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.

Within a medieval castle and Georgian house above the Sound of Mull, this remote restaurant with rooms has four fantastic suites, spectacular views, and no less memorable cooking by chef-proprietor Colin Nicholson.

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.

Beside the ferry landing, with views to Mull and Staffa, this family-run hotel and island social hub has smart, uncluttered bedrooms, and short menus of locally fished and farmed produce.

Fiona and Richard Trevor are perfect hands-on hosts at this former manse with breathtaking views across Badcall Bay to Assynt, immaculate, comfortable bedrooms, imaginative cooking and a truly warm, hospitable vibe.

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.

A formerly run-down pub at the top of the hill overlooking the harbour, this refurbished dining pub with stylish, highly characterful and generously equipped bedrooms, retains the fun and energy of a popular local, while serving seriously impressive, locally sourced food.

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.

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.

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.

There are glorious sea views across Asknish Bay to the Sound of Jura and the Inner Hebrides from the restaurant and from bedrooms with deck or balcony at this remote, dog-friendly hotel, built for Victorian tea Baron J Arthur Campbell, who planted the National Trust Arduaine Garden next door.

There are glorious views from this 17th-century country-house hotel with later baronial embellishments, set in gardens and woodland on the shore of the Beauly Firth, with traditional bedroom styling (perhaps a four-poster or half-tester bed, a view across the water), and a formal, fine-dining restaurant.

Decorated in cool Scandi-Scots style, this former crofter's house on the shores of Loch Dunvegan is a celebrated restaurant showcasing local produce, with spacious bedrooms painted in soothing shades in a house across the courtyard, and views to the mountains of Harris and North Uist.

Antiques and ancestral portraits fill Lord and Lady Macdonald's hunting lodge, in a beautiful situation on the shores of Loch Na Dal. It is now run by daughter Isabella, with country-house bedrooms, a three-course dinner featuring home-grown produce, and a ghillie on hand for fishing, stalking and foraging.

There are shimmering views across Scapa Flow and the Southern Orkney islands from every table in the restaurant at this hotel, which offers a short menu of locally sourced dishes and smart contemporary bedrooms.

A tree-lined drive leads to this splendid Victorian Scottish baronial pile and luxury hotel in landscaped grounds, where guests have a choice of opulent suites, and can opt to dine from tasting menus in the dining room looking out to Ailsa Craig or on home-grown produce in a 19th-century glasshouse within the walled kitchen garden.

Tom and Michaela Kitchin preside at this gastropub in a coastal village at the heart of golfing country, where Victorian interiors have had a smart-casual Scandi-Scotia makeover, and you can dine on superior pub classics in the Broc Bar, or get the nosebag on for Tom's nature-to-plate dishes in the converted stables.

Under a red tin roof on a scenic single-track road, this quaint, much-loved and welcoming restaurant occupies a former crofter's cottage, with five stylish bedrooms set around a courtyard and fire pit, and first-rate cooking of locally sourced ingredients.

If you don't see owners Amanda and Niall Leveson Gower around their small hotel, they may be at sister venture Hamersay House, or out diving for scallops and gathering mussels for supper.

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.

An affordable, modern B&B on the Moray Firth, just across the road from the beach, Sunny Brae has light and airy bedrooms, sun-trap garden, and good breakfasts.

With a clubby ambience, chic, quirky bedrooms, and classic Italian cooking in Porcini restaurant, this personable hotel overlooking the Sound of Mull is 'extremely welcoming' says readers who were served a glass of Prosecco on arrival.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On the North Coast 500 route, overlooking the Kyle of Tongue, this 19th-century manse has stunning, Scandi-chic interiors, with a suite occupying the entire attic floor, and some loft-style studio rooms in former stables, as well as candlelit dining room adorned with botanical artworks.