Welcome to The Bannockburn Inn, Helmsdale

The Bannockburn Inn, known locally as The Bannockburn Hotel, is a traditional Inn offering food, drink, self catering and B&B accommodation. We are privately owned and pride ourselves on being family friendly.  The Inn is a perfect refreshment stop on your journey north to Orkney or John O'Groats (Taigh Iain Ghròt), or south to Inverness.

Full of character, the Inn and restaurant are located approximately halfway in journey time between Inverness and Scrabster on the A9 NC500 route. We have our own car park and offer safe storage for bikes and provide free Wi-Fi for our customers. We are ideally located for fishing enthusiasts as we are within walking distance of The River Helmsdale for which we are able to provide fishing permits. View permit prices here For the budding cyclist we can offer a bike hire service through Sam’s Bike Shed. (Book in advance so your bikes can be here when you arrive.) View hire prices here.

Helmsdale offers other outdoor recreational activities like gold panning in the local streams and burns such as in The Kildonan Burn. Gold panning supplies for hire or purchase are available in the village.