Scotland

Arriving from the UK.

Scotland can be reached from the rest of the UK by many National Rail services. There are also economy and scheduled flights from throughout the UK to various airports in Scotland. Finally, National Express run a coach every day from London and intermediate destinations to Edinburgh.

Arriving from the rest of the world.

From the rest of the Europe and the world, scheduled and economy flights run to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Prestwick airports. Other airports such as Aberdeen and Inverness also have regular scheduled flights to a few destinations. Fly Globespan in particular are actually based in Scotland, and fly to various British and European destinations from Glasgow and Edinburgh airports.

For those wishing to avoid flying, ferries run from various Baltic sea and Scandinavian destinations to Aberdeen and the Shetlands. More realistically there is a daily (3 times/week in the off-season) ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Rossyth near Edinburgh run by Superfast Ferries. Finally, DFDS run nightly services from Amsterdam to Newcastle, with good train connections to Edinburgh and the rest of Scotland.

Further details can be found in the sections of the website dedicated to specific destinations in Scotland, and by using our route planner.