Experience · The Highlands and islands

An exclusive-use estate

A house, a cook and the hill to yourselves.

A whole Highland or island estate house for a family or a group of friends.

Loch Muick in autumn, birches turning gold under low cloud
Loch Muick, Deeside

About this experience

In the house.

For a family or a group of friends, a whole house on a Highland or island estate is the best way to see Scotland: a cook, a ranger, a ghillie, and a hill or a shore that is yours for the week.

Stalking and shooting happen on many estates in season. We never assume themverify. We plan walking, wildlife, fishing, boats and long dinners instead, and add stalking only if you ask.

We match the estate to the group: the age range, how far you’ll drive, whether you want a boat or a river. Then the staff, the meals and the days out. See Estates for how it works.

Routes

Routes built around it.

Real routes that include this experience. Each is tailored to your dates.

All routes
Loch Muick in autumn, birches turning gold under low cloud
Loch Muick, Deeside

6–8 nights · Edinburgh · Deeside · Speyside

Estate and pinewood

One estate · One river · The sleeper home

  • Two nights in Edinburgh
  • A whole estate house with a cook, a ranger and a ghillie
  • The Caledonian pinewood at Rothiemurchus or Glen Tanar
  • Speyside, and the sleeper south from Aviemore

Suggested6–8 nightsTailored to your dates · no package price

View route: Estate and pinewood

Where

The regions it belongs to.

Golden dune grass and shell sand on Harris, with a sea loch and bare hills behind
Isle of Harris

Outer Hebrides

Lewis and Harris

White beaches on the west side, bare rock on the east, and standing stones older than the pyramids.

Tobermory's painted harbour front on Mull under grey cloud, the bay flat calm
Tobermory, Isle of Mull

Inner Hebrides

Mull and Iona

White-tailed eagles, Fingal’s Cave on Staffa and the white sand of Iona.

A path through tall Scots pines with flowering heather in the Cairngorms
Cairngorms National Park, near Aviemore

The Highlands

The Cairngorms and Speyside

Old Caledonian pinewood, Royal Deeside and the distilleries of the Spey.

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Make it part of the trip.

We arrange it as part of a whole trip, with the crossings, the houses and the spare day it needs.

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