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Back Brae Lodge, Tobermory, Island of Mull, Argyll, Scotland UK

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After reserving your holiday, remember to organise your route and car ferry crossings. For ferry timetable and booking information see the Caledonian MacBrayne website, and the Lochaber Transport website for the Corran ferry.

For planning car travel within Mull and around Ardnamurchan and Morvern, please remember that journey times on single track roads can be significantly longer than you may be used to! As an example, the trip from Tobermory to Fionnphort (60 miles) for the Iona ferry can often take the best part of one-and-a-half hours. Please always allow following vehicles to pass on single track roads.

Oban (mainland Argyll) to Craignure (on Mull). These sailings can fill up several weeks in advance in the summer season, so book in advance. This is the longest crossing (45 minutes) but is the largest ferry and most popular route from the south. If you are travelling from Edinburgh or Glasgow the quickest way is via Tyndrum, however from Glasgow (and Loch Lomond) a more scenic route goes through Inverary. A good time to allow for travel to Oban from central Edinburgh or Glasgow is three and a half hours - remember also that you must be at the Oban ferry terminal at least 30 minutes before departure.
Lochaline (mainland Morvern) to Fishnish (on Mull). To reach Lochaline, travel across the short car ferry between Corran Ferry (south of Fort William) and Ardgour (Morvern). Neither of these ferries are bookable, just turn up in good time. The Lochaline ferry involves the shortest crossing time to Mull (15 minutes), but is a longer drive from Tyndrum than the Oban route - however taking mileage and all ferry tickets into account, for an average car it is comparable in overall travel cost. You have the opportunity to travel across the scenic Rannoch Moor, and through dramatic Glencoe before crossing the Morvern peninsula.
Kilchoan (Ardnamurchan) to Tobermory (on Mull). This is another non-bookable service (35 minutes), also via Corran Ferry, and with more beautiful scenery going through Strontian and then the Ardnamurchan Peninsula & Loch Sunart. This route involves 30 miles (45 mins) more driving than the Lochaline route, but brings you right into the heart of Tobermory and less than 100 metres from Back Brae Lodge.
You can now also travel to Tobermory with Loch Lomond Seaplanes from the Clyde - around £180 each way!