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$789.00
Prices in US Dollars
This is one of the best Festive trips around for those who want to escape the Big Smoke. The highlight is definitely spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in a Royal Highland Hotel with a ceilidh in the opulent Grand Wallace Ballroom for the best Christmas party ever!
Highlights
- Christmas in a Royal Highland hotel, once frequented by Queen Victoria herself
- Mulled wine by the Grand Staircase (which inspired the design for the staircase in the Titanic!)
- Traditional Scottish Ceilidh night
- Christmas dinner and all the trimmings
- Edinburgh Welcome Party
- Party night in Inverness, Capital of the Highlands
- Loch Ness and eerie Glencoe
- The biggest snowball fight of your life (snow permitting!)
Inclusions
- All accommodation
- Edinburgh Welcome Party
- Full Scottish breakfasts on 25th and 26th
- Packed lunches on 25th and 26th December
- Mulled wine on arrival to the Royal Highland Hotel
- Christmas Eve party
- Christmas dinner including wine
- A traditional Scottish ‘Ceilidh’
- Return coach travel from London
Day 1: 23rd December
It’s time to get Christmas underway and say goodbye to the Big Smoke as we leave London by coach and head north to Bonnie Scotland! Arriving in Edinburgh in the early evening, you'll have the chance to check out a few of the city’s most famous landmarks and perhaps a pub or two. Tonight is the legendary HAGGiS Welcome Party to get the festivities started. Accommodation is in a city centre hostel, right in the heart of the action.
Day 2: Christmas Eve
We leave Scotland's capital and head past the capital of Stirling, home to legends such as William Wallace and Robert the Bruce and scene of many of Scotland’s most famous and bloody battles in the Wars of Independence. Our route north takes us through dramatic Glencoe, the ‘Weeping Glen’ and site of the massacre of 1692. From here, we follow Loch Ness and hunt for the monster, then further north to our magnificent accommodation in a plush Highland Hotel in Inverness, Capital of the Highlands. Once frequented by Royalty, the hotel can boast Queen Victoria as a past guest. Tonight it’s the HAGGiS welcome party!
Day 3: Christmas Day
Christmas Day will never be the same again. Depending on the unpredictable Highland winter weather we may head to a wee town on the coast called Dornoch and take in the fresh sea air to fight off any remaining hangovers or head inland in search of a site for a battle of our very own….with snowballs! A few snow-angel and snowman building attempts will set us up for the slap-up Christmas feast awaiting our return to the hotel. After loads of grub and wine you can grab a partner and work off some of your Christmas indulgencies with traditional Scottish Ceilidh dancing in ‘The Wallace Ballroom’ with its classic furnishings, antique portraits, works of art and glorious crystal chandeliers.
Day 4: 26th December
We leave Inverness and head to sweeping and eerie Culloden, sight of the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite uprising. Heading south we make our way to Dunkeld with its mighty cathedral in Macbeth country before crossing the Forth Road Bridge on our return to Edinburgh.
Day 5: 27th December
Bid a fond farewell to Scotland as we take the coach back to London. Swap contact details, catch up on all the gossip from your trip and say a last goodbye to your crew. We’ll have plenty of DVD’s and music to help pass the journey.