Information
Open All Year
Tel: www.gatliff.org.uk
Please Note: For practical reasons it is
not possible to accommodate children under 5 years-of-age. Beds are
usually available, but reservations cannot be made for the first
night of a proposed stay. No special facilities are
available.
No advance bookings:
Adults: £10
Under 18's: £6
Day-rate: £2
Sheet sleeping-bag hire: £2
Camping pppn: £6
Eating & Drinking
This hostel was, until 1990, perhaps the most difficult to
access in the entire UK. It involved a six-mile walk over the
Postman's Path. The metalled road has given it accessibility, but
that remote feeling still prevails.
There is absolutely nothing in the immediate surroundings and so
a 13-mile trip by road or six miles by footpath to Tarbert will
enable visitors to reach the Isle of Harris Hotel and a café or
two.
Local Attractions
Full details are available on the 'Around the Hostels' section
of www.gatliff.org.uk The
places to visit are the highest local point, Toddun; the highest
mountain in the Outer Hebrides, Clisham; Loch Seaforth; the nearby
village of Molinginish, now deserted for half-a-century; the
wilderness around Kinlochresort on the North Harris Estate; the
overhang at Sron Ulladale; the beaches on the west side and the Bay
Road on the east side of south Harris.
Walkers
Local walks are featured in an outstanding way in a booklet –
Walks from the Gatliff Hostel at Reinigeadal by Neil Pinkett
Email: editor@galtliff.org.uk for
details
Disclaimer: All
walking routes are hosted on external sites, therefore SYHA can
hold no responsibility towards their accuracy. SYHA would also like
to acknowledge the British
Mountaineering Council Participation Statement: "The BMC
recognises that climbing and mountaineering are activities with a
danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these
activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be
responsible for their own actions".