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Private tourOnly your group will participate
Overview
Grab a wand and join your robed guide on the original tour of Edinburgh designed especially for Potter fans!
Founded in 2012, we are the original Harry Potter tour in Edinburgh. Our guides have the most experience of any tour company in Edinburgh and we are consistently rated most highly by visitors across all platforms.
Booking a private tour with us will ensure the ultimate experience for Harry Potter fans as you'll be able to take the tour at your own pace and ask as many questions as you like! Private means that the tour is for your group only.
Our friendly and professional guides are all trained actors and comedians so we can guarantee they will captivate and entertain you as well as impress with their extensive knowledge, as you visit all the key Potter sights in the city.
We are also happy to customise this tour to suit you! We take on lots of bookings for hen/stag parties and school groups and our guides are skilled at catering the tour content for any audience.
What's included
Guide
Please bring something that you can use as a wand. This can be anything roughly wand shaped - a pen or umbrella will work well!
What to expect
Greyfriars
45m
We begin our tour in the city's historic Greyfriars Kirkyard where JK Rowling spent a lot of time while writing the books. Here we'll see several names on gravestones that inspired characters in the series including William McGonagall and Thomas Riddell.
From here we will also see two potential inspirations for Hogwarts in the form of George Heriot's School and Edinburgh Castle.
10m
An area of the city named after Harry Potter? Surely not! See the place where she wrote much of the first book from here.
National Museum of Scotland
5m
Harry Potter connections to the Museum and surrounding area - and also learn about the Balmoral Hotel where JK Rowling finished the series.
5m
A cafe that promotes itself as the "Birthplace" of Harry Potter. We will explain why those inverted commas are very important...
5m
One of Edinburgh's most iconic streets, considered to be the real life Diagon Alley.
Meeting and pickup
Meeting point
Your guide will be waiting in costume outside the orange sandwich shop.
End point
We end on Victoria Street, a 2 minute walk from our starting location.
Additional information
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Is the tour suitable for children under 7 years old?
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
