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Inverness & Skye - Does this sound reasonable?

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Our group of five will be in Scotland for a week. The trip planning is a bit of a struggle because we will be attending a wedding in the middle of our trip which limited some of our travel options. I would appreciate a review and suggestions regarding our current plan. All of our lodging is already booked. We will have a rental car.

Monday
Arrive Inverness 2:35 pm
Check-in airbnb
Get a few groceries (breakfast/snack)
Go to dinner
Sleep

Tuesday
Culloden - purchase premium tickets for guided tour
Loch Ness - would like to do a boat tour

Wednesday
Check out of airbnb by 10am - need to figure out where we could store luggage for a few hours
Explore Inverness - need suggestions
Transportation to Achnagairn Estate, check-in at 4pm (transportation arranged for wedding guests)
Highland Games and Hog Roast for wedding guests

Thursday
Attend wedding

Friday
Drive from Achnagairn Estate to Isle of Skye
Eilean Donan Castle
Fairy Pools
Airbnb located at Caroy Bay

Saturday
Duvegan Castle
Skye Museum of Island Life
Portree
Return to Airbnb at Caroy Bay

Sunday
Neist Point
Old Man of Storr
Quiraing
Fairy Glenn
Check in to The Cowshed Boutique Bunkhouse (Uig)

Monday
Drive back to Inverness
Tea at Culloden House (open to other suggestions for tea)
Check in to hotel near Inverness airport

Tuesday
Depart early morning

Notes: We are staying at two different places in the Skye area because my daughter really wanted to stay at The Cowshed (she stayed previously) but only one night was available. The places we most want to visit are Culloden, the Fairy Pools, Quiraing, and Old Man of Storr. Those are determined by my daughter who was in Scotland last year and wants the rest of us to see them. I would really like to experience an afternoon tea.

I would appreciate your feedback as well as suggestions on changes, other things we should plan to do, and places to eat in both Inverness and Skye. We would be most interested in moderately priced restaurants. My teenager is a somewhat picky eater and does not like fish. We enjoy the outdoors, historical places, and a little shopping.

Thank you for any help.

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I think you should put Neist Point and Dunvegan Castle on the same day, and put the Skye Museum on the day you are up that way doing the Quiraing.

On Skye, we only attempted two destinations per day. Between the lengthy driving times and working around the weather, we didn't accomplish much more than that (we stayed five nights).

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While in Uig, try to visit the local ceramic/pottery store for lovely handmade artistic bowls, teacups, mugs, etc.

https://www.uigpottery.co.uk/

For recommended restaurants in Inverness, the Mustard Seed is excellent (reservations required). I also enjoyed my first meat pie at Hootenanny.

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All sounds reasonable apart from you need to switch Museum of Island Life with Neist Point. Have a squint at a map and you will see why! Neist is out west beyond Dunvegan (allow a good 45 minutes to get there from the castle). While the museum of island life is up beyond Uig on the far north of the Trotternish peninsula.

Best wishes
Jacqui (Skyegirl)

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I agree with Linda’s recommendation of the Mustard Seed restaurant in Inverness.

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Thank you for the responses.

I agree that changing the day we visit the Museum of Island Life makes sense but the information I could find shows that the museum is closed on Sunday. Given the rest of the planned trip, Saturday is the only time we would be able to visit. The lodging my daughter most was to spend at least one night at The Cowshed. The only night available for all of us to stay there was on Sunday night. I wish the museum was open on Sunday but we will either have to do the extra driving or skip it.

I am sharing information about the other recommendations with the rest of my family and hope to make those work.

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