The Potter Trail Private Tour
- 1h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
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.
Inclusions
What's included
- Guide
What's not
- Please bring something that you can use as a wand. This can be anything roughly wand shaped - a pen or umbrella will work well!
Itinerary
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.
An area of the city named after Harry Potter? Surely not! See the place where she wrote much of the first book from here.
Harry Potter connections to the Museum and surrounding area - and also learn about the Balmoral Hotel where JK Rowling finished the series.
A cafe that promotes itself as the "Birthplace" of Harry Potter. We will explain why those inverted commas are very important...
One of Edinburgh's most iconic streets, considered to be the real life Diagon Alley.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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5Awesome!!
Colin was AMAZING! so engaging and has a great sense of humor! Highlight of Edinburgh so far:)
5An absolutely magical experience and one of the highlights of our trip to Edinburgh!
We booked a private Harry Potter tour and truly loved every minute of it. We visited so many fascinating places connected with J. K. Rowling and the world of Harry Potter, and it was wonderful to see the locations and details that helped inspire the books brought to life around the city. Our guide, Samuel Thorne, was simply magnificent. He was incredibly knowledgeable, engaging, funny and full of wonderful stories and details that made the whole experience feel very special. His enthusiasm was infectious, and even as Harry Potter fans, we learnt so much that we hadn’t known before. The private format made the tour feel relaxed and personal, and Samuel made sure the experience was interesting from beginning to end. It felt much more than just a sightseeing tour — it was a real journey through Edinburgh’s connection with the Harry Potter universe. We came away absolutely delighted and would recommend this tour, and Samuel in particular, without hesitation. If you are a Harry Potter fan visiting Edinburgh, this is an experience you really shouldn’t miss. Five stars are hardly enough!
5A Very Informative Magical Tour
It was very fun. Very informative. Our guide was amazing. My wife isn't an HP fan, but she still enjoyed the tour a lot.
510 points to Hufflepuff
Sam was an excellent tour guide and I loved getting to see all the places that inspired JK Rowling. The quizzes throughout and giving “points” to all the houses was really fun. I loved that the tour was free but we were able to tip our guide at the end, especially with a card reader as most international visitors, like myself, don’t carry cash. I highly recommend this tour to any Harry Potter fans or even someone who isn’t a fan!
5Great little tour
The guide was great, and showed us interesting places, and gave great information.
5Colin was awesome!
Whether you've only passively heard of Harry Potter, watched the movies, or read the books, this was an incredible tour. Colin was not only exceedingly knowledgeable about the Potter content, but the history and context of Edinburgh and it's influence on J.K. Rowling as well. I'm not sure there was a single question he couldn't answer, and he was entertaining and engaging throughout the tour. HIGHLY recommend this tour for anyone visiting Edinburgh (and if possible make sure you ask for Colin!).
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Your guide will be waiting in costume outside the orange sandwich shop.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- The Potter Trail
- 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?
How it compares in Edinburgh
- Its from-price is 60% below the median of the 1253 experiences we list in Edinburgh.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 18 of 1253.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, rises on volcanic hills, with a castle on a crag, a medieval Old Town and an elegant Georgian New Town.
Edinburgh Castle crowns Castle Rock and keeps the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels. From there, the Royal Mile runs downhill through the Old Town, past St Giles' Cathedral and a warren of narrow closes, to the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament. Arthur's Seat, an ancient volcano, rises above the palace with sweeping views.
Top-ranked sights in Edinburgh: Royal Mile, Edinburgh Old Town, Edinburgh Castle.
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