Free Attractions in Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Pass will help you See More and Save More. In fact, it's sightseeing made easy! There are over 30 top attractions in the Pass, so whether you're into history, haunted tours, culture, nature or full on fun, the Edinburgh Pass is a must have for a city break in Edinburgh. Why not visit one of our Tourist Information Centres at Edinburgh Airport and 3 Princes Street where they can help you book tours and make the most of using your Edinburgh Pass!
Camera Obscura and World of Illusions
The Camera Obscura Show is the essential Edinburgh tour. This Victorian Eye in the Sky has fascinated visitors for 150 years. Also enjoy spectacular 360° rooftop panoramas and three floors of mind boggling hands-on illusions.
The Cadies & Witchery Tours- Ghost & Gore Tour
Ghost & Gore Tour
Alexander Clapperton (deceased Edinburgh Cemetary Director during the 1840's) takes a light-hearted look at Edinburgh's dark past, telling tales of hangings, punishment, witchcraft & invasion as he leads you through the Old Town's atmospheric closes & courtyards. Pre-booking: essential
The 3D Loch Ness Experience
The 3D Loch Ness Experience takes you on a virtual reality journey to discover the mystery of Loch Ness, the World's most famous body of water!
Edinburgh Butterfly & Insect World
It's Creepy- It's Crawly- It's a JUNGLE in here! Come face-to-face with lizards, giant snakes, poisonous frogs...if you dare, join daily handling sessions, spider phobia sessions or visit one of Europe's largest exotic butterfly exhibitions with hundreds of free flying butterflies in a large indoor rainforest.
The Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour
The original, award winning Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour is a brilliant and witty dramatic romp through the wynds, courtyards and pubs of Edinburgh's Old and New Town.
Glenkinchie Distillery
Glenkinchie: The home of the Edinburgh Malt! Visit a working distillery a pleasant drive from Edinburgh out into the rolling farmland of East Lothian.
John Knox House
John Knox House is Edinburghs oldest Royal Mile mansion- the home of Mary, Queen of Scots Catholic goldsmith and the final resting place of Scotland's controversial religious icon.
Maid of the Forth
Relax 'n Cruise on our 1.5 hour sightseeing cruise under the famous Forth Bridge and enjoy magnificent views of our world famous Bridge, wartime fortifications and the Edinburgh panorama. See seals, puffins, fulmars, guillemots and the occasional dolphin or porpoise.
Mercat Tours - The Historic Vaults Tour
The Vaults Tour
Visit authentic 18th century vaults beneath the South Bridge and see unaltered conditions in which real people lived and worked. Our guides will tell you stories of the people inhabited these dark rooms. Pre-booking recommended.
Another World: Dalí,Magritte,Miró and the Surrealists, 10 July 2010 - 9 January 2011
A comprehensive survey of Surrealist art, bringing together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, is the major summer exhibition at the Dean Gallery in 2010.
National Galleries of Scotland - Christen Købke, 5 July - 3 October 2010at the National Gallery Complex
Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light, brings the most comprehensive selection of paintings by Christen Købke (1810?1848) ever to be shown outside Denmark. A contemporary of Constable and Turner, Købke was a pre-eminent painter in his country and one of the foremost talents of Denmark?s Golden Age.
National Museum of Flight
Take part in our new exhibitions Fantastic Flight and The Jet Age and view our 50-strong collection of aircraft which includes high-ranking military planes and passenger travel aircraft. Seek out Comet and Concorde, Tiger Moth and Tornado, Spitfire and Sea Hawk, Jetstream and Jaguar.
Gladstone's Land
Gladstone's Land is a fascinating Edinburgh Old Town tenement built in 1620 full of stunning art, furniture and painted ceilings. Situated on the Royal Mile, only a minute's walk from the castle, make sure you fit it in your day!
Nelson Monument
High on Calton Hill, visit the newly refurbished Nelson Monument.This represents the victory and death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. Additionally, get panoramic view from the top of the monument, one of the best in Edinburgh.
Scottish Seabird Centre
Exciting Discovery Centre with amazing live cameras to watch wildlife on the islands. Wildlife cinema, interactive displays, kids' play zone and giant aquarium with fish feeding, daily.
Surgeons' Hall Museum
Scotlands largest medical museum houses one of the most significant surgical collections in the world.
Auld Reekie Tours-The Haunted Underground Tour
Explore the darkened crypts, once the home of body snatchers and witches alike. Each vault has an individual story of death, destruction, disease and crime, which your guide will enthuse in giving you all the gory details! Meeting Point - Tron Kirk on the Royal Mile/North Bridge
Auld Reekie Tours-Terror Tour
Edinburgh's scariest, most haunted underground ghost tours, as featured on "Most Haunted Live" Halloween 2006 & 2008. Acclaimed as their scariest location ever. Meeting Point - Tron Kirk on Royal Mile/North Bridge.
Edinburgh Visit Scotland - Robert Louis Stevenson Experience
Learn facts about some of Robert Louis Stevenson?s most famous novels such as Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped. Pre-booking: Essential
Greenyonders - Hidden Gardens
Take this short, easy walking tour and see a little-known side of Edinburgh's Old Town: behind the historic buildings discover the surprising number of gardens and green 'nooks and crannies', all with a story to tell.
Greenyonders - Walk the Talk
Are you learning English? Are you interested in finding out more about Edinburgh while visiting its historic sites and green spaces? If so, we have a range of tours and outdoor activities which we will specially tailor to your group, all with a qualified English language teacher who loves her city.
The Cadies & Witchery Tours - Murder & Mystery Tour
Your guide is Adam Lyal (deceased), highwayman, who was executed in Edinburgh's Grassmarket on 27th March 1811. He will lead you through the dark courtyards and eerie alleyways of Old Town Edinburgh, telling tales of witchcraft, plague, torture and bodysnatching. Pre-booking: essential
Dynamic Earth
You'll be shaken by erupting volcanoes, dive beneath oceans, be plunged into the Polar Extremes before hanging out with orang-utans in our tropical rainforest. Child Pass not valid here.
The Edinburgh Dungeon
** You can buy your Edinburgh Pass here **
The Edinburgh Dungeon invites you to delve into the capital?s most blood-curdling history. Experience "Extremis - Drop Ride to Doom"! Taste the fear and feel the adrenaline pump as you drop screaming into the darkness below! ** YOU CAN BUY YOUR EDINBURGH PASS FROM HERE - just ask a member of staff **
Edinburgh Zoo
Enjoy a fantastic day out at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland's largest and most exotic wildlife attraction.
Almond Valley Heritage Centre
Almond Valley's traditional farm buildings and working watermill are home to many friendly farm animals. With a wide range of activities such as animal handling sessions and milking demonstrations, indoor and outdoor play areas, a simulated archaeological dig, trampolines, go karts and lots more, there is plenty to keep kids and adults entertained!
Hopetoun House
Hopetoun House "Scotland's Finest Stately Home" is situated 12 miles form the centre of Edinburgh.
Lauriston Castle
Visit this beautiful castle which stands in thirty acres of tranquil grounds enjoying a magnificant view across the Firth of Forth. Here you will find beautifully preserved interiors which were richly decorated and furnished between 1902-1926, in Edwardian taste.
Mercat Tours - Secrets of the Royal Mile
Secrets of the Royal Mile
Be enthralled as your historian guide takes you back through the centuries and away from well-trodden paths to reveal the secrets of Edinburgh's past. Pre-booking recommended.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Open all year, the Garden is breathtaking throughout all seasons. At the heart of the Garden, visit the iconic Victorian Temperate Palm House and adjacent Glasshouses, which offer visitors the opportunity to travel through time and across the globe while experiencing ten very different realms of the plant kingdom.
Mercat Tours- Gallows to Graveyard
The Old Town has a history of torture, execution and death. Traitors, thieves and murderers have come to a bloody end on the Royal Mile. Do they still haunt the dark narrow closes of the Old Town? Your cloaked guide will have the answers and will take you on a journey of discovery to reveal the Dark Secrets of Old Edinburgh.
Mercat Tours- The Ghostly Underground Tour
Our GHOSTLY UNDERGROUND TOUR will descend into the Vaults beneath the South Bridge, and as you are led through candlit passages into dark, gloomy chambers, your ghost guide will tell you tales of those who once occupied these Vaults and perhaps still do...
National Galleries of Scotland - Impressionist Gardens, 31 July - 17 October 2010
Impressionist Gardens is a major international exhibition of around 90 works including loans from collections around the world, and will be the first ever to be devoted to this subject. The famous names of Impressionism will be well represented, with fine examples by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley.
Georgian House
Discover High Society living and 'life below stairs' in Edinburgh's New Town- 18th Century style!
Newhailes
Newhailes is an amazing survival story and is a dignified 17th-century home in authentic condition. Rather than attempt to re-create an immaculate dwelling, the Trust has worked hard to keep the house "untouched" by modern hands.
Scottish Mining Museum
Discover the miners' way of life through two floors of exhibitions, interactives, film theatres, recreated underground, coalface, Magic Helmet tours and much more!
Seafari Adventures Forth: High Speed Boat Trips
Seafari Adventure Forth offers a unique combination of high adventure, pure exhilaration and the thrill of some close encounters with some of the Forth's rich sealife. Pre-booking is absolutely essential.
