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Tour 2 Cawdor Castle, Inverness, Culloden Battlefield and Loch Ness
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Tour 2 Cawdor Castle, Inverness, Culloden Battlefield and Loch Ness
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- Within 24 hoursNo refund
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6 to 7 hours (approx.)
Pickup offered
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Offered in: English and 3 more
Overview
Save hours researching and planning a Scottish Highlands itinerary, and go on an action-packed bus tour instead. Starting from Invergordon, travel with ease between dispersed sites including Clava Cairns, Culloden, Loch Ness, Inverness Castle, Urquhart Castle, and Beauty Priory. It’s the ideal tour for travelers with limited time who want to see multiple highlights in a day.
- Enjoy a tour that’s designed for Invergordon cruise ship passengers
- Travel with ease between dispersed sites on a bus
- Tick off many Scottish Highlands highlights in a day, including Culloden
- Try and spot the Loch Ness Monster by stopping off at Loch Ness
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What's Included
Entrance to castle cost is included in your booking price. Inverness castle is closed for refurb.
Departure & Return
If docking at Invergordon pier disembark cruise ship, walk 2 minutes to the coach park at the shore, Invergordon IV180DH or look for our Thistle Guide wearing purple and a Thistle lanyard. Or we will meet you at our booking office, 64 High Street, whichever you prefer. We will direct you to bus.
If docking at Saltburn pier, just outside the town, please get onto the ship's courtesy shuttle bus and it will take you 3 minute ride to Invergordon High Street, and will drop you at museum where our guides wearing purple will meet you and take you to bus or small vehicle.
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
- Wheelchair travellers difficult
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 49 travelers
- OPERATED BY Thistle Excursions - Invergordon Bus or Coach Tours
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Good tour but tries to pack too much in.
Christopher_B
, May 2022
Tour was good. Cawdor castle was very interesting and the gardens were beautiful. Culloden battlefield had some interesting history and our tour guide went into detail about it. A must stop if you’re a fan of Outlander. We only had about 40 minutes in Inverness and wished we could have spent more time exploring there than taking the longer “scenic route.” Also the stop at Loch Ness was only about 10 minutes on the side of the roadway. Enough time to take a few pictures but that is all. I would recommend not stopping at Beauly and using that time in Inverness. Plan on bringing a snack since There really is no time to get a meal along the way.
Beautiful Tour
Angela_P
, Sep 2021
Did not get to all the sites promised
Bruce_B
, Oct 2019
Guide spend so much time at the first stop (Castle) and could not get all the travelers back on the bus. Due to the delay we could not get to the Carnegie Whisky tasting and the Loch Ness stop was only 10 minutes. Poor time management on the guides part.
Response from Host , Oct 2019
Hi
I’m rather confused as the venues you’ve mentioned are in different tours. The Carnegie whisky tasting is on Tour 1 but you’ve stated you went to Loch Ness which is Tour 2.
The two tours are in different parts of the Highlands. I’m wondering if you were on a Thistle tour at all. I’m going to ask Trip Advisor to investigate as we do not do a tour that incorporates what you wrote.
Confused! Wonder if you are too? Please explain.
Wonderful tour
Pleasealert
, Aug 2019
We enjoyed the tour. Only complaint is about the communication of the starting time. We failed to receive the text message about the starting time and ended up having to wait for the bus for one and half hour. They should let us know how they are going tom inform us the starting time. Better yet, why not starting the tour half hour after the cruise ship starts letting passengers get off the ship. This is what the tours of other ports did.
Response from Host , Aug 2019
Every passenger is notified by email or message on Viator or Trip Advisor. We cannot make you read it and don’t know if you do read it unless you choose to reply which you did not. Every person receives this when they book. We do not send out text messages ever. This is just impossible with so many passengers. If you waited 1.5 hours you must have arrived very early. You were probably agitated that we couldn’t leave until the allotted time that we were scheduled to leave. Of course we need to wait for people who are coming at the correct time not very very early. You would want us to wait for you! We cannot change starting times according to when the ships dock as they come early or late. We must have a fixed time. The other ports you refer to are the ships’ own tours which bring all the coaches next to the ship then pull along side. We are in competition to the ships’ tours so are not allowed near the ships or into the dock. It would be fantastic if we were. So we have allotted times to leave. We don’t mind people coming early but just because you’re early we can’t leave without all of our passengers. I’m sure you understand that. Thank you for the 4 stars though nevertheless.
Great tour
Wolfgang_S
, Aug 2019
Enjoyed our tour. Pick up by ship was great. Driver was very informative. Went to many places of interest.
Awesome
jobsonma
, Aug 2019
This tour was the best on our cruise! We drove past Loch Ness. Having read the Outlander series, I was thrilled to see Culloden and the
standing stones. Cawdor Castle was great. Our tour
guide was exceptional - so informative and interesting. The price was surprisingly low for the quality!!
guide was exceptional. She was so well informed and interesting.
Perfect Day in Invergordon
Maria_M
, Jul 2019
I learned so much about the Scottish Highlands. Tour guide was amazingly prepared and connected the past history with present day Scotland. Very easy to locate your guide right at the port. I thought I got the Baku for my money.
Mooie indruk
Floris_S
, Aug 2019
Leuke toer, goede uitleg, veel gezien van de Schotse hooglanden, in een paar uur mooie indruk gekregen van Schotland. Jammer dat je Iverness niet aandoet.
Tolle Landschaft
Nils_B
, Jul 2019
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amocyclismo
, Jul 2019
Es en inglés.
Es como si contratas un traslado con un conductor (guía) quién se encarga de llevarte de un lado a otro. Por el camino te cuenta aspectos sobre lo que vas a ver. Luego, te dejan en cada punto de interés y te deba tiempo para visitarlo por tu cuenta.
Response from Host , Jul 2019
Translation: It's in english. It is as if you hire a transfer with a driver (guide) who is responsible for taking you from one place to another. Along the way he tells you aspects about what you are going to see. Then, they leave you at every point of interest and I give you time to visit it on your own.
Thank you for an explanation of our tours in Spanish. I’m sorry we don’t do the commentary in Spanish but we have mostly English or German speaking passengers. If we did it in Spanish then the others would not understand.
We tell you about the places and the bits in between but we do not accompany you at your locations as we don’t think you want to stay altogether in a crowd with people you don’t know. We think you want to go off on your own and explore. I’m disappointed that you felt because of this you could only give us 3 stars but I guess we cannot please every single person. Thank you so much for bringing your group on our tour though. Again sorry we cannot do the tour in Spanish.
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