Maeshowe Chambered Cairn

Incredible Tour

Outstanding guide - so passionate and knowledgable. So lucky to have got on the tour as it is booked out for weeks ahead but I went to the visitor centre not realising this and just got lucky when a g...

Herd experience caused disappointment

Sadly I had higher expectations. My disappointments were personal. The chamber itself is a treasure. Our quided tour was a completely full bus load of people. This overly large group of people were th...

This is just my point of view !!

I actually found it disappointing. It is interesting about how it was built even if no one actually knows how it qas built!! After paying your fee, you are then told you cannot take internal photos wh...

Incredible Neolithic site

What an amazing site, not to be missed! Make sure you book in advance (we were super grateful that they were able to squeeze us in to an afternoon tour slot) because Maeshowe is a truly magical experi...

Great Guide

Ensure you book ahead to avoid disappointment, as there are limited spots to enter the cairn. The visitor centre is down the road from the cairn, in Stenness. We had an excellent guide who was an expe...