Fabulous Old Town Tour
This free walking tour is fun and funny, performed by local independent tour guides, it will really help you to know the city and understand something about what life is all about!
About Fabulous Old Town Tour
| 1st Dec 2025 to 14th Feb 2026 | |
| 11:30am - 1:30pm on Selected dates - see below for details | |
| Edinburgh Old Town | |
| Pay What You Think It's Worth | |
| Event organiser/part of Edinburgh Street Historians | |
| Visit the event website here | |
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Edinburgh is one of the most amazing cities in the world, and the best way to see it is with a tour guide. Not just any tour guide, an Edinburgh Street Historians tour guide. Quality and assurance guaranteed with experienced guides who bring the city’s past to life. Best of all, it costs you nothing to join then you pay what you think it’s worth at the end.
The Old Town Tour will be running at 11:30 - 13:30 from:
1st-5th December
11th-20th December
22nd-23rd December
then 27th December to 14th February.
The Old Town free Walking Tour is a two hour extravaganza which provides an essential idea about what the city is, how it came about, what it has provided for the whole world. The best introduction to this marvellous and often bewildering city is a walking tour, guided by a qualified and experienced independent guide – that’s a guarantee you get from the Edinburgh Street Historians.
There are many companies that offer tours with similar names, but what makes ours the option to go with is the fact that all our guides are fun, funny, and passionate about the subject, which adds that little extra thrill to a tour.
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