WESTRAAK TOURS WILL BE CLOSED FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2020 We have been deliberating for many hours on whether we can or should restart our tours this season. While there has been plenty of advice made available from such bodies as the Scottish Government and Visit Scotland, and we have taken the time to plough […]

Hello. We trust you are all doing Ok. While there are some tentative plans for the tourism industry in Orkney to reopen in the next few weeks we have taken the decision to remain closed until at least the end of July. The social distancing requirements mean that the use of our bus for mixed

We’ve had quite a few requests for day tours on Tuesdays for this year so I’d like to clarify that while we are open for business on Tuesdays the Westray ferry timetable is different during the summer (3rd May-28th September, allegedly). The boat leaves Kirkwall very early (7am) and then returns from Westray three hours

Happy New Year, best wishes for 2020. We had another busy year and are now taking bookings for the new season. We’ve had a few issues with folk’s booking requests not getting to us, should you make an enquiry via the calendar and you don’t hear from us within a day or two, apologies, please

A very happy New Year to all our previous and prospective guests. Its a bit calmer here after a blowy few days after Christmas. The sea has been crashing over the cliffs at the North End (Scann). We are already taking bookings for this year and looking forward to welcoming more visitors to Westray in

The season is very much underway – the puffins are back and can be viewed in the evenings. Up at Noup Head the cliffs are filling up with gannets, fulmars, kittiwakes, guillemots and razorbills. We are still having a few technical issues with our website I’m afraid – you should be able to contact us

Apologies if you have tried to contact us via the website – it appears we are having a few technical issues with it so please ring us (01857 677777) or email (info@westraak.co.uk) if you want to get in touch. Thanks.

Despite some mixed weather we’ve had our first tours of the year. We won’t be able to take phone calls for the next two weeks so if you need to contact us please do so via our website or email. Thanks.

Happy Christmas to everyone who joined us on a Westraak tour in 2017. We thoroughly enjoyed our first season and look forward to showing Westray off to more fine folk in 2018.

The season is drawing a close but we are still here should any intrepid souls wish to tour Westray with us during the winter. We’ve had a few folk miss our email replies, please check in your spam folders in case they drop there. If you phone us please leave a number so that we