See the best of the Scottish capital on this independent day trip from London to Edinburgh. Travel by train through England’s countryside and jump aboard your hop-on hop-off city tour in Edinburgh. Wander along the Royal Mile — a UNESCO World Heritage site — and marvel at the Scottish Crown Jewels inside Edinburgh Castle. Gaze up at the Scott Monument and visit the Scotch Whisky Heritage Center. With your rail travel, hop-on hop-off bus tour (if option selected) and entry to Edinburgh Castle all included, you’re free to explore Edinburgh at your leisure.
Posted By : scott_b
Even though most of the castle was closed due to a “police incident “, what little we saw was wonderful! The entire city of Edinburgh is gorgeous even in the rain! Also Viator returned part of the entry fee without being asked due to the incident. Viator has always been the best!
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Posted On : 2023-11-16 04:13:29 
Posted By : john_l
On Saturday October 21st, I was scheduled to take a first class train w/reserved seat to Edinburgh. Once in Edinburgh I was to have a ticket on a hop on/hop off bus, then an entry ticket to Edinburgh Castle. Storm Bebet was pounding Edinburgh. The train I was supposed to be on was overbooked. I had a reserved seat, but someone else was sitting in it. They also had a ticket for the same train, same seat. Cancelled trains caused them to overbook. Edinburgh Castle was closed that day and I don't know what was up with the Hop on Hop off Bus. So, I couldn't get transportation to Edinburgh due to "Fear of Death" travel warnings. Edinburgh Castle was closed. Viator is refusing to refund my money.
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Posted On : 2023-10-25 04:58:10
Posted By : Caitlin_G
It was a great experience and easy to get around with all of the tickets and instructions. My only complaint is that 5.5 hours is not enough time to spend in the beautiful city of Edinburgh
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Posted On : 2023-10-20 11:43:31
Posted By : Paul_S
By far the coolest thing the family did while visiting London & England!
We highly recommend the day trip, Edinburgh was gorgeous!
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Posted On : 2023-10-20 06:57:18
Posted By : Karen_S
We really enjoyed this tour. There is a lot to see in Edinburgh in just one day, but we were able to see everything we wanted to. There was good communication with the tour company. The only issue we had was with the vouchers that we were provided with. We would arrive at a venue and provide them with the vouchers, only to find out that they needed to be printed before being used. Since we didn’t get the links for the vouchers until we were on our trip, we were unable to print anything before going. Everything worked out though the way that it should have. Would definitely recommend!
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Posted On : 2023-10-03 18:37:19
Posted By : Joseph_F
Some of the most memorable locations we found within Edinburgh were obviously the castle, St. Giles, and hiking Arthur’s Seat.
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Posted On : 2023-09-17 12:48:05
Posted By : James_A
Read this adventure details carefully we new going into this it was an unguided tour and was perfectly fine with that.
First and biggest issue was the train seats they chose for us were rear facing on both trips there and back meanwhile they coaches were relatively empty so we relocated ourselves. If you book this trip on your own you can choose much better seating.
The Hop on Hop off bus pass completely useless just not enough time to even consider using it.
Edinburgh castle was enjoyable but exchanging your voucher for a ticket was not clearly explained in the information packet so we had to get assistance for local staffing.
I would not do this tour again nor would I recommend it to a friend.
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Posted On : 2023-09-05 05:35:57
Posted By : Kimberly_S
The castle museum was very interesting and the bus tour guides friendly and helpful.
Communication as to the exact train station in relation to the other stations was confusing.
I did not receive our downloads of the actual tickets for the train, bus and castle. I had to call after already purchasing another 2 train tickets to get the situation resolved. This was very distressing and a huge cost. However, once I was able to contact the vendor to address this error… progress was made and issue was resolved. To have avoided this situation prior to potentially missing out train would have been much more clear. Train personnel don’t have knowledge to effectively help with these scenarios. Overall improvement in communication with clients throughout process leading up to use of tickets would be ideal.
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Posted On : 2023-08-18 05:23:01
Posted By : Laurasona_L
This is my first time using Victor, I did not know what to expect but I loved it. I got all the documents, tickets, etc. within 24 hours before my scheduled trip. The hop-on hop-off bus selected was great, I learned so much during the drive around the city. I got to see the castle, well worth including entry into the castle with my trip. The only issue I have is the time for the return ticket back to London Kings Cross. It would have been great if we had time to see some of the other sites that were recommended. There is so much to see in the castle, that it was difficult for us to make stops at the other sites and make it back to the train station for our 17:30 train back. Overall, I would definitely recommend this trip to friends and I might even do it again in the future.
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Posted On : 2023-07-28 16:43:04
Posted By : Ann_B
The bus tour shared a lot of information that I had not had on previous trips to the same city. I wish we had more time to shop and look around. It wasn't really enough time.
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Posted On : 2023-06-26 17:07:50
