Edinburgh Castle Tour: History and Mystery

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Discover Edinburgh’s secrets on a 2-hour Royal Mile walking tour. Explore hidden gems, historic sites, and optional Edinburgh Castle visit.

Duration: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

St Giles’ Cathedral - Admire the exterior and learn about its history.
Parliament House - Observe the exterior.
Edinburgh Old Town - Discover on foot and listen to the historical insights from your guide.
St. Margaret’s Chapel - Access included with the castle entry ticket.
Royal Mile - Walk through with your guide who will…

What's Included

Exclusive multi-sensory experience with master Storyteller guides
Enhanced, hand-picked sounds of Edinburgh through TourTalk audio devices
Small group experience
Fast track, skip the line entry into Edinburgh Castle

Additional Information

This walking tour offers an ideal introduction to the capital of Scotland. The first secret revealed? You can bypass the queue at Edinburgh Castle!
Delve into Edinburgh’s hidden gems and uncover the essence of Scotland’s capital, away from the typical tour buses and guidebooks. This magnificent city, rich in captivating history, remains beautifully…

Location

Mercat Cross

High Street

Mercat Cross, High St, Edinburgh EH1 1RF. Look for the 8 sided monument with white Unicorn on top. You will find a member of our visitor services team waiting here to check you in. They will be dressed in black, holding an iPad, wearing an orange lanyard & holding a black & orange umbrella.

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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I5210urkelseyk

Mar 31, 2025

Great tour of the city - Great tour! We got to see so much of Edinburgh and learn so much history. Nicola was informative and fun! We also did the Doomed, dead and Buried tour they offered and had a blast! Great tours and greater tour guides!

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Trailblazer393945

Mar 29, 2025

Review- walking tour of Edinburgh city centre - Excellent walking tour of The Royal Mile and Edinburgh Castle with Veni. She was knowledgeable and made the tour wonderful with lots of interesting stories and facts. Thank you Veni!

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352alyshac

Mar 24, 2025

Fun and Informative - We did the Secrets of the Royal Mile tour. Marina our tour guide was excellent! She was friendly and entertaining and super knowledgeable. We enjoyed the pace of the tour, the sites and stories included, and easy entrance into the castle was a great bonus! Highly recommend this tour!

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H7984wekatrinas

Mar 19, 2025

SPECTACULAR Secrets of the Royal Mile - I cannot express how incredible the tour and our group’s guide for the day, Linda, were. Her knowledge of the depth and diversity of the city’s history and important figures, as well as her engagement with the group and presentation was phenomenal and one of the best tours I’ve ever been on. Getting to learn, hands on, about all of the fun and complex histories of the Royal Mile and Edinburgh will be something I will cherish and remember forever. There wasn’t a single moment that wasn’t intriguing or inspiring of curiosity. Linda’s passion for what she teaches made the whole experience valuable and memorable. I genuinely hope to return and have the opportunity to go on the other tours available one day. Her energy was consistently full of joy and enthusiasm. She kept our large group on track, on time and made it feel like it was over in a blink of an eye because it was fully engaging from the first moment to the very last. I’ve never been on a tour that I remember the guide as much as the visit itself, until now. She made learning fun and fulfilling, and I couldn’t have asked or hoped for a better experience. This was my first ever visit to the city and I cannot wait to come back to experience and explore more. 10/10 tour and guide. Thank you for everything!

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Courtney_l

Mar 19, 2025

Wonderful experience with Veni! - This was a super informative walking tour. Veni was great! You could tell she was so passionate about what she was talking about. I'm such a history nerd, so I greatly appreciated her love for doing this and for the city she loves so much. You will learn so much on this tour, things that you'll even be able to use the remainder of your time in Edinburgh. Highly recommend, and hopefully, you'll be lucky enough to end up with Veni.

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R8486yzsusanc

Mar 16, 2025

Excellent Tour - Linda was a great tour guide and storyteller. I highly recommend this tour for anyone interested in the history (and sociology) of Edinburgh!

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C1194wfjohna

Mar 13, 2025

Time well spent - Brilliant experience veni out guide very informative and engaging comprehensively covered her adopted city very hospitable well done veni !

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Kevin

Mar 12, 2025

We loved this tour - We enjoyed this tour very much. Lots of stops along the way with interesting facts and fun stories. Veni was very enjoyable to listen to. Dress warm and wear walking shoes with good traction

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Ronnt8319gs

Mar 10, 2025

Mercat Royal mile and Edinburgh Walking tour - This was a good tour to get an overview of the Royal Mile and the Edinburgh castle. There were many interesting and historical facts provided by our guide, Linda throughout the tour. Our group was between 10-15 people which worked quite well for us. Use of the walking tour devices made the excursion so much better due to a lot of activity on the streets throughout the entire tour. One issue we ran into was that both of our devices had batteries that died near the end of the tour. Our guide, Linda, was very knowledgeable of Scottish history and answered each and every question. We would highly recommend this tour.

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K9508tishawnm

Mar 9, 2025

The castle tour was incredible - Nicola was a very knowledgeable tour guide with a love of story telling and she gave great recommendations of things to do after the tour. Great tour all around.

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