Scotland by Rail - Escorted Holidays

“A really well run holiday using trains and coaches to tour many interesting areas of western Scotland. 4 of 5 nights spent in a lovely rural hotel , well placed for the touring undertaken,providing excellant breakfasts and 3 couse dinners. Well informed tour guide on hand with lots of useful detail.

“Had a great time, food was lovely in all hotels, trips were very organised, we do fancy going on some trips that are abroad with rail discoveries and after the trip we have just been on would definitely book again with rail discoveries. Maggie our tour operator was very helpful, friendly, knowledgeable, very enjoyable trip.

“Magnificent scenery, loved the Jacobite railway

“Good hotel,great Edinburgh guide,good trips,especially the Jacobite express,the highland wildlife park…strathspey railway was a bit of anticlimax….Julie,a very Good guide was very attentive and informative…..one point I did make to her was when we were getting on the train and the seats were reserved was that she said just get on the train and find a seat instead of telling which seats were allocated to each person.This could have meant a party of 4 being left with one person of the four being left to a seat of their own and would have saved any arguments who was sitting where.She did agree when I made this observation to her……I book a lot with rail discoveries but I think a useful tip would be for all guides to odopt a policy of stating that on coach trips please keep to your same seats as you started the day with as on one trip other travellers had removed our bag (left on coach)with driver present so when we got back on board we didn’t know which seats were vacant and bag was placed on other travellers seat….I am a leader of a walking group and also book group tours with yourselves and Riviera Travel and they use the above policy and it works very well,and saves any rushing or arguments about someone pinching someone else’s seat…..Overall a great experience but would improve a lot if the little niggles were taken out by more allocation work done by the guide,ie sitting parties or couples together on trains and coaches as some of these journeys are of a long duration