Originally Posted by
Tripping William
Homeboy graduates from high school next May (yikes!). Wants a senior trip to Scotland, centered on golf, of course (ha!). Mrs. Tripping wants to add Ireland. DBR travel experts: Your best advice for accomplishing this (at a reasonable price) is kindly solicited. TIA (as the kids say)!
Know something about golf and have traveled more than a bit in Europe, although I have not traveled in Scotland. You may wish to talk with a private tour group, such as https://www.golfconciergescotland.com/.
Our last trip to Spain and Portugal, we arranged for a private tour -- which meant people met us at the RR and airports and took care of the logistics. We also had private tour guides in each of six cities for a few hours. Otherwise, we were on our own -- with great hotels. It was terrific -- and it also prevented me from my greatest errors in Europe -- all of them beginning with, "We'll rent a car."
I expect there is something similar in Scotland involving golf and other sightseeing and -- certainly -- in Ireland.
Sage Grouse
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