Tours from Edinburgh · Run by Timberbush Tours
Glencoe · Fort William · Fort Augustus
Glencoe and Loch Ness from Edinburgh with your own driver-guide and vehicle.
This is the classic long Highland day from Edinburgh, but with the vehicle and the guide to yourselves, so you can stop where you like and go at your own pace. The route crosses Rannoch Moor to Glencoe, has lunch in Fort William and spends the afternoon at Fort Augustus on Loch Ness, where you can add a cruise or Urquhart Castle, with Pitlochry on the way home. It's still a long day, back at about 8.30pm. The price is for the whole vehicle, so it works out well for a family or a group of friends.
The places it stops at, in order. Routes can change with the weather and the traffic.
The day
Where it starts
Leaves at 8am
A break
The busy gateway town on the River Teith where the road enters the Highlands, with a Roman fort, the Crags and the Rob Roy Way.
More about Callander areaSeen 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 WilliamA stop
Loch Ness cruise optional
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 PitlochrySeen from the coach
Where it ends
Back at about 8.30pm
Photographs: Timberbush Tours
Your hotel, or any address in the city centre
Leaves at 8am.
The Historic Scotland Explorer Pass isn’t accepted.
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.
8am to 8.30pm from Edinburgh, from £915 a vehicle.
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
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