Tours Etc., Edinburgh

There's tons of them. Walking down the Royal Mile theres wooden boards everywhere advertising the different tours. Ghost, gouls, graveyards, caves, tunnels, hauntings...

I'm not saying you shouldn't do one of them... Im just saying DO NOT EXPECT TO MUCH.
They are NOT very scary. They ARE expensive. Some are better than the others. Somem are very history based and feels more than a lecture than a ghost tour. A sure disappointment that WILL BORE the kids!!!

Ask around. Ask people you meet, ask locals, ask anyone until you find a tour that sounds OK.
Don't join one on your first day in Edinburgh. Watch them from a distance. The tour groups are walking around town every day, all day. Its guite easy to spot the one people actually enjoy!

Otherwise you might be in for a treat that isn't a treat at all. And it will cost you!

Kids: Edinburgh Dungeons. A bit expensive. But a lot scarier!

Adults: The Mary Kings Close tour is quite interesting. And you walk the tunnels underneath the city.


	Tours Etc.: going around and seeing nothing	Tip Rating:

Updated By juzz

on November 29, 2005

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this is an example of what we
missed

We decided to buy a ticket for a one day trip. I think you'd better not to take those tours and to plan your trips by yourself . They took us around and let us see very touristic places and nothing more. Stops were always near shops, bars and so on, sometimes we passed through beautiful places but we didn't stop, we were in a hurry to reach next wool shop. :(

Use the Tourist office and ask them to help you planning your own trips instead of going with tours, they're very kind and give you useful information (and girls are very nice!!)


	Tours Etc.: Bus tours around Edinburgh	Tip Rating:

By Debbie1

on July 30, 2005

there are a whole heap of tour companies that usually tout people from outside the Waverley Train Station. Please, please just get a ridacard (cheapest way to travel) from Lothian Buses, and hop on a bus instead. It will be heaps cheaper and you will get around Edinburgh just as easily.
Buses to the Botanic Gardens in Inverleith Row: 8, 23,27, 17
Buses to Ocean terminal in Leith (where the Queen's Royal Yacht Britannica is located, and has a large shopping centre. Entrance to the yacht is from the second floor - worth a look):, 1.34.22. (probably quite a few more)

Just avoid. Tours are a rip off

Take a local Lothian Bus instead. Just get on it and see where it goes. At the end of the journey it will turn around and come back. As long as you have an all day ticket or a Ridacard, it won't cost you a cent more to do this. A much more fun way to see the city.


	Tours Etc.: 'See Edinburgh' bus tours	Tip Rating:

By snoel

on September 17, 2002

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Old Town

The city is walkable! get yourself a small simple map and walk it- this way you get to explore the thousands of little alley ways and still see it all (it's not that big and everything is close together) the tour is also EXTREMELY over priced- skip it!


	Tours Etc.: Edinburgh bus tours	Tip Rating:

By KevinGreig

on December 12, 2006

There are 5 bus tours in Edinburgh, we went on the MacTours version, it was informative and we got a great view around the city before exploring on foot.

You can keep your ticket all day and hop on and off the bus to see more of the city.

Have a sneak preview of the tour here:

http://www.go360edinburgh.co.uk/index.htm?nodeChoice=MacTours%202


	Tours Etc.: Choose your "Underground" Edinburgh tour wisely!	Tip Rating:

Updated By Scotzman

on October 15, 2004

There are many walks that claim to show you 'Underground Edinburgh,' but only one shows you the part of the city that was buried after a plague - go to Mary King's Close. Other tours will dub themselves as "underground," but only show you vaults under a bridge (South Bridge).


	Tours Etc.: The Underground Haunted Tours...	Tip Rating:

By KenMore

on August 25, 2002

The Underground Haunted Tours are pretty much a tourist trap, but if you enjoy people trying to scare you and fill you full of bull then you might enjoy it. I'm a big baby so they scared the hell out of me! My friend that went with me swares that someone tapped on her shoulder when we were in one of the haunted tombs.


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By face_2_face

on August 26, 2002

This may be unfair, but we took a ghost tour and it was honestly a waste of money. However, there are many and we may have been unlucky and chosen a bad one.


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Updated By ombre

on February 7, 2005

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I got my hair cut by a Scottish chick living in Dublin working in Temple bar area.
This is a message for you young lady.
That was the worst hair cut I ever got in my life and if, I ever run into you again I will shave your hair off .I had to wear a hat for half my trip.
so please note I don't like Scottish hair dressers lol.

if your back packing around I found some every conservitive views here and many places would not let you share a room with some one who might not be of the same sex as you and so maybe you might get up to some naughty stuff what ever that may be only god would know I guess .
so if you happen to vbe gay it might not worry you but if your traveling cheaply with your wife ,it may cause some minor annoyance.
or is that just me??


	Tours Etc.: See Edinburgh City Centre before you go!

By KevinGreig

on December 12, 2006