Loch Ness, Glencoe and the Highlands

Glencoe · Fort William · Fort Augustus

How long: 8am to 7.30pm
On the road: About 9 hours77% of the day
Group: Up to 53 on a coach
Runs: Daily, all year
From: £67an adult

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Loch Lomond, Glencoe and Loch Ness in a day from Glasgow, an hour shorter than the same day from Edinburgh.

Glasgow is closer to the Highlands than Edinburgh, so this is the easier way to see Glencoe and Loch Ness in a single day. The coach leaves at 8am and stops first on the shore of Loch Lomond at Inveruglas, then crosses Rannoch Moor to Glencoe for photographs. Lunch is in Fort William, and the afternoon is at Fort Augustus, where the Caledonian Canal meets Loch Ness and you can take a cruise on the loch. The way home is through Pitlochry, and you're back in Glasgow at about 7.30pm. It's still a long day with a lot of driving, but the mountains are the reason to go and you see plenty of them.

The route

The places it stops at, in order. Routes can change with the weather and the traffic.

The day

From Glasgow and back

Where it starts
19 Killermont Street, outside the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, opposite Buchanan Bus Station
19 Killermont Street, Glasgow G2 3NX
Leaves at 8am
A break
Loch Lomond shore (Inveruglas)
Seen from the coach
Rannoch Moor and the Black Mount
A photo stop
Glencoe
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
Fort William area
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 area
A stop
Fort Augustus, Loch Ness
Loch Ness cruise optional
A break
Pitlochry
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
Where it ends
Back to 19 Killermont Street, outside the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, opposite Buchanan Bus Station
Back at about 7.30pm

Photographs: Timberbush Tours

Where you meet

19 Killermont Street, outside the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, opposite Buchanan Bus Station

19 Killermont Street, Glasgow G2 3NX

Leaves at 8am. Opens 15 minutes before departure and closes 5 minutes before.

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What’s included

Digital translations
Knowledgeable Driver-Guide
Luxury Modern air-conditioned coach

Not included

Entrance to attractions
Food and Drink

Extras you can add

Loch Ness cruise, about £22, children £15

Good to know

Luxury modern air-conditioned coach
From age 4
The guide speaks English; written notes in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin)
About 343 miles in all
Some places on the route may be hard going for wheelchair users or anyone who finds walking difficult.

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.

Every tour by Timberbush Tours