text: This tour group deserves a post but for the wrong reasonnnWe booked a DN LOCH NESS INVERNESS AND THE HIGHLANDS tour from DEC for my partner and I and we were assigned to Steve on the day we left nd The tour can be simply described as a bus ride up to Loch Ness and back Where most tour guides would make the difference between a proper tour ie explanations about the history geology etc and a bus ride For someone who kept harping on punctuality and timelines Steve showed up late we were all ready by am while Steve showed up at am While it is good to remind the less considerate tourists on timelines Steve overdid it including jokes which can easily be interpreted as threats to some on leaving people behind While the weather was partly to blame for the lacklustre itinerary Steve seem more interested in getting us to watch the Clansman Show held at the Clansman Centre and the Dalwhinnie Distillery Tour In particular for the Scottish show held at the Clansman Centre Steve collected GBP from everyone Apparently no price difference for adults and children What was interesting was that there we spotted not one but two signs which GBP for adults GBP for children GBP for a family of adults and children see photo Dishonesty I leave that for you to decide When asked by an Indian family with a year old kid if there was a child rate for a subsequent tour in the Loch Ness Exhibition he simply replied I cannot tell how old he is when it was clear to everyone he was a kid Some of the remarks he passed were extremely rude and borderline racist in nature When asked by the same family if they could have five more minutes from his suggested timeline of minutes as they need time to order food his reply was in this country we have stipulated time breaks Comments about Indians being very laid back about timelines were also not appreciated and as a fellow Asian I felt that those comments were extremely inappropriate nnIn summary what we got was essentially an overpriced bus ride by a grumpy driver who took us to Loch Ness boat tour at our own expense with some photo stops along the way a mysteriously priced clansman show at our own expense a distillery tour at our own expense you get the picture While the bad weather played it is part in severely reducing the activities originally planned for Steve did little to help Ask for anybody but Steve especially if you are Asian You may and probably be a lot better off with other guides or even tour companies