Guest User
January 31, 2023
Owner and staff very friendly and welcoming. Lynette very helpful she advised us to download the Shetland Travel Information app ( blue background with a white Z). Locals use it for bus and ferry timetables. Found it useful when traveling to Yell and Unst Island, picking up ferry etc. The staff work very hard slaving away cleaning rooms at both Aald B&B and Fort Charlotte Guesthouse and breakfast for guests at both accommodations. As at the moment Lynette is also running the Fort Charlotte Guesthouse as well as Aald Harbour B&B as owner of Fort Charlotte’s husband is seriously ill. As a result breakfast for Aald Harbour B&B residents is held at Fort Charlotte Guesthouse in Charlotte Road. It’s located off the main high street (Commercial Street) beside the soap shop (there is 2 soap shops, it’s the one next door to Boots the Chemist). Just up the the hill you will see the oval sign and stone steps. The entrance is up the steps and door to your right. The breakfast is second to none. Staff very attentive, toppling you up asking if you wanted more juice, tea, coffee, or toast etc. As soon as you get up to leave they asked if there was anything in your room you needed or wanted done. As owners don’t stay at accommodation. We stayed in the Aurora room lovely decorated. Welcoming pack and laminated sheets with further details a nice touch and very useful. Bed very comfortable, but only thing we could fault was the size of the bed, a double bed. As it was a little cramped for my husband and I for our week stay. A king size bed would have been more suitable and more comfortable. Downstairs in the laundry room next to the toilet there’s an iron/iron board. There is a communal kitchen with a microwave, toaster, and 2 fridges and a fridge in all rooms. Although you can’t eat in room as they don’t want the linens soiled. We ate in kitchen on nights we didn’t want to eat out. You can help yourself to more milk and tea etc from the kitchen if you run out in your rooms. On last day once we checked out of our room Lynette said we could store bags in communal lounge and sit in there and help ourselves to tea etc until it was time to pick up our ferry to Aberdeen. This is central location for pubs/restaurants in walking distance. However restaurants get very busy and booked up. Therefore if you plan to eat out I recommend you book in advance. Whilst in the Dowry several diners were turned away at 8pm and 9pm as every night they were open for business they were fully booked. The Dowry, No.88,