“While preparing for our first visit to Scotland, a family trip with our daughters (9,12) to discover my wife’s Scottish roots, I came across Alastair Cunningham of Clans and Castles, a company that specializes in creating customized itineraries for visitors to Scotland. It promised that all we had to do was book the flights and Alastair would look after the rest based on our needs and special interests, which ranged from my wife’s genealogical interests, our kids dietary aversion to haggis, to my need for a comfortable bed and good whisky! Without a shred of doubt, Alastair’s service has been invaluable in terms of creating an exciting itinerary with special arrangements that we could not have imagined without his extensive local knowledge and broad contacts relating to clans, castles and all other matters we have raised. He has gone the extra mile! It has been a real pleasure dealing with Alastair who is consummate professional. He has taken away all the worries of a planning a family trip to a new destination by skilfully honing an overwhelming choice of sites and lodgings into nine sensibly planned days. I am still waiting to see if he can fulfil my last request for the traffic flow to switch sides while we are there, but I won’t be surprised if he manages that as well! ”