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Tours - Excursions |
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Walking
tours
The Scottish Tourist
Guides Association (telephone/fax: (01786) 447 784 or 451 953)
offers guides who give walking tours of the city or the surrounding
area. Tours must be pre-booked . Itineraries and meeting points
are flexible. Glasgow Guides (telephone: (01355)
302986) also provides guides who can be booked for city tours.
Some other operators include Mercat
Tours (telephone/fax: (0141) 586 5378; fax: (0141) 586 5378;
email: info@mercat-glasgow.co.uk),
with a 90-minute ‘Horror Walking Tour’
daily at 19:30 (May-October).
Bus Tours
Open-top bus tours covering the main attractions are offered all
year round by Scotguide
(telephone: (0141) 204 0444; fax: (0141) 248 6582). The ‘Glasgow
Tour’ costs £7.50 (concessions are available)
and tickets are valid for 48 hours, so passengers can hop on and
off along the route, which sets off from George Square.
April to October, Guide
Friday (telephone: (0141) 248 7644) offers a one-day hop-on,
hop-off ticket for £7.50.
The Charles
Rennie Mackintosh Society (telephone: (0141) 946 6600; fax:
(0141) 945 2321) has various weekend coach tours of the city and
its surrounds, visiting all of the buildings associated with the
architect.
Boat Tours
The P
S Waverley (telephone: (0845) 130 4647; fax: (0141) 248 2150),
the world’s last sea-going paddle steamer,
is a good way to explore the Firth of Clyde. Tours can be anything
between one hour and 40 minutes to 16 hours. Departures are from
the Waverley Terminal, Anderson Quay (June-August only).
Excursions for half day
Loch Lomond
Britain’s largest fresh water lake captures the Scottish landscape
in microcosm. Loch
Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Scotland’s first
national park, is located some 20km or 12 miles northwest of Glasgow.
Balloch is the town on Loch Lomond
and is reachable by train from Queen Street station (low level).
The Balloch
Tourist Information Office (telephone: (01389) 753 533), open
from April to October, has further information.
Excursions
for a whole day
New Lanark
Nominated as a World Heritage Site, thistown is the realisation
of idealistic social planning during the Industrial Age. Founded
in 1785, near the Falls of Clyde, this cotton-spinning village has
been restored as a community and visitor attraction, with one of
the mills converted into a hotel.
The New Lanark
Visitor Centre (telephone: (01555) 661 345) has displays and
the ‘New Millennium Experience’ ride
– the £4.75 entrance fee (concessions are available)
includes access to four other buildings on the site. Trains run
from Glasgow Central station (low level) to Lanark, where buses
are available to New Lanark.
The Lanark Tourist Information Centre, Horsemarket,
Ladyacre (telephone: (01555) 661 661; email lanark@seeglasgow.com),
open from May to September and provides more information, including
bus timetables and fares.
Edinburgh
Located approximately 50km or 31 miles east of Glasgow, it is less
than one hour away by train. This great Scottish city and rival
of Glasgow is famous for its castle and riotous Hogmanay revelries
to bring in the new year. The Edinburgh
and Scotland Information Centre, 2 Princes Street (telephone:
(0131) 473 3800; fax: (0131) 473 3881; email: esic@eltd.org)
provides information and is open Monday-Saturday 09:00-17:00 (open
later in summer). See the Edinburgh
city guide for more details.
Glasgow
Pure Dead Brilliant Tours - Glasgow’s Premier Tour Provider.
If you are planning a sightseeing visit, walking tour, vehicle tour,
mini-break or holiday to the Glasgow and Edinburgh areas and want
to find out what the city offers for your particular interests,
contact us for information on booking a guided tour, prices and
tour availability. Pure Dead Brilliant Tours hass a combination
of walking tours vehicle tours depending on your tastes and fitness
levels. Both our walking and vehicle tours run 7 days a week. Group
bookings and coach tours our speciality.
Website : www.puredeadbrillianttours.com
E -mail : info@puredeadbrillianttours.com
Tel: +44 (0) 141 585 3074 |
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