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Edinburgh Fringe Festival Adventure

Edinburgh, Scotland - August 12-15 2025

On August 12 to 15 2025, we took 40 people to experience the magnificent chaos that is the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We took over a beautiful 18th-century castle outside Edinburgh with connections to Mary Queen of Scots, in order to enjoy an oasis of calm to return to after each day’s cornucopia of performances. We used our arts-media network to get tickets to shows that stimulate and intrigue, but we also made time for spontaneity, for participants to find and drop into some of the off-beat, unique offerings that make the fringe so special. Our team designed this adventure to balance the guided and critically filtered with the utterly unpredictable, so that participants could experience the festival at its best.

WHAT DID THE PROGRAMME LOOK LIKE?

For the fourth year we brought together a creative gathering of hand-picked VOYAGERS from around the world, with a range of activities designed to build strong friendships. We experienced up to five hand-picked shows a day, and then savoured the day’s adventures over dinner at some of Edinburgh’s most charismatic restaurants. After that, participants could choose to retire to the castle for late-night games and storytelling – or continue to make merry until the last shuttle home.

Read feedback from our previous Edinburgh Fringe Adventures

 

 

We also brought some of the festival’s most gifted visiting artists to our castle to connect and create with us. Throughout the adventure, participants enjoyed a VOYAGERS take on the Edinburgh lifestyle — from a hike up Arthur’s Seat to a guided whisky tasting, stargazing and our famous “walking podcast”.

Read feedback from participants in the previous Edinburgh Fringe Festival Adventure.

A completely genuine and sincere thank you — such an amazing and magical week in Edinburgh. Really, one of the most unique and enjoyable experiences I’ve ever had the privilege of being a part of. I have lived a week in only 3 nights, and yet it passed in the blink of an eye. Your ability to bring a group of people together, as people and not job titles, and in just the right mix, was incredible.

DG, Israel, who participated in our 2019 Edinburgh adventure

WHAT WAS INCLUDED

We took care of participants from the moment they arrived in our home, Carberry Tower, just 8 miles from the centre of Edinburgh, until the moment we closed with a farewell lunch on the Friday. Each place included:

  • Three nights’ accommodation at Carberry Tower. We had exclusive use of the castle’s accommodation, and the run of its 40 acres of private estate parkland, home to sweeping lawns, landscaped ponds and parkland deer

  • All meals: castle breakfasts, seated dinners and lunches for all three days

  • Our welcome drinks reception after arrival serenaded by a bagpiper

  • All drinks, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, taken with the group

  • Tickets for four or five recommended shows each day on Wednesday and Thursday (if participants still had capacity for more, our team was on hand to help obtain tickets to additional shows at cost)

  • All scheduled activities, including whisky tasting, hikes, and a special creative workshop on Friday with visiting artistic talent

  • All transport between our castle and Edinburgh for the duration of the scheduled adventure

  • The VOYAGERS gift pack

  • The services of the VOYAGERS production team

  • Advance curation by the VOYAGERS team, including two extended site visits

  • The additional services of arts journalists and festival insiders who guided us to the “hot” tickets

  • A few extra surprises we announced nearer the event.

We asked 2022’s participants: “Overall, how would you rate the adventure on a scale from 0 [worst] to 10 [best]?” Their average score was 9.6 out of 10.

 

CANCELLATION POLICY

We collected a £400 deposit to hold each place. Each place could be cancelled, for any reason with no questions asked, for a full refund until June 30 2025. Our refund policy is as follows:

•UNTIL JUNE 30, 2025 (Midnight GMT): All fees paid were refundable in full, NO questions asked.
•UNTIL JULY 15, 2025 (Midnight GMT): Refunds were available for all fees paid, excluding the booking deposit, minus a 50% cancellation fee.
•AFTER JULY 15, 2025 (Midnight GMT): No refund was payable; but until August 7 2025 you could connect us with someone you had found to take your place, subject to the VOYAGERS organisers’ approval.

What is your
Commitment?

Your Commitment

From the afternoon of August 12 2025 until the afternoon of August 15 2025.


The Cost

Each participant's share of the cost was £1,870 per person sharing a room, £2,170 per person single occupancy. Rooms were in the main castle building, which has strong Royal connections: King George VI, the Queen’s father, often visited with his wife, the late Queen Mother, whose sister lived here; the young Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret would often play here.


The Cost Breakdown


  1. ACCOMMODATION: £770 (your own room; £470 for a shared room)01
  2. FOOD & DRINKS: £37002
  3. TRANSPORT BETWEEN LOCATIONS: £6003
  4. THEATRE TICKETS: £20004
  5. EQUIPMENT RENTAL & ROOM HIRE: £5005
  6. OPERATIONS: £12006
  7. PRIOR SITE VISITS: £4007
  8. PRODUCTION, CURATION, GUIDES, GUEST BOOK & DELIVERY: £32008
  9. WORKSHOPS & GUEST SPEAKERS: £5009
  10. GIFT PACK: £3010
  11. STAFF TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION: £6011
  12. CONTINGENCY: £10012
  13. TOTAL: £1,870 sharing a room, £2,170 for single occupancy 13

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