About us
edinburghcard.com is a multilingual information and purchase site for the Edinburgh City Pass. The Edinburgh City Pass is a sightseeing pass for Edinburgh. It is issued by Edinburgh Bus Tours, which operates it as the Royal Edinburgh Ticket. The pass combines guaranteed entry to Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Royal Yacht Britannia with hop-on hop-off bus tours between the attractions.
There is nothing to select here. The pass is exactly three admissions and the bus that links them, so it either matches the plan or it does not. Whoever already intends to see the Castle, Holyroodhouse and the Britannia buys them bundled; whoever would rather walk the Old Town and spend the afternoon in the national museums, which charge no admission anyway, has no use for it. We describe what awaits at each of the three, how the voucher is exchanged for the Royal Edinburgh Ticket at the starting point on George Street together with the entry time for the Castle, and what applies when Holyroodhouse closes for a royal visit and the King's Gallery is offered instead.
What this site is not
edinburghcard.com is an independent guide. We are not the official website of Edinburgh Bus Tours; the pass is sold as the Royal Edinburgh Ticket. We are not a hotel or general travel portal, and we deliberately leave out hotel booking and tours without a connection to the pass. We do not sell the pass ourselves: bookings are completed with our partner Tiqets, and their current prices, availability and terms apply.