Private Tours of the Highlands

  • Private Tour - Adventure, Secret Loch Ness, Inverness Castle & Waterfalls
    Exclusive tour and luxury transporation Special Private Tour for 2-4 people and is taken in a luxury car Accessibility Information Please note - this tour involves walking up and down a steep hill. What's included in the price? Adult £175, Child £155 (includes castle entrance fe...
  • Private Tour - Scottish Castles & Loch Ness Tour
    What's included in the price? Adult £155  Child £135. Both prices include entrance fees to 3 castles (approx £35 each). Tour timings Departs 8.30am. Returns at least 1 hour before ship leaves.  Lasts 7-8 hours.  Which Scottish castles are included on this tou...
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Thistle Excursions are a bus tour operator which departs from Invergordon. This is the perfect location for visitors on touring cruise ships stopping in the Cromarty Firth at the port of Invergordon. Our Invergordon bus tours are the prefect way for tourists and sightseeers to get a true taste of the Highlands of Scotland. Our bus tours which leave from Invergordon feature some of the best Highland locations; Loch Ness, Culloden Battlefield, Inverness, Beauly Priory, Black Rock Gorge, Clava Cairns, Cawdor Castle, Urqhuart Castle, Carnegie Whisky Cellar and Glenmorangie Distillery. Check out our Highland bus tour destinations page to choose which sights you want to see. Our bus tours have been chosen to allow you to see the most iconic destinations featured in numerous films, TV shows and rich Scottish History. So if you are looking for the perfect sightseeing tour of the Highlands, Thistle Excursions is your tour operator.

We also offer tailormade bus tours of the Highlands from Invergordon.

When booking your tour please choose carefully which castle you wish to visit. Either Cawdor, Urquhart or Dunrobin. You can visit one on your tour but when doing the Cawdor visit you will see Urquhart beside Loch Ness in the background, but you do not visit both.  Time does not allow.