A spaceship has landed on the property market.
AirShip 002, the aluminium pod on Scotland’s remote Morvern Peninsula that quietly became one of the UK’s most wanted holiday lets, is for sale for offers over £650,000, and its sellers have already knocked £100,000 off.
The UK’s most famous Airbnb spaceship
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Silver, curved and dotted with portholes, AirShip 002 looks like something that took a wrong turn on the way to Mars and decided the Sound of Mull was close enough.
Its enormous “dragonfly” windows face straight out over the water.
Guests approve. The pod holds an average rating of 4.94 out of five from more than 500 Airbnb reviews, putting it in the platform’s top 10% of homes, as reported by Creatorzine.
Architect Roderick James and interior designer Amanda Markham created it as an experiment in compact aluminium construction.
Inside, the space mission gets cosier: a double bed, kitchenette, living area, shower room and a wood-burning stove.
Two more oddities come with it
The pod isn’t selling alone.
Savills is marketing it as part of the Druim Na Cracaig portfolio near Drimnin, Oban, which first went up for offers over £750,000.
The AirShip did well enough to spawn a sibling.
The PilotHouse is an elliptical two-storey building that hoists its living room above ground level to grab the sea views.
A bedroom, study and shower room sit downstairs, and an outside balcony points towards Tobermory.
Then there’s The Captain’s Cabin, which commits fully to the nautical theme.
It has a saloon, a galley kitchen, a double bedroom and a private rooftop “deck”. It also has underfloor heating, triple glazing and renewable electricity, which most actual captains would have killed for.
Whoever buys the lot gets somewhere normal to sleep.
The Old Chapel, a two-bedroom home for an owner or housekeeper, comes with a kitchen, living room and conservatory.
Parking, workshops, storage buildings and the running holiday-let business complete the package, all on an elevated plot of more than four acres looking out to Tobermory, the Ardnamurchan Peninsula and the mountains beyond.
£100,000 a year and a TV career
Savills says the business has turned over around £100,000 in each of the last four years.
The cabins have also picked up TV appearances on Scotland’s Greatest Escape and Alan Cumming’s Paradise Homes.
Selling agent Iona Conn said: “Few hospitality businesses combine such imaginative architecture, proven commercial success and an utterly captivating setting.
“AirShip 002, The PilotHouse and The Captain’s Cabin have become destinations in their own right, attracting visitors from across the globe to experience this remarkable corner of the west coast.”
Why it matters
Very few own something guests will cross the world to photograph.
AirShip 002 shows that a building people want to post about can act as its own marketing department, and four years of steady turnover suggests the novelty hasn’t worn off.
For anyone building a hosting brand, the listing is the content.
Unusual stays, from treehouses to converted buses, now sit among Airbnb’s most marketable categories, with the platform grouping them into their own browsing sections.
Savills hasn’t said how much interest the price cut has drawn.
The next owner inherits more than 500 reviews, a TV back catalogue and a 4.94 rating to defend.
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