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Edinburgh Fringe Festival Adventure

Edinburgh, Scotland - August 12-15 2025

On August 12 to 15 2025, we will take 40 people to experience the magnificent chaos that is the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We'll take over a beautiful 18th-century castle outside Edinburgh with connections to Mary Queen of Scots, so that we have an oasis of calm to return to after each day’s cornucopia of performances. We'll use our arts-media network to get tickets to shows that stimulate and intrigue, but we'll also make 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 has designed this adventure to balance the guided and critically filtered with the utterly unpredictable, so participants experience the festival at its best.

WHAT WILL THE PROGRAMME LOOK LIKE?

For the fourth year we’re bringing together a creative gathering of hand-picked VOYAGERS from around the world, with a range of activities designed to build strong friendships. We’ll experience up to five hand-picked shows a day, and will then savour the day’s adventures over dinner at some of Edinburgh’s most charismatic restaurants. After that, you can 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’re also bringing some of the festival’s most gifted visiting artists to our castle to connect and create with us. Throughout the adventure, participants will enjoy 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 our last 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’S INCLUDED

We’ll take care of you from the moment you arrive in our home, Carberry Tower, just 8 miles from the centre of Edinburgh, until the moment we close with a farewell lunch on Friday. Your place include:

  • Three nights’ accommodation at Carberry Tower. We have 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 your 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 you still have capacity for more, our team will be on hand to help you to 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 (you will need to arrange your own travel to and from Edinburgh)

  • The VOYAGERS gift pack (save some luggage space to take it home)

  • 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’ll guide us to the “hot” tickets

  • A few extra surprises we’ll announce 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 will collect a £400 deposit to hold your place. You can cancel your place, 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 are refundable in full, NO questions asked.
•UNTIL JULY 15, 2025 (Midnight GMT): You will receive a refund of all fees paid, excluding your booking deposit, minus a 50% cancellation fee.
•AFTER JULY 15, 2025 (Midnight GMT): No refund will be payable to you; but until August 7 2025 you may connect us with someone you have found to take your place, subject to the VOYAGERS organisers’ approval.

Please note: We are limited to just 40 places, and are likely to be oversubscribed. We will curate the group to ensure a diverse mix of lovely people. We welcome partners who engage with the group as active participants.

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 is £1,870 per person sharing a room, £2,170 per person single occupancy. Rooms are 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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