Canoe & Kayak Hire Shuttle Services
Who can use the In Your Element shuttle service?
This service is only available to equipment hire customers.
For multi-day bookings, we accept requests for 2 or more boats.
For single-day hire bookings, we will only offer the shuttle service for a minimum of 5 boats (May to September) when we are at our busiest. We may be able to offer the shuttle service for fewer boats at other times of the year.
If you’re looking for a shuttle-only service and don’t need to hire equipment, you should try Highland Yaks, a specialist transport service for locations around Scotland.
Can I collect the equipment and transport it myself?
Yes. 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 on comfortably.
We have an inflatable roof rack available to hire if you don’t have your own roof bars. Our inflatable 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.
Reserved equipment can be collected from In Your Element, 14 Cabrich, Inverness, IV5 7PH or from In Your Element, Rothiemurchus, Aviemore, PH22 1QT, depending on where you intend to go paddling. All hire equipment must be booked in advance.
Please note that we do not hire out our canoe/ kayak trailers.
Where does our shuttle service operate?
Amongst other places here are some locations:
- Great Glen Canoe Trail
- River Spey
- Loch Tay and River Tay
- Loch Ericht (Dalwhinnie)
- Loch Quoich
- Loch Shiel
- Loch Moidart
- Moray Coast
- West Coast of Scotland
- Summer Isles and many more places.
Why use the In Your Element 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).
