4.7 stars, drawn from over 3,140 verified bookings across the real Viator and GetYourGuide tours featured on this site — not our own invented number, and not reviews of us. Here's what that data actually shows, broken down by the kind of tour you're considering.
Last reviewed:A note on where this number comes from: it's a genuine weighted average calculated from the public review counts and ratings published by Viator and GetYourGuide for the specific tours featured on this page — not a figure we made up, and not reviews left about our own site (which is new and doesn't have its own review history yet). Where a tour hasn't accumulated enough public reviews to publish a reliable average, we've said so honestly below rather than estimating one.
This is the biggest and most consistently rated category on the page — eight different Edinburgh day trips, from the Harry Potter-focused route to the multi-attraction Holy Island combinations, all averaging within a few tenths of a star of each other. The two recurring themes across these reviews: driver-guides who clearly know the history rather than reciting a script, and the castle itself being noticeably bigger than people expect from a single afternoon stop.
GetYourGuide doesn't publish an exact star average for this specific listing, but the volume and sentiment of recent verified reviews are strongly positive — visitors consistently mention the State Rooms tour staff being knowledgeable without sounding rehearsed, and the free Broomstick Training slot being worth arriving early for.
Most of the private tours on this page are genuinely new enough that they haven't built up a public review history yet — we're not going to invent a rating where none exists. The one private tour with an early public track record, the family-friendly Glasgow departure, sits at a perfect 5.0 from its first four reviewers. Take that as an encouraging early signal rather than a statistically solid average.