Edinburgh Castle: Guided Walking Tour

Discover the rich history of Edinburgh Castle on a walking tour. Explore the fortress, learn about Scotland’s monarchs, and visit museums and historic sites. Entrance included.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Edinburgh Castle - Explore one the most important fortresses in the history of Scotland. Walk inside the castle for 1 hour and 10 minutes to enjoy the wonderful royal palace, where Mary Queen of Scots once lived, and admire the Great Hall of the 16th century where parties and feast took place.

After the exploration with a guide, you can spend a free time inside the castle until closing time

What's Included
  • Entrance ticket & Edinburgh Castle Guided Tour
  • Entrance fees
What's Not Included
  • Pet Not allowed. Only guide dog.
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Scotland’s second-most-popular tourist attraction as you learn about the bloody history including stories of the kings and queens who lived in this castle.
There is evidence of a fort here for almost 3000 years, and it has been a royal castle since at least King David I’s reign in the 12th century. The Scottish monarchs continued to use it until 1633,…

Location
361 High St
High Street
Meet in front of the entrance to Advocates Close, opposite (St. Giles’ Cathedral) . Look for the black umbrella with the tour provider's yellow logo.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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835lizzym
Jul 20, 2025
- Raj was a fantastic tour guide! Very knowledgeable and delivered the content brilliantly. Loved the bits of humor he added to it as well 😊
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Katie_p
Jul 20, 2025
Castle tour - The castle was breath taking! The tour guide was very funny and knowledgeable and told us many cool stories about the castle and queen victoria.
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Karlyn_c
Jul 20, 2025
Nick Rocks!! - Nick did a wonderful job! It was rainy when we went but he was positive, funny, and shared great history and stories of the castle. I would recommend him for this tour for sure.
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Teddleton_n
Jul 19, 2025
Family venture at its best - Our guide, Raj was great. Navigated the crowds, great details, connected ancient events to context the modern audience could understand... great job.
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Dntota
Jul 19, 2025
Fantastic tour - Apologies if I’m misspelling his name, but Ignes was tremendous! Very enthusiastic, very knowledgeable. Had a lovely time. Added bonus seeing the canon fire. Can’t recommend this enough.
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S1177gzkarena
Jul 19, 2025
Very good and well-informed guide! - We loved it! You get the big picture but our guide Mayumi also added the small memorable bits. And we liked that she also focused on the females - Scottish history is so full of masculine heroism that the women are easily forgotten.
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Brian_t
Jul 18, 2025
A nice history of the castle - We had a nice tour with Angus. He gave us the history with a bit of dry humor added in, and we really enjoyed the trip to the castle. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the tour.
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Suzi
Jul 18, 2025
Interesting and fun - Very entertaining and informative tour, showed all the interesting highlights with funny anecdotes. Definitely recommend this tour!
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F6814iwnathanb
Jul 20, 2025
- Raj was very informative with the history and communicated everything clearly. Our family was very pleased with the pace and enjoyed the occasional jokes.
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Z7273zjmichaelv
Jul 18, 2025
- Flight got delayed so I was gonna miss the start. Still wanted to check out the castle but they wouldn't send me the ticket or leave it for me to pick up.
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From $50
up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).