Business / Hillswick hotel to go up for sale
THE ST Magnus Bay Hotel in Hillswick is going on the market.
The historic hotel has been owned by Paul Bird and Andrea Manson for the last 15 years.
The couple recently spoke out about how staff shortages are increasing an already busy workload for its small team.
The pair said on the hotel’s Facebook page that they have put in an “extraordinary amount of work” into the business. This has included renovating the building and its rooms.
The couple said they hope to get some “much needed rest” once the hotel sells.
“We have truly loved the building and all its history and realise that we are just as small part of an ever expanding story which with luck will continue for decades to come, with many new stories and chapters to talk of,” they wrote.
“She has stood many storms, witnessed two world wars, numerous economic calamities, many great prime ministers have come and gone and yet she serenely stands her ground,.
“We will of course stay with her until, a new team takes her on her next journey. So with tears in our eyes we leave it at that.”
The C-listed hotel was built at the start of the 1900s by the North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Co, which operated ferries. It was originally manufactured in Norway and re-built in Hillswick after it went on display in Glasgow.
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