Itinerary Edinburgh - Skye - Kylesku

With the time you have available this is a very sensible itinerary. Less is more when it comes to Scotland and three nights only really gives you two days on Skye. You don't have time to head north to Durness or John o Groats (overrated) unless you want to spend all your time driving. Save the north for another visit!

Sorry cant help with either of the hotel choices- try looking at online reviews for them.

The Three Chimneys is under new ownership but the 6 rooms are unchanged. It is VERY expensive (£350 per night or more for B&B) and you might do better with a regular B&B (have a look at Hillstone Lodge for example which is just up the road from Three Chimneys and very highly rated on Trip Advisor - but there are lots of others too). Three Chimneys is not a full service hotel, it is a restaurant with rooms, so basically just a B&B with a restaurant in an adjacent building. Two of their bedrooms have full sea views, the other 4 have side sea views. There is a road running in front of the B&B building, which is quite busy as it is the main tourist route to Neist Point. It wouldn't be my choice of accommodation, but then I live here on Skye! Plenty of wonderful B&Bs with sea views to choose from. I also wouldn't change accommodation once on Skye. You can see the island from one accommodation base.
Best wishes
Jacqui (Skyegirl)

We're planning to spend 3 nights in Skye. We've booked The Three Chimneys two nights and are inclined to book a B&B in Uig the third night (Three Chimneys is sold out our 3rd night and we felt it would be good to locate in a different area our other night). We really want to eat at The Three Chimneys and being able to stay there seems worth it to us.

Since the Torridon Hotel is only available for one night, we've booked the Kylesku Hotel for 2 nights. We'll drive to Kylesku from Skye. Would appreciate any advice on the best route or potential hikes/walks to do on the way. Any advice for the area around Kylesku would also be appreciated.

We're undecided about our first night after leaving Edinburgh and before departing for Skye. We only have one night. We're trying to decide between staying at Killiehuntly Farmhouse in Cairngorms, Kingshouse in Glencoe or The Pierhouse in Port Appin (Airds requires a 2 night min). The total drive from all three to Skye via the ferry is about the same. The tradeoff seems to be that if we stay in Killiehuntly, we see Cairngorns and get to experience what is supposed to be a spectacular property (albeit only for one night). However, on the drive from Killiehuntly, we miss driving through Glencoe. Staying at Kingshouse or The Pierhouse gives us the opportunity to drive through and potentially do a short hike in Glencoe. Would welcome any thoughts on this.

Thanks

The days are long in July expect it to be light till 10.30pm ,so plenty of touring time available.
On balance I would head to the Cairngorms,it's a different landscape than the west.
You could pick up the Spittal of GlenShee road ,maybe eat in Braemar there's 3 very nice places there.
There's often a red squirrel in the bridge by the Fife Arms.
You could then travel the quiet road over past Tomintoul to Strath Spey.
Nearby to KillieHuntly is Glen Feshie which is an outstanding work of conservation in reforesting .There's a good trail 3 miles up the valley to the bothy through the woodlands and in July it's pretty likely the caretaker would be there who's very generous with teas and coffees and is a very interesting guy .
Enjoy the Scots pines as you won't be seeing many trees at all on Skye.

Further north ,Gairloch-ish, there's a lighthouse that does accommodation.Rua Reidh.

From north of Ullapool the Mad Little road of Sutherland cuts over to Lochinver.
It's a very scenic route, and has one of the normal routes up Suilven from Inverkirkaig.
Skye to Ullapool should be done via the coastal Applecross road rather than the A 835.
Aquire a midgehood first chance you get,yes they look silly but will save your sanity .
Think they worked out there's 480 trillion midges in a season and July and the west combine to be PRIME factors.

Thanks, this is very helpful.

I'm afraid we'll be leaving Edinburgh around noon for Killiehuntly and then driving to Skye the next day, so it doesn't leave us much time to do a great deal around Killiehuntly. Dinner is included at Killiehuntly, so our thought was to perhaps do a nice walk/hike or mountain bike ride in the area after we arrive and before dinner. The next day we need to get to the ferry to Skye, so we may stop at a distillery in the morning, but probably need to drive straight through to Mallaig, allowing time to stop and appreciate some of the scenery along the way. Is there anything work a stop on the way from Killiehuntly to Mallaig (given our compressed schedule) before we reach Fort William?

A good location to stay and eat in Uig is the Ferry Inn.

When you mentioned ferry assumed you might have meant Glenelg .