Pay just £1 to visit the castle in 2021. You must book your ticket in advance and show your valid Young Scot card on arrival (children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult). Current members of the British Armed Forces receive free entry to Edinburgh Castle.

The quickest way to get from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Edinburgh Castle is to taxi which costs £22 – £27 and takes 16 min. Is there a direct bus between Edinburgh Airport (EDI) and Edinburgh Castle? Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Edinburgh Airport, Airport and arriving at West End, Shandwick Place.

Bus. The Airlink 100 express bus runs from the airport to the city centre. It takes 25 minutes to reach Waverley Bridge, next to the main railway station. Some hop-on, hop-off bus tours make a stop by the castle.

You can find all of our bus stops right outside the terminal. Tickets for the Airlink 100, taking you straight to the city centre, can be purchased from the driver as you board using contactless card payment, m-tickets or the exact cash fare.

Airlink & Skylink Single Fares (Adult £2.50 / Child £1.50) are available on journeys between Edinburgh Airport and Maybury/Gyle Centre and for Airlink also on journeys between Airport Hotels and Edinburgh City Centre. Return Tickets are open-ended and the return journey can be taken when needed.

Airlink – Edinburgh airport to the city centre A return adult ticket is £7.50. Tickets can be bought on board the bus. Contactless, Lothian Buses Ridacards and Scottish National Concession passes can be used on Airlink.

Can I use my DAYticket on trams? DAYtickets, DAY&NIGHTtickets and Family DAYtickets can be used on Edinburgh Trams, between York Place and Ingliston Park & Ride only, as well as Lothian Buses day services. A Network DAYticket is valid for travel to or from Edinburgh Airport.

Councils across Scotland are currently replacing the OneScotland cards which are used for concessionary travel by anyone aged 60 or over or anyone who has received a card on grounds of disability. Both new designs are valid for free travel on Edinburgh Trams if they have been issued by the City of Edinburgh Council.

Free travel for over-60s on trams in Edinburgh could be scrapped as the city council moves to save money. Concessionary fares, which are available to over-60s who live in the capital, are subsidised by the council. Bus fares are paid for nationally by the Scottish government.

If the answer to both questions is yes, you can travel for free on Edinburgh Trams. Please note, Scottish National Entitlement Cards that do not have City of Edinburgh Council as the issuing Local Authority are not valid on tram services.

Where you can use your pass. You can travel for free on all local bus and coach services anywhere in Scotland. It’s not valid for travel within these towns. It’s not valid for all other journeys in England, or Wales.

Edinburgh Trams is a tramway in Edinburgh, Scotland, operated by Edinburgh Trams Ltd. As of 2017 it is a 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) line between York Place in the New Town and Edinburgh Airport, with 16 stops.

Every tram stop has ticket vending machines where you can buy Single, Return and DAYtickets. Our ticket vending machines accept most debit and credit cards including American Express as well as 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2 coins. No change is given.

Since beginning operations on May 31, 2014, Edinburgh Trams increased its passenger revenue in each fiscal year, peaking in the 2019/20 financial year at around 15.9 million British pounds.

Timetables. From York Place, trams run from 5:29 am until 11:08 pm. The first tram leaves from the airport at 6:15 am and the last one leaves at 10:45 pm. Trams operate every 8 – 10 minutes from Monday to Saturday and every 12 – 15 minutes on Sunday.

There are no toilets on the tram.

Always give way to trams. Do not try to race or overtake them or pass them on the inside, unless they are at tram stops or stopped by tram signals and there is a designated tram lane for you to pass. You MUST NOT park your vehicle where it would get in the way of trams or where it would force other drivers to do so.

Trams are one of the easiest ways to get to and from the airport with fast and frequent services to the city centre. Trams depart every 7 minutes (07:00 – 19:00) and every 15 minutes out-with these hours, with an end-to-end journey of just 30 minutes.

From Sunday 2 February we will be increasing fare prices.