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River Tubing
£55
A slightly more gentle alternative to our white water river tubing designed for families with younger children. This is still a White Water activity, same location and rapids as the ww tubing, just run at a slower speed and as shorter session for families with younger kids.
Running rapids and floating down a beautiful clear mountain river on the specially designed river tubes.
Expert guides and lots of great gear ensures everyone has a safe and fun trip.
Our River Tubing is designed for families or those wanting the excitement of our Adventure ‘White Water’ Tubing activity but with younger children or just a gentler experience in mind.
We still use the same great venues as on our ‘adventure white water river tubing’, we just take things a little slower and have easier options on all the sections of the run.
In our experience smaller kids love rapids even more than adults, and are usually better at it!
We get loads of feedback from people saying this is so much fun it’s the best thing they have done on their holidays, and they come back year after year.
You’ll experience stunning mountain views of the Cairngorms, having a chance to spot local wildlife before running the fun natural water shoots and rapids as the river descents through it’s forested highland glen.
All our activities are, ‘challenge by choice’, which means you always have the choice to walk around any parts you think look to ‘full on’ and still enjoy the rest of the session. Our guides brief you before each rapid.
Please note as part of keeping you safe we reserve the right to change this activity to alternative equivalent activity in-order to still run activities if for example we have heavy rain fall and the river rises to be too high for tubing. Luckily our Canyon/Gorge activity unlike the tubing river, has a dam controlling the flows, so often we can still go there instead of the tubing if the levels are too high for safety on the tubing activity. The Canyon/gorge is an excellent activity which everyone loves, so not one is ever disappointed once they have done that instead and we do a free upgrade to this more expensive activity, with no extra charge to you. Very rarely we might have to cancel or reschedule, if all venues are flooded, but we always make the decision based on safety and best practice. Due to the nature of Scottish weather we are not able to give advance warning of this change until you arrive at our base as we literally cannot be sure of the levels until the 30minutes prior to the activity.
Additional information
Minimum age
8
Location
Aviemore
Skill Level
Novice
FAQs
Is river tubing available all year? We don’t normally run the activity in the winter months November to end of March and then April is weather dependent. May to end Oct is the main season. We do have the best rivers in Scotland for River tubing and White Water Adventure Tubing.
Whats the difference between Adventure Tubing and River Tubing? It’s the same venues we just take it at a slower pace on the ‘river tubing’ activity to allow for younger children and adults wanting a easier experience. Take your time walking up to the top of the river, always have easier options for bits that look too exciting for you, although generally that’s not the kids who want the easier option. Both activities have the option to included at no extra cost pool jumping but obviously on the easier version there are some nice easy step off jumps that are not scary and easy for first timers. But if you want to do cliff jumping from higher you still can on the river tubing activity. Note we only use safe cliff and pool jumps that have been checked carefully to ensure they are deep and safe to jump into and we only do it with the best safety equipment on.
‘Adventure River Tubing’ is our maximum White Water and high excitment version of the activity, more exciting than White Water Rafting and although completely unique it could be described as a cross between Canyoning and WW Rafting. Aimed at Adults or adventurous families (12yrs+) we walk up to the top of the Rapids quickly and get on with an amazing White Water high excitment activity, you can repeat the best bits and so you’ll run the rapids more times than on our easier version of this activity. The adventure tubing takes place in the afternoon to allow it to run longer giving you approximately 30mins extra at the venue, but note whilst every session is excellent in terms of fun, the time taken can vary based on water levels and other group factors.
There is a price difference between River Tubing and Adventure River Tubing.
How close are you to Aviemore?
We are located 5 minutes from Aviemore, and the rivers we use are less than 10 minutes drive from our changing rooms.
Do I need to book in advance?
Booking is essential. Occasionally last minute spaces can be found.
What is included in the price?
Expert guides.
All safety equipment.
Head to toe 5mm steamer wetsuit warmth
Wetsuit webbed paddle gloves. Wetsuit Socks.
Heated changing rooms. Free photos!
