Photograph: Hidden Scotland
Tours from Inverness · Run by Timberbush Tours
Tain Golf Course · Dunrobin Castle · Glenmorangie Distillery · Loch Fleet
Off the ship at Invergordon for golf at Tain, Dunrobin Castle and Glenmorangie, with your own guide.
This private shore excursion is made for cruise passengers docking at Invergordon who want something more personal than a coach tour. The day can include a round at Tain Golf Club, a visit to Dunrobin Castle, a tour and tasting at Glenmorangie Distillery and lunch in Dornoch, with a stop at Loch Fleet. Your guide works around the ship's times so you're back in good time for sailing. It runs on the days ships are in port, and the price is for the whole vehicle.
The places it stops at, in order. Routes can change with the weather and the traffic.
The day
Where it starts
Invergordon cruise terminal, Invergordon
Leaves at 8am
A stop · half day
Golf option; golfers miss Dunrobin
A stop
The largest house in the northern Highlands, a castle of conical spires like a French chateau above formal gardens on the Moray Firth, open April to October.
Castle option; not combined with golf
More about Dunrobin Castle
A stop
The distillery by the Dornoch Firth just outside Tain, famous for the tallest stills in Scotland, with a visitor centre, shop and tours to book ahead.
Tour and tasting option, open to all
More about Glenmorangie Distillery
Lunch
A Royal Burgh of honey-coloured stone on the Dornoch Firth, with a 13th-century cathedral, a bishop's palace turned hotel, a famous golf links and long beaches.
More about Dornoch
A photo stop
Pinewoods and sand dunes surround this large tidal basin between Dornoch and Golspie.
Listed as a highlight
More about Loch FleetWhere it ends
Photographs: Timberbush Tours
Entrance gate, Invergordon cruise port
Invergordon cruise terminal, Invergordon
Leaves at 8am.
The pin is near the pier: the operator gives the exact spot with your booking.
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 hours from Inverness, from £720 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
From Inverness8 hoursBack 5pm
Cawdor Castle · Dores Beach · Inverness · Glen Ord Distillery
Off the ship at Invergordon for Cawdor Castle, Loch Ness, Inverness and a distillery.
About 3 hours of it on the roadUp to 53 on a coach
From £75 an adult
Run by Timberbush Tours
From Inverness9 hoursBack 5.30pm
Urquhart Castle · Fort Augustus · Falls of Foyers · Dores Beach
Loch Ness without the long drive: a relaxed day out from Inverness, back by teatime.
About 2½ hours of it on the roadUp to 37 on a coach
From £51 an adult
Run by Timberbush Tours
From Inverness11½ hoursBack 7.30pm
Loch Fleet · Dunrobin Castle · Wick · Dunbeath Harbour
To John o' Groats at the north-east tip of mainland Britain, with Dunrobin Castle on the way.
About 6½ hours of it on the roadUp to 37 on a coach
From £54 an adult
Run by Timberbush Tours
