Trips To Edinburgh is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague, Budapest and Vienna.
What this site is trying to be
Most writing about Edinburgh is about the castle and the Fringe. This site is as interested in the fact that Scotland’s national museums and galleries are free and that a careful visitor can have three excellent days here paying for almost nothing, that the Vennel Steps are where the famous castle photograph is actually taken from, and that people are rescued off Arthur’s Seat in trainers every year.
That specificity is the point: not that somewhere is beautiful, but when to go, what it costs, what to book, and where the city stops performing.
How it is researched
Opening times, ticket structures and access rules come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it is because it has not been checked recently enough to print.
Edinburgh’s ticket prices move, the visitor levy is new, and the Stone of Destiny now divides its time between here and Perth. Treat anything quoted here as an indication and check before you budget around it.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, distillery, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the Camera Obscura entry states plainly that most of the ticket buys a mirror maze, and why the Scotch Whisky Experience page suggests a good bar instead if you already know your Islay from your Speyside.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date — a bus route, a closing day, a ticket rule — please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
The contact form goes to a person, or write to [email protected].