Information and Booking

Isle of Jura from the isle of Islay

General Information

Availability
You can find the latest availability of our guided walking holidays here.

Booking with 4 or more
If our dates don't suit or the week is already full and you want to book with 4 or more people, please contact us at info@aboutargyll.co.uk.

Accommodation
You will stay in carefully selected B&B's, guest houses or hotels. Double and twin rooms will have an en suite or private bathroom. In some places, if you are staying in a single room, you will share the bathroom with 1 or 2 other rooms.

Single rooms
A limited number of single rooms is available on all our holidays at a supplement. There will be no supplement if you are willing to share a twin room - with 2 single beds - with another member of the group of the same gender. This will always be a room with an en suite bathroom.
Please note that only few B&Bs have single rooms. This means that if you book closer to the start of the holiday, we might not be able to get a single room and need to charge extra for single occupancy of the double or twin room. We will always let you know in advance if this is the case.

Medical Conditions
Please let us know, in confidence, of any conditions from which you suffer which may affect your safety in remote areas. These include vertigo and diabetes. Please consult your doctor if in any doubt.

What you need
You will need to bring boots with a good tread and adequate ankle support, warm clothing, waterproofs (top and over-trousers) and a rucksack big enough for your spare clothes, a packed lunch and whatever else you normally like to have with you (binoculars, a camera, etc.). Boots are especially important. They don't have to be particularly heavy, but wearing lightweight ones may mean your feet get wet. Hiking and walking shoes or trainers definitely aren't adequate nor, on some of the rougher and steeper going, however short it may be, are they safe.

Information before departure
You will receive information about meeting time/place, your accommodation, other members of the group and details of the holiday, 3-4 weeks before the start.

Insurance
We carry Public Liability insurance. In addition, we very strongly recommend that you take out your own travel insurance to cover personal accident, cancellation etc. You will need to get your insurance in the country you are living in and if you take out cancellation insurance, you should get it when you book your holiday.

Protecting your payments
About Argyll Walking Holidays provides protection for all your payments, in conformity with EC regulations, through a Trust Fund in which your payments are held until your holiday is completed. You will find more details about it in our booking conditions.

Smoking
By law smoking is not allowed in public places. This means that all B&Bs, hotels, retaurants and bars in Scotland are non-smoking. We also don't allow smoking in our minibuses.

Minimum number of participants
Four clients is the minimum number for our holidays to go ahead. In the event of us having to cancel through insufficient numbers, we will let you know at least 42 days before the start and we will offer you an alternative holiday. If the alternative does not suit you, we will refund in full all money paid.
The minimum number of participants for our self-guided holidays is two.
There is no minimum number for private guided itineraries.

Isle of Arran, Western Hills

Booking your walking holiday

Once you have read the booking conditions, please go to our online booking form or download a booking form and booking conditions.

Your booking should be accompanied with a deposit of GBP100 per person (luxury walking tour GBP150 per person, self-guided GBP50 per person, private guided itinerary 10% of the holiday cost). If you book on line, please send the form by clicking the 'Submit form' button. If you don't pay by debit or credit card, make sure you pay the deposit by cheque or bank transfer.

Method of payment
We accept payment by:

• MasterCard, UK Maestro and Visa debit or credit card
• Cheques
  Please make payable to About Argyll Walking Holidays.
• Bank transfer.
  Please pay to 'About Argyll Walking Holidays', account number 00197090, at the Royal Bank of Scotland plc, 70 John Street, Dunoon, Argyll, PA23 8BL, sort code 83-18-17. The Bank Swift-address is RBOS GB 2L and the IBAN is GB72 RBOS 8318 1700 1970 90.
  If sending payment from abroad, please ensure that all bank and other charges on the transaction are paid at your end so that the correct amount is received by us.

Safeguarding your payments
Your deposits and all other payments will be lodged in the 'In-Trust About Argyll Walking Holidays' account, where they are protected by the independent trustees of Accountability Kilmun until after you have taken your holiday.

Go to our online booking form
or
Download a booking form and booking conditions