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The Stroops

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07/12/2024

Christmas ready!

How cute are these guys?!

By our very own talented Dawn 😻

The gnomes are my favourite, otterly gorgeous aren’t they? 🦦

24/06/2024

Three months with cottages dot whatever yielded one solitary booking. Don’t know why we bothered with them. Anyway, back to straightforward Booking.com and Airbnb. Please look us up on either platform, and check availability. Looking forward to welcoming you at The Stroops!

16/05/2024

Update!! To find us on Cottages.com, search
The Stroops, Helmsdale. Simples.😀👍

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14/05/2024

The Stroops has now moved to a new booking platform. You can find us on cottages.com. Search for Scotland, then Highlands, and we’re waiting for you!

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18/03/2023

The Stroops is now licensed by The Highland Council, as required by the new short term letting regulations.

The process only took 6 months of sourcing various companies to undertake the assorted certifications, plus around £2,000 (and still counting) in terms of the licence fee, and alterations to the property to comply with recommendations .
Thank you, Scottish Government, for enforcing this preposterous requirement on everyone operating in the Highlands’ vital tourism and hospitality sector. Many have had to withdraw from offering well-loved premises to tourists, because of the nature of their accommodation. Others have simply decided to call it a day, due to unsustainable financial implications. The Stroops may well follow suit, depending upon the forthcoming season.

A wasteful exercise for both operators and overstretched local authorities such as The Highland Council. Another tribute to Scottish Government grandstanding.

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Welcome to The Stroops

My self catering flat stands in my family’s Sutherland croft, on a hill approximately 153 metres above sea level. The property is compact and cosy, with electric central heating, and it is my priority that visitors have everything they need for a comfortable stay. The lounge/kitchen area is fully equipped with hob, oven, microwave, toaster, steamer, fridge, washing machine, dishwasher, pots, crockery, cutlery, table and chairs, Sky TV, Wi-Fi being installed, comfortable sofa-bed and armchair. The bedroom has a kingsize bed, and ample wardrobe storage. For the shower and washbasin, I have provided Arran Aromatics lovely hand- and body-wash products to relax and soothe you.

Because this is a Highland home, I have kept a certain sense of tradition in the decor, with a variety of plaid fabrics, and some old photographs and objects which I hope you will enjoy looking at. You may browse a selection of books by a diversity of Scottish authors.

The views are amazing. From the front windows, the Moray Firth in all its moods leads the eye south west to the distant Cairngorms, or the vast open horizon of the North Sea. On the other sides, the views are framed by some of the oldest hills in Europe. Once mighty Alps, the passage of time and ice ages have worn these to gentler slopes of fractured volcanic rock. Thinly coated in peat and heather, they are the very private habitat of such fauna as grouse, stoat, and hare, and the equally public domain of seasonally grazing sheep, cattle and growing numbers of red and roe deer.

You might simply be a bird of passage, staying briefly here while travelling to or from the Northern isles of Orkney and Shetland, or experiencing the wonderful North Coast 500 route. On the other hand, you might want to make this your base for a while, as you explore the area known as the ‘Common Grazings’ - 1011 hectares of wild hillsides, which reach almost to my back door. With wildlife spotting, fishing for tasty little brown trout in a nearby burn, finding examples of iron age archaeology, or simply strolling through the glorious spaciousness, where you’ll rarely encounter another human being, you might not want to travel much further during your entire stay, than down to the village of Helmsdale for supplies, souvenirs or eating out. Being only about half a mile from the A9, it is also easy to base yourself here, and travel up the Strath of Kildonan to the North Coast, follow the East Coast to John O’ Groats, or take a day trip across to Ullapool and the West.