Custom Tours

A custom tour gives you the chance to custom build your own personalized independent tours or short breaks in Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland.

A custom tour gives you the chance to custom build your own personalized independent tours or short breaks in Scotland. If visiting Edinburgh why not also explore St. Andrews, visit a distillery in Perthshire or get a feel for the Scottish Highlands? Dally a while off the main routes and take in some local folklore. Tours can give you an overview of Scotland, or a particular area or topic.

Recent small group tours have included St. Andrews (golf, castle, cathedral, beaches, eateries, shops and all) and the enchanting villages of the East Neuk of Fife with their varied fishing harbours, crow-step gabled houses, pottery and art studios, the strategically important Stirling Castle and eerie Castle Campbell and distilleries such as Edradour, Bunnahabhainn and Bruichladdich. In the more distant past, tours have even included the Lake District, the Cotswolds and York.

These tours can be enhanced with off-the-beaten track visits including a Gardens Tour, organic farms and shops (e.g. the ‘Pillars of Hercules’), early church sites and open air Christian places of worship, boat trips, low and high level walks, roped cliff walks, tours underground into tunnels and souterrains, blackhouse villages, trip to see Pictish stones, Iron Age brochs, tours of Fairy Pools and Fairie Glens, visits to places connected to literary, artistic and musical figures.

This is our opportunity to craft your Heritage Tour, History and Folklore Tour, Walking Tour, Arts & Crafts Tour, Shopping Tour, City Tour, Adventure Tour or Outdoors Tour to your requirements. We can also arrange cultural tours, including tours incorporating Celtic Connections, Edinburgh Festival, Island and Highland festivals, family events, the Enchanted Wood in Highland Perthshire and experiences specific to an area at a particular time of year.

We recommend vegetarian/vegan/dietary options during your stay, if required.

For those whose whistle was whetted by Diane Gabaldon’s ‘Outlander’ series (and Jacobite enthusiasts in general…).

The Jacobite – Outlander Tour

For those whose whistle was whetted by Diane Gabaldon’s ‘Outlander’ series (and Jacobite enthusiasts in general…). The tour explores locations important to the series including:

  • Culross (aka Cranesmuir), Falkland – where Frank and Clare stayed before exploring the highlands
  • Doune Castle (aka Castle Leoch)
  • the Newtonmore Folk Museum and Leoch village
  • Your tour investigates important Jacobite sites such as Glenfinnan – where Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his Standard to rally the clans
  • Killiecrankie – where the Highland forces under Viscount Dundee defeated the redcoats, and Culloden – site of the final decisive battle between the Jacobites and the Hanoverians with its world class interpretative centre to gain a thorough appreciation of both sides of the conflict
  • You will trace the final steps of Bonnie Prince Charlie in Scotland: from the magical and mysterious Isle of Skye and the Prince’s Cave where he spent his final day on the island, to Arisaig near Lochaber where the Prince’s Cairn commemorates the spot where he departed for France
  • Learn about the Tories and the Whigs, the differences between Protestant Episcopalians and Presbyterians and how these differences shaped the world of the Jacobites and how they in turn shaped the world outside of Scotland
  • Suggested accommodation for this tour is Glengarry Castle Hotel.

Please enquire for further details.

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