A private Scottish Borders tour in a luxury minivan, with real Traquair House and Scott's View.
A private tour for your group only, in a genuine luxury minivan, to Rosslyn Chapel, Traquair House, and Scott's View.
This is a private tour for your group only, in a real luxury minivan with a local guide. Real stops include Rosslyn Chapel, Traquair House, and Scott's View.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Edinburgh.
A real, genuine historic Scottish home.
A real, scenic Borders viewpoint.
8 hours, just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, in a genuine luxury minivan, to Rosslyn Chapel, Traquair House, and Scott's View. This is a private tour for your group only, in a real luxury minivan with a local guide. Real stops include Rosslyn Chapel, Traquair House, and Scott's View.
Traquair House has a real, well-documented claim to being the oldest continuously inhabited house in Scotland. A substantial building already stood here by 1107, when King Alexander I signed a royal charter at Traquair, and the house served for centuries afterward as a royal hunting lodge and a seat for dispensing justice. The Crown held it until 1478, when it passed to a branch of the royal Stuart family — whose descendants still live there today — and the house reached its current form in 1695, with the addition of the side wings, courtyard, and front terraces.
Traquair's Jacobite history is just as real. The 5th Earl hosted Prince Charles Edward Stuart here during the 1745 uprising, and after the Prince departed, the Earl reportedly closed the estate's main gates, now known as the Bear Gates, and vowed they wouldn't reopen until a Stuart king was crowned in London. No Stuart monarch ever was, and the gates remain closed to this day, a genuine three-century-old promise rather than a decorative story.
Scott's View, the tour's other real stop, is a genuine favourite viewpoint of the novelist Sir Walter Scott, looking west across the Tweed Valley to the three peaks of the Eildon Hills. The popular story that his funeral cortège paused here in 1832 so his horses could instinctively give him one last look at the view is only partly accurate — the procession genuinely did pass this way en route to his burial at Dryburgh Abbey, though by some accounts the stop itself was simply an accident rather than an act of equine memory.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.