Hebridean Way - Getting back to Oban

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Drive to Oban. Stay in hostel. Leave bike in bike shed. Check the warden will be around the next afternoon. If you leave early enough the next morning you can get to Ullapool in time to leave the car in the car park at Tesco then get busses back to Oban in time for the afternoon ferry to Barra.
Allow 4 hours plus a bit to get to Ullapool.
Alternatively spend a night at Ullapool hostel and then bus back Oban (Ullapool, Inverness, Fort William, Oban) and get the ferry the next day.
I have done this. The only thing nearly scuppered my plans was the hostel warden had gone off busking down the town when I needed to get the bike out of the bike shed.

 

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There is a council car park by Tesco where cars can be left for long periods - I have a friend who works off-shore and has a second car which he leaves in Ullapool on the weeks when he's not working.

I spent the night in that car park after the ferry broke down