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A Week in Scotland, September 7,2017
We arrive on September 6 and would like to arrange a half-day Glasgow tour on September 7. Has anyone ever arranged one or is planning to do so?
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The San Francisco Chronicle had a nice feature article about Glasgow yesterday with suggestions on what to do there in one day: http://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/One-Day-One-Place-Exploring-visual-culture-of-11823956.php
West Coast Tours also has hop on/hop off bus tours of the city: http://www.westcoasttours.co.uk/great-days-out/city-sightseeing-glasgow/#
Kalcat, if you are going in 2019 you might also consider a tour that our UK TD told us about that is suppose to start in 2019. It's a small ship tour that starts in Edinburgh, goes counter-clockwise around Scotland hitting many of the islands then ends in Glasgow. We probably won't see the detailed itinerary until this winter or spring. I'm thinking it would be a good one to pair with an Ireland trip - just hop a ferry between Glasgow and northern Ireland at the end of the tour. Something to consider.
Have you checked with Tauck? Tauck provides transport from the airport to Cameron House, regardless of when you arrive. If you arrange for your own ground transportation from the airport to Glasgow and back to the airport or start and end a local tour of Glasgow at the airport, Tauck might still pick you up at the airport or possibly somewhere else like the train station. You might need to store your bags at the airport if they can't be stored in a tour car. It doesn't hurt to ask. It would be a waste of time and money to go to Cameron House first then back to tour Glasgow, then back to Cameron House.
Another option is to check again with the Cameron House. If they handle or also deal with the company that handles Tauck airport transfers, it might be possible for them to transport your bags to Cameron House, then arrange for transport into Glasgow and follow-on transportation to Cameron House. Lots of possibilities- just a matter of time and money.
First check with Tauck then check again with concierge, then local (private) tour providers to see what they can arrange. They are usually very accommodating. We arranged with the concierge at the Old Ground for transportation to Bunratty Castle upon our arrival in Ennis for the Ireland trip- the driver was the one who picked us up at the airport earlier in the day!
However . . . . you don't want to wear yourself out before the tour starts.
Thanks, Claudia!! I'll keep an eye out for that.
Claudia, we've now had a chance to look at the new small ship cruise for 2019, but we're not really ocean-going people and don't want to spend that much time trying to find our sea legs (LOVE the river cruises, though, and are headed out for Rhine & Moselle trip on May 13 this year). Also, we've already covered Ireland thoroughly and loved it.
So I just called and signed up for A Week in Scotland departing May 26, 2019. They've made an itinerary change for 2018 and presumably 2019 with starting hotel in Glasgow instead of Cameron House, which seems like a good decision based on reviews and also the comments above. We do plan to arrive early and do Mull & Iona, as well as the Jacobite Steam Train.