Ember Oban

29/05/2026

⚡️🚌 Ticket release...through to 30 August 2026! 🚌 ⚡️

Ember's tickets are now on sale for all services through to the end of August. This includes the busy Edinburgh Fringe period as well as peak holiday season. If you've been waiting to buy those all-important tickets to the airport, they're on sale now.

To book tickets or find our more, go to https://www.ember.to/

20/05/2026

⚡️🚌 Launch day.... today is the first day of Ember's E15 service! 🚌 ⚡️

We've launched a brand new route from Edinburgh to Oban, significantly improving transport links between the west coast and the capital.

We're running four return services per day, seven days a week. The route serves Tyndrum, Callander, Dunblane, Stirling, Grangemouth, Edinburgh Airport and many more stops in between.

It's just £18.05 for an adult single from Edinburgh to Oban if you book online (whether you book weeks before or a minute ahead).

Tickets are on sale now at www.ember.to

As always:
- there are no hidden 'booking fees' for valid concession card holders, free really means free 💚
- well-behaved pets are very welcome 🦮
- each bus has space for two bikes, and we'd recommend that you book your bike space in advance to guarantee your spot 🚴
- Ember runs seven days a week, including public holidays 🔁

04/05/2026

Introducing: E15 Oban - Edinburgh!

⚡️🚌 New route time, this time connecting the central belt to the beautiful west coast... Ember's E15 service will connect Edinburgh with Oban 🚌 ⚡️

From 20 May we're launching a new route from Edinburgh to Oban, significantly improving transport links between the west coast and the capital. We'll be running four return services per day, seven days a week. The route serves Tyndrum, Callander, Dunblane, Stirling, Grangemouth, Edinburgh Airport and many more stops in between.

It's just £18.05 for an adult single from Edinburgh to Oban if you book online (whether you book weeks before or a minute ahead).

This new route is already showing on Ember's live map (https://www.ember.to/map) and tickets are on sale now at www.ember.to

As always:
- there are no hidden 'booking fees' for valid concession card holders, free really means free
- well-behaved pets are very welcome
- each bus has space for two bikes, and we'd recommend that you book your bike space in advance to guarantee your spot
- Ember runs seven days a week, including public holidays

28/04/2026

Exciting times! New stops on the E16 Oban - Glasgow route!

We're very pleased to announce that from today all our registered stops on the E16 become active. Other than Oban Bus Station, all stops are served by pre-booking only. It's easy (I promise!) to do this on ember.to, but if you need some help just reach out. It's also cheaper than the on-board charges, and if you have an NEC, completely free to do!

Stops now available, in addition to Glasgow Bus Station, Tyndrum, Tarbet, Dumbarton, Glasgow Airport and Paisley, include:

Dunbeg Road End, on the A85.
Connel, at the Bridge Junction.
Taynuilt, on the A85 at the war memorial crossroads.
Bridge of Awe, at the fuel station.
Lochawe village, at both the St Conans Kirk stop, and at the Ben Cruachan Inn/Village Stores/Rail station road end area.
Dalmally, by the old Police Station
Inverarnan, at the flagged stop by the Drover's Inn
Ardlui, near the postbox southbound, or opposite the hotel northbound
Inveruglas, just the Sloy power station side of the car and coach park
Inverbeg, Luss, Duck Bay & Balloch: all the marked stops on the A82
(and a few other stops as well)

See on board soon!

28/04/2026

⚡️🚌 Ember are hiring drivers in Oban! 🚌 ⚡️

We already connect Oban with Glasgow, Fort William and Inverness, and a direct route to Edinburgh is up next.

If you’re keen to progress your career in intercity coach driving, and would like to drive our state of the art 2025 and 2026 plate electric coaches, then we'd love to hear from you.

With a local starting pay rate of £16.50 per hour and a guaranteed increase to at least £17.30 per hour once you've been with the team for a year, there are also regular opportunities for overtime.

We offer 40 guaranteed hours each week so that Ember's drivers know their established take home pay (even if they are scheduled for fewer hours), and we are also happy to adjust the guaranteed hours for any drivers who would like the confidence of guaranteed work alongside the flexibility of working part-time.

Ember offer flexible annual leave bookings - meaning that drivers can choose and request their own holidays, meaning flexibility for that all-important downtime.

Even if you’re not a driver but you know someone who might be interested, please tag them below.

To learn more about a career with Ember, visit https://www.ember.to/careers/ or click the links in the comments for more information and to apply.

31/03/2026

Not an April fools, I promise! We have new, served through pre-booking only, stops for you!

From today, 1st April you can now take the E14 service to Inverness from any of the stops we’ve been permitted to serve on the way. To name a few: Dunbeg, Connel, Barcaldine, Appin, Duror, Kentallen, Ballachish Hotel and North Ballachullish (sorry, not Balla village) Fort Augustus, Invergarry, Torlundy and Urquart Castle.

Remember, all these stops are in the Highland £2 fare trial area, and we accept the Scottish NEC for those entitled to completely free travel.

*To get us to stop to pick you up, the journey must be booked on our website, ember.to at least ten minutes before the scheduled departure time, including all concessions.*

There is a wheelchair space, we take bicycles, we take dogs (and other house-pets) and everyone gets a seat for the journey, with a USB charging socket for each seat, and a toilet on almost every coach.

See you onboard soon!

Dunbeg - I know how disappointed you’ll be, but it’s the A85 stop for you guys.

27/03/2026

⚡️🚌 Team Ember will be in Oban on Saturday 28 March! 🚌 ⚡️

If you’re keen to progress your career in intercity coach driving, and would like to drive our state of the art 2025 and 2026 plate electric coaches between Oban, Fort William, Inverness, Edinburgh, Glasgow and more then please come along for a chat.

We’ll be on the George Street seafront (opposite Superdrug) between 11:00am and 16:00pm. We'll also have a coach with us for you to take a first-hand look.

Even if you’re not a driver but you’re curious to know more about our direct connections to Inverness, Glasgow and (soon) Edinburgh, come over and say hi.

To learn more about a career with Ember, click the link for more information and to apply:
https://ember.recruitee.com/o/intercity-bus-and-coach-driver-oban

26/03/2026

⚡️🚌 Coming soon..... Ember's brand new additions to the fleet will mean more places, more often, more reasons to leave the car at home 🚌 ⚡️

23/03/2026

⚡️🚌 £2 Fare Cap Trial in the Highlands region 🚌 ⚡️

Ember can confirm that we will be taking part in the fare cap trial which will start tomorrow, 23 March 2026.

At a top line level, the scheme works as follows:
- Any journey entirely within the Highlands region will be capped at £2, whether that's a journey of a few stops or a longer journey such as a trip from Inverness to Oban
- Any journey that crosses the boundary into another region will be capped at £2 for the section of the journey *within* the Highlands region, and then charged at Ember's usual rates for the remainder of the journey that falls *outside* the Highlands region
- The qualifying region is Highland, Moray and Argyll & Bute
- The trial is expected to last for one year
- Adult tickets and child tickets both qualify for this discount, while concessionary card holders will continue to travel for free as normal, with no hidden booking fees
- No operator can sell qualifying £2 tickets before the scheme starts, even if travel is for a date on or after 23 March, so please check back in at www.ember.to from the morning of 23 March to book these tickets

10/03/2026

Good Morning Oban! As from tomorrow, 11th March, you'll be able to take your new E16 connection to Glasgow, currently only stopping at Tyndrum, Tarbet, Dumbarton, Glasgow Airport, Paisley and Buchanan Bus Station. (More stops to be added soon though!)

Times (from Oban) are generally speaking:

06:35, 11:00, 15:15, and 18:45 with slight variations between weekday and weekend times. You'll find the exact times on ember.to when you search for journeys from Oban to Glasgow.

As usual, reach out if you have any queries and I'll get back to you ASAP. (I might be driving one of these trips, so there could be a delay.)

See you soon!

⚡️🚌 New route time - we're launching the E16 between Glasgow and Oban this week 🚌 ⚡️

We're launching a brand new route connecting Oban with Glasgow, with stops at Glasgow Airport, Gallowhill, Dumbarton, Tarbet and Tyndrum. Services start tomorrow, Wednesday 11 March 2026, with four return trips per day, seven days per week.

Like our other route launches, we'll be adding many more stops later in the spring — more details to follow.

It's just £18.25 for an adult single from Glasgow to Oban if you book online (whether you book weeks before or a minute ahead).

You can see the full route and all stops on our live map at https://www.ember.to/map/ - just select the E16 route to see the details.

Tickets are on sale now at www.ember.to

As always:
- there are no hidden 'booking fees' for valid concession card holders, free really means free
- well-behaved pets are very welcome
- each bus has space for two bikes, and we'd recommend that you book your bike space in advance to guarantee your spot
- Ember runs seven days a week, including public holidays

24/02/2026

I’m going to be parked on George Street most of the day. Feel free to come by and say hi!

I’ll chat with you about how to book our services, where to find information, or show you around the vehicle.

You can find out if your mobility scooter fits, and how we board you, or where we put bikes and if we’ll carry your one.

It’s also a good place to shelter from the rain! 😁