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Romantic Islands & Castle Trail Clan Macdonald tour of Scotland
Celtic Dream Tours can find a castle to suit your needs, whether it be a self catering or fully staffed, from $2500 a week up to $42,000
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To
book a Rainbow Tour holiday , please fill in our
online
deposit / booking
form
. A deposit of $470 / £300 per person is
required .
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Celtic Rainbow Tour - March 27th and October 12th, 2003Visit 7 Scottish castles - Glamis Castle , Edinburgh Castle , Urquhart Castle , Dunstaffnage Castle , Duart Castle , Inverary Castle and Culzean Castle . Day Two - We have a day touring around the beautiful Perthshire countryside with a visit to the town of Pitlochry, famous for its Knitwear, tour the smallest Distillery in Scotland, Edradour and take a drive to see the Queens View, the most stunning view in Scotland according to Queen Victoria. Some free time in Perth to shop before we return to our Hotel for the evening. Dinner Inc.
Day Three - Today we take a leisurely drive to Edinburgh where we meet our local guide who will give us a short city tour to point out important places and sites. After our tour, we drop off at Edinburgh Castle for a tour of this historical Castle followed by a walk down the Royal Mile with our guide, finishing with a tour of Holyrood Palace. Dinner on own. Overnight in Edinburgh at Holyrood ApartHotel. Day Four - Free day to explore Edinburgh, visit Museums, take a Haunted underground tour, Shop on the Royal Mile or George Street, visit Princes Street Gardens, the choice is yours! Dinner at famous Edinburgh restaurant, inc. Overnight in Edinburgh. Day Five - After a morning to finish our exploration of the capital city, we head on our coach north through the Grampian Mountains to Inverness. We stop at the Highland Life Museum at Kingussie before heading on into Inverness to check into our hotel for the next four nights, the beautiful Georgian Mansion, Culloden House Hotel. Dinner Inc. We have a lot of surprises in store for you during your stay at Culloden. Day Six - After our good Scottish breakfast, we head off to Beauly to the Made in Scotland shop where they only sell locally made items, before we head back into the town of Inverness for shopping/sightseeing time. You can take an open top double decker bus ride around the town, listen to a lone piper playing for the tourists, or take a walk along the River Ness. Afternoon visit to Culloden Battlefield, before we head back to our hotel for dinner, Inc. Day Seven - We take a trip out east today to visit some of the historical castles of the Aberdeenshire area with a visit to another distillery and a stop at Johnsons Woollen Mill in Nairn. Leisurely drive back to Inverness with a stop at the Clava Standing Stones, historical site. Dinner Inc. Day Eight - Today we take the road to the Isles, south past Loch Ness where you can keep an eye out for the famous monster, Nessie then we head west through the Highlands to the New Bridge and the Isle of Skye. We head north on Skye to Portree the main town on the Island. We will pass some awesome scenery today. Choice of either free time in Portree or a drive north to the Quairang, with a chance to see the Old Man of Storr and Kilt Rock, all natural scenic rock formations that are unique to this island. Return to our hotel in Inverness. (This is an optional day~ no extra cost). Dinner Inc. Day Nine - We say goodbye to our new friends at Culloden House and head south down the side of Loch Ness, stopping for a visit to Urquhart Castle nestled on the Banks of Loch Ness. We continue south stopping for lunch and some shopping time in Ft William. We continue south with a stop at Dunstaffnage Castle, the ruins of a historical castle. We continue south to our hotel near Oban overlooking beautiful Loch Awe. Dinner Inc. Day Ten - Today we have an optional Day trip to the Isles of Mull and Iona where we can visit the Abbey on Iona (via Passenger Ferry), & Duart Castle, home of the McLean clan, before we catch our ferry back to the mainland. Overnight In Taychreggan Hotel, Kilchrenan, by Oban. Dinner Inc. Day Eleven - After breakfast we depart from Taychreggan and head south towards Glasgow with a stop at Inveraray to visit the historical jail and Castle. After lunch in Inverary, we continue south to Loch Lomond stopping at the village of Luss on the Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond. We continue on into Glasgow to check into our hotel. Dinner on your own. Day Twelve - Spend the day with a local guide showing you the hotspots of this vibrant west coast city, voted Architectural City of Europe in 1999. Dinner on your own. Day Thirteen - Free day to explore more of Glasgow or take a trip with us to Ayrshire where we visit Culzean Castle near Ayr and the birthplace of Scotland's National Bard, Robert Burns who wrote Auld Lang Syne. Optional Golf today if anyone is interested in playing one of the famous Ayrshire courses. *** Extra cost. Return to Glasgow for our final night Gala Scottish Feast, Inc. Day Fourteen - Morning transfer (after breakfast) to Glasgow airport for return flights home. **Cost per person based on double occupancy is $4695. Single Supplement of $1000 This is a Gay Friendly tour, but as in any of our tours, anyone is welcome to travel. To
book a Rainbow Tour holiday , please fill in our
online
deposit / booking
form
. A deposit of $470 / £300 per person is
required .
FOR 2003 TOURS STILL WITH SPACE... Romantic Islands & Castle Trail Clan Macdonald tour of Scotland To book a holiday in a Scottish castle , please fill in our online deposit / booking form . A deposit of $300 / £200 per person is required . We operate our own tours, we do all the planning, we don't use ground handlers and tour operators, we do it all ourselves, offering you an opportunity to see Scotland...as you've never seen it before. We don't just visit all the main tourist sites and we don't stay in tourist class hotels. What we do is take you around Scotland as a part of our family..... We are there with you every step of the way, from picking you up at the airport or your hotel, until we drop you off at the end of your tour. Along with your tour director (see owner) and our coach driver, we use local friendly guides who know their areas well, not because they have learned about them in books but because they live there and know the area and its people. We use all privately or family owned small historical hotels, not large chains or tourist *first* class hotels, rated from 3 to 5 stars. We dine in our hotel restaurant or a local restaurant renowned for good Scottish cuisine and you will have the chance to meet local people at dinner and in the pubs in each town. You will experience surprise entertainment, historical castles, haunted ruins, the mystical Celtic music played on Highland Bagpipes and fiddles. You will see parts of Scotland most tourists don't see. Of course we also visit the woolen mills, whisky distilleries and visitor centers of some of the more important sites in history. You will learn the meaning of the Massacre of Glencoe, the Callanais Standing stones and Culloden Battlefield. On our tours you will have fun, learn about the country, meet interesting people and get to know the people of this beautiful, mystical country we call Scotland! To book a holiday in a Scottish castle , please fill in our online deposit / booking form . A deposit of $300 / £200 per person is required . If you want to arrange you own vacation our hotels guide gives details of top quality hotels in Scotland
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