The Scotsman Steps
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Ways to reach The Scotsman Steps directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake
Scotsman Steps, EH1 1BU, Edinburgh · +441315565565
Places near The Scotsman Steps that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Apartments Royal120 m
- City of Edinburgh Tours140 m
- Tron Kirk Market140 m
- Blubale Tours140 m
- The Edinburgh Dungeon150 m
The website's grade
AI assistants can't open The Scotsman Steps's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.
0 of 80 points available
agent-readiness level
thing to fix
Provisional, with the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.
What assistants answer
Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.
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How The Scotsman Steps compares
248 of 253 in Edinburgh tours, attractions and museums
Top 98% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Serviced Apartments International Limited F, TUI F. Just below: Tower Restaurant F, Trailfinders F.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 8% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 35% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 65% | no |
The top 10% are the 26 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linton Collection apartments | 39 m | F | no |
| Underground Edinburgh | 116 m | F | no |
| Apartments Royal | 122 m | B | yes |
| City of Edinburgh Tours | 136 m | B | yes |
| Tron Kirk Market | 143 m | B | yes |
| Blubale Tours | 144 m | B | yes |
| The Edinburgh Dungeon | 146 m | C | yes |
| SANDEMANs NEW Edinburgh tours start point | 146 m | C | no |
| Clan Pascual - Edinburgh Walking Tours | 169 m | B | yes |
| Museum of Magic, Fortune-Telling and Witchcraft | 178 m | C | yes |
Businesses like The Scotsman Steps in Edinburgh tours, attractions and museums
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh tours, attractions and museums | 253 | 48% | 23% | 0% |
The best of the businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh tours, attractions and museums
Barnton Bunker A 92.3% · Camera Obscura & World of Illusions A 87.5% · Spirit of Scotland A 86.3% · Edinburgh Bus Tours B 84.6% · Heartland Travel - Tours of Scotland B 84.6%
Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.
What to fix first
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What agents get for The Scotsman Steps
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-21 found no booking or ordering link on edinburghspotlight.com or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/edinburghspotlight.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/edinburgh-tours/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +441315565565 |
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Not measured
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| JSON-LD for the business | no |