We did B&B Rooch, Started and finished with the Premier Inn at Inverness then across to the Isle of Skye for two nights. Rejoined the NC500 route up to Gairloch-Drumbeg-Skail-Castletown-Portmahomack-Inverness. Then she who must be obeyed wanted to drive around Loch Ness and the surrounding area which left it late for the journey home so we booked another hotel at Dunfermline and had an easy ride home.Did you b and b, camp caravan or hotels? How long for?
10 days 8 hotels.
I have a couple of good websites that makes it easy to plan if you are interested

but no guarantee he could even do that! He was a bit of a car salesmen mind...
. Seems a bit contrived to me a cruise.