City of the Dead Tours

Name: City of the Dead Tours
Rating: 4.5

2,829 reviews

#83 of 476 Tours in Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

About City of the Dead Tours

Our walks are written and researched by historical author and award winning novelist, J A Henderson. Our guides are a mixture of historians and professional entertainers, picked for their ability to improvise entertain. As a result we have enjoyed years of rave media reviews. City of the Dead has been named “Britain’s Best Ghost Walk” by Scare.com, Yahoo! Travel, the Sun Newspaper and Virgin Media and is the only Scottish attraction to be short listed for the prestigious Screamie Awards (3 times!) and the Luxury Travel Awards. We also won Scare Tours ‘Best Ghost Tour’ award. Best of all we have sole access to two of the word’s most haunted sites. Damnation Alley is in the South Bridge Vaults and part of Edinburgh’s legendary Underground City. The Covenanter’s Prison is a locked section of Greyfriars Graveyard and lair of the infamous‘Mackenzie Poltergeist’. This entity is the best documented supernatural case of all time and responsible for hundreds of ‘attacks’ on the tours.

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City of the Dead's Double Dead Tour

211 Reviews

Double the spook factor on a tour that takes you to two of Edinburgh most-haunted spots. While you listen to ghost stories from your guide, descend to the South Bridge Vaults and explore the Covenanter’s Prison in Greyfriars Graveyard, which is usually off-limits to the public. Listen to spooky tales from your guide as you explore each location.

1 hour 45 minutes

from US$24.37

Underground City of the Dead Tour

73 Reviews

Discover Edinburgh's Underground City, known as the city's most haunted location, on a tour that takes you below the streets. With a guide, you'll explore tunnels known as 'Damnation Alley' and learn about their history and ghosts.

1 hour 20 minutes

from US$20.07

City of the Dead Underground Vaults (Day)

4 Reviews

Experience the most haunted section of Edinburgh’s legendary Underground City with this award-winning guided walking tour. Known as 'Damnation Alley' and forgotten for centuries, these tunnels were once 'home' to men, women and children living in utter misery.

Experience Edinburgh's dark past as you listen to stories about what really happened beneath the city's streets and what might have stayed behind ...

• 80 minute walking tour exploring Edinburgh's underground city, led by a local expert guide.

• Choice of day or night time tour.

PLEASE NOTE

During very busy times of the year tours are marked SOLD OUT when places are still available, in order to avoid over-booking. Contact us if the tour you want is marked SOLD OUT in case places are available.

1 hour 20 minutes

from US$20.15

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Lucy S wrote a review Nov 2020

Glasgow, United Kingdom3 contributions3 helpful votes

Fully recommend

Review of: City of the Dead's Double Dead Tour

We were lucky enough to be the only two people on our tour, led by Grant, and had a fantastic time! Grant was incredibly knowledgeable and had man creepy stories to share with us. He was funny and created a deeply spooky vibe which is hard with only two people but he succeeded brilliantly. We found the vaults especially creepy given how totally pitch dark it is down there. It was great to also get access to the covenanters prison; and some fascinating history about the place to! If you are in Edinburgh and looking for a ghost tour that will genuinely unnerve you, look no further!…

Date of experience: November 2020

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Sophie wrote a review Nov 2020

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Great Fun and Very Scary

Review of: City of the Dead's Double Dead Tour

My family and I went on the City of the Dead Tour and had a great time. Adam had the perfect amount of humour, knowledge and scares. Would definitely recommend to anyone, especially if you get Adam.

Date of experience: November 2020

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Sylvia wrote a review Nov 2020

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Fantastic way to spend some time

Review of: Underground City of the Dead Tour

Local to the area but trouble finding things to do on a Friday night because of lock down. (The tour was conducted in a Covid safe manner I may add). Thoroughly enjoyed the extremely interesting and entertaining tour with (I think Rebecca). Learned some facts that even being a local I hadn’t come across before! Give this one a definite thumbs up!…

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James wrote a review Nov 2020

Edinburgh, United Kingdom2 contributions2 helpful votes

Spooky and fun experience

Review of: City of the Dead's Double Dead Tour

Lots of fun and very spooky. Our host was informative and very entertaining. Really enjoyed it and highly recommend. I got to see parts of Edinburgh I never thought existed.

Date of experience: October 2020

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Amanda R wrote a review Nov 2020

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Fantastic tours

Review of: City of the Dead's Double Dead Tour

Absolutely great night Ian was our tour guide and he was fantastic Funny as but very knowlegeable had us in stitches a lot of the time We booked through Jamie who again was fantastic A must do for anyone going to edinburgh The only complaint I had was ian walks too fast as I only have little legs lol Thansk guys was amazing…

Date of experience: October 2020

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