What to do in Edinburgh

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Just me and DC who is 13. Has some SN so can't manage everything
Looking for recommendations for ghost walks and similar
We will do the dungeon and the underground street, the name escapes me just now
I don't like the castle. It seems better from the outside

I think you mean the Real Mary Kings Close? My favourite thing in Edinburgh is that and the Britannia.

There's a great optical illusions place with a camera obscure on top on the Royal Mile. My son adored it.

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Greyfriar’s Kirkyard. Give the Mackenzie Poltergeist a wave.

There’s always something to see in Edinburgh, just walking around.

Museum of Scotland, Camera Obscura, Museum of Childhood , climb Arthur's Seat, see the 1o'clock gun go off at the castle. Have fun, wanted to go this week as not been home for years but outvoted!

Mary kings close
And the Witchery for the lunch menu

The underground street is called the Real Mary King’s Close, and you need to book during the summer, it gets filled up very quickly. It’s excellent.
Your 13 year old would probably also love:
the zoo at Corstorphine (giant pandas and a wide variety of other species on a hilly site with lots of nice planting and shade for a hot day)
Our Dynamic Earth, at the bottom of the Royal Mile near the Parliament. They take you in a time capsule back to the start of the Universe, you watch the Big Bang happening, then get taken through different earth habitats - shaken in an earthquake, snowed on in the Alps, its all great fun, and then in the planetarium you get a stunning film at the end with NASA footage etc of the Moon and planets.
I wouldn’t recommend the Dungeon - it’s rather unpleasant “ torture porn” to my mind. A museum of torture instruments, a mad medic cutting up a simulated body and spraying the audience with pretend body fluids from the corpse - your DC might find it unpleasant and upsetting.
The hop on/hop off bus tour
Ghost walks
A walk down the Water of Leith past waterfalls to the Shore area - nice cobbled waterfront with cafes and gastropubs
If you’re going this month, the festival and Fringe are on - thousands of shows, street performers, music, crowds. Great fun, but exhausting.

Mary kings close and camera Obscura as already mentioned are great. Bus tour. National museum of Scotland. The vaults. Haunted bus tour. Outside edinburgh is Jupiter artland.

We have 2 beaches Silverknowes and Portobello.
Portobello has beach buggies sometimes available
portobellobeach.com/wheelchairs/

silverknowes has a walk over to a tidal island.

DC will love the dungeon 😁 We have done the London and York dungeons
These are excellent ideas. Thank I will make notes and book

Are the beaches walking distance from the city centre?

Portobello beach is a short bus ride.