For 2012, Edinburgh's spectacular and world-renowned  Royal Military Tattoo takes place from 3rd-27th August 2012.

 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is Scotland's biggest, best-selling spectacle, the most popular annual event on the Scottish calendar, attracting an international audience each year of some 217,000 people.

     The 2012 Tattoo (3-25 August 2012) will pay tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee together with the ‘Year of Creative Scotland’, a celebration to mark 60 years of the Queen's reign and Scottish creativity and culture.

The line-up of nearly 1000 performers includes hundreds of musicians, pipers, drummers, singers and dancers, as well as one of the World's most sensational percussion groups: Switzerland's Top Secret Drum Corps.

With music, colour and spectacle from home and abroad, set against the incomparable backcloth of Edinburgh Castle, featuring the Massed Pipes and Drums, Military Bands, display teams and dancers from the four corners of the earth. 

A huge audience favourite is once again expected to be the traditional and poignant close of the evening's proceedings when the Lone Piper high on the Castle ramparts plays a haunting lament, before the colourful, cosmopolitan cast march off the Esplanade to the strains of famous  pipe melody, The Black Bear.

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2 Night Package at the 4 star Marriott Dalmahoy - 2012 Packages Now Available!

Through JAC Travel we will be able to offer you a 2 night package with accommodation at the 4 star superior Marriott Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club near Edinburgh; you have a choice of either a weekend package which includes a mid-price ticket for the Tattoo on the Saturday evening, or a midweek package with a ticket for the Wednesday performance. Both packages include the return coach transfer between the hotel and Edinburgh Castle, and use of the hotel's leisure facilities. Click here for the 2012 Tattoo packages at the Dalmahoy!... 

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2 Night Package at the 4 star George Hotel - 2012 Packages Now Available!

JAC Travel are offering a 2 night package at the 4 star George Hotel in Edinburgh's New Town.  Included is a mid-price Tattoo Ticket for the Saturday evening Tattoo performance. Click here for more details and to book!

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2 Night Package at the 3 star Holiday Inn Express Edinburgh Waterfront

A 2 night weekend break (Saturday and Sunday nights) during August at the 3 star Holiday Inn   Express at Edinburgh's Waterfront - close to Leith's trendy restaurants and the Royal Yacht Britannia. A mid-range Tattoo ticket for the saturday evening performance is included. Free parking at the hotel. Click here for more details and to book!

Other information about the Edinburgh Military Tattoo:

• Doors open 45 minutes before Tattoo performance.

• Duration of Military Tattoo programme: 1.5 hours.

• Children of 3 and under admitted free of charge provided they sit on an adults lap.

• The management reserve the right of admission.

• In the event of any part of the performance being cancelled through inclement weather, tickets are not valid for any other performance and money will not be refunded.No performance has ever been cancelled.