Long pieces on the decisions this castle actually forces — ticket or coach day, how long you need, how to get there, which operator and which week. Shorter answers live in the blog.
The castle sells its own ticket for less than a third of what a coach day costs, and eight of the nine coach days do not include it. Once you add the gate price back on, the comparison people actually want looks quite different from the one the prices suggest.
Read the guide →The castle asks for two to three hours. The coaches give you between ninety minutes and three, and the State Rooms shut an hour before the grounds do. What fits is a different answer at each of those four numbers.
Read the guide →Nine listed day trips leave Edinburgh from six different pavements, and none of them leaves Newcastle — which is odd, because Newcastle is thirty-five miles away and Edinburgh is eighty. Here is every way in.
Read the guide →Group caps run from four to forty-seven, time at the castle from ninety minutes to three hours, and two of the listings are the same coach sold twice. None of that is visible on a price-sorted grid.
Read the guide →A castle somebody lives in has a season, and this one closes on 22 October. Inside it, the tide, a flower show and a summer rate band all move what a given week is worth.
Read the guide →Every tour these guides weigh up is compared side by side, with fares, group caps and time at the castle, on Alnwick Castle Tours.
Every listed way in, from $29 with castle entry included. Each one refunds in full up to 24 hours before it starts, and you pay the operator’s own price — we add nothing to it.
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