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City Sightseeing: Edinburgh Hop-on Hop-off Bus Tour

Name: City Sightseeing: Edinburgh Hop-on Hop-off Bus Tour
Start: 2025-12-16T09:00:00
End: 2025-12-16T15:55:00
Location: Edinburgh

Edinburgh Castle viewed from a hop-on hop-off tour bus with tourists.

Edinburgh hop-on hop-off tour bus in front of historic buildings.

Family enjoying City Sightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off bus tour in Edinburgh.

Tourists enjoying a hop-on hop-off bus tour in Edinburgh with views of Arthur's Seat.

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Choose your entry time, stay as long as you like

Free cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience

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Extended validity

Visit anytime until 7 Dec, 2026 without worrying about committing to a date today

Audio guide

Enhance your experience with multilingual audio guide

4.4/5

(769)

Breanna

Dec 2025

Verified booking

5/5

We had a great time and would recommend this tour to anyone visiting Edinburgh! It really helped us get a layout of the city and decide what attractions we wanted to visit. We loved that we could get off and explore and then come back to the bus to go to our next stop. It really cut down on transportation costs, and we weren't walking across the city all day. My boys loved sitting upstairs and looking out and listening to all of the history. It is great for all ages!

Christine

Nov 2025

Verified booking

5/5

Helpful staff, interesting stops and information throughout the tour. Great for the kids that there was a more "narrative" version of the information to listen to for them. Very convenient to have tickets valid for 24 hours! And great view from the front window upstairs!

Philip

Oct 2025

Verified booking

4/5

Easy to get a ticket. Audio guide is good but not quite in sync. We missed some sights because the guide mentioned things AFTER the bus had passed them! Bus seats are hard but it fun to sit upstairs outside in the sun! Overall a great experience. Will do it again.

Make the most of your time in Edinburgh by curating the perfect travel itinerary with this 24-unlimited hour hop-on-hop-off bus tour.

Access the Red Route, with 14 stops located across the entire city and get on and off whenever you want with buses arriving every 20 minutes.

With your pass, learn about the history of the city through the multilingual audio guide present along with a kid's commentary channel for your little ones.

Get 360-degree panoramic views with an open-top double-decker bus, perfect for sightseeing.

Some iconic stops include the John Knox House, Grassmarket, Holyrood & Johnston Terrace.

24-hour unlimited hop-on hop-off pass

Access to Red Route

Audio guide in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian

Horrible Histories' kid's commentary

Headphones

Free kids' tickets

Flexible validity for up to 12 months from your selected date

TOTAL DURATION70 minutes
FREQUENCYEvery 20 minutes
FIRST DEPARTUREWaterloo Place at 8:55 AM
LAST DEPARTUREWaterloo Place at 3:55 PM
Timeline
Map
1. Waterloo Place
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2 attractions
Calton Hill
1 minute walk
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
6 minutes walk
2. Lothian Road
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2 attractions
Usher Hall
3 minutes walk
Traverse Theatre
1 minute walk
3. Grassmarket
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2 attractions
Grassmarket Square
1 minute walk
Victoria Street
6 minutes walk
4. Nicolson Square
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1 attraction
The Festival Theatre
1 minute walk
5. Chambers Street
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1 attraction
National Museum of Scotland
6. George IV Bridge (for Edinburgh Castle)
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1 attraction
Edinburgh Castle
5 minutes walk
7. The Mound
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8. St. Andrew Square
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2 attractions
St. Andrew Square Gardens
2 minutes walk
Scott Monument
5 minutes walk
9. John Knox House
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2 attractions
National Museum of Scotland
4 minutes walk
Bedlam Theatre
5 minutes walk
10. Canongate
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11. Holyrood
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3 attractions
Palace of Holyroodhouse
1 minute walk
Scottish Parliament Building
Holyrood Park
11 minutes walk
12. Our Dynamic Earth
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1 attraction
The Queen’s Gallery
6 minutes walk
13. Abbeyhill Crescent
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14. Carlton Terrace Brae
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15. Burns Monument
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You can cancel these tickets up to 24 hours before the experience begins and get a full refund.

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What our guests say
Breanna
Dec 2025
Verified booking
5/5
We had a great time and would recommend this tour to anyone visiting Edinburgh! It really helped us get a layout of the city and decide what attractions we wanted to visit. We loved that we could get off and explore and then come back to the bus to go to our next stop. It really cut down on transportation costs, and we weren't walking across the city all day. My boys loved sitting upstairs and looking out and listening to all of the history. It is great for all ages!
Christine
Nov 2025
Verified booking
5/5
Helpful staff, interesting stops and information throughout the tour. Great for the kids that there was a more "narrative" version of the information to listen to for them. Very convenient to have tickets valid for 24 hours! And great view from the front window upstairs!
Margaret
Nov 2025
Verified booking
5/5
A great introduction for a visitor new to the city. I will do other routes on my next visit.
Judy
Nov 2025
Verified booking
5/5
Went on it 3 times!!! Had a great time
John
Oct 2025
Verified booking
5/5
Convenient service, good commentary. Am excellent way to see Edinburgh! My 24 year old great Bruce had never been in Edinburgh Bertrand loved it...

These tickets are valid for 12 months from the date of purchase.

Accessibility

This experience is wheelchair accessible.

Wheelchairs must be no larger than 70cm wide, 120cm long, and 135cm high to board the bus. If unsure, contact the service provider.

Just a heads up, each bus can only accommodate 1 wheelchair at a time. If there is already a passenger in a wheelchair, please wait for the next one.

Additional information

Children aged 3 and under travel for free. Child tickets must be added to the cart at the final stage of booking.

Small and well-behaved dogs allowed onboard.