Prices – private short & half day tours
November – February
low season
(short daylight)
Half day tours
low (short daylight) season
March, April & October
standard
season
Half day tours
standard season
May – September
peak season
(long daylight)
Half day tours
peak (long daylight hours) season
for private & small group tours
tour price is set per vehicle/driver/guide per day due to fixed costs
as our costs to run any of our personalised small group tours are exactly the same no matter if there are 8 or only 1 passenger(s)
| Included: | Fully guided tour | Driver/guide & vehicle | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excluded: | Entrance fees | Castles, museums, attractions, food/drinks | & overnight accommodation – we recommend/assist – but you choose your price category, i.e. hostel, B&B or hotel. Ferries: Your passenger/footpassenger ferry fare is extra (90% of the ferries we use are Calmac Westcoast ferries, which are inexpensive) |
Discounts
For each extra tour day an additional 2.5% multi-day tour discount has been deducted off these multi-day tour rates
2.5% discount off our private 2 days tour rates (i.e. 2 x the 1 day tour price less 2.5%)
5% discount off our private 3 days tour rates (i.e. 3 x the 1 day tour price less 5%)
7.5% discount off our private 4 days tour rates (i.e. 4 x the 1 day tour price less 7.5%)
10% discount off our private 5 days tour rates (i.e. 5 x the 1 day tour price less 10%)
12.5% discount off our private 6 days tour rates (i.e. 6 x the 1 day tour price less 12.5%)
15% discount off our private 7 days tour rates (i.e. 7 x the 1 day tour price less 15%)
June, July & August
Please note the additional 12.5% student discount does not apply from June – August.
Pick up info
Free short day tours 15 miles pick up zone
within 15 miles of our Alloa home base in the heart of the Scottish Central belt between Stirling, its University, Falkirk, Dunfermline & Gleneagles
Free pick up / drop off within 15 miles of our home (or for a few weeks each year our temporary Shetland, Orkney & Hebridean Islands tour base)
Free pick up / drop off within 15 miles of our home or temporary island/tour base
If your pick up location at the start of your short day tour or your drop off location at the end of your short day tour is more than the free 15 miles free short day tour pick up zone from our home (Alloa near Stirling) or temporary island/tour base, we are still happy to pick you up and drop you off for distances exceeding 16 miles or more, but there will however be a £1.50 charge for each single mile exceeding the free 15 mile pick up zone, so if your pick up location is 25 miles from our home or tour base, the pick up charge will be 10 miles x £1.50 pence/per mile = £15 in total for the pick up (and in case you wanted to be dropped off at the same place again at the end of your tour, the pick/up drop off fee would be £30 in total in addition to the above tour cost)
Unless of course your pick up/tour start and drop off/tour end location is on the route to the tour destination, for example
- for a Perth & Dundee backroads short day tour, we can of course pick up for free from the Perth & Dundee area, as this is our tour destination anyway
- for a Cumbrae Island short day tour we have to travel near to Glasgow and can of course pick up for free from some places in & around Glasgow, which are along the route from our Alloa home base to Cumbrae
- for an East Lothian coast & beaches short day tour, where we have to travel along the Edinburgh bypass and can easily pick up from Ingliston P&R or Dalmeny railway station on the outskirts of Edinburgh, that pick up would be free, as we have to travel along that route from our Alloa homebase anyway to our tour destination in East Lothian
etc.