This post contains affiliate links. If you book a tour through one of them, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tours I’d tell a friend to book. A standard Edinburgh Castle ticket costs £21.50. The bestselling guided tours run about £40–45. That’s roughly double, for the same castle — so is the guide worth it? The short answer: if it’s your first visit and you like your history told rather than read, the Guided History Tour with Tickets (4.8 stars, 11,000+ reviews) is the strongest of the bunch, and at around $52 it’s…