Guided Coach Trips
An ideal way to see the best of the Highlands. Stay in Inverness for a week and you can take a different guided tour each day! You can visit Culloden Battlefield, Cawdor Castle, Loch Ness, the Isle of Skye, Orkney, Isle of Lewis, Wester Ross, Eilean Donan Castle, the Road to the Isles, Caithness and Sutherland. Check with the Tourist Information Centre for times and prices.
Transport for hire
Cars, vans, motor bikes and cycles can be rented from various companies in Inverness.
Boat Trips
Several companies offer day trips on Loch Ness (to see the monster?!) and out into the Moray Firth to see the dolphins. Check out Jacobite for cruises and coach tours of Loch Ness.
Public Transport
The Highland Council publishes a series of local timetable guides covering rail, ferry, air, bus connections.
These are available in local tourist information centres throughout the Highlands.
Traveline Scotland is a useful online search timetable database.
Coaches
The coach network operated by Scottish Citylink covers almost all the major routes within Scotland. Inverness has regular coach connections with Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fort William, Oban, Ullapool, Aberdeen, Wick, Isle of Skye, etc.
Megabus is a budget bus service operating between Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Stagecoach Buses operate on local routes (e.g. Inverness city centre, Strathpeffer, Beauly, Cromarty, Dingwall, etc.). These timeables can be obtained from Inverness bus station or consult travelinescotland.com
Trains
Inverness is also well served by trains on the railway lines to/from Edinburgh/Perth, Aberdeen, Wick and Kyle of Lochalsh.
The official UK railways web site provides online timetables. Many ticket discounts are available on rail travel within Scotland - visit the Scotrail web site for more information.
Planes
Dalcross International Airport is 8 miles east of Inverness. There is a frequent bus service between the airport and city centre. Taxis are available, also car hire at the airport.
Regular flights operate to/from London, as well as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Orkney and the Hebrides.
Weather
Web sites providing useful weather forecast information include:
