1 day tour price (private & small group tours of Scotland)

1 day tour

for your private, flexible tailor-made small group

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Isle of Arran – Scotland in miniature

Scotland in miniature – awesome coastal views around every turn, beaches, cliffs – bens, lochs, glens, stone circle, walks, castle, whisky, wildlife & a lot more

• Many different pick & drop off options along the way, incl. from Stirling/Uni

Key point to remember

• unlike most of our other tours, which you can also book last minute, subject to availability
• for this tour due to the ferry involved we recommend to book this tour with us at www.unicorntours.co.uk early in advance
• Sample departure time on our most recent 2019 tour, was 07.15 am from Stirling
• ferry times Ardrossan 0945 – 1040 Brodick/Arran 1640 – 1735 Ardrossan – return fare per person for the ferry was £7.80 in addition to the tour price

Extras to pay on top of the tour price::

* ferry £7.80 return,  food, drink, entrance fees (castles, museums, attractions, etc.)

Your tour around the Isle of Arran:

• Full round tour of Arran, including all the highlights, coastline, all around stunning and new views around every corner (Stunning views of the Ayrshire coast, Holy Island, Aisla Craig, Pladda, Kintyre, Cowal, Cumbrae & Bute).
• Stops at Kildonan bay & Blackwaterfoot beaches, the Machrie Standing Stone circle,  Lochranza, & castle & distillery, Goatfell mountain views, Brodick, Holy Island views, walks, wildlife and a lot more

a recent private tour we were running:

Another recent private tour to the Isle of Arran

Thank you very much for having joined our 1 day Isle of Arran tour on 13th November 2022:


 From Stirling past the Bannockburn heritage centre through Glasgow to the Ardrossan on the Ayrshire coast.
 Caledonian MacBrayne ferry crossing to Brodick/Isle of Arran.

Isle Arran/Scotland in miniature – round tour:

Brodick harbour – Lamlash & Holy Isle view – Kildonan beach walk with Pladda island lighthouse view – Seals – Southcoast drive with clifftop views and of Aisla Craig – Lagg distillery – Blackwaterfoot beach – Westcoast drive with seabirds, highland cows & sheep along the way & views across to Kintyre – Lochranza bay, castle & the Arran distillery – Arran Highland route from Lochranza to Sannox with a scenic viewpoint walk – Sannox beach view & Eastcoast drive – Brodick castle & country park – mountain viewpoint – Brodick beach & Goatfell view – Calmac ferry sailing back to Ardrossan/Ayrshire in the evening afterglow

 Drive from Ardrossan via Glasgow back to Stirling

Another recent Isle of Arran 1 day tour

Brodick beach with castle & mountain view / Co-op shopping
Lamlash outdoor centre with Holy Island view
Pladda island lighthouse photostop
Kildonan beach walk with Pladda island view
Glenview stop on west to Eastcoast route to Lamlash
Blackwaterfoot beach lunchstop
Westcoast seal & sheep stop
Lochranza ferry WC stop
Lochranza castle stop
Arran whisky distillery quick visit
Brodick castle photo stop

Another recent 1 day tour to Arran

Glasgow to the Ayrshire coast. Ardrossan to Brodick/Isle of Arran ferry. Drive through Lamlash and Whiting bay to Kildonan beach with views of Ailsa Craig and the Pladda island lighthouse. Blackwaterfoot beach. Machrie moor stone circle walk. Mountain route to Brodick for free time and lunch. Sannox beach walk. Lochranza Arran whisky distillery and castle bay photostop. NE coastal drive and seals, stunning route route through the interior to Lamlash and a walk with views of Holy Island before catching the late ferry back to Ardrossan on the Scottish mainland and back to Glasgow.

Another recent Isle of Arran tour

 Leave Stirling
• Drive past Glasgow to Ardrossan, where we had a beach photo stop
• Taking the ferry over to the Isle of Arran while having breakfast on the ferry
• Beach photostop of Brodick castle by the supermarket
• Drive through Brodick and up the hill with a view over to Holy Island
• Photostop for Holy Island at the Lamlash Outdoor centre
• Drive through Whiting Bay to Kildonan bay for a beach walk with views of the Pladda island light house and the volcanic rock of Ailsa Craig in the mist
• Cliff views and across to Kintyre along the Southwest coast of Arran
• Blackwaterfoot beach
• Machrie standing stone circle walk & picknick
• Westcoast drive with views of a seal colony
• Lochranza castle
• Arran whisky distillery
• Goatfell mountain pass with red deer
• Mountain and coast viewpoint
• Brodick castle country park
• Scenic ferry ride in the sunshine back to the mainland, drive along the North Ayrshire & Clyde coast across the Erskine bridge to the south shores of Loch Lomond and back to Stirling

Images of a few of our past Isle of Arran tours

Isle of Arran – 3rd June 2023

Kildonan bay

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Isle of Arran weekend – Scotland in miniature – Unicorn Tours

Glen Rosa & Sannox glen walk – Isle of Arran – Unicorn Tours

Isle of Arran – Arran coastal walk from Lochranza to Sannox – Unicorn Tours

Holy Island views from Arran – Unicorn Tours

Return ferry from Arran

www.unicorntours.co.uk – Isle of Arran day tour – 1st May 2019

Arran, Islay & Jura 1-2 April 2017, www.unicorntours.co.uk

Isle of Arran tour

1 day private small group tour – prices (based on 10 hours)

Personalised & private small group tours all over Scotland (100+ itineraries: ½ – 7 day tour options & discounted multi-day tours to choose from) – with a set daily tour price for our tour guide driver & 8 passenger seater mini-bus (due to the fixed same overall cost for up to 8 passengers, the cheapest per person price for a private small group tour is if 8, 7, 6 or 5 are travelling together to share the set fixed daily cost, which is the same total cost, no matter if there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 passengers on a private mini-bus tour)

All of these private & personalised, small group tours of Scotland

are available on any available green calendar days for private tours

• Choose any private & personalised tailormade 1/2 day tour on any available green calendar day.
• Choose any private & personalised tailormade 1 day tour on any available green calendar day.
• Choose any private & personalised tailormade 2 day tour on any 2 consecutive available green calendar days. Any private 2 day tours will already show a 2.5% discount.
• Choose any private & personalised tailormade 3 day tour on any 3 consecutive available green calendar days. Any private 3 day tours will already show a 5% discount.
• Choose any private & personalised tailormade 4 day tour on any 4 consecutive available green calendar days. Any private 4 day tours will already include a 7.5% discount.
• Choose any private personalised & tailormade 5 day tour on any 5 consecutive available green calendar days. Any private 5 day tours will already include a 10% discount.
• Choose any private personalised & tailormade 6 day tour on any 6 consecutive available green calendar days. Any private 6 day tours is discounted by 12.5%.
• Choose any private personalised & tailormade 7 day tour on any 7 consecutive available green calendar days. Any private 7 day tour prices already show the 15% discount. 

Additionally from September to May there is a 12.5% student discount, which also applies to seniors over 65 and to children up to 17 travelling as part of a family group.

Information about private tours in general

Private & personalised tailormade tours to suit your group’s preferences

This is your very own private tour for you and your friends and family members of up to 8 people travelling on this tour together.

Before any private tour, we always check for your must-see stops, interests, hobbies, activities, preferences, priorities and any special requests you might have and we ask you about your preferred pace of travel so to tailor make and personalise the tour to suit your needs.

The route, the stops and the itinerary we give on our website for any private tour are for information and guidance only, as in the end it is you, who decides, what you wish to do, where you wish to stop and what you wish to do and see.

Any private tour itinerary can be shortened, extended or amended, if you wish to do so.

Flexibility on private tours

We also like to keep things flexible as our experience is that there are places, once you arrive and see them, you just fall in love with and wish to spend more time and longer.

whereas some other times we arrive at a place and they are different from what you had expected and you are ok to have a shorter stop and to move on quicker.

Flexibility is also good as on a beautiful gorgeous blue sunny day when all colours in nature and the landscapes are sparkling and you have clear and amazing far distant visibility and the scenery and places are at their best, you probably prefer to spend more time outdoors, while on a stormy, wet, dark, grey and cold day, you are likely to prefer more indoor venues during your stops.

Travelling at your own pace on private tours

Some guests are on a whirlwind tour with little time and wish to pack as much into a short time as possible and are ok with just short photo stops,

whereas other tour guests prefer to travel at a more leisurely pace to be able to explore and discover and soak it all in and leaving the tour with a memorable and lasting experience.

All of this is possible within the constraints of your chosen route, the distances involved

and during the winter season the shorter daylight hours we have.

Lunch breaks on private tours

Some guests put a lot of emphasis on a good quality lunch in a good atmospheric restaurant and we can prebook lunch venues,

whereas other guests are ok to just stop at a supermarket for a sandwich to eat on the go

or just need a short lunch stop for some light snack to eat.

Your tour options on any private tour are unlimited and endless

Same place, same route – but one one private tour, the private tour guests would want to visit the castle, while on another tour at the same place, they want a whisky tour instead and yet again same place on the next tour the private tour guests, want to just go for a walk on the beach there, while another time at the same place, they just want to go shopping, visit the museum or stop at the golf course – so same place, but on each private tour at this very same place, we visit different places and the itinerary, stops and experience is different. 

As this is a private & personalised tour to suit your interests, preferences, hobbies and activities, it is up to you and we can either offer our normal tour itinerary for the location with all the many local highlights and sights and be flexible depending on the season, the weather, the time we have and also be fully flexible during the tour (as some places, you will love and stay longer and at other places you come to, you might wish to just take a photo and then leave, so in the end you might on the day of the tour decide to stay longer or shorter at some of the places we visit or you might still decide to add in some additional stops and places you had not thought about before)  and also partially or fully adjust it to suit your interests and preferences or entirely turn it into a specialist interest tour “a whisky tour”, “a castle, cathedral, historic sights tours”, a “walking tour”, a “nature & wildlife tour”, a “golf tour”, an “activity tour”, etc. depending on what you request (also see our full range of  Activities, special interests & tour themes.)

If it says on the tour itinerary, the tour starts in A and ends in Z and on our journey from A to Z we are travelling and can be stopping at B, C, D, E, F…… X & Y,

it might be the same route on every such private tour, but with every private tour group and individuals, it could still be an entirely & very different tour after all,

as there are so many different special interests & tour themes

so that the main focus of some private tour groups could be

• architecture & charming towns & villages
• castles, history
• child-friendly stops
• churches, abbeys & religious sites
• dining & and having a great lunch eating out
• events based, such as visiting the Highland games while on the tour with us
• family history & genealogy
• gardens, flowers & parks
• golf, football or other sports’ venues
• literature, film or movie fictional based tour, i.e. visiting filming locations of Outlander, Harry Potter, Shetland crime series, Downtown Abbey. etc.
• nature & wildlife, seabirds, puffins or whale
• watching
• the scenery, the coast & beaches
• snow and wintry landscapes
• tourist steam train in conjunction with our tour
• walking
• waterfalls
• whisky distilleries, gin and breweries
• etc.

Pick ups & drop offs anywhere on private tours

As mentioned in the pick up section, on a private tour we can pick up from anywhere and drop off anywhere and offer staggered free pick ups and drop offs, which are dependent on the distance from our Alloa home base near Stirling. Our home base is 30 miles from Edinburgh, Glasgow & Perth in the heart of the Scottish Central belt:

•  for short & half day tours the free pick up/drop off zone is within 15 miles of our Alloa home base (which includes Stirling, Falkirk, Dunfermline & Gleneagles)
•  for 1 day tours the free pick up/drop off zone is within 35 miles of our Alloa home base (which additionally includes Edinburgh, Glasgow & Perth)
•  for 2, 3 & 4 day tours the free pick up/drop off zone is within 50 miles of our Alloa home base (which additionally includes Dundee, St. Andrews & the entire Scottish Central belt)
• for 5, 6 & 7 day tours the free pick up/drop off zone is within 75 miles of our Alloa home base

Additionally as stated we sometimes offer free pick ups for places on the route to our destination, even though they might exceed the free mileage zone, so for example for a West Coast tour and we need to head westbound anyway for the tour, we could be pick up at locations west free of charge, depending on the exact route and distances involved.

(During a few weeks every year we are also Shetland, Orkney, Hebridean Isles or regionally based

and the free pick ups will then be based from that local area, such as on the Shetland, Orkney or on some of the Hebridean Isles for example.)

Accommodation on multi-day tours is your choice

Some of our guests are budget travellers, whereas others are luxurious travellers, while others chose a mid-range 3* hotel.

We are happy to give you tips, links and info about your accommodation options for the towns and villages we are staying overnight, but in the end it is up to you, where you would like to stay, at which hotel or guesthouse and for which price.

However much or however little you wish to spend for your overnight accommodation is your choice.

On a private tour we will pick you up from any accommodation in the morning and in the evening drop you off at any accommodation of your choice for your overnight tour accommodation and and chosen location.

Pick up / drop off points for private small group 1 Day Tours, from anywhere as it is your own private tour:

• within the Stirling/Uni area
• within the Forth Valley area
• from within the Scottish Central belt, Edinburgh & Glasgow included

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• from places listed along or nearby the route and the stops of this particular 1 Day Tour

To enquire about this tour or book, please email contact@unicorntours.co.uk

This tour is for a private small group of up to 8 people.

We will personalise & tailor make this flexible tour itinerary to suit your preferences, interests & requirements.

This tour is available on any green calendar day

except during our Scottish Islands based tour days

for a few weeks each year.

Once you wish to book, we send you an invoice with a payment link and also allowing for a UK & international bank transfer.

Once you have paid, we send you your tour confirmation and will mark this day as “red” unavailable/booked out in our tours availability calendar

We can pick up from anywhere, but for a 1 day tour the free pick up zone is within 35 miles of our Alloa home base (which includes does Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth and anywhere in between, such Stirling, Falkirk, Dunfermline & Gleneagles)

Pick ups & drop offs anywhere on private tours

As mentioned in the pick up section, on a private tour we can pick up from anywhere and drop off anywhere and offer staggered free pick ups and drop offs, which are dependent on the distance from our Alloa home base near Stirling. Our home base is 30 miles from Edinburgh, Glasgow & Perth in the heart of the Scottish Central belt:

•  for short & half day tours the free pick up/drop off zone is within 15 miles of our Alloa home base (which includes Stirling, Falkirk, Dunfermline & Gleneagles)
•  for 1 day tours the free pick up/drop off zone is within 35 miles of our Alloa home base (which additionally includes Edinburgh, Glasgow & Perth)
•  for 2, 3 & 4 day tours the free pick up/drop off zone is within 50 miles of our Alloa home base (which additionally includes Dundee, St. Andrews & the entire Scottish Central belt)
• for 5, 6 & 7 day tours the free pick up/drop off zone is within 75 miles of our Alloa home base

Additionally as stated we sometimes offer free pick ups for places on the route to our destination, even though they might exceed the free mileage zone, so for example for a West Coast tour and we need to head westbound anyway for the tour, we could be pick up at locations west free of charge, depending on the exact route and distances involved.

(During a few weeks every year we are also Shetland, Orkney, Hebridean Isles or regionally based

and the free pick ups will then be based from that local area, such as on the Shetland, Orkney or on some of the Hebridean Isles for example.)