Highlander Winter Warmer

HIGHLANDER WINTER WARMER

 

3 – 7 March 2025

Monday – Friday

5 Days

From £439

 

Explore Scotland at its best during the Spring. Newtonmore is quietly nestled at the southern end of the Badenoch & Strathspey within the spectacular Cairngorms National Park.

 

 

HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS

 

Pitlochry   |   Cairngorm National Park   |   Inverness   |   Aviemore   |   Fort William   |   West Highland Museum

 

DAY ONE – Arrival

We depart from your home and travel north to Scotland with comfort stops en route. Arriving at our hotel before dinner this evening.

 

DAY TWO – Pitlochry and Cairngorms National Park

After a leisurely breakfast we’ll head this morning the short distance to Pitlochry, a thriving and busy town, with lots to explore.  We’ll make a stop at the Pitlochry Dam, Fish Ladder and Loch Faskally. The River Tummel was dammed between 1947 and 1952, as part of the Tummel-Garry Hydro Electrification scheme after WWII. This flooded the old Pitlochry Recreation ground where Pitlochry Highland Games were originally held and created Loch Faskally.

 

The scheme was very controversial at the time and suffered with floods and strikes throughout the 4-year building period. The Exhibition at the Visitor Centre has amazing photos and stories from the time and tells the legacy of the “Tunnel Tigers”. The Fish Ladder was built to enable migrating salmon up to their spawning grounds higher upriver and consists of 34 separate pools, each pool has a 1 metre opening below the water level to allow fish to swim upstream into the next level.  We’ll then take a tour of the Cairngorms, before heading back to our hotel with time to relax before dinner this evening.

 

DAY THREE – Inverness and Aviemore

Today we have a scenic drive to Inverness travelling through Aviemore before making our way further north to Inverness the largest city, and the cultural capital of the Highlands. Its old town features the 19th century Inverness Cathedral and an indoor Victorian Market offering a wide range and variety of top-quality products, in a wonderful Victorian style building.

 

DAY FOUR – Fort William and West Highland Museum

This morning we’ll travel west to Fort William passing by Loch Laggan and through Spean Bridge, calling at the iconic Commando Memorial before continuing our journey to Fort William.

 

Here we visit the West Highland Museum, situated on the High Street in the heart of the historic town, The West Highland Museum's collection tell the story of the region and its history. The most renowned and unusual collection relates to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite cause. But the museum also holds a wealth of curious and fascinating collections relating to less well-known aspects of the lives of the people of the West Highlands, from the effects of political warfare to the economic impact of tourism in the region, and the coming of the industrial and modern age. We later return to our hotel with time to relax before dinner this evening.

 

DAY FIVE – Departure

After breakfast this morning we leave our hotel and make our journey home with comfort stops en route.

 

YOUR HOLIDAY INCLUDES

• Luxury coach travel

• Home pick-up

• 4 nights accommodation, dinner & breakfast

• Porterage on arrival and departure

• Tea / coffee after dinner each evening

• Glass of wine with dinner on first and last night

• Afternoon tea/coffee and cake or shortbread on 1 day

• Live musical entertainment on a minimum on 1 or 2 nights (subject to numbers)

• Hotel in-house entertainment on 1 night.

 

HIGHLANDER HOTEL, NEWTONMORE

Set within Cairngorm National Park, the Highlander Hotel is set in the village of Newtonmore. The hotel has an on-site restaurant, bar, and lounge. All rooms are en- suite with walk-in showers, TV, hairdryer, tea/coffee making and free toiletries. Free WiFi is available throughout the hotel. All rooms have walk in showers.

GROUP BOOKINGS

Looking to take a group, if you book 20 places or more on this tour the tour organiser will go Free of Charge.

YOUR HOLIDAY INCLUDES

Luxury coach travel

Home pick-up

4 nights accommodation, dinner & breakfast

Porterage on arrival and departure

Tea / coffee after dinner each evening

Glass of wine with dinner on first and last night

Afternoon tea/coffee and cake or shortbread on 1 day

Live musical entertainment on a minimum on 1 or 2 nights (subject to numbers)

Hotel in-house entertainment on 1 night.

 

HIGHLANDER HOTEL, NEWTONMORE

Set within Cairngorm National Park, the Highlander Hotel is set in the village of Newtonmore. The hotel has an on-site restaurant, bar, and lounge. All rooms are en- suite with walk-in showers, TV, hairdryer, tea/coffee making and free toiletries. Free WiFi is available throughout the hotel. All rooms have walk in showers.

 

GROUP BOOKINGS

Looking to take a group, if you book 20 places or more on this tour the tour organiser will go Free of Charge.

 

HOTEL SYMBOLS

TV, tea making facilities, hairdryer, Wi-Fi.

 

DAYS	TOUR DATE	DEPARTS	TERMS	SUPPLEMENT
5	3 - 7 MAR 2025	MONDAY	£439	NONE
JONES HOLIDAYS INSURANCE			£27.28

 

 

 

Rooms are allocated on a first come first served basis and are limited. If no single supplement applies this is limited to the tour single room allocation and therefore additional cost may apply.  Prices displayed are per person unless otherwise stated. If door-to-door pick-up is included there may be additional charges for out of area. Itineraries and hotel inclusions may be subject to change. Covid-19 restrictions may apply. When making bookings you accept on behalf of yourself and your party the terms in our Trading Charter which can be found in our brochure, on our website at http://www.jonesholidays.co.uk/Jones-holidays-trading-charter, or a copy can be requested from our Sales office.  If your holiday is more than 56 days from departure, we offer a 7-day cooling off period where a full refund will be offered from the date of the initial confirmation invoice (with the exception of flight holidays).

Highlander Hotel Aviemore Fort William West Highland Museum