Tour The Scottish Borders: Between The Walls (4 days)

Edinburgh & the Lothians – Hadrian’s Wall – The Antonine Wall – The Scottish Borders – Ayrshire – Northumberland (The Kingdom of Northumbria, North of England) – Dumfries & Galloway – Greater Glasgow & Valley of the Clyde !!

DAY 1: Historical day; Abbeys and
Regions: Lothian & Scottish Borders!
On our first day you will be surprised by the architectural treasures that you are going to see, real relics of the past accompanied by green and manicured landscapes de the Scottish borders. From Edinburgh we headed to the famous chapel “Rosslyn Chapel’ where scenes from the famous movie were filmed “The Da Vinci Code” for its mysterious relationship with Masonry. From here we continue our route towards the borders, we go to the melrose abbeywhere the heart of the most important king of Scotland who fought and won freedom and independence from the English raids “Robert the Bruce” and that you may have seen in the famous movie of Braveheart, secretly found his resting place to avoid the same end to his death that William Wallace. We still have a lot to see, incredible our beautiful day full of history and curiosities. Scotland in addition to having numerous points that have been declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO, is a very important and recognized worldwide for its great Literature, Universities and Writers such as “Sir Walter Scott”, to which the tallest monument in the world is dedicated in Edinburgh, today we are
going to visit the great mansion where he lived House” as well as the abbey that was his resting place “Dryburgh Abbey”. We will visit the beautiful town of jedburgh taking a look at your castle to get through waterin monument a Kebo, the pretty main town of the Borders with the ruins of its irnø)sing abbey. In Kelso we will rest from this exciting day full of historical visits and world famous for its importance.

DAY 2: Towards Hadrian’s Wall!
Regions: Scottish Borders & Northumberland (The Kingdom of Northumbria).
Second day, save everything you see in your retina because in few Tours you will see so many locations with such a history as in this one. We go today towards England, if we go to Cross the dividing line between these two historic countries with such a troubled history. We arrived to Berwick Upon Tweed, known for being the dividing town on the east coast and that has belonged to the two countries at different times in history. In the thirteenth century it was one of the most prosperous ports in Europe until 1296 Edward I of England restless for its prosperity and agreements with the French burned the entire town with its inhabitants in addition to later exhibiting the amputated arm of William Wallace. We will see here your dividing bridge and the ruins of the old castle to direct us to Alnwick, beautiful English town where depending if you choose this tour in summer or winter you can visit the famous inside or outside alnwick castle where most of the interiors of the castle of howgarts de Harry Potter. What if we are going to visit at any time of the year that you choose this tour are the beautiful Alnwick Gardens. We arrived at one of the most historically important points of this Tour, the remains of the Hadrian’s wall, that like that of Antonino was crossing Britain From East to West. Here we will visit the famous Chesters Roman museum as well as the remains of “Steel Rigg”. We haven’t finished the day we came back al north of the wall a Scotland. You know the Most romantic place to get married in Scotland where young people according to Scottish law and not the English one could do it in the XNUMXth century without parental consent? we visit it Of course, a line of proceedings was soon created through which the runaway young couples English people came to get married to … we are not going to tell you the name yet, we better take you, this will be our little secret. In our magnificent “diligence” we went to rest at Dumfries, the Scottish capital of Dumfries & Galloway known as “The Queen of the South.”

DAY 3: Interesting Cultural day!
Regions: Dumfries & Galloway and Ayrshire!
On our third day we already had a large compendium of history, landscapes and wonderful sensations in our retina. We will continue to surprise you with different activities y visits. We start the day with a walk through Dumfries and then go to the remains of the sweet and romantic Sweetheart Abbey 6 sweet heart, founded by Lady Devorgilla in memory’ of her husband Lord John Balliol. From here we travel to Ayrshire to visit thw museum of the place of birth of the famous Scottish poet and almost national idol Robert Bums, in the village of Alloway. After this illustrative visit we have another no less important today, to the town dedicated in the XNLlMXth century to the manufacture of cotton yarn and Heritage awarded by the New Lanark, where we will visit its historical and period museum. After this cultural day we take our way to the Greater Glasgow Between today and tomorrow we will visit the most relevant points of the industrial capital par excellence of Scotland: Glasgow where we are going to spend the night and have our well deserved dinner!

DAY 4: Scotch Whiskey and the Antonine Wall!
Regions: Greater Glasgow and Historic Stirling!
As you may have seen today on the last day of this wonderful and special Tour, our days are full of diverse and interesting content and today it will not be less After surprising us with the glasgow jewelry we continue the adventure, we go to the remains of the other famous and historic wall that encloses us together with the Hadrian’s wall in this wonderful adventure, the Antonine Wall, both declared by the UNESCO also Heritage. From here, the Romanos dared not go further north, at Scottish Highlands, the inhospitable land and unknown more to them, the attacks of the Celtic Picts they were too cruel. We will see the most important remains of this old wall of which little more than a few rock constructions remains to go to one of the most visited distilleries of the best whiskey in the world, the Scotch, Glengoyne Distillery where we will see the entire process of making it and because it is the best whiskey in the world that gives this wonderful land, or “Water of life’, as the ancient Celts called it the first settlers of Alba – Scotland. In addition to everything we are enjoying, visiting and getting to know we are now going to visit the historic castle for the Scottish Wars of Independence Stirling, from which we will also see the William Wallace monument, two national heroes met in this area and two of the most inwtant battles all Scotland were developed here and We are going to tell you about it in situ! As they say in the old cartoons: ‘There is still more! We see the ruined exteriors of the famous castle where he was born Marfa Estuardo or “Queen Mary of Scots” in the historic town of linlithgow along with another of the areas where some small remains of what was the Antonine Wall, not far from Linlithgow and without leaving the walls, we return to the capital of Scotland, a World Heritage Site: Edinburgh, where we rest with an extensive knowledge of Scotland and sensations and which you have the option of meeting with us the next day if you prefer- Surely these holidays in our company have shown you things that you did not even imagine about the wonderful and Historic Scotland! It has been a pleasure! We hope to see you again here at Scotland, the Celtic land of dreams!

The Jewels of our Tour.

• ROSSLYN CHAPEL (admission all year round)
• KELSO ABBEY (all year)
• LINLITHGOW PALACE (exterior)
• MUSEUM OF THE WALL OF HADRIAN (April to October admission included)
• STEEL RIGG
• STIRLING CASTLE (admission all year round)
• JAIL CASTLE OF JEDBURGH: (admission included from April to October)
• MELROSE ABBEY (admission all year)
• MONUMENT TO WILLIAN WALLACE (views)
• VISIT TO GLENGOYNE WHISKY DISTILLERY (Tour included all year round)
• SWEETHEART ABBEY (included all year round)
• BERWICK UPON TWEED
• ABBOTSFORD PALACE (April to October included)
• DRYBURGH ABBEY (entry all year round)
• ROBERT BURNS HOUSE MUSEUM (admission included all year)
• ALNWICK CASTLE (admission included from April to October)
• GARDENS OF ALNWICK (admission included all year)
• DUMFRIES
• NEW LANARK World Heritage Site (admission included all year round)
• RUINS OF THE WALL OF ANTONINO.
• Detailed itinerary before the start of the Tour.
• No additional costs.

All the activities and visits indicated are included in our closed price, in this way the only expenses you have to add are your travel and flight insurance.

• TOUR OF 4 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS.
• ACCOMMODATIONS IN DOUBLE SUITE WITH 3 STAR PRIVATE BATHROOM.
• 3 COMPLETE SCOTTISH BREAKFAST.
• COMFORTABLE MID-HIGH RANGE VEHICLE.
• LOCAL GUIDE AND DRIVER SERVICES IN ENGLISH.
• EXPLANATIONS, ACCOMPANIMENT AND GENERAL CULTURAL INFORMATION OF THE GUIDE.
• VISITS AND INDICATED ACTIVITIES.
• ALSO WE PICK UP AND TAKE YOU TO YOUR HOTELS.

Option to include dinners.

• Travel or personal insurance (mandatory)
• Flights.
• Own purchases or not described in the included section.
• Personal assistant or porter service. (Our guides always ready to help).

• Single suite: £ 50 per night.
• 5-star luxury accommodation: increase depending on requirements.
• Personalized tours: + 15% before discounts and taxes.
• Airport transfers: if not included + £ 15 per adult/children under 16 years free. Prices per trip.

Optional Dinners

Open dinner service provided for your comfort, to choose from the restaurant menu.
Price: supplement of 30 pounds per adult and 25 children under 16, per person and night (not cumulative). To choose from the restaurant menu up to these amounts. Above them, the client will pay the difference directly at the premises.

Normally our selection of restaurants is in the same hotel or close to it, depending on our great selection of regulars in each location and their availability.

TRAVEL REGIME OPTIONS TO CHOOSE

• Accommodation; 3 star double suite hotels near or in the centre of the town.

Note regarding accommodation: the substantial difference is in the services offered by the type of accommodation and the distance from the town centre. The type of room is always en suite with private bathroom and full breakfast included. We will drop you off and pick you up at the accommodation itself.

• Dates upon request from just 2 people
• For more than 8 people contact us

Prices are per person in a double room (other options may incur supplements), please select the number of people coming together.
On the dates you want from two people and subject to availability. Anticipation counts in your favor.
Low season: January, February, March, October, November, December:
• Adults: £1,102
(In Open Group. Age 18 +)
• Seniors: £1,051
(In Open Group. Age 65+)
• Youngsters: £1,031
(In Open Group. Age 5 – 17)
• From 4 to 8 people: £999
(In Open Group. Groups and Families. All ages)
• Private Tour: £1,352
(From 2 people. All ages)
• “Just the Tour”: £2,200
(Price per group of 1 to 8 people in Open Group.
No accommodation or tickets included)

Middle season: April, May, June, September:
• Adults: £1,189
(In Open Group. Age 18 +)
• Seniors: £1,134
(In Open Group. Age 65+)
• Youngsters: É1,112
(In Open Group. Age 5 – 17)
• From 4 to 8 people: £1,080
(In Open Group. Groups and Families. All ages)
• Private Tour: £1,452
(From 2 people. All ages)
• “Just the Tour”: £2,420
(Price per group of 1 to 8 people in Open Group.
No accommodation or tickets included)

High season: July, August, Christmas, Easter. (December 15 to 31):
• Adults: £1,249
(In Open Group. Age 18 +)
• Seniors: £1,191
(In Open Group. Age 65+)
• Youngsters: £1,168
(In Open Group. Age 5 – 17)
• From 4 to 8 people: £1,134
(In Open Group. Groups and Families. All ages)
• Private Tour: £1,521
(From 2 people. All ages)
• “Just the Tour”: £2,662
(Price per group of 1 to 8 people in Open Group.
No accommodation or tickets included)

• Recommended minimum age for children: 5 years. More young people consult.
• Children under 5 years: not recommended, under the responsibility of the parents and option only available in Private Tours. Children will travel for free if there are places available and the Tour meets the conditions for them. They will sleep in a shared room with at least one adult in their family. Meals not included. One child under 5 per family is free, from the second the price corresponding to “Children between 5 and 15 years old” will be applied. Consult.
• Up to 18 years old: it is necessary to come accompanied by at least one adult.
• Dinners: possibility of hiring or not this service for a value of up to 30 GBP from 16 years of age and up to 25 Pounds for children under 16, per person and night (not cumulative).
• Historic Edinburgh Walking Tour Pack: most of our programs include this day with entrance to Edinburgh Castle, plus a visit to the underground city, ghost bus tour and other guided tours. If it is not included in the chosen program, there is the possibility of adding this day. Prices on our website.
• It is possible to choose the lowest price applicable to each person even within a group.
• Routes: super studied, optimized and selected to enjoy the spectacular landscapes. In the event of major causes outside our company such as extreme weather and impassable works or other unavoidable events, our guide will decide an alternative route of equal beauty as far as possible.
• Accommodation: at “ScotlandTrips International” our selection of usual accommodation is above the average in the same rating scales that other companies offer. The two options are subject to availability and options of the beautiful towns to visit. Especially in wonderful Scotland, our B&B and Guest House selection are at the same level of quality and comfort within our excellent selection, being able to be even more comfortable than a hotel, although a hotel offers more services such as restaurant or bar. Depending on the availability on the dates of the contracted services, the accommodation may be located at a greater or lesser distance from the local centre or even in the closest locations with availability, without thereby stopping any content of the program or itinerary, therefore, the longer the reservation is in advance, the better the conditions and situation of the accommodation, as is usual in the tourism sector due to the supply, demand and dates.
• Possibility of 5-star luxury accommodation and personalized tours: see supplements.
• Baggage: unless otherwise notified, it is allowed to bring one cabin or medium-size suitcase per person. Since we usually operate to improve the quality and attention of our services in vehicles or minibuses, space for suitcases is limited and we operate under safety and weight regulations.
• DNI or Passport: it is necessary to send us this document for reservations and show it to the Guide for security reasons.
• Travel Insurance: it is mandatory to have your travel insurance up to date, it is very economical and can cover any eventuality. It is also recommended that in the unforeseen event that you have to cancel the trip due to any eventuality that may happen to you, this section covers you. Our company has all the relevant insurance.

With everything prepared and in order, you are ready to enjoy a wonderful vacation with our company, we are waiting for you, we are waiting for you!