Essential Edinburgh

Edinburgh is a city where every stone tells a story, from royal scandals to ghostly whispers and literary legends. This is the classic introduction, with a private guide and your own private chauffeur, so you glide between the historic Old Town and the elegant Georgian New Town rather than walking the hill twice.

At one end stand the regal gates of Holyrood Palace, at the other the battlements of Edinburgh Castle, and between them the closes of the Royal Mile and the graves of Greyfriars Kirk, where loyalty and legend never quite rest. Your guide weaves the history and the mystery together at every stop, with the scandals, the writers and the ghost stories that attach to each of them.

Your chauffeur is waiting between stops, so the day flows from one sight to the next without the climbs, and your time goes on the places themselves. It is an easy, comfortable way to see the city at its most essential.