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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 Waterloo Place 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.