This 15-day tour (including travel time) is the company's most comprehensive tour of Scotland. Your journey begins in Glasgow before traveling south to the Lowlands. From the Lowlands, you cross the border briefly into England to see part of Hadrian's Wall, and then you're back in Scotland heading to Edinburgh, Scotland's capital. Your journey continues up north to the Highlands, including a visit to Inverness, the Highland capital. The trip also includes a ferry ride over to the Orkney Islands, where you will spend a few days on the Isle of Skye and Isle of Mull, before heading back to Glasgow for the end of your tour.
Highlights of this vacation package include a visit to the birthplace of famed Scottish poet Robert Burns; Carlisle Castle; the home of Mary, Queen of Scots; Edinburgh Castle; St. Andrews golf course; and Dunrobin Castle.
Hotel accommodations for this tour range from first class to superior first class, with 13 breakfasts and 10 dinners included. Land-only prices for this package begin at $2,399 as of 2010.
The duration of the Bonnie Scotland tour is eight days, excluding air travel time. This escorted tour commences with one night in Glasgow, before travel takes you along the banks of Loch Lomond. You will then take an overnight ferry to the Isle of Skye in the Orkney Islands. Travel continues through the Highlands to Inverness, before going to Edinburgh. After a few days there, you will return to Glasgow for the completion of your tour.
Highlights of this tour package include a drive along Loch Lomond, with a chance to catch sight of the mysterious Loch Ness Monster; the Culloden Moor battle site; a sheepdog display; a whiskey distillery tour; a visit to the Victorian mountain resort of Pitlochry; St. Andrew's golf course; Edinburgh Castle; and a tour of New Lanark, a World Heritage Site.
This tour includes five dinners and seven breakfasts, with hotel accommodations ranging from first class to superior first class. Prices for this package, excluding airfare, begin at $1,359 as of 2010.
If you want to visit other countries near Scotland, Globus also offers tour packages that combine a Scotland tour with visits to England, Wales and Ireland. Celtic Highlights (starting at $2,299 as of 2010) is a 13-day tour (excluding air travel) that focuses mostly on Scotland, beginning and ending in Glasgow, with visits to parts of England, Wales and Ireland in between. The nine-day (excluding air travel) Britain Sampler (starting at $1,099) focuses more on England: it begins and ends in London, with visits to Wales and Scotland along the way. In addition, the Highlights of Britain & Ireland tour (starting at $2,349) is 14 days (excluding air travel) and is similar to the Britain Sampler, beginning and ending in London, with visits to Wales and Scotland as well as Ireland.
