For three weeks in August the entire city becomes a venue. The International Festival is the curated programme at its centre; the Fringe wraps around it and turns every room with a door into a theatre.
What we can put you in
Premiere nights and private boxes at the Festival Theatre and Usher Hall
The International Festival programme, booked before public release
Accommodation in the New Town, which is the constraint every August
A guide through the Fringe, which is otherwise four thousand shows and no map
Around it
Eat
The Witchery by the Castle
At the top of the Royal Mile, against the castle walls. Candlelit, oak-panelled and gloriously theatrical — the right register for a festival evening.
Drink
Panda & Sons
A barbershop front on Queen Street with a bar behind it. Serious cocktails, no ceremony, and open late enough to suit the schedule.
Explore
Arthur's Seat at dawn
An extinct volcano in the middle of the city. Forty-five minutes up, and the whole of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth below you before the crowds wake.
Dates, tiers and price come back together, and only once the route is confirmed. Nothing here is held until you ask for it.
