Edinburgh JK Rowling Inspiration Tour

JK Rowling... she’s sold a few books - what?!
✒ On this tour, we dive deep into her history. Learn to use failure as a springboard, be inspired, stay committed & conquer the world. Discover the events that moved her & the cafes which fueled her. Experience how, through a caffeine-charged imagination, a penniless single mother put a dent in the Muggle-verse.

◘ Learn the entire genesis of Potter, from lightning striking on a Manchester train to becoming a pillar of British culture & shaping generations.
◘ Reviewers say it’s a good introduction to our Hogwartian old town, discover fabulous gothic scenes off the Muggle track, the stonework of Rowling's imagination.
◘ There’s magic, I never got my letter so I’m giving you yours.

✒ Darker than an Azkaban prison cell, more brilliant than all the gold in Gringotts, 4+ hours long for those with double the love. Stand on the shoulders of Rowling, Nimbus-charge your originality & drive; fill that aching Potter-shaped hole inside ϟ

Meeting Point

Monument to Wellington

Wellington, Edinburgh EH1 3YY, UK

If you're not driving a car in, this is the correct meeting point for my tour. Outside General register house, besides the Apple store & the statue of the Duke of Wellington on his rearing horse.
Opposite the Balmoral hotel with its big clock tower.

NCP Edinburgh Holyrood Rd

2 Viewcraig Gardens, Edinburgh EH8 9UL, UK

NCP CAR PARK: I have permits which reduce the cost from £27 to £10 for 24 hrs. You could have breakfast in JK’s ‘Levels’ across the road (opens: 08:30 AM). If this is your plan PLEASE MESSAGE ME after booking, I can collect you @ 09.50 am

What's included:

• Resurrection stone. To revive the magic
• Escort back to Edinburgh’s ‘Harry Potter’ street at the end if you wish
• 4 PLUS HOURS of Edinburgh’s world heritage site, the Hogwartian half, the Old Town
• Spoilers, it explores JK’s themes so is terrible for whetting appetites
• A peek inside JK Rowling’s head. It’s fairly big but leave only footprints
• Discounted all day parking cost £10, please contact me

Not included:

• Genocide: We’re a local company compliant with Scottish law
• Tips: Wizards aren’t rich, unsurprisingly, help him out if you can afford to
• Potter guides & aspiring guides: please look elsewhere, I love you but I have too many "tributes"
• French. If your English is weak I am able to appoint a French guide, please contact me
• Flexibility: due to the start point it’s difficult to cut the tour short SEEK my 8hr Potterhead tour
• Humility. Well OK. Why am I so bad @ Quidditch, it’s so unfair. & Charms & Transfiguration & Potions
• And nobody likes me. The only person who likes me is Hermione. Jesus.
• Breakfast. We can pause for sandwiches to be eaten during the tour, but BREAKFAST IS KING
• Kids who have not read the books. Buy them the books already. Meantime try potter trail instead
• This is a tour for those who've read & love the books. Squibs are there for true fan’s ride

What to expect:

Duration: 4 hours, 15 minutes

The Balmoral

1 Princes St, Edinburgh EH2 2EQ, UK

The tour starts where Harry Potter died. (He might also have revived - *SPOILERS*).

10 minutes

EH8 9DH

Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9DH, UK

Harry's maternity ward

10 minutes

McEwan Hall

Teviot Place, Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG

See the fabulous hall where JK Rowling had a ball

10 minutes

Greyfriars

26A Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, EH1 2QQ

JK Rowling has disowned this cemetery as an inspiration, we dig up the truth.

5 minutes

George Heriot's School

8 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EQ

JK Rowling insists this castled school isn't Hogwarts. So what is JK Rowling's connection? Why has she visited so many many times and why has it had such a profound impact on her life?

5 minutes

The Elephant House

21 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EN, UK

The birthplace of Harry Potter? Ummm, no. Beloved by JK Rowling nevertheless.

5 minutes

Over Langshaw Farmhouse Ice Cream

The, Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2AW, UK

Scottish whisky ice cream, the most scottish Ice cream in the world. Sometimes, when the elves have been busy, they also have a butter brew flavour.

5 minutes

Museum CONTEXT

40 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2JW

We visit Victoria Street, Edinburgh's winding wizarding street and unpack its famed Harry Potter shops

Pass by without stopping

Heart of Midlothian Mosaic

197 High St, Edinburgh EH1 1RE, UK

What does Harry Potter have to teach? Nothing really, Rowling didn't see herself as children's baby sitter or teacher. Here though we explore some of her ideas and views of the world as embedded in her epic.

5 minutes

Lothian Chambers

59-63 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1RN, UK

JK Rowling's Europillia - Oh my!

5 minutes

The Writers' Museum

Lawnmarket, Lady Stair's Cl, Edinburgh EH1 2PA, UK

Edinburgh is UNESCO's first 'city of literature', we now mentor the others around the world. In this special court to makars - writers, we have a look at the ascent of Edinburgh's most famous adopted daughter.

5 minutes

Mercat Cross

Mercat Cross, Edinburgh

Where poverty & sovereignty meet. Or something.

1 minute

Edinburgh City Chambers

45-329 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PN

We have at look at Rowling's Edinburgh Award

10 minutes

JK Rowling’s Handprints

City Chambers, 253 High St, Edinburgh EH1 1YJ, UK

The finale, we give thanks

5 minutes