The Real Mary King's Close Tickets
The Real Mary King's Close Tickets
The Real Mary King's Close: Entry Ticket
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Step beneath Edinburgh’s bustling Royal Mile and uncover a hidden world frozen in time at The Real Mary King’s Close. This immersive one-hour guided tour reveals the city’s only preserved 17th-century street, where real people once lived, worked, and fought to survive. Follow your costumed character guide through narrow underground alleyways as you explore centuries of myths, legends, and true stories that shaped the city’s dark past.
From tales of the deadly plague to visits by royal figures, every corner of the Close hides a gripping piece of history. Audio guides in multiple languages help enhance your experience as you wander through rooms and passageways unchanged for 400 years. It’s a rare opportunity to step directly into Edinburgh’s underground past and see history exactly where it happened.
- Explore a Preserved 17th-Century Street: Walk through Edinburgh’s only surviving underground close with original architecture and stories.
- Character-Led Guided Tour: Hear dramatic tales of former residents, brought to life by a costumed English-speaking guide.
- Learn Edinburgh’s Dark History: Discover the truth behind plague outbreaks, myths, mysteries, and everyday life centuries ago.
- Immersive Underground Experience: Navigate atmospheric tunnels, chambers, and alleyways hidden beneath the modern city.
- Multilingual Audio Guide: Enhance your visit with audio commentary available in 10+ languages.
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- Daily: 9:30 AM – 10:00 PM
- Please show your smartphone ticket at the box office before starting your tour.
- French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Mandarin audio guides are available via the 'Mary King’s Close Audio Guide' app; a code will be provided onsite.
- Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, and Hungarian audio guides must be requested before your visit (subject to availability).
- Please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled start time.
- Tour duration: 1 hour.
- Headphones are required for audio guide use.
- Most travelers can participate.
- Children under 5 are not permitted for safety reasons.
- Smartphone ticket
- Headphones for audio guide use
- Comfortable walking shoes
- Not wheelchair accessible.
- Not suitable for prams.
- Tour requires descending 58 steps and ascending 38 steps.
- Animals are not permitted.
- Your booking is confirmed instantly.
- Cancel for free until 24 hours before your visit to receive a full refund.
- Rescheduling is possible until 24 hours before your visit.
- Show your smartphone ticket at the box office to begin your tour.
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The Continuum Group Ltd
USD 36.52
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Wonderful tour and an essential Edinburgh experience. The stories of the lives of close residents from hundreds of years ago were captivating and we were left in awe of the resilience of those long ago Edinburghers. Anthony is the most excellent guide and brought all his tales to life with his tone and expressions. 5 stars indeed!
Good quality, short 1 hour tour. Well presented by the guide who took up a persona of a resident in Mary King's Close. It was interesting to see how people might have lived hundreds of years ago. The rooms were well prepared but maybe they could be staged better with more items to more accurately reflect what the places could have looked like if people were still living there. Also consider playing some background noise in the street portion (e.g. market noises) to set the atmosphere. Side note, there were other areas and rooms which were staged but we did not go to - not sure if there are variations to the tours dependent on who the guide is.
Awesome