NOR'WEST Tours and GO-ORKNEY 2009
Check through the summary below for our range of exciting and informative trips.

Quality tours in the Scottish Highlands & Islands
Quick, portable summary

Nor'West Tours was formerly known as Puffin Express.
  • Know your preferred destination? Go to Table A, immediately below.
  • Know which month you mean to come? Click here for a full calendar of tours

    Click here for information on some accommodations in Inverness

  • TABLE A - TOUR SCHEDULE BY DESTINATION
    Click here for practical information on weather, lunches, clothing etc, also Loch Ness

    TOUR TITLE/DESTINATION
    Click on the link in each box for detailed description of the tour
    DAYS & DATES OF OPERATION 2009
    John o'Groats and Highland Wildlife
    Wildlife, prehistoric sites, coastal scenery.
  • Puffin seen late April till end July, deer and seals seen on nearly all trips;
  • Spectacular coastal and inland rock scenery;
  • Prehistoric sites;
  • Continue to Orkney if you wish
  • Book John o'Groats & Applecross (below) together for just £ 55
  • Sundays through 27 September
    Tuesday 20 October
    Thursdays through 15 October
    Fare: £ 33
    Option of continuing to Orkney
    Departure time: 0915
    Applecross & Wester Ross
  • The most spectacular day-tour in the British Isles
  • Book John o'Groats (above) & Applecross together for just £ 55
  • Remaining departures for 2009:
    Mondays 14 & 21 September;
    Fridays 4 & 18 September
    Fare: £ 29
    Departure time: 0930

    Orkney Overnighter
    Wildlife & coastal scenery; stone-age, Viking and World War features.
  • Day 1 - travel to the north coast of Scotland with Nor'West Tours;
  • Continue to Orkney by John o'Groats Ferries;
  • Day 2 (or later) - day in Orkney, return to Inverness about 2115hrs
  • Orkney Overnighter is finished for 2009 season. Watch out for an enhanced Orkney Overnighter trip in 2010.
    Minimum of 1 night in Orkney.
    Fare: £ 69 , child < 16 £ 51
    Departure time: 0915
    Orkney Adventure Minimum 2 nights in Orkney, or stay as long as you wish
  • Travel to the north coast of Scotland with Nor'West Tours;
  • Continue to Orkney by John o'Groats or Pentland Ferries;
  • Leave Orkney from Stromness and catch train back to Inverness -
    or take Royal Mail post bus to Durness in NW Sutherland and
    Dearman Coaches, back to Inverness or getting off at Ullapool;
  • Wildlife & coastal scenery; stone-age, Viking & World War features
  • Sundays through 27 September
    Tuesday 20 October
    Thursdays through 15 October
    Saturdays 22 August; 5 & 19 September
    Minimum of 2 nights in Orkney.
    Fare: £ 69, child < 16 £ 51
    Departure time: 0915

    Lewis MegaTour - "World-class" prehistoric monuments,
    Gaelic culture
    Wednesdays 8 July; 5 & 19 August;
    Friday 24 July. Fare: £ 99
    Departure time: 0705-0730
    Castle of Mey
    In addition to time at this, the late Queen Mother's favourite residence,
    we also stop at Dornoch, prettiest town of the north
    Saturdays; CoM programme finished for 2009 season
    Fare: £ 32 including admission fee to castle
    Departure time: 0930
    Skye Adventure
    In 2009 this trip is being operated by our associate company, Scottish Tours, along the same route we have used for many years. Mountain scenery,
    magnificent seascapes, castles, Jacobite history.
    Long periods outside the bus at:
  • Clan Donald Centre - gardens, Museum of the Isles;
  • The Atlantic side of the Sleat Peninsula
  • Many shorter stops
    • Sundays through 25 October
    • Mondays through 28 September
    • Tuesdays through 29 September
    • Wednesdays through 28 October
    • Thursdays through 1 October
    • Fridays through 30 October
    • Saturdays through 3 October

     

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    *IF YOU CAN'T BOOK IN ADVANCE, THEN PRINT OFF THIS SUMMARY WHICH CONTAINS THE 'BARE BONES' OF WHAT WE OFFER - small-group, high-quality tours out of Inverness.*

    Accommodation - Inverness Click this link for information on 3 B&Bs in Inverness with links to other B&Bs and hotels


    If getting in touch with us by e-mail - which is the most likely way if you're reading this website - we would greatly appreciate knowing your country of origin - this helps us in our reply.

    Nor'West Tours
    Inverness
    Scotland

    e-mail: Nor'West Tours

    For details of telephone hours click here

    Joining Tours: all tours leave from Castle Wynd, the narrow street between the Town House and Tourist Information Centre:

    Some tours have additional pick-up points; for details, see the descriptions of those tours.

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