staying in edinburgh what best things to visit

z1985m

There are lots of little museums going all the way down the royal mile. http://www.edinburgh-royalmile.com/interest/placesofinterest.html

cheap places to eat - there's plenty of weatherspoons dotted around.theres a nando's somwhere i believe (not sure where but eveyone on my facebook seem to always be there!) as well as your usual suspects ( pizza hut, mcdonalds, frankie and bennies e.c.t e.c.t) Vodka revolution on chambers street has nice food http://www.revolution-bars.co.uk/edinburgh/food.php
as well as all the cafe's and starbucks that are in the department stores on princess st which have gorgeous views of the castle.

transport is brilliant in edinburgh thanks to lothian buses (superior to first) theres always a steady flow of buses - £1.30 for an adult, unsure how much children are. http://lothianbuses.com/

zagubov

kathrynt wrote: »

where is the elephant room, do you have to pay for the camera obsura

Yes- there is/was a charge for the hologram museum/camera obscura - couldn't have been a fortune or I;'d never have gone in!

Can I recommend you visit this portal page

http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/edinburgh/index.htm

It's the Edinburgh version of the astonishingly useful
http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/
which you maybe already use. :beer:

z1985m

Just wonbdering if you are away yet? if you are heading up and are here on friday, the national museum are re opening the old part of the museum which has been getting restored. starting from about 9am there are going to be street shows and floats celebrating and probably lots of other things. I imagine it would be well worth heading there, we are going

nutty1

z1985m wrote: »

Just wonbdering if you are away yet? if you are heading up and are here on friday, the national museum are re opening the old part of the museum which has been getting restored. starting from about 9am there are going to be street shows and floats celebrating and probably lots of other things. I imagine it would be well worth heading there, we are going

going saturday, is the musuem free x

z1985m

Yup it's free. I'm looking forward to seeing what they've done to it because it's been closed for years while it's been getting done up.

it's on chambers street.

http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum.aspx

z1985m

So.... what did you think of Edinburgh? find anything good to do?

nutty1

z1985m wrote: »

So.... what did you think of Edinburgh? find anything good to do?

i loved it, went the museum, the castle, the ghost tour, looked at churchs, greyfrairs bobby pub and grave.
didn't have enough time for everything so will be going back x

caseystar

nickyhutch wrote: »

Here's the proper website:

http://www.newedinburghtours.com/

Thank you for the link. I've just booked a tour for next month

nickyhutch

caseystar wrote: »

Thank you for the link. I've just booked a tour for next month

Oh good I know you'll enjoy it. We're going again on October at Halloween and are going to go on a spooky late night ghost walk :eek:

caseystar

nickyhutch wrote: »

Oh good I know you'll enjoy it. We're going again on October at Halloween and are going to go on a spooky late night ghost walk :eek:

I have never been before so i'm really looking forward to it. It saves me getting lost
A ghost walk sounds good, hope you have fun.