Edinburgh festival

[jenny77]

Going for a few days to Edinburgh with my family (husband and girls 5 and 3). We are on a serious budget but are staying in the middle of town during the festival. Can anyone recommend any good shows or places to go for evening meals with small kids. Hoping good advice will keep the holiday stress free.

We were there at festival time two years ago,left it late to book and ended up in a slightly quirky but v nice B&B in Leith ( Wallace Art b&b( the owner put a couple of camping beds in the room. There is also the YHA they do family rooms, worth checking out.

Oops just read the last post!

Haha no worries thank you for the tips anyway always good to know what else is out there. I'm just glad there are options for families on a budget!

The book festival has kids events but check the dates.

The commonwealth pool has big flumes.

The Commonwealth pool doesn't have any flumes any more since it was refurbished a couple of years ago. Leith waterworld has also closed down so the nearest flumes to Edinburgh are in Dunbar or Perth.

I took dd age 3 through last year for the day paid to see the bubble man which she loved, then saw a couple of things on the free fringe which is all at the 3 sisters in the Grassmarket, the free shows were good. Huggers if they are back is worth going to & you could go more than once as its a mix of paid shows which changes daily.

There are free shows all over the city, not just at the Three Sisters. The BBC tent is brilliant too with lots of free kids and adults shows.

It sounds great, I can't wait! I'm certainly planning to hit the Cbeebies tent...I'm hoping it might keep the kids entertained whilst I grab a vino!

Just been to see Just So Stories at Momentum Playhouse at St Stephens, on daily at 10am. My 4& 2 year olds loved it. Interactive tales from story book favourites. Intimate stage seating, kids participate in directing the stories and staging the props. Engaging actors enchanted our kids throughout.

We've just been to Ali McGregors Jazzmataz which I recommend. It was lovely just hanging about in George Square Gardens & letting the kids run about.