a part of the SYHA but a hostel all the same and it was only a couple of kilometres from the ferry port in the tiny village of Uyeasound.

The warden lives in a white house opposite the hostel, she books you in and allocates your room. The hostel was clean, warm, spacious and with good cooking facilities. A much better way than spending the night shivering in the freezing rain. As hostels go you've got to judge by atmosphere and this was one of the best.
Posted by notjamesbond
2nd June 2003ce