Scottish Highlands from Edinburgh
Written by Viator, August 2010
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Scottish Highlands from Edinburgh Reviews
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Reply by Viator, April 2012
Doing what: 2-Day Loch Ness and Inverness Small Group Tour from Edinburgh
Excellent! I would highly recommend this tour. Really, I had an enjoyable time in Scotland. Thanks Viator’s Provider of the tour for this special moment in my life. Just concluded if you don’t know the Highlands, you don’t know well Scotland. Tour meeting point: it was in front of Rabbie’s store at the Royal Mile/High Street. Staff really friendly in the reception. Tour vehicle: Rabbie’s Edinburgh - A mini bus Mercedes, comfortable for two days trip; Tour guide: really nice-friendly guy and good driver. He kept a good and funny environment during the tour. Always, he was caring about his “tour people”. He was caring about time-toilette, to keep everybody around to not lose themselves in the Forest, walkings, etc. He always giving us tips about the places (History, Geography, General Knowledge… linking with movies as well). He also gave us info about restaurants at the stops. Tour schedule/planning: perfect. In terms of knowledge, history you can learn lots with the tour guide-driver as well. Our guide always giving info about places, geography and history of the places. Kids may be bored at some point. But good for taking photos, enjoying the places. Tour B and B (Ardross Guesthouse-B and B): Lovely stay. I must confess I am a bit fussy about to sleep at clean places. It was my first experience in a B and B. I read a previous review they wrote B and Bs were a good option. So it really was better than I thought. Family B and B and so much better stay than many hotels. Free with good signal wii fi. Great location few metres on walk to Inverness (3 min): town, old town, Ness walk, shoppings, Tescos, good pubs with food, restaurants, tourist spots as Inverness Castle, Church St Andrew. Bright room/Comfy bed. My room was as clean as “mother cleans our room”. Good smell. I felt like a friendly home room, not only an accommodation. Tasty and simple breakfast (hot, drinks and cold options). Ok, the Highlands weather was not great, but I still had one of most enjoyable times/trips (I have been travelled lots of places in our world! I would describe myself as a well travelled person!)
Reply by Viator, April 2012
Doing what: 2-Day Loch Ness and Inverness Small Group Tour from Edinburgh
Excellent! I would highly recommend this tour. I had an enjoyable time in Scotland. Thanks, Rabbie’s (Viator’s Provider of the tour) for this special moment in my life. Just concluded if you don’t know the Highlands, you don’t know well Scotland.
Tour meeting point: it was in front of Rabbie’s store at the Royal Mile. Staff organized and friendly.
Tour guide: Pete really nice-friendly gride-driver. He kept a good and funny environment during the tour. Always, he was caring about his “tour people”. He was caring about time-toilette, to keep everybody around to not lose themselves in the Forest, walkings, etc. He always giving us tips about the places (History, Geography, General Knowledge… linking with movies as well). He also gave us info about restaurants at the stops.
Tour schedule/planning: good timing.
Tour B and B (Ardross Guesthouse-B and B) : Lovely stay. I must confess I am a bit fussy about to sleep at clean places. It was my first experience in a B and B. I read a previous review they wrote B and Bs were a good option. So it really was better than I thought. Family B and B and so much better stay than many hotels, like Travelodge/ Ibis/Novotel/etc. Free with good signal wii fi. Great location few metres on walk to Inverness (3 min): town, old town, Ness walk, shoppings, Tescos, good pubs with food, restaurants, tourist spots as Inverness Castle, Church St Andrew. Bright room/Comfy bed. My room was as clean as “mother cleans our room”. Good smell. I felt like a friendly home room, not only an accommodation. Tasty and simple breakfast.
Ok, the Highlands weather was not great, but I still had one of most enjoyable times/trips (I have been travelled lots of places in our world! Im a well travelled person!)
Reply by Viator, April 2012
Doing what: Loch Ness, Glencoe and the Highlands Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
Mav was very knowledgeable and entertaining tour guide. He was a safe driver and the highlands were beautiful. Great way to spend the day.
Reply by Viator, April 2012
Doing what: West Highland Lochs and Castles Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
Excellent tripp covering parts of the highlands. Guide was outstanding!
Reply by Viator, April 2012
Doing what: Loch Ness, Glencoe and the Highlands Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
It's a long tripp so be prepared! However, it's was totally worth both time and money. You get to see a lot of the highlands and the guides are friendly and knowledgeable.
Reply by Viator, April 2012
Doing what: Loch Ness, Glencoe and the Highlands Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
Excellent tour guide! Very informative stories about the Highlands and Scottish culture. Breathtaking scenery!
Reply by Viator, April 2012
Doing what: Highland Lochs, Glens and Whisky Small-Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
A very good trip, not too long and not too short. You get to visit some great parts of the highlands. Whisky destillary was a bit disapointing considering the extra charge.
Reply by Viator, March 2012
Doing what: Stirling Castle and Loch Lomond Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
This was the perfect day trip! Eric, our tour guide, was excellent - I wish I could have kept him along for the rest of our time in Edinburgh. His wealth of knowledge about his home country from a cultural, historical, geological, and political perspective is what made this day so special. I hope other tour guides and people can learn from his knowledge.
The sites are impressive too, even in winter. Stirling castle was everything we expected it to be and the quaintness of the Highlands was the perfect contradiction to our city visit. Viator and Rabbies made this incredibly easy and I would travel again with these organizations.
Reply by Viator, March 2012
Doing what: Loch Ness, Glencoe and the Highlands Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
The tour was absolutely smashing. Enjoyed from the very beginning to the very end. Our guide Karen was really an amazing lady, knew so much about the history of Scotland especially the Highlands. Weather in Highlands was quite horrible, and was freezing, but apart from that the journey was really amazing.
Reply by Viator, February 2012
Doing what: West Highland Lochs and Castles Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
Excellent! Our guide (Bob) had extensive knowledge of both the area and its history. A wonderful day out, and it felt very exclusive because there were only the 6 of us on board that particular day. I would highly recommend this day out to any visitor to Edinburgh who wants a broad overview of the Highlands in just one day.
Reply by Viator, January 2012
Doing what: West Highland Lochs and Castles Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
This was my second daytrip and both have been top notch. The guide, Liam, was a very friendly and well informed guy. He entertained us all day with tales from Scottish history/culture without ever becoming boring and very obligingly provided several stops for photo opportunities. Even though our tour was in December with limited daylight, we got round pretty much everything and at no time did we feel rushed or pressured to get back on the bus to move on. I would heartily recommend to anyone who wants to sample a taste of the Highlands whilst based in Edinburgh. Can't wait to do another tour next year.
Reply by Viator, December 2011
Doing what: 2-Day Loch Ness and Inverness Small Group Tour from Edinburgh
This was one of the best tours I've been on in terms of the knowledge, cheerfulness and fabulous good humour of our tour guide (who also doubled as our driver)...and I've been on lots! Despite typical cold and wet weather in the highlands, we managed to see everything, had all our questions answered about absolutely any topic and had great recommendations for local food and entertainment possibilities during our night over in Inverness. Way to go Audrey--you are one amazing tour guide! The scenery was spectacular and history abounds. This is definitely the way to see the countryside beyond Edinburgh for those who have limited time.
Reply by Viator, December 2011
Doing what: Loch Ness, Glencoe and the Highlands Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
very nice trip.. the view of the Highlands was amazing.. I strongly recommend it to anyone who has only one day to see the Highlands!
Reply by Viator, December 2011
Doing what: Loch Ness, Glencoe and the Highlands Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
The Scotish Highlands were BEAUTIFUL!!!! I was there in late November and it was pretty windy and cold. But the scenery was incredible. The tour guide was very knowledgable.
Reply by Viator, November 2011
Doing what: Loch Ness, Glencoe and the Highlands Small Group Day Trip from Edinburgh
Great trip!Small group of people and nice friendly tour guide Emily telling us about all the history and also providing plenty of photo stops. We really enjoyed our trip and was glad to experience as much of the highlands as we could in one day. We did the boat trip loch ness excersion which was great and informative.would definately recommed rabbies tours and use them again in the future!
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