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Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour

447 reviews

#89 of 400 Tours in Edinburgh

Tours, Sightseeing Tours, Literary, Art & Music Tours

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Certificate of Excellence

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Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour

308 Reviews

2 hours

from $20.92

Overview

The award winning Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour was the first literary tour to be launched in Edinburgh in 1996! Why is it regarded by many as a pioneer in its field and a Must-See cultural attraction in guide books throughout the world - standing out from all the rest.......? Performed by professional actors and not academics or tour guides reciting from books. It represents great value for money and has a very high entertainment factor!

Join the intrepid duo, Clart ( as in muck!) and our clean-hankied intellectual Mcbrain, who will lead you on a brilliant and witty dramatic romp through the wynds, courtyards and pubs of Edinburgh's Old and New Town. A Hilarious duel of wits across three hundred years of great writing and colourful characters.

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Merrily D

Reviewed today

A fun and interesting tour

Review of: Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour

We very much enjoyed this tour. The actors were excellent and we learned a lot while visiting several pubs and walking the streets of beautiful Edinburgh. Instructions for meeting were clear and the group size was comfortable.

Date of experience: November 2019

Thank Merrily D

cfhemail

California

1714

Reviewed yesterday

Tour folks cancelled the tour at the last minute and still no refund

Review of: Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour

This tour came highly recommended from several sources and we were excited to experience it. We booked for Sunday evening September 15. When we arrived a representative told us that, due to an actor being sick, they had to cancel. No one else was waiting...More

Date of experience: September 2019

Thank cfhemail

Smooshmonsters

Asheville, North Carolina

Reviewed 5 days ago

Super Sick Storytelling 😉

Review of: Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour

I went on this tour on Friday and had a lot of fun! An entertaining and light hearted way for a solo traveler to have a few drinks, learn about the city and its writers and have a few laughs. John Muir as Clart was...More

Date of experience: November 2019

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Rionnag81

Reviewed 1 week ago via mobile

Clart & McBrain

I was looking for an oppurtunity as a single traveller which includes Pubs and found the Literary Pub Tour and what shall i say? It was fantastic!!! Yes, as a non-native-english speaker or rather a non-native-scots-speaker, you will find it hard if not impossible to...More

Date of experience: November 2019

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leoniew2400

Reviewed 2 weeks ago

That’s what you do: You drink and you learn things!

Review of: Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour

This tour was really one of our highlights during our stay in Edinburgh! We did the tour on our first evening and so it was a great possibility to get to know the city a little as well! We visited 3 pubs and learned (in...More

Date of experience: October 2019

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MichiganBGT

161

Reviewed 2 weeks ago

Interesting but too long walk

We should not have done this on our first night. It went late and we were too tired. We liked the literary and poetry quotes, but the actors were hard to hear. Pub crawl should ended where we began, we walked too far.

Date of experience: October 2019

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Mindy H

Seattle, Washington

173

Reviewed 5 weeks ago via mobile

Laughed, Drank, Learned

Review of: Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour

This Literary tour was one of our trip highlights. We started in a comedy stage room above a pub, in a popular area called The Grass Market. The two guys who led the tour were fabulous, verbally jousting over facts, myths and possibly some fake...More

Date of experience: September 2019

1 Thank Mindy H

Dirk P

Northfield, Minnesota

Reviewed October 9, 2019

A wonderful energizing night with the Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour...

Review of: Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour

My wife and I did the Edinburgh Literay Pub Tour on Thursday night October 3. We had been travelling through the Highlands (Inverness) and the Islands (Skye, Harris, Lewis, Shetland) for two weeks and were finishing up a long but wonderful trip. We needed something...More

Date of experience: October 2019

1 Thank Dirk P

Kathleen C

Reviewed October 9, 2019

Fun and Informative

We loved the Literary Pub Tour. The two actors were well informed and embodied their roles well--and then stepped out of character a bit to answer questions and to chat. Our group was just the right size--10 or 12 of us.

Date of experience: September 2019

Thank Kathleen C

Birgitta N

Reviewed October 7, 2019

Interestingnand fun

Review of: Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour

Nice and informative tour with Clart än McBrain about literary figures in Edinburgh and Scotland. Good acting and well Rolf stories. We found pubs we wouldnt find otherwisd.

Date of experience: October 2019

Thank Birgitta N

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