Cheap flights from San Francisco to Edinburgh, Scotland from just $404 roundtrip with American Airlines and British Airways!

Scotland offers many options for its visitors: outdoor activities among beautiful landscapes, castles visits and northern islands hopping adventures. The vibrant life of Glasgow, its ancient wonderful University and the charm of the capital Edinburgh will make your trip unforgettable!

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Edinburgh is a city that begs to be discovered, filled with quirky, come-hither nooks that tempt you to explore just that little bit further.

Edinburgh is one of Europe’s most beautiful cities, draped across a series of rocky hills overlooking the sea. It’s a town intimately entwined with its landscape, with buildings and monuments perched atop crags and overshadowed by cliffs. From the Old Town’s picturesque jumble of medieval tenements piled high along the Royal Mile, its turreted skyline strung between the black, bull-nosed Castle Rock and the russet palisade of Salisbury Crags, to the New Town’s neat grid of neoclassical respectability, the city offers a constantly changing perspective.

The Athens of the North, an 18th-century Edinburgh nickname dreamed up by the great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, is a city of high culture and lofty ideals, of art and literature, philosophy and science. It is here that each summer the world’s biggest arts festival rises, phoenix-like, from the ashes of last year’s rave reviews and broken box-office records to produce yet another string of superlatives. And it is here, beneath the Greek temples of Calton Hill – Edinburgh’s acropolis – that the Scottish parliament sits again after a 300-year absence.

Edinburgh is also known as Auld Reekie, a down-to-earth place that flicks an impudent finger at the pretensions of the literati. Auld Reekie is a city of loud, crowded pubs and decadent restaurants, late-night drinking and all-night parties, beer-fuelled poets and foul-mouthed comedians. It’s the city that tempted Robert Louis Stevenson from his law lectures to explore the drinking dens and lurid street life of the 19th-century Old Town. And it’s the city of Beltane, the resurrected pagan May Day festival, where half-naked revellers dance in the flickering firelight of bonfires beneath the stony indifference of Calton Hill’s pillared monuments.

Like a favourite book, Edinburgh is a city you’ll want to dip into again and again, savouring each time a different experience – the castle silhouetted against a blue spring sky with a yellow haze of daffodils misting the slopes below the esplanade; stumbling out of a late-night club into a summer dawn, with only the yawp of seagulls to break the unexpected silence; heading for a cafe on a chill December morning with the fog snagging the spires of the Old Town; and festival fireworks crackling in the night sky as you stand, transfixed, amid the crowds in Princes Street Gardens.

Travel dates:

October – November 2019

Sample dates:

Oct 21-30, 22-29, Oct 28- Nov 7, Nov 4-15, 5-15, 6-15

Routing:

San Francisco – Edinburgh – San Francisco

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Baggage policy:

One cabin bag and personal item per passenger.

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Accommodation:

We encourage you to stay at the well-rated 4* Novotel Edinburgh Cetre . Located 5 minutes’ walk from Grassmarket, Novotel Edinburgh Centre features a hot tub and swimming pool. It offers spacious, modern rooms with LCD TVs. Princes Street is a 10-minute walk away. Each room provides a 32-inch LCD TV. Rooms also feature free Wi-Fi,a private bathroom, minibar, and tea/coffee facilities. Guest can relax in Novotel’s sauna, or exercise in the modern fitness centre. The Tap Kitchen & Bar serves American dining cuisine. Guests can experience Scottish cuisine with the property’s “Wee Menu”, which offers seasonal Scottish dishes. Cocktails and craft beers are also available. The Royal Lyceum Theatre is just 5 minutes’ walk away, and Edinburgh Waverley Rail Station is a 15-minute walk. Holyrood Park can be reached in 20 minutes’ walk, and The Royal Mile is 15 minutes’ walk. Up to 2 children (under 16 years) can stay free (with breakfast) when sharing a room with adults. This includes access to video games, baby equipment and a healthy children’s menu. Families also get late check-out on Sundays (until 17:00, and subject to availability).

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