Canoe & Kayak Hire Great Glen
Active Highs offers canoe hire, sea and touring kayak hire for the Great Glen Canoe Trail, and west coast kayaking locations or inland lochs. Active Highs offers multi-day hire for canoes and kayaks for the Great Glen Canoe Trail and west coast locations. Active Highs is also able to deliver and pick up boats and equipment, and offer a passenger shuttle service (equipment hire customers only).
This service is now operated by In Your Element
Please get in touch to find out more.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Canadian Canoe Hire
1 day: £60 2+ days £50 per day
(Hire for 4 days, get a 5th free)
Canoe hire includes
- Paddles [with spares]
- Buoyancy aids (or life jackets for small children)
- Helmets [if required]
- 60 litre watertight barrel per person or equivalent sized dry bag.
- A portage trolley for every 2 boats hired
- A water bailer
- A laminated map per group
- Free toilet trowel and firepan (on request)
- Fitted buoyancy airbags and painter ropes
- Our canoes are predominantly 16ft Venture Rangers, ideal for multi-day trips on flat or moving water.
- The canoes come with 2 fitted seats, and although they have sufficient room for a third adult or a couple of small children kneeling in the middle, you must bear in mind that, along with the expedition kit, the boat may sit low in the water and put you at risk of being swamped.
Kayak Hire
Sea Kayaks – 1 day: £55 2+ days £43 per day Touring Kayaks – 1 day: £48 2+ days £37 per day
Hire boats for 4 days, get 1 extra day free.
Kayak hire includes
- Paddle
- Buoyancy aid
- Helmets [if required]
- Spray deck
- 2x 40 litre dry bags
- Portage trolley if required
- Laminated map
- Water bailer
Our kayaks are suitable for single-day journeys or multi-day expeditions.
We do not hire kayaks for river journeys.
Optional Extras
Additional equipment that you might need
You may not have your own, or you may not be able to bring it with you, so we can provide the following equipment for you should you need it.
- Additional portage trolleys: £15 per booking
- 5 metre security cables: Free on request
- Inflatable roof rack (for your own car):£15 per booking (Suitable for 1 canoe at a time)
- Midge nets: £7 each to buy
- Laminated maps: £7 per additional map
- Camping, cooking and dining equipment: £18 per person per night (Includes tent, inflatable sleeping mat, stove and fuel, pots, plates, bowls, mugs, cutlery). Note: Sleeping bags are not included.
- Tent and inflatable sleeping mat: £8 per per person per night
- Cooking and eating equipment: £10 per person per night
- Expedition toilet trowel: FREE on request
- Portable Toilet: Particularly important for larger groups to help minimise the impact on local environment – instruction on how to use will be provided. £15 per booking.
- Fire pan: FREE on request (To protect the ground if you intend to have camp fires)
- Canoe sailing kit: £15 per booking
- Cool box (canoe only): £7 per booking
- 10 litre water carriers: £7 per booking
- Canoe/ Kayak Coaching: If you’d like an instructor to spend some time with you on day 1 of your trip, just to make sure you settle in to the trip ok the costs would be £110 for the first 2 hours of your trip or £200 for up to 5 hrs. Please note: 1 instructor for every 10 canoeists or 8 kayakers paddling would be required.
REQUIREMENTS
Although we don’t require any formal paddling qualifications, we are unable to hire out canoes to novice paddlers without a suitably competent leader in the party. Please provide us with more details on your level of experience when you contact us.
Equipment and Passenger Shuttle Service
We can help out with our canoe or kayak and passenger shuttles when you hire equipment from us.This service is only available for equipment hire customers for a minimum of 2 boats for 2 or more days.If you’re looking for a shuttle-only service and don’t need to hire equipment, you could try Highland Yaks, a specialist transport service for locations around Scotland.
You have the option of picking up the equipment yourself
You can pick up the canoes or kayaks from us using your own vehicle and roof rack. You will get 1 canoe or 2 sea kayaks (usually) on a fitted car roof rack safely. If you happen to have J-bars or upright bars, then you may get 2 or 3 kayaks comfortably.
We have an inflatable roof rack available to hire if you don’t have your own roof bars. Our handi-racks are only suitable for 1 boat at a time, and you need to have a 4-door car in order to fit it (using straps through the door frames). The handi-rack is not suitable for carrying tandem kayaks.
Where does our shuttle service operate?
Amongst other places here are some locations:
- Great Glen Canoe Trail
- River Spey
- Loch Ericht
- Loch Quoich
- Loch Shiel
- West Coast of Scotland
Why use our shuttle service?
- We can pick you up from your accommodation, the railway station, bus station or Inverness airport and take you to where you want to go.
- We can meet you at the start point of your boat journey and deliver the equipment to you.
- We can meet you at your intended finish point, where you can leave your vehicles. We’ll then shuttle you to the start point with the equipment to save you another shuttle at the end of the trip.
- We can meet you at the end of the journey and shuttle you back to your vehicles.
- If some of your group have their own boats, we can transport them with the hire equipment (for an additional fee).
LOCATION
We are based close to Inverness, so ideally located to service The Great Glen Canoe Trail and many other locations in the region.
Hire Prices
Canoe Hire Prices
| Length of Hire | Tandem
Open Canoe |
Touring
Kayak |
Sea
Kayak |
Tandem
Kayak |
| 1 Day | £60 | £48 | £55 | £60 |
| 2 days | £100 | £74 | £86 | £100 |
| 3 Days | £150 | £111 | £129 | £150 |
| 4 Days | £200 | £148 | £172 | £200 |
| 5 Days (free day) | £200 | £148 | £172 | £200 |
| 6 days | £250 | £185 | £215 | £250 |
MULTI DAY CANOE HIRE ENQUIRY & BOOKING FORM
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