Sumburgh

By plane: See Shetland#By plane for flight connections.

Sumburgh AirportThis the main airport serving Shetland. Car hire is available.

By bus: Bus #6 runs to & from Lerwick daily every 90 min - 2 hours, stopping at the airport, Jarlshof and hotel, adult single fare £2.90.
By boat: a ferry sails between Fair Isle and . May to Sept it sails once on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, taking 2 hr 40 min; a day trip is not possible. Every two weeks, one sailing is from Lerwick instead of Grutness.

The airport, hotel and Jarlshof are a short walk apart. You need a car to reach the further sights.
The main road crosses the airport perimeter and is briefly closed when commercial flights are landing or taking off.

• Jarlshof

  phone: +44 1950 460112
  address: Sumburgh ZE3 9JN
  A prehistoric site with over 4000 years of human habitation. It has structures from the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Viking and Medieval eras. Not routinely open in winter but enquire at the hotel to see if access is possible.

• Sumburgh HeadLighthouse, visitor centre and Nature Reserve.

• Old ScatnessAn Iron Age Broch and Village, discovered when the main road was built in the Seventies.

• Quendale Watermill

  phone: +44 1950 460969 (when open), +44 1950 460550 (at all other times)
  address: Dunrossness, ZE2 9JD

• Crofthouse Museum

  phone: +44 1595 695057
  address: Boddam, Dunrossness ZE2 9JG
  Small museum in restored traditional croft house.
• and the smaller Brow Loch just south are freshwater lochs with an RSPB reserve.
• is an uninhabited island on the east coast ten miles north of Sumburgh, with a broch - an Iron Age tower, the best preserved in Britain. You clamber in along a passage through the thick stone wall. In summer a boat runs to Mousa from Leebitton, near Sandwick off the main road to Lerwick.

See Shetland ponies.

Souvenirs are available at Jarlshof and the hotel.

Sumburgh Hotel's West Voe restaurant.

Sumburgh Hotel has a small public bar independent of the dining room. They have local beers available in bottles.

• Sumburgh Hotel

  phone: +44 1950 460201
  address: ZE3 9JN
  Baronial-style small hotel with decent bar and restaurant. Near Jarlshof and airport.

Good mobile signal here because of the airport.

• Go north by road to Lerwick and the rest of Mainland Shetland.
• Take the ferry to Fair Isle, but you'll have to sail back here.