Spent two to three days in Edinburgh - ** Here's my video **

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/edit - I've been, scroll down to post #45 to see my short video.

Hi folks.

I'm looking at spending a few days in Edinburgh next week, Tuesday to Friday. I've been to Edinburgh many times before but it's always been either with work or to meet up with friends for a couple of evenings out.

If I do this, it'll be the first time I've done it entirely with a tourist hat on. I'll be going by myself.

/edit - I'm booked into the ibis Edinburgh Centre South Bridge - Royal Mile now.

I'll be arriving mid morning on Tuesday and leaving on the final flight on Friday so I'll effectively have two full days (Wednesday and Thursday) and two half days (Tuesday and Friday) to kill.

I'm also looking for things to do.

What should I be doing, where should I be going? The only places I absolutely want to do are the Castle and go up to Arthur's Seat. I've done Mary King's Close before but would be happy to go there again (or anywhere similar). I know that when anyone posts a thread about Edinburgh I always suggest the deli on Cockburn street for a haggis samosa so if it's still there, I'll be doing that

Over to you, OcUK.

 

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Castle is right around the corner from the Premier Inn. Cockburn street 2 mins down the street.

Yes, yes I know that, thanks.

 

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I like the Malmaison but it's not in the centre.

That's a little bit too far out really, I'd rather be in the city centre.

 

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go on the open top bus tour - not as rubbish as it sounds! I did it after living there for two years with some friends visiting and it was much better than expected.
Whisky experience on the royal mile is worth a visit...
depends what you're into tbh

I really enjoyed the Royal yacht tour. Really isn't my sort of thing but really enjoyed it and very insightful.

Thanks - Sounds like a plan to me. In fact, I've been looking at the 48 hour pass for £52 which includes entry to the castle, the yacht and the palace of Holyroodhouse as well as the bus tours.

Go to dishoom for breakfast and order a sausage naan - absolutely amazing!

Exactly the sort of advice I'm after, thanks. I was wondering whether to book breakfast in whatever hotel I end up in but I reckon going out for brekkers is probably a decent idea.

 

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Hive.

What's that?

 

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Flights and hotel are booked. I'm staying at the Ibis Edinburgh Centre, South Bridge - Royal Mile. The Premier Inn (which had rooms yesterday) was full.

So I don't think I'm quite as central as I was but it'll do.

 

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Oh jolly good.

 

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Go to Glasgow

Which bit of this

I'm looking at spending a few days in Edinburgh next week

didn't you get?

this

Which bit of this

Flights and hotel are booked. I'm staying at the Ibis Edinburgh Centre

didn't you get?

 

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Some great advice here, thanks everyone.

Still not sure whether to get the 48 hour bus pass I mentioned earlier or not though.

Also - I'm not bothered specifically about ghost tours but I was looking at this historic underground tour.

 

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Had a great time, walked over fifty five miles while I was there and didn't overly eat/drink. I was up nice and early, eating breakfast in a different place at 08:00 each morning with just a small snack or slice of cake around lunchtime. I only had about four or five pints in total and met up with a couple of OcUKers while I was there.

Here's a couple of minutes of video with some of the photographs I took (best viewed HD on YouTube).

 

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Looks good a good trip. What was that deep fried monstrosity at 1:02 ?

Oh that's not a monstrosity, that's a haggis supper.

Nice video. Looks like you had a good time and ate well

Nice video, looks like you had a good time.

Thanks, I really did.

I did three tours, Mary King's Close and then the two Mercat history tours, the Underground Vaults and the Secrets of the Royal Mile. Out of all three, the Blair Street vaults underground tour was the best but they were all very good.

The weather was kind to me, it was a bit chilly but no real rain to speak of, just a few drops a couple of times. I did climb Arthur's seat - I first walked along Salisbury Crags and then (without realising it) went up the purple path. The steepest and twistiest route up! I had no idea there were other routes and was very surprised to see a simple track back down complete with a hand rail in places. I'd pretty much scrambled all the way to the top.