{"id":12184,"date":"2019-09-12T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.travelcenter.uk\/?p=12184"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:48:44","slug":"lonely-planet-reveals-new-ranking-edinburgh-festival-fringe-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/lonely-planet-reveals-new-ranking-edinburgh-festival-fringe-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Planet reveals new ranking: Edinburgh festival fringe on top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span class=\"tadv-color\" style=\"color:#0693e3\">Lonely Planet<\/span><\/strong><\/a> recently ranked the top 500 experiences in Great Britain and reveals the number one ultimate travel experience as Edinburgh festival fringe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">Travel experts from Lonely Planet have compiled the list of 500 unmissable experiences across Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, to create the \u2018Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist\u2019, which is ranging from world-class museums and giant cathedrals to rollicking festivals, inky lochs, and tiny pubs. It will be exceptionally useful for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/tips-for-easy-and-stress-free-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span class=\"tadv-color\" style=\"color:#0693e3\">travellers<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, who are planning to leeway in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">The list of top 500 experiences in the UK has created according to the votes of top travel sectors<br>in the country as well as writers from Lonely planet, who were asked to reveal their favourite spots and experiences before voting began. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"752\" data-id=\"12185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-7-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"Source:- Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society\/ Photographer David Monteith Hodge\" class=\"wp-image-12185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-7-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-7-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-7-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-7-960x705.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-7-545x400.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-7-585x429.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-7.jpg 1744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source:- Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society\/ Photographer David Monteith Hodge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, according to Lonely Planet, it &#8216;floods the city with art&#8217; and &#8216;nowhere beats it for spectacle or scale&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">August is the best time of year in Edinburgh to experience the Fringe festival which is one of the<br>largest celebrations of arts and culture in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">It\u2019s a festival, to witness different performers with amazing talents along with theatre plays, dance, comedy, cabaret, circus, acrobat, trapeze artists, opera, music, contortionist and bagpiping busker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"752\" data-id=\"12186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2-6-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2-6-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2-6-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2-6-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2-6-960x705.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2-6-545x400.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2-6-585x429.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2-6.jpg 1744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Source:- Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society\/ Photographer David Monteith Hodge <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Festival hosts each year around 3,500 shows, 1,900 odd premiers, and 55,000 performances for over three weeks in August. The Edinburgh festival fringe has hosted 3,548 different shows across 317 venues last year, has come top in a newly ranked list of Lonely Planet\u2019s \u2018Ultimate\u00a0United Kingdom\u00a0Travelist\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonely Planet recently ranked the top 500 experiences in Great Britain and reveals the number one ultimate travel experience as Edinburgh festival fringe. Travel experts from Lonely Planet have compiled the list of 500 unmissable experiences across Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, to create the \u2018Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist\u2019, which is ranging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":40906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements-travel-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40907,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions\/40907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}