Full-Day Trip to Loch Ness and the Scottish Highlands

Our guide Caitlin was very informative, and knew how to keep her group awake on a 12 hour tour. She played Scottish music for us, and told us fascinating tales of Scottish history while we drove around. Caitlin honestly made the trip for us!

Our trip to Loch Ness and the Scottish Highlands was fantastic! Everything was so enjoyable and well planned. Our driver, Rich, was entertaining, knowledgeable and funny. The stops along the way let us really experience the different landscapes. We are so glad we chose this trip!

The tour was totally amazing and our guide, Aevon (not sure if the spelling is right) told us each and everything about those areas. Had a great time with friends!!

Excellent tour, fun and informative. Murray our guide was not only very knowledgable but also lots if fun with trivias, singing and his artistic accordion music

Very nice places. The tour operators service was good. Driver was very good and tour guide was giving good information about places. Punctuality in time was well appreciated.

Duncan, our driver and tourist guide was marvellous, he provided detailed information throughout our trip, music was also good, he was humorous. It's great to travel with a good tourist guide! Thank you!

Our guide was absolutely hilarious. Highly knowledgeable and very fun. We had such a great day and we highly recommend doing this trip with the Loch Ness cruise too!!

Well, they advertised a 12 hour bus trip through the Highlands and that's exactly what we got. We made 1, 30 minute stop in Callander, 15 minutes at a memorial for the Commados in Lochaber, 2 hours in Loch Ness and 30 minutes in Pitlochry. None of these (other than Loch Ness) was long enough to do more than empty your bladder (if there was a bathroom at all) and briefly walk around. There was not an accessible bathroom on the bus and pit stops were extremely few and far between - 2 of them with pay toilets. We also seemed to be competing with dozens of other tour buses for locales and parking spaces. Lunch was provided but was pretty bleak - your choice of sandwiches: Egg and Mayo, Cheese and Pickle, Ham and Tomato and Hummus with a bottle of water and packet of shortbread (the shortbread was good). The drive itself was beautiful, and the guide told us about the history of what we could see from the bus during the journey which was entertaining and nice. The bus itself had leg room akin to an airline and my back and legs are quite stiff today. If you take this tour: 1. Don't drink a lot of liquids 2. Bring some change for the pay toilets at 2 of the stops 3. Bring snacks and/or your own lunch. You really will see some beautiful sights from the bus and get an overview of the Highlands, but if you are expecting to be able to stop and have a leisurely walk around these towns and explore, this is not the trip for you.

Would really recommend this tour. There are a couple of shorter and longer stops to break up the journey and to grab some photographs of the surroudning area. It stopped for some beautiful views at Glen Coe and also Lough Ness.

Even though it's a long drive to Loch Ness, the beauty of the highlands and the nice (and funny) information from the guide are worth it. We got lucky with great subby weather as well as a wonderful guide like Fiona. I will definitely recommend this tour to anyone.