Tours from Edinburgh · Run by Timberbush Tours
Midhope Castle · Blackness Castle · Linlithgow · Culross
The Outlander places near Edinburgh with your own guide, at your own pace.
For fans of Outlander who'd like to take their time at each place, this private day visits Midhope Castle, Blackness Castle, Linlithgow Palace for lunch, Doune Castle and the village of Culross. They're all close to Edinburgh, so there's barely an hour and a half of driving in the whole day and lots of time to explore. Your guide can tell you which scenes were filmed where. Castle entry is extra. The price is for the whole vehicle, which carries up to 16, and you're back in Edinburgh at 6pm.
The places it stops at, in order. Routes can change with the weather and the traffic.
The day
Where it starts
Leaves at 8.30am
A stop
Entry optional
A stop
A 15th-century castle on the shore of the Forth, built like a stone ship run aground, later a garrison fortress and state prison.
Entry optional
More about Blackness CastleLunch
The roofless palace of the Stewart kings above Linlithgow Loch, begun in 1424 and the birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Palace entry optional
More about Linlithgow and Linlithgow PalaceA stop
A courtyard castle of the late 1300s above the River Teith, built for the Duke of Albany and filmed for Monty Python, Game of Thrones and Outlander.
Entry optional
More about Doune CastleA stop
Palace entry optional
Where it ends
Back at about 6pm
Photographs: Timberbush Tours
Your hotel, or any address in the city centre
Leaves at 8.30am.
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.
8.30am to 6pm from Edinburgh, from £850 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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