The people who design your trip are the same people who guide you on the road.
We live in Edinburgh. We travel Scotland year-round. We design your trip and we guide you on the ground. No middleman, no subcontracting, no distant sales team pushing a catalogue.
The people who design your trip are the same people who guide you on the road.
The Kilted Unicorn started with a simple pattern. When friends came to visit us in Scotland, we would spend hours drafting them itineraries, booking the right B&Bs, sketching maps of roads worth taking and roads worth skipping. Every time, the same feedback: "best trip we've ever had". In 2018, Nicolas turned it into a company, TheCampBox Ltd, registered in Edinburgh.
Since then, our team has designed more than 1,500 Scotland itineraries. No two have ever been identical. Every trip starts with a conversation, not a catalogue.
There are hundreds of agencies that sell Scotland. Here is what makes us different from a booking site or a distant call centre.
Our team lives in Edinburgh and travels Scotland every week of the year. We are not a New York or London office selling a country we visit once a year. When you email us, you reach someone who was probably on a Highland road the day before.
The person who plans your itinerary might well be the one at the wheel of your van, or leading you through the closes of Edinburgh's Old Town. There is no handover to a subcontractor. The knowledge stays with the same team from first email to last day.
We do not sell packaged tours off a shelf. Every trip begins with a conversation about who you are, where you want to go, and what pace fits you. In 1,500+ itineraries designed, we have never sent the same one twice.
Between us, five nationalities, three languages, and 40+ years of combined Scotland experience. Four out of six of us are Scottish or work full-time as Edinburgh guides. Every itinerary you receive has been drafted by one of these people.
Nicolas grew up in the south of France and moved to Edinburgh in 2015, meaning to stay for a year. He is still here more than a decade later. A member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, he designs high-end trips for travellers who want more than a coach-and-camera circuit. Behind the wheel of the van, he knows every single-track road worth taking in the Highlands and every B&B that earns a second visit.
Emily is Scottish, speaks fluent French, and travels with children of her own. She knows exactly which castles hold a seven-year-old's attention and which ones test everyone's patience, which hikes work with shorter legs, and where to find a fish and chips shop that keeps the whole family happy. When you travel with children, Emily builds the itinerary at the pace that fits your family.
Alison is Scottish and speaks impeccable French. She is the person we send when a client wants to leave the guidebooks behind. She knows the shortcuts, the beaches with no name on the map, the pubs where the man behind the bar happens to be the village mayor. If your idea of Scotland does not look like any tourist brochure, plan your trip with Alison.
Angelina is a qualified guide who does not just show Edinburgh, she tells it. Every close, every stone, every legend has a story, and she knows them all. On the road through the Highlands, she is as comfortable at the wheel of the van as she is in front of a group. She writes the most detailed itineraries on the team.
Anastassia is our small-group specialist. She has a gift for building rapport between travellers who have never met and turning a fixed route into a shared adventure. Behind the wheel, she finds the photo spot no one else has seen, and knows exactly when to pull over.
Marie designs trips with an attention to detail that borders on obsession. Every stay, every restaurant, every scenic pull-in is chosen for a reason. On her Edinburgh tours, she has a talent for bringing the oldest stories of the Old Town alive. When you send her a request, expect follow-up questions about how you like your coffee in the morning.
About a third of our bookings come from the US and Canada. We have built the way we work around what North American travellers care about: clear jurisdiction, transparent GBP pricing, straight answers on ETA, driving, tipping, and insurance, and one team from your first email to the day you fly home.
Our booking Terms & Conditions include a dedicated Section 14 consent mechanism for US and Canadian clients: a three-stage process with a seven-day post-booking opt-out window at no cost. Personal injury and death are never excluded from your rights, whatever the small print says elsewhere.
We have a dedicated page that answers the questions we hear most often from North American travellers: jurisdiction, payment, UK ETA, driving on the left, tipping, adapters, insurance, and time zones for our calls together.
Our office is on Great Junction Street, in Leith, a fifteen-minute walk from the Royal Yacht Britannia and a short ride from the city centre. This is where the design work happens, in Scottish office hours (GMT / BST), by people who spend the rest of the year on the road across the country.
Company registration, ICO, insurance and certifications are listed on our legal mentions.