Fiona Doyle is your welcoming host at this B&B on the shores of Loch Indaal with stunning views across the bay and a home-from-home ambience.

With porte cochère, crenellated tower and fine Victorian interiors, this country house overlooking Loch Portree is redolent of the history of the Macdonald family, who have lived there for more than 200 years.

From the oak-panelled hall and portrait gallery to the commodious bars and lounges, this Victorian country house abounds in solid traditional charms, with hunting, shooting and fishing on offer, and local and home-grown produce on the menu.

In a beautiful location on the shore of Loch Sunart, where otters swim in the waters and red squirrels scamper around the land, this 18th-century lodge offers country-house comforts and plenty of Scottish flair, ranging from tartan fabrics to homemade shortbread.

The catch of the day could be Shetland hake in the restaurant or nifty fielding on the sands at this pub-with-rooms overlooking the Firth of Forth, with its own beach cricket team.

Abundant wildlife, dark skies, a scenic golf course and white-sand beaches attract guests to this owner-run island guest house with large, comfortable bedrooms and excellent cooking.

With distant views to the Orkney Islands, and with the ferry just half a mile away, this unusual, eco-friendly, dog-friendly B&B is perfect for guests who want space, privacy and imaginative food morning and evening.

Award-winning chef Calum Montgomery has transformed a run-down 16th-century hunting lodge into a splendid restaurant with rooms showcasing the produce of his native Skye in exquisitely presented dishes.

The Arts and Crafts movement is lovingly nurtured in this restored Victorian terraced house in a conservation area, run as a B&B by Brisbane natives Susan and Paul Johnson.

A hotel and village local on Scotland's Golf Coast has been reinvented as a comfortable, family friendly, dog-friendly bolthole, with a bar and relaxed all-day dining in the restaurant and alfresco.

With panoramic sea views to the Torridon mountains, cottage annexe rooms and suites. this Victorian former hunting lodge near the northern tip of Skye has been refurbished by new owners but remains reassuringly traditional.

Hikers and cyclists stop for the simple comforts of this busy, bustling 160-year-old coaching inn offering comfortable rooms, good food and friendly staff in a village on the Great Glen Way.

On the north-west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Elaine Fothergill and Richard Inger invite you to their traditional Hebridean farmhouse to switch off, unwind and relax.

Expect a cheerful welcome at this pub with rooms, which stands by a bridge over the Union Canal in a conservation village.

A single-track road leads to this remote and intimate Skye 'black house', with views towards mountains and the islands of Rum and Eigg, simple, chic bedrooms, and a restaurant serving a four-course set menu showcasing superb island produce.

Scottish culture and celebration are at the heart of the Urquhart family's low-built, whitewashed hotel, bookshop, art gallery, café/bar, restaurant and music venue near the ferry terminal on Loch Broom, a social hub with simple bedrooms, enthusiastic young staff, short and interesting locally sourced menus, and a bunkhouse for those on a budget.

Walkers, kayakers and wildlife watchers are in their element at this dog-friendly, welcoming inn with views to the Isle of Bute, moorings for the waterborne, bedrooms supplied with home-baked shortbread and fresh coffee, and a dining room serving seasonal produce cooked with flair.

Overlooked by the dramatic landmark of Arthur's Seat, this period gem of a Victorian villa with fine original details and handsome furnishings is now run as a friendly B&B with imaginative breakfast choices. It's just ten minutes from the city centre.

One of the world's most beautiful drives, along the North Coast 500, brings you to a fishing village and this hotel in a former Edwardian house just steps from the links, with comfortable, characterful bedrooms and bistro-style food.

Guests are welcomed with tea or coffee and home-baked cakes in the lounge at Graeme and Emma Clark's hospitable guest house on the Isle of Islay, with four well-presented bedrooms and breathtaking views over over the Mull of Oa.

For more than four decades, warm-hearted hosts Margaret and Blair Rozga have been welcoming guests to their farmhouse at the heart of the family farm, where a peaceful night's sleep is all but guaranteed before a hearty breakfast with home-baked bread.

In a sleepy village six miles from the border, Katrina and William Reynolds's relaxing, family-friendly and affordable inn blends the feel of a traditional country pub with modern furnishings and artworks, while imaginative locally sourced dishes can be enjoyed in the restaurant or garden pod.

Interiors at this dog-friendly, intensely characterful inn in a historic conservation village are a riot of granny's attic eccentricity, while bedrooms next door are large, light and contemporary, with swish bathrooms; a weekly changing menu features pub favourites, shooting packages can be arranged, and golfers get special rates at Gleneagles.

This remote restaurant with rooms beside Loch Voil has some unexpectedly smart contemporary bedrooms with the odd wacky touch, and quirky options such as an 1850s wagon, a ferry cabin, yurts and treehouse in the grounds. In the restaurant, locally sourced and foraged or home-grown ingredients appear in sophisticated modern Scottish dishes.

Affordable deluxe bedrooms have a colour-changing wet room or spa bath and power shower at this purpose-built, eco-friendly B&B, where you can dine on platters by the log burner in the lounge, or on your own private terrace as the sun goes down over Loch Creran.

A stately presence on the market square, the Girdwoods' Georgian townhouse has attractive, traditionally styled bedrooms, including a family suite, a conservatory sitting room and a spacious breakfast room looking onto the flower-filled walled rear garden.

All of the seven attractive, simple bedrooms have a sea view at this remote Highland village inn with views across the Inner Sound of Raasay. There is also a popular bar, dining-room, and waterside terrace for alfresco dining.

With possibly the best location in Portree, this former Victorian shooting lodge has spectacular views over the bay and Sound of Raasay to the Cuillin mountains. Now a family-run hotel, it has smart contemporary bedrooms and serves locally sourced, traditional dishes along with the views.

Pheasants wander the enclosed gardens and woodland of this stone-built Victorian house, within easy walking distance of the town.

A Victorian baronial fantasia with half-timbering, turrets, candle-snuffer roofs, stepped gables and Arts and Crafts interior overlooking Loch Long, this dog-friendly hotel mixes pretty classic doubles with impressive suites, while the chef uses local seasonal produce for fine-dining menus in an atmospheric panelled dining room.