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Tours from Glasgow · Run by Timberbush Tours
Glencoe · Fort William · Fort Augustus
Glencoe and Loch Ness from Glasgow, just your group, with your own driver-guide.
A private version of the Highland day from Glasgow, for a family or group who would rather have the vehicle to themselves. You start on Loch Lomond, cross Rannoch Moor to Glencoe, have lunch in Fort William and spend the afternoon at Fort Augustus on Loch Ness, with the option of a cruise, before coming home through Pitlochry. Having your own guide means you can linger where you like and skip what you don't. The price is for the whole vehicle, and you're back in Glasgow at about 7.30pm.
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
Britain's largest inland stretch of water, with more than thirty islands and the Highland Boundary Fault across its middle.
More about 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 · about 1 hour
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
A stop
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 Ness
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 PitlochryWhere it ends
Back at about 7.30pm
Photographs: Timberbush Tours
Your hotel, or any address in the city centre
Leaves at 8am.
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 7.30pm from Glasgow, from £1150 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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