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20.06.2023 - 14:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Edinburgh Castle has responded after a disgruntled tourist slammed the attraction as "ridiculously expensive" in a scathing review.
Taking to travel website Tripadvisor, the unhappy visitor hit out at the prices of the entrance fee, gift shop and the extra £3.50 charge for an audio guide, describing the experience as a "cynical cash grab".
In the two-star review review, which was posted on June 19, the visitor stated that only 'plus side' was that toilets are free, adding it "leads me to think that they just haven't found a way to charge for usage yet."
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The tourist also claims the castle gets "repetitive really quickly" and that they "learned more about the castle on a one hour city tour bus than I did wandering aimlessly around it".
The tourist wrote: "I was told the castle was 'a must see' and was expecting it to be a highlight of our trip. It wasn’t.
"It’s less ‘castle’ more series of random outbuildings. It’s ridiculously expensive to get in, and then you get stung for an additional £3.50 if you want an audio guide.
"The guide itself is informative but it isn’t hands free which means you spend the entire trip holding it up to your ear like an 80s yuppie. The accompanying map is higgledy piggledy and impossible to follow."
It continues: "There’s a lot to see in terms of military history but it does get repetitive really quickly. There’s very little about the actual castle and its structure, story and history.
"It just felt like a bit of a let down. I learned more about the castle on a one hour city tour bus than I did wandering aimlessly around it. The gift shop (surprise, surprise) was really expensive.
"On the plus side, the toilets are
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