Scotland Grantour 2025
MAY 2025
Scotland is one of the most beautiful countries anywhere, especially the North West Coast. Several years ago, the Tourist Board realised they should capitalise on this with a ‘North Coast 500’ drive – a mostly magnificent route that will partially embrace for our Grantour. But this has the Club Mulholland style that ensures it will eclipse any previous drive you’ve done in this beautiful country. This event was actually scheduled for May 2020, but an unscheduled pandemic put paid to those plans. For 2024, we are ready to try again!
You can either meet us at the hotel for Day 1 by driving up - or by transporting your car. If you choose the latter, we will organise everything for you much as we do for our European Grantour’s - except this is more cost effective as we aren’t needing to pay for the EU paperwork! We have made the starting point close to Edinburgh and Glasgow so you can take the train, fly in, or drive - and we will finish here too. You can get there by train in five hours from London, or from Glasgow or Edinburgh by car in an hour which makes it convenient to access and it’s also a great location to spend some time.
Gleneagles is set in 850 acres of prime Perthshire countryside, just where the Highlands begin. Hire some golf clubs, take a dip, book a treatment or just go to the bar (we hear the whiskey in Scotland is quite good?) - whatever your choice, enjoy yourself and be ready to drive tomorrow.
Let’s drive. It’s a decent start time (08:30am), because we have 260 miles to cover today and head North West towards the coast and Shieldaig Lodge. There roads today take us via Fort William, Applecross and Fearnmore. The sea water of Gairloch ripples onto the seaweed-strewn beach that fronts this Highlands lodge. Sink into a leather sofa in one of the snug lounges with a whiskey menu and you might never leave. But before you can find your spot overlooking Gairloch, we have to drive the roads, and they are beautiful – today we will have a little over 7 hours of driving fun.
On Day 3, we will cross the Kylesku Bridge and get that famous EVO magazine picture. These are the roads that the car magazines come to drive and today you will see why. Lunch is at our most northerly point, the Peatstacks restaurant at Mackays serves remarkably good, locally-sourced produce and you might find Kinloch smoked venison, Loch Eriboll langoustines, or beef reared at nearby Thurdistoft Farm on the menu. Don’t eat too much though as after lunch our destination is the beautiful Boath House, but first we have some more great roads. Arguably, these are the finest roads in Scotland that we will enjoy today.
Last full day of driving today. We have 160 miles to cover which will take around four hours. Some great roads before we get to Edinburgh and load the cars back on to the transporter. This final stretch of roads has been featured in Curves Magazin by Stefan Brogner and promises to be a very special final drive. When we get there, we are confident that you will have had a week of driving that you won’t forget.
We finish at the Edinburgh The George and there’s nothing stuffy about Edinburgh’s oldest hotel; it does classy/contemporary on a grand scale throughout. With a cool coffee shop, bar and brasserie-style restaurant and impressively up-to-date bedrooms and suites, most of what might have been lost in old-fashioned character is gained in style.
After five days, three of which have had some magnificent driving for over 650 miles, it will have been a Grantour to remember.
MAY 2025
Scotland is one of the most beautiful countries anywhere, especially the North West Coast. Several years ago, the Tourist Board realised they should capitalise on this with a ‘North Coast 500’ drive – a mostly magnificent route that will partially embrace for our Grantour. But this has the Club Mulholland style that ensures it will eclipse any previous drive you’ve done in this beautiful country. This event was actually scheduled for May 2020, but an unscheduled pandemic put paid to those plans. For 2024, we are ready to try again!
You can either meet us at the hotel for Day 1 by driving up - or by transporting your car. If you choose the latter, we will organise everything for you much as we do for our European Grantour’s - except this is more cost effective as we aren’t needing to pay for the EU paperwork! We have made the starting point close to Edinburgh and Glasgow so you can take the train, fly in, or drive - and we will finish here too. You can get there by train in five hours from London, or from Glasgow or Edinburgh by car in an hour which makes it convenient to access and it’s also a great location to spend some time.
Gleneagles is set in 850 acres of prime Perthshire countryside, just where the Highlands begin. Hire some golf clubs, take a dip, book a treatment or just go to the bar (we hear the whiskey in Scotland is quite good?) - whatever your choice, enjoy yourself and be ready to drive tomorrow.
Let’s drive. It’s a decent start time (08:30am), because we have 260 miles to cover today and head North West towards the coast and Shieldaig Lodge. There roads today take us via Fort William, Applecross and Fearnmore. The sea water of Gairloch ripples onto the seaweed-strewn beach that fronts this Highlands lodge. Sink into a leather sofa in one of the snug lounges with a whiskey menu and you might never leave. But before you can find your spot overlooking Gairloch, we have to drive the roads, and they are beautiful – today we will have a little over 7 hours of driving fun.
On Day 3, we will cross the Kylesku Bridge and get that famous EVO magazine picture. These are the roads that the car magazines come to drive and today you will see why. Lunch is at our most northerly point, the Peatstacks restaurant at Mackays serves remarkably good, locally-sourced produce and you might find Kinloch smoked venison, Loch Eriboll langoustines, or beef reared at nearby Thurdistoft Farm on the menu. Don’t eat too much though as after lunch our destination is the beautiful Boath House, but first we have some more great roads. Arguably, these are the finest roads in Scotland that we will enjoy today.
Last full day of driving today. We have 160 miles to cover which will take around four hours. Some great roads before we get to Edinburgh and load the cars back on to the transporter. This final stretch of roads has been featured in Curves Magazin by Stefan Brogner and promises to be a very special final drive. When we get there, we are confident that you will have had a week of driving that you won’t forget.
We finish at the Edinburgh The George and there’s nothing stuffy about Edinburgh’s oldest hotel; it does classy/contemporary on a grand scale throughout. With a cool coffee shop, bar and brasserie-style restaurant and impressively up-to-date bedrooms and suites, most of what might have been lost in old-fashioned character is gained in style.
After five days, three of which have had some magnificent driving for over 650 miles, it will have been a Grantour to remember.