From London: Day Trip to Edinburgh by Rail with Castle Entry

Travel by train to Edinburgh and learn about its rich history with a hop-on hop-off bus tour on this day trip. Go inside Edinburgh Castle, home of the Royal Apartments and Scottish Crown Jewels.

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Duration 15.0 hour

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Live tour guide

English

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Details on this Activity

Itinerary

Welcome and Departure You will need to be at King’s Cross Station at 6:30am with your train e-tickets for your outbound and inbound rail journeys. Your train will depart at 7:00am and arrive in to Edinburgh at 11:22am. Please print your Open Top Bus Tour and Edinburgh Castle tickets. Edinburgh – Open-Top Bus Tour Delve into the Scottish capital’s rich history with a hop-on hop-off bus tour that takes in all the major sights: the Royal Mile, Greyfriars Bobby, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and atmospheric Edinburgh Castle. Edinburgh Castle Enjoy free admission to Edinburgh Castle, where you can marvel at the sparkling Scottish Crown Jewels and photograph breathtaking panoramic views of the city’s famous skyline. Return Journey After a thrilling day spent discovering Edinburgh, your train departs at 5:30pm, arriving back in London at 10:09pm. (Please arrive 30 minutes before departure time). First Class (optional) includes food and refreshments served at your seat.

Highlights

Ride on reserved seats on the train back to Edinburgh
Enter Edinburgh Castle
Take an open-top bus tour
Use a free city map
First class (optional extra)

Know before you go

• You will be sent a separate email with your train tickets, Edinburgh Bus Tour & Edinburgh Castle Entry. You will need all these documents for your trip. • Please print Edinburgh Bus Tour voucher as you will need to exchange it for a ticket at Andrew Square. • Once booked, this tour is non-refundable • Please note that this tour is not escorted • Please note, the tour itinerary and order may change • Train seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and cannot be guaranteed together

Includes

Assistance from a representative at the train station Return train tickets to Edinburgh with reserved seats Open-top bus tour Entry to Edinburgh Castle City map Free time for shopping Refreshments served at your seat (with first class option)

Reviews from other travelers

Gulfiia - Russia

5 /5

(Written on 2024-11-16)

You will simply be provided with tickets. The trip is independent. We liked it. It was easy to figure out. We recommend 👍

Susan - United States

5 /5

(Written on 2024-08-07)

We had a great time. Loved Edinburgh! Our tickets were emailed a week before the trip and directions were easy to follow.

Troy - United States

1 /5

(Written on 2023-12-30)

This was bullshit! Do not book!!

Ernesto - United States

5 /5

(Written on 2024-08-16)

The trip was great. 100% recommended. Hopefully this will help someone: 1) Nobody will meet u at the station. Just let it go. They should email you the train tickets, bus tour voucher and castle entra (Read More)nce; if they don’t, just email them 1-2 days before. It worked for me. No need to print anything, all they’ll need is the barcodes which they can scan from the phone. 2) Get to the train station with around 15min to spare. The ride is long but not bad; we got 1st class and it was worth it. 3) When u get out of the station just walk to Waterloo place as this is where the buses depart from; there will be plenty of those bus representatives around to tell u where to go. 4) Hop on the bus and hop off at the castle stop (Johnston Terrace). I believe that only the Citysighseeing and the Edinburgh buses stop there. 5) Walk the castle, there’s plenty of time. 6) Do whatever (we ate and walked around) until it’s time to get back to the station (we arrived around 5:15pm for our departure at 5:30pm).

GetYourGuide traveler - United States

4 /5

(Written on 2024-08-07)

The train ride was smooth and it was great seeing the countryside. It was pretty easy finding the hop on hop off bus tour as well as the castle. I hate the instructions with this tour. There is not a (Read More)guide and no one meets you at the train station, so they should not write this in the instructions. All your tickets are emailed to you and I never received an email with the tickets so I had to call 20 minutes before the train left because no one was there and I had no tickets. The return time on this website is also wrong. The train leaves Edinburgh at 5:00 pm, not 5:30. If the instructions were clear, this would make it much easier and less stressful.

GetYourGuide traveler - Mexico

4 /5

(Written on 2024-05-23)

The excursion is totally worth it Edinburgh is beautiful and we had a great day, however the tour operator never showed up at the station to give us directions or the train tickets, it's a lie!! I had (Read More) to contact the GetYourGuide team who very kindly supported me so that the Tour operator could send me the train tickets by mail since they said that they had sent them to me but no, I'm telling you this so that you can still take it into account. With this, visiting Edinburgh is unmissable, do it!!

Queenie - United States

1 /5

(Written on 2024-06-01)

Our representative did not even show up in the station. And my family and I wasn't able to get on the tour! I need a full refund!

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