HIGHLAND TOURS 2020-2021 Glasgow departures
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GET MORE FOR YOUR MONEY: ESSENTIAL INFORMATION different options for accommodation. Optional extras including visitor attractions (distilleries, cruises etc.), ❯ The best guides in Scotland - friendly, TOUR DEPARTURES. It is very important you arrive food & drink and accommodation are not included, at your allocated check-in time, which is 15 minutes knowledgeable, and passionate about however we do negotiate discounted entrance fees prior to departure, as the coach must leave on their homeland for you. For our ‘optional extra’ prices, please call our schedule and cannot wait for latecomers. This is friendly Reservations Team or visit our website. ❯ Modern, air-conditioned coaches for the benefit of all guests and allows us to visit all CONCESSION PRICES are offered to children from ❯ Free digital translations of our tours stops for the full amount of time, offering you the most out of your tour. 5-16 years, students with a valid student card and on request seniors (60 years and over). We cannot carry children CHECK-IN CLOSES 5 MINUTES PRIOR TO under 5 years of age. ❯ Free accommodation booking service DEPARTURE – please check our Terms and for our 2, 3 and 5 day tours to suit all Conditions on our website as no refunds will be WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU ON TOUR. As we budgets: hostels, B&Bs & hotels offered to latecomers. like to give you as much time off the coach as possible, and you have the opportunity for walks, ❯ WHAT’S INCLUDED IN OUR TOUR PRICE? As we like Free full itinerary planning service we recommend you bring warm and/or waterproof to offer you as much choice as possible, the tour price for our private tours clothing, wear comfortable shoes and take a includes transportation and the services of your Driver- sun-block or a hat. ❯ Discounts offered on top visitor Guide only. On our tours you will be given the choice attractions whilst on tour of various tourist attractions, local restaurants and AND DON’T FORGET YOUR CAMERA!
Highland Tours 2020 - 2021 www.timberbushtours.com Timberbush and the Environment
At Timberbush Tours we are conscious of the importance of preserving and maintaining Scotland’s natural beauty, and how we operate within the natural environment.
We have adapted and continue to evolve Life, and through our website we offer We have lots of exciting eco-ideas for our practices to ensure we minimise the our customers the chance to offset their 2020 and beyond! To get involved, visit environmental impact of our tours. carbon contribution by donating to our website: www.timberbushtours.com our grove. We are delighted to have been awarded Adventure Awaits! a Gold Green Tourism Business Award This year, we’ve introduced more eco- and a 5* Ecostars award for our ongoing friendly practices at Timberbush, such environmental efforts. We are also proud as water harvesting, eco-volunteering to support Trees for Life, a Scottish days and cutting down waste to landfill. conservation charity dedicated to the Our fleet of new coaches are fuel- restoration of the Caledonian Forest in efficient, and we allocate the appropriate the Highlands of Scotland. So far, we’ve size coaches to each tour depending donated over 2200 trees to Trees for on group size.
Highland Tours 2020 - 2021 LOCH NESS & URQUHART CASTLE Tour 1 | 1 Day Tour
Loch Ness, Glencoe and The Highlands
Tour Highlights | Loch Ness Cruise & Urquhart Castle, Glencoe, The Great Glen & Loch Lomond
IN ERNESS
Urquhart Castle Loch Ness ORT AUGUSTUS
Ben Nevis ORT ILLIAM 1.344m PITLOCHR GLENCOE CRIANLARICH
Loch Lomond
GLASGOW GLENCOE
Departing Glasgow, we travel to the along the well-known body of water shores of Loch Lomond for our first home to ‘Nessie,’ the Loch Ness monster. stop of the day and journey up into the You have the choice to take the award- Check-in opens 07:45 Highlands into the majestic Glencoe. winning Jacobite boat cruise and visit Here you will see the haunting glens Urquhart Castle£ located on the banks Departs 08:00 Returns 19:45 where the 1692 massacre of the of the Loch. MacDonald clan took place, and where Daily Passing through Inverness, we then start 007 himself walked the stunning our return journey through Inverness From £45.00 landscape in the film, Skyfall. and the Grampian Mountains, with a Optional extra After a lunch stop in Fort William, we refreshment stop in the Highland town continue north past views of Ben Nevis of Pitlochry en-route to Glasgow. Optional extra – price not included in the cost of the tour. PLEASE NOTE: If choosing to visit Urquhart Castle, you must also and the Caledonian Canals. Loch Ness take the half hour Jacobite Boat Cruise in order to meet your group. then appears as we drive the 24 miles
1 Day Tour 2020 - 2021 www.timberbushtours.com STIRLING CASTLE Tour 2 | 1 Day Tour
Loch Lomond, The Trossachs National Park and Stirling Castle
Tour Highlights | Loch Lomond Cruise, Stirling Castle, Aberfoyle & Trossachs National Park
ABER O LE STIRLING BALLOCH
GLASGOW LOCH LOMOND THE TROSSACHS
Departing Glasgow, we travel to the Stirling Castle£ then awaits us high upon ‘bonnie’ Loch Lomond where you can its volcanic rock, offering tales of key enjoy an hour-long cruise£ on one of the historic figures such as William Wallace, largest Lochs in Scotland, taking in views Robert the Bruce and Mary Queen of Check-in opens 09:15 of the islands and surrounding mountains. Scots, as well as the stunning views of Departs 09:30 Returns 18:00 We then venture into the Trossachs the surrounding landscape. With lots National Park for a lunch stop in Aberfoyle, of interesting things to see and do, the Daily a lovely town nestled in the heart of Stirling Castle experience is well worth From £36.00 Scotland’s first national park. a visit before our return to Glasgow. Optional extra
Optional extra – price not included in the cost of the tour.
1 Day Tour 2020 - 2021 INVERARAY CASTLE Tour 3 | 1 Day Tour
Oban, Glencoe and West Highland Castles The Outlander, Palaces and Jacobites Experience
Tour Highlights | Oban, Inveraray & Castle, Glencoe & Loch Lomond
Leaving Glasgow, we head into the off your castle bucket list before reaching Highlands to the town of Inveraray, a the famous Glencoe valley. Here you quaint place perched on the banks of will experience the glen where the 1692 Loch Fyne. Here you can take time to visit massacre of the MacDonald clan took Inveraray Castle£ and Gardens or wander place. It also features in the Harry Potter the Georgian streets of the town itself. films and in the opening credits for the Outlander TV series. Heading north, we will witness many dramatic scenes such as Kilchurn Castle The final stop will be on the banks of
Glencoe on Loch Awe. We stop for lunch in Oban Loch Lomond in the pretty town of Luss,
OBAN for time to explore and visit McCaig’s Folly before heading back to Glasgow.
Kilchurn Castle Inveraray Castle – Scotland’s version of the Colosseum. Loch LUSS Lomond Castle Stalker on Loch Laich is next to tick
GLASGOW
Check-in opens 08:30
Departs 08:45 Returns 18:30
Daily
From £40.00
Optional extra
Optional extra – price not included in the cost of the tour. GLENCOE OBAN
1 Day Tour 2020 - 2021 www.timberbushtours.com LINLITHGOW Tour 4 | 1 Day Tour
The Outlander, Palaces and Jacobites Experience
Tour Highlights | Doune Castle, Linlithgow Palace, Callendar House, Blackness Castle & Culross
We venture north to Doune Castle£, also Claire grew her herb garden and Geillis known as Castle Leoch, the home of the Duncan lived. the MacKenzie Clan in ‘Outlander’, where We then travel to Callendar House to visit you can take an audio tour narrated by the famous kitchen, which was the set of Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser). The Castle the Duke of Sandringham’s kitchen, and also featured in ‘Game of Thrones’ and enjoy its beautiful surroundings. Next is a ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’. stop at Linlithgow Palace£, or ‘Wentworth Our tour continues to Deanston Distillery Prison’ to the fans. for a short break before a photo stop near We finally visit the 15th Century Blackness the Wallace Monument. We continue Castle; the Headquarters of Black Jack Doune Castle in the footsteps of Jamie and Claire to Culross Randall, before journeying back to Palace Callendar House Culross, also known as ‘Cranesmuir Museum Blackness Castle Glasgow. Linlithgow Palace Village’ - a tiny, 17th century village where GLASGOW
Check-in opens 08:15
Departs 08:30 Returns 18:00
Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun
From £37.00
Optional extra
CULROSS DOUNE CASTLE Optional extra – price not included in the cost of the tour.
1 Day Tour 2020 - 2021 RANNOCH MOOR Tour 5 | 2 Day Tour
Loch Ness, Inverness and The Highlands
Tour Highlights | Glencoe, Loch Ness, Inverness, Clava Cairns & Dalwhinnie Distillery
IN ERNESS Culloden Battlefield
Loch Ness KINGUSSIE Dalwhinnie ORT ILLIAM Distillery PITLOCHR Glencoe T NDRUM
EDINBURGH GLASGOW LOCH NESS & URQUHART CASTLE CULLODEN BATTLEFIELD
Experience the beauty of the Highlands. DAY TWO: Enjoy a flexible itinerary; visit See rivers, lochs and mountains; Culloden Battlefield£, the Neolithic Clava experience Highland scenery and history Cairns or Dalwhinnie Distillery£ before Check-in opens 10:00 with an overnight stay in the highland your lunch stop. On our way home, Departs 10:15 Returns 20:30 capital of Inverness. we enjoy a break at the Highland Folk Museum to learn how Highland life was Mon, Thu, Fri & Sun DAY ONE: Enjoy magnificent views over 150 years ago, and the Victorian village of Loch Lomond, explore the Highlands and From £81.00 Pitlochry before crossing the Forth Road Rob Roy Country, take time to soak in the Bridge back to Edinburgh. If returning Optional extra atmosphere at Glencoe and pass under to Glasgow, your Guide will offer you Optional extra – price not included in the cost of the tour. Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis. Go Our tour price does not include accommodation but we can reserve it complimentary train tickets for your return for you. Costs per person: Hostels £18-£28, B&Bs £40-£65, Hotels £75+. Nessie Hunting and enjoy views across Loch Single supplement may apply. Luggage restricted to one item per to Glasgow Queen Street Rail Station. person. Tour operates with minimum of 4 passengers. In the rare case it Ness before we arrive in Inverness, Capital doesn’t travel, we can transfer you to another tour or offer a full refund. of the Highlands for our overnight stay.
2 Day Tour 2020 - 2021 www.timberbushtours.com EILEAN DONAN CASTLE Tour 6 | 2 Day Tour
Eilean Donan Castle, Loch Ness and The North West Highlands
Tour Highlights | Eilean Donan Castle, Wallace Monument, Glencoe, Loch Ness & Glenfinnan Viaduct
Eilean Donan Castle DORNIE ORT AUGUSTUS Glenfinnan viaduct DAL HINNIE
ORT ILLIAM PITLOCHR Glencoe CALLANDER
DOUNE
EDINBURGH GLASGOW GLENCOE GLENFINNAN VIADUCT
Enjoy two days in the Highlands; DAY TWO: After breakfast, explore the Great experience dramatic landscapes rich Glen and Loch Ness, enjoy a photo stop at in history and enjoy an overnight stay Glen Garry and visit Eilean Donan Castle£; Check-in opens 10:00 in the Highland town of Fort William. one of Scotland’s most photographed Castles. Afterwards, stop for lunch at Loch Departs 10:15 Returns 20:30 DAY ONE: Explore the Wallace Monument£, Ness, enjoy a break at the foot of Ben the towering stone testimonial to William Tue, Wed & Sat Nevis, Scotland’s tallest mountain. Journey Wallace, which contains his broadsword; homewards, enjoying photo stops through From £81.00 pass by Doune Castle, location for the TV the highlands before crossing the Forth series, Outlander, and Monty Python & the Optional extra Road Bridge back to Edinburgh. If returning Holy Grail; journey to Glencoe, site of the Optional extra – price not included in the cost of the tour. to Glasgow, your Guide will offer you Our tour price does not include accommodation but we can reserve it massacre of the MacDonald Clan and end for you. Costs per person: Hostels £18-£28, B&Bs £40-£65, Hotels £75+. complimentary train tickets for your return Single supplement may apply. Luggage restricted to one item per your day at Glenfinnan Monument; made person. Tour operates with minimum of 4 passengers. In the rare case it to Glasgow Queen Street Rail Station. doesn’t travel, we can transfer you to another tour or offer a full refund. famous by the Harry Potter Films (Apr-Oct).
2 Day Tour 2020 - 2021 QUIRAING Tour 7 | 3 Day Tour
Isle of Skye, The Highlands and Loch Ness
Tour Highlights | Portree, Dunvegan Castle, Kilt Rock, Eilean Donan Castle & Loch Ness
DAY ONE: We begin our adventure at the Lealt Falls, or learn of the history of iconic picturesque conservation village of Luss, on Scot Flora MacDonald. Discuss these the ‘bonnie, bonnie banks’ of Loch Lomond. options and more with your Driver-Guide Travelling north we enjoy time to admire on the day. Glencoe, site of the 1692 massacre of the Dunvegan Kilt Rock Castle Old Man of Storr DAY THREE: We return via Eilean Donan Eilean Donan Castle MacDonald Clan. After lunch, we pause £ PORTREE Castle , backdrop for several films including
Loch at Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis, Ness ‘Highlander’. We then stop at Loch Ness then pass the stunning Five Sisters DAL HINNIE for lunch and perhaps a chance to see Ben Nevis ORT ILLIAM 1.344m of Kintail mountain range. Our day ends in PITLOCHR its famous monster. Our journey south Glencoe the charming village of Portree. continues over Laggan and the Grampian T NDRUM DAY TWO: We begin a full day’s exploration Mountains with our last stop in Pitlochry, of Skye. The itinerary here is flexible; you before returning to Edinburgh. If continuing EDINBURGH GLASGOW may enjoy a visit to Dunvegan Castle£ and to Glasgow, your Guide will offer you a train Kilt Rock. You may perhaps prefer a walk at ticket to Glasgow Queen Street Rail Station.
Check-in opens 10:00
Departs 10:15 Returns 20:30
Daily all year
From £129.00
Optional extra
Optional extra – price not included in the cost of the tour. Our tour price does not include accommodation but we can reserve it for you. Costs per person: Hostels £18-£28, B&Bs £40-£65, Hotels £75+. Single supplement may apply. Luggage restricted to one item per person. Tour operates with minimum of 4 passengers. In the rare case it doesn’t travel, we can transfer you to another tour or offer a full refund. KILT ROCK PORTREE
3 Day Tour 2020 - 2021 www.timberbushtours.com STANDING STONES OF STENNESS Tour 8 | 5 Day Tour
Orkney, Ullapool and the Northern Highlands
Tour Highlights | Skara Brae, Maeshowe, Stones of Stenness, Loch Ness & Cawdor Castle
SKARA BRAE KIRK ALL
SMOO CA E OHN O GROATS THURSO
GOLSPIE ULLAPOOL
CA DOR IN ERNESS CASTLE UR UHART CASTLE LOCH NESS ITALIAN CHAPEL
PITLOCHR DAY ONE: Visit Loch Lomond, experience of Egypt and see what life was like for Glencoe haunting Glencoe and go Nessie Hunting its inhabitants 5000 years ago. at Loch Ness. Take photos by the loch- DAY FOUR: Take the ferry back to the LUSS side ruin of Urquhart Castle£ before you mainland and travel westwards to Thurso EDINBURGH GLASGOW arrive at your overnight accommodation for refreshments. Enjoy various photo in Inverness. stops along this part of the north coast 500 DAY TWO: Travel further into the on your way to Ullapool where we spend Check-in opens 10:00 Highlands; visit Golspie, Carn Liath and the evening. take the ferry over to Orkney. Enjoy a stop DAY FIVE: We begin our journey home; Departs 10:15 Returns 20:30 £ at the Italian Chapel and explore Kirkwall, £ travel to Culloden Battlefield , the last Mon & Sat (May - Sept) the largest town on Orkney, before battlefield of the Jacobites. Visit the checking in to your accommodation. Clava Cairns, a 4000 year old burial From £285.00 DAY THREE: Spend the day exploring mound and visit Cawdor Castle£ and its Optional extra Orkney; visit the Ring of Brodgar, the gardens, before returning to Edinburgh. Standing Stones of Stenness and If continuing to Glasgow, you guide will Optional extra – price not included in the cost of the tour. Our tour price does not include accommodation but we can reserve it Maeshowe£, an underground burial offer you complimentary train tickets for you. Costs per person: Hostels £18-£28, B&Bs £40-£65, Hotels £75+. Single supplement may apply. Luggage restricted to one item per cairn. Visit Skara Brae£, a well-preserved from Edinburgh Waverley to Queen person. Tour operates with minimum of 4 passengers. In the rare case it Neolithic Village built before the pyramids Street Rail Station. doesn’t travel, we can transfer you to another tour or offer a full refund.
5 Day Tour 2020 - 2021 2020 - 2021 Glasgow departures
ADULT CONCESSION 1 Day Tours DAY OF DEPARTURE DEPART RETURN FROM FROM 1. Loch Ness, Glencoe and The Highlands Daily 08:00 19:45 £47.00 £45.00
2. Loch Lomond, The Trossachs National Park and Stirling Castle Daily 09:30 18:00 £38.00 £36.00
3. Oban, Glencoe and West Highland Castles Daily 08:45 18:30 £42.00 £40.00
4. The Outlander, Palaces and Jacobites Experience Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun 08:30 18:00 £39.00 £37.00
ADULT CONCESSION 2 Day Tours DAY OF DEPARTURE DEPART RETURN FROM FROM 5. Loch Ness, Inverness and the Highlands Mon, Thu, Fri & Sun 10:15 20:30 £85.00 £81.00
6. Eilean Donan, Loch Ness and the North West Highlands Tue, Wed & Sat 10:15 20:30 £85.00 £81.00
ADULT CONCESSION 3 Day Tour DAY OF DEPARTURE DEPART RETURN FROM FROM 7. Isle of Skye, The Highlands and Loch Ness Daily 10:15 20:30 £135.00 £129.00
ADULT CONCESSION 5 Day Tour DAY OF DEPARTURE DEPART RETURN FROM FROM 8. Orkney, Ullapool and the Northern Highlands Mon & Sat (May - Sept) 10:15 20:30 £295.00 £285.00
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