Luxurious Full-day Bus Tour: Loch Ness and the Mystical Scottish Highlands
4.7
9 Ratings
Edinburgh
Duration: 12 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
What's Included
  • On-board WiFi
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
What's Not Included
  • Loch Ness Cruise ( Adult £15, Child £10) OPTIONAL
  • Lunch
Additional Information

Relax on board our full size luxury coach with plenty space for social distancing, offering reclining seats and USB charger points. Our dedicated guide points out the places of interest on this full day tour to Loch Ness and the Highlands.
As you head north you’ll pass some of Scotland’s key historical sites including Stirling Castle and the National Wallace Monument. Then we’ll take you via the Trossachs National Park to Glencoe, look out for the breathtaking scenery, your driver and guide make sure you get the best pics as you hear about the significant events that have shaped this stunning part of Scotland.
Our lunch stop is at Fort Augustus and you have choices - either join the optional Loch Ness Cruise - will you see Nessie? Or wander round this Highland Town with impressive ladder of locks as the Caledonian Canal joins Loch Ness. Lots of places to eat too.
Our return journey heads through the Cairngorm National Park with a quick stop in Pitlochry then back to Edinburgh.

Location
17 Charlotte Square
Charlotte Square
55.9508074085157, -3.2081196671744867 What 3 Words sports.verse.fired
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(9 Ratings)
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Becsk22
Jun 20, 2023
Spectacular views - Amazing experience, myself and my partner loved this trip, so many places included and the views throughout were spectacular. Our guide, Garry, made the journey so interesting with detailed stories as we past by many locations laced with Scottish history. The long journey felt very safe from start to finish with Brian driving and both were so friendly and engaging, the whole day was wonderful
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Issakf2023
May 24, 2023
Fun, Engaging, and full of beautiful sights - Had an amazing tour with Scott as our guide and Cami as our driver. Scott was amazing and kept a fun and enthusiastic flow to the tour that keeps you engaged and very excited to learn more. This is most definitely a tour I would recommend anyone to do while visiting Scotland.
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Terry_b
Apr 9, 2023
Beautiful trip with a wonderful guide - Lothian Motorcoach with Scott as the guide and Cameron as the driver....this is the way to explore! Lothian provided excellent service and a comfortable coach for the trip which ended up nearly 14 hours. It was expertly driven by Cameron, who never made the passengers feel uneasy about the challenging terrain and roadways. Excellent and professional skills are needed and provided to navigate city streets, narrow country roads, challenging mountain switchbacks, and narrow bridges. Cameron is excellent. The guide, Scott Shaw, is by far the most entertaining and informative guide I've ever experienced and we travel quite a bit. Scott is excellent providing just the right balance of information, comedy, and entertaining facts that made this adventure tops to consider. I cannot recommend Scott and Cameron enough, please do yourself a favor and add their professional skills to this already beautiful and amazing sightseeing event. The trip itself is everything as advertised. Breathtaking views of everything mentioned and more. There are plenty of photo ops and stops along the way with interesting facts and tidbits to flesh out your photos and experiences. So much to see and such little time! Please take my advice and book this trip with these folks, they are amazing.
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I2290uejaquelineg
Sep 30, 2022
A perfect day, just too short! - The tour with Gary as our guide and William as our driver was the greatest! It was a day full of fun and lots of interesting informations! Gary has a lot of knowledge and the 12 hours were over lots too fast! Lots of other tours stop at the same spots, so if you don't wanna stay in long queues and take pictures without 200 other people in your sight, then do this tour, since they are starting as one of the first! I loved it and just a small tip: most of the spectacular and famous things we saw on the tour were on our left side. So try to get a seat to your right, when you enter the coach. And try to stay near Gary and William at the front seats, since they make jokes the whole day! I hope, you all will enjoy this as much as I did! Thank you again, Gary and William!
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Marinairiska
Aug 6, 2022
Loved the experience - My children (10 and 12 years old) absolutely loved this experience. I walk with a stick but had no problems to access anything during the tour whatsoever. Thank you!!!
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Regina_w
Jul 29, 2022
Great speed version of exploring the Highlands - We had Scott as our tour guide, and he was great! Throughout (basically the entirety of) the bus ride + trip, he shared interesting tidbits of history and stories, and was very attentive to each group. Would highly recommend and is a great experience if you don't have much time to explore the Highlands. If you do have several days though, it'd be much nicer to go on a several day tour since you have more time to explore the area, and won't be on the bus for as large a portion of the trip.
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Axel
May 28, 2022
Best tour guide in the world - Fantastic. Just fantastic. The tour guide Scott was really entertaining and made the long trip to the north feel less long. The bus driver Grant drove really well and was very nice. On the way to Loch Ness we stopped at a little farm thingy with a restaurant. And there they had two beautiful highland cows that you could take pictures with. Well in Loch Ness you took a boat (that you had to pay extra for) out in the water and the tour guide there told us about the lake and it’s history. This is a must do if you ever visit Scotland and hopefully you also get Scott and Grant.
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Milda_g
May 15, 2022
Amazing views - Beautiful views of the Highlands, our guide Scott was so fun and enthusiastic that the 12 hour journey flew by!
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Carmen_i
May 15, 2023
Do not pay nothing cash in advace - The trip to the highlands and lock ness is a wonderful idea, they are must-see places. The route was well chosen, the roads were good, but our guide took care to order lunch in advance, without having any details about the type of food, and to charge us in advance the payment for the cruise on Lake Ness. Although we were in the same place with the whole group, we were eating outside in the sun, he simply forgot to inform us about the boat ride and also forgot to return our money. It was extremely unpleasant. It's a shame that the efforts of the company that organized a superb tour were destroyed by such problems. Until getting off the bus, I waited for the money, explanations and possibly an apology, probably it was too busy, or... to think that I was from Romania and..
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