Scotland travel plans?

[Phil]

Continental have daily scheduled flights from Newark direct to Edinburgh and (I think) Glasgow. Might be a better option. Internal UK flights tend to be a bit pricey. I agree with cessna152towser about BA, they are not what they used to be.

[MacWage]

I was there in 2000. I want to go back.

[obuchiteck]

Me and My wife are planning a Backpacking trip next year. We are going to start in Italy and end up in Scotland. We don’t have all the details planed yet, we just decided to do this about a month ago. So any Scotland suggestions would be appreciated.

[Nervous Jock]

I fly quite a bit internally, mostly for social events so I know the budgets airlines pretty well.

I'd recommend www.flybe.com

then also WWW.bmibaby.com

& http://www.aerarann.com/

to a lesser extent www.easyjet .com

and if you are stuck www.ryanair.com

If you are planning a few months ahead there is no reason why you cant get internal return flights from places like Birmingham, luton, belfast and the like for less than £50

[obuchiteck]

I fly quite a bit internally, mostly for social events so I know the budgets airlines pretty well.

I'd recommend www.flybe.com

then also WWW.bmibaby.com

& http://www.aerarann.com/

to a lesser extent www.easyjet .com

and if you are stuck www.ryanair.com

If you are planning a few months ahead there is no reason why you cant get internal return flights from places like Birmingham, luton, belfast and the like for less than £50

Flying shouldn't be a problem. My brother-in-law fly for a major airline and we get international round trip tickets for about $200 a piece.. We are going to fly in to Italy and fly out of Scotland. The rest will be Trains, boats, feet, and cars.. That's what I'm nervous about, oh and hostels.

[Navyguy]

Me and my wife are trying to plan a trip in mid to late september. Any ideas for us?

[Valencian Kilted]

Flying shouldn't be a problem. My brother-in-law fly for a major airline and we get international round trip tickets for about $200 a piece.. We are going to fly in to Italy and fly out of Scotland. The rest will be Trains, boats, feet, and cars.. That's what I'm nervous about, oh and hostels.

I was last year backpacking around Scotland (Stirling, Inverness, Drumnadrochit, Skye, Dumfries and Glasgow) and I go again this summer (Edinburgh, Stirling, Pitlochry, Braemar, Kirkwall (Orkneys) and Glasgow) from August 2nd to the 14th. As u asked about advice, I will give u some info from my own experience.
For the hostels I use to sleep on dormitories, as I travel alone and love to mix with the local fauna, so my budget goes around 15 to 19 pounds per night max. Regarding transport, I advise to forget about train except if there's no other option. I'd prefer bus by far, if we talk about price matters, of course!... on www.megabus.co.uk you will find some interesting deals (last year I went London to Edinb. for 5 pounds). Regarding Hostels, more or less I didn't had many bad experiences, except for one in Glasgow called Bluesky Backpackers, close to Sauchiehall St.... it's really funny if u want to have a party, but it's the most stinky, dirty, noisy and ugly of all... but well... u can't ask too much for just 9 pounds a night uh? If u stop in Dumfries of course u must stop at Ferintosh... no need to comment too much more about this, as u could read a lot about on many posts here... I simply felt better than at home!

Well... in any case I'd be glad to help on this as much as I can,.... even when it's been long since I could come and stay on the site for more than 30 mins. after reading the usual 3500-4000 posts!...

Anyway,... for those who still remember me...

SALUD!

t o n o

[Peter C.]

Just looking through the results of the poll, it seems I voted but didn't post.

I lived in Scotland as a child, made numerous visits as an adult and hope to take my wife to Scotland and Ireland in the next couple of years.

Peter

[robthehiker]

Me and My wife are planning a Backpacking trip next year. We are going to start in Italy and end up in Scotland. We don’t have all the details planed yet, we just decided to do this about a month ago. So any Scotland suggestions would be appreciated.

My wife and I honeymooned in Scotland in August 2001. We spent the first week in Edinburgh in a B&B on the Royal Mile. It was during the Fringe Festival and it was brilliant.

The second week we did a self-led hike from bottom to top of the Isle of Skye (though not the whole distance). We booked everything through a local outfit who planned each day's hike and booked stays in B&B's for us. They supplied good quality local maps, arranged for local transport and baggage delivery each night. They offered several different routes. One word of warning: on a couple of occasions it took some time to translate the instructions from Scottish to Canadian! Who knew that a "burn" was a "creek"??

We had one of the best meals of our lives at a place called Coruisk House in Elgol on Skye! I highly recommend it. http://www.seafood-skye.co.uk/

They were a few companies offering similar services but the one we used was http://www.scotland-inverness.co.uk/bht-main.htm

Good luck!

[robthehiker]

I just realized how old this thread is!