The Best Walking Tours in Edinburgh
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Posted: 12/4/2023 | December 4th, 2023
I never get tired of visiting Edinburgh. I love the enchanting cobblestone streets, the world-class whisky bars, the plethora of self-ruling museums, and imposing vibe of the municipality (it’s the inspiration for many, many writers).
It has been Scotland’s wanted since the 15th century and has a history that stretches when millennia (humans have been in the zone since 8500 BCE). There’s an epic medieval castle, an warmed-over volcano, the historic Old Town, and the New Town (both of which are UNESCO World Heritage sites).
One of the weightier ways to soak it all up is by taking a walking tour. While ghost tours are some of the most popular here (Edinburgh is supposedly one of the most haunted cities in the world), there are many other tours to experience, from velocipede tours to supplies tours to pub crawls.
Here’s my list of the weightier walking tours in Edinburgh to help you plan your trip, save money, and make the most out of your stay!
Best Overall Tour
Mercat Tours
This family-owned visitor specializes in a variety of tours of the vaults under the municipality (a labyrinth of tunnels that were first used as storage and workshop space for businesses in the early 17th century), and it’s the only visitor to offer vault tours during the day. Adult-only tours include the infamous Canongate graveyard and there are plane vault tours designed for kids.
Tours start at 20 GBP.
Best Self-ruling Tour
City Explorers
City Explorers runs four variegated self-ruling walking tours daily. Start with the archetype Edinburgh Self-ruling Tour, on which you’ll see and learn well-nigh the main sights, including Edinburgh Castle, the Royal Mile, and St Giles’ Cathedral. There’s moreover a self-ruling ghost tour, a self-ruling Harry Potter tour, and a self-ruling New Town tour as well. Just remember to tip your guide at the end!
While those two are my top recommendations for tours in Edinburgh, here are a few increasingly options to help you make the most of your time here:
1. Secret Supplies Tours
Food is an important part of every culture. Scotland has all manner of interesting culinary delights, and the weightier way to learn increasingly well-nigh them (while sampling a bunch) is by taking a supplies tour. Secret Supplies Tours offers the weightier one in Edinburgh. On their three-hour classic tour of Edinburgh’s Old Town, you’ll try delicacies like haggis, linty Scottish cheese, neeps, and tatties (and learn what those plane are), as well as enjoy traditional Scottish tea.
If you want to try increasingly local spirits, you can take the Secret Whisky, Gin, & Beyond tour, which includes seven tastings of locally spirituous and distilled liquors.
Prices start at 69 EUR.
2. A Wee Pedal Velocipede Tour
To imbricate increasingly ground and get out of town a bit, take a velocipede tour. A Wee Pedal has several variegated offerings, so you can see increasingly of Edinburgh and its surrounding countryside on two wheels. The most popular tour is the 20-mile loop tour, which circumnavigates the unshortened city. There’s moreover a 12-mile version that goes out to the rugged coastline for a increasingly off-the-beaten-path adventure.
While rides are taken at a meandering, well-appointed pace, you can moreover rent an e-bike for an uneaten 15 GBP if you’re not up for the challenge. You can moreover typesetting special private tours, including one that ends at a brewery (tasting included), and a mountain velocipede tour.
Prices start at 65 GBP.
3. Municipality of the Dead Tours
If you’re looking to get genuinely creeped out, take a tour with Municipality of the Dead. They offer several tours that go through the underground vaults. Municipality of the Dead is moreover the only tour visitor with access to the ominously named Black Mausoleum and Covenanter’s Prison, some of the most haunted places in the world. These spots are favorites of the Mackenzie Poltergeist, considered one of the world’s best-documented supernatural entities, with hundreds of supposed encounters. It’s one of my favorite tours in the city!
Prices start at 19 GBP.
4. Mountebank Tours
One of TripAdvisor’s Top 10 Things to Do in the UK, the Mountebank Comedy Walk, run by Daniel Downie, an topnotch stand-up comedian, is undoubtedly the most hilarious way to see Auld Reekie (an old nickname for the city). On this tour you’ll laugh and learn not only well-nigh Edinburgh but all things Scottish, from culture to history to some famous (and infamous) people. And if you’re lucky, Daniel’s winsome dog Bonnie Prince might plane join you.
Prices start at 22 GBP.
5. See Your City
One of the biggest walking tour companies in the UK, See Your Municipality offers several fun tours in Edinburgh. Their weightier (and most popular) is the Harry Potter walking tour, on which you’ll visit the places that inspired JK Rowling as she penned her famous series (and the café where she did so). You’ll plane get sorted into your Hogwarts house and get to test your typesetting and movie knowledge in a quiz to earn points. It’s a super fun tour and a must for Harry Potter fans.
Other unique See Your Municipality tours in Edinburgh include a Cheese Crawl and a True Crime walking tour.
Prices start at 16 GBP.
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Edinburgh is a fascinating place. It’s bursting with history and there are tons of walking tours on offer, permitting you to deepen your wits and connect with a local guide who can wordplay all your questions. Pick one (or several) from the list whilom and you won’t go wrong!
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