Tours from Edinburgh or Glasgow · Run by Timberbush Tours
Luss · Glencoe · Fort William · Fort Augustus
Three days with two nights on Skye, so you get a whole day on the island.
The great thing about this tour is the whole day you get on Skye. On the way there you see Loch Lomond, Glencoe, Ben Nevis and the Five Sisters of Kintail, arriving in Portree for two nights. The middle day is on the island, with a choice of places like Dunvegan Castle, the Fairy Pools, Kilt Rock and the Old Man of Storr. On the way home you visit Eilean Donan Castle and have lunch at Fort Augustus on Loch Ness, before the drive south through Pitlochry. It runs every day of the year. Rooms aren't included, but the tour can book them for you.
Day by day, the places it stops at and the roads between. Routes can change with the weather and the traffic.
Day one
Where it starts
Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EW
Leaves at 9am
A stop
A conservation village of stone cottages on Loch Lomond, rebuilt by the Colquhouns for their slate workers, with a pier and a beach.
More about Luss, Loch LomondSeen from the coach
A photo stop
A deep Highland glen walled in by the Three Sisters and the Aonach Eagach, cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, with a visitor centre off the A82.
More about Glencoe
Lunch
The town under Ben Nevis at the head of Loch Linnhe, where the West Highland Way ends and the Jacobite leaves.
More about Fort William areaA photo stop
A photo stop
A photo stop
The night
Skye's main town, on a sheltered east-coast bay, with a harbour built by Thomas Telford in the early nineteenth century.
More about PortreeDay two
A stop
Route agreed with the driver-guide
A photo stop
A pinnacle about 50 metres high above Loch Leathan, two hours there and back on foot, seven miles north of Portree.
More about Old Man of StorrThe night
Skye's main town, on a sheltered east-coast bay, with a harbour built by Thomas Telford in the early nineteenth century.
More about PortreeDay three
A stop
The castle on an island where three sea lochs meet, bombarded in 1719, rebuilt between 1912 and 1932 and reached by an arched stone bridge.
Entry optional
More about Eilean Donan Castle
Lunch
The village at the southern end of Loch Ness, cut in two by the Caledonian Canal and its flight of locks, named after a fort built after 1715.
Loch Ness cruise optional
More about Fort Augustus, Loch NessSeen from the coach
A break
A Victorian resort town on the Tummel, grown up after Queen Victoria's visit of 1842 and the railway of 1863, with its theatre, its dam and its salmon ladder.
More about Pitlochry
Photographs: Timberbush Tours
Castle Terrace, outside the NCP car park
Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EW
Leaves at 9am. Opens 15 minutes before departure and closes 5 minutes before.
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Rooms are not in the price. Timberbush Tours can book them for you, paid on arrival; roughly:
Book your own and it is £10 less.
Children aged 4 to 16 pay less; their price shows when you book.
Run by
Timberbush Tours has been taking visitors round Scotland since 1998. June and Gary Voy, a husband and wife team, started it with a single coach, and it now runs its own fleet, with driver-guides who have been with the company for years. Their tours leave every day from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness, and from Portree on Skye, and you book with them directly.
Timberbush Tours answer them, and you book with them directly.
3 days from Edinburgh, from £220 an adult.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before a day tour, and up to 7 days before a tour of several days, by Timberbush’s own terms.
Booked with Timberbush Tours, or call them on +44 (0)131 226 6066
From Edinburgh12½ hoursBack 8.30pm
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About 9½ hours of it on the roadUp to 53 on a coach
From £56 an adult
Run by Timberbush Tours
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Glencoe · Fort William · Fort Augustus
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About 9 hours of it on the roadUp to 53 on a coach
From £67 an adult
Run by Timberbush Tours
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Inveraray · Glencoe · Glenfinnan Viaduct · Commando Memorial
Two days from Edinburgh or Glasgow, with a night in Fort William and Eilean Donan in the morning.
About 13 hours on the road in allUp to 37 on a coach
From £125 an adult
Run by Timberbush Tours
