Edinburgh: Underground Vaults Tour
1.Edinburgh: Underground Vaults Tour
Guided one-hour tour of Edinburgh’s South Bridge vaults: murders, witches, and grim living conditions, with optional torture exhibit.
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Guided one-hour tour of Edinburgh’s South Bridge vaults: murders, witches, and grim living conditions, with optional torture exhibit.
Most PopularStep into Edinburgh’s South Bridge vaults on a 1-hour guided walking tour with chilling tales, tight stairs, and ghostly stories.
“Stewart was very informative, the vaults are great for an hour especially on a rainy day! 100% would recommend”
Haunted Edinburgh tour linking Greyfriars Kirkyard and Edinburgh Vaults with Bobby, Burke and Hare tales, plus creepy South Bridge arches.
A late-night, 75-minute walk under Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with vaults, torture exhibits, and eerie ghost tales for adults only.
Guided tour of Edinburgh’s Real Mary King’s Close, a preserved 17th-century street with 400-year stories under the Royal Mile.
Edinburgh Underground Vaults ghost tour with whisky. Walk the Old Town, hear Blair Street tales with TourTalk, then toast in a candlelit cellar.
“Thanks for an incredible tour. Michael was a very nice and motivated guide.”
A 1-hour Haunted Vaults walking tour in Edinburgh with underground vault access, dark torture exhibit stories, and spooky history.
“James was an amazing guide, he was funny, informative - the experience was overall really great and accompanied by our guide really recommendable for everyone interested in dark history, ghosts and witches”
Walk Edinburgh by night to Greyfriars graveyard and underground South Bridge vaults on a story-led tour for horror and true-crime fans.
“Our tour guide Brendan was great! So friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining! The stories told were really interesting and we would thoroughly recommend the tour.”
Haunted underground vaults in Edinburgh with a small 18-person group, real-feeling stories, and a walk from Mercat Cross to Blair Street.
“The tour was really good, Steph the guide was really chatty before the tour began and slipped effortlessly into character. She was knowledgable about the history and told the tales with enthusiasm and made it fun. I would highly recommend this tour, it’s a good way to spend an hour or so learning about the…”
A small-group walk into Edinburgh’s South Bridge vaults, with multi-sensory stories, low-light details, and a museum stop for context.
“First off, our tour guide Linda was amazing, her knowledge unsurpassed but presented in such a way you could see and feel the history. This is a most unique tour giving a sense of Edinburgh you can’t obtain any other way. We were so impressed with the tour that we turned around and booked another…”
Small-group Edinburgh ghost tour to Blair Street Underground Vaults and Megget’s Cellar, with a whisky dram to end it.
“Mary was lovely and we really enjoyed our tour, it was a cool way to learn history and get some spooky tales. Would recommend!”
1-hour Edinburgh ghost walk to Blair Street Underground Vaults by candlelight, small group, headset audio, true crime tales, ending near Blair St.
“Waste off money, spent most off the time talking at least 40 minites outside, then when u were finally in there, u were moved from room to room quickly as possible then out the door again”
Descend into Blair Street Underground Vaults with a master storyteller, touch artifacts, then visit the Vaults Museum.
“Veni our friendly guide told in a very entertaining way all the things to know about the vault.”
Small-group Edinburgh ghost tour to Blair Street vaults and Canongate Kirkyard. 18 max, 1h45, theatrical storytelling for $43.
“so enthrallingly entertaining and so well presented by our guide marina who gave brilliant theatrical performance combined with human stories that bring history to life--very enjoyable despite cold!”
Adult-only Edinburgh tour with exclusive Blair Street vault access and the Canongate graveyard, guided with audio gear.
“I really enjoyed this tour. The tour guide was very amusing and told the stories in a light-hearted yet thought-provoking way from the start of the tour at the Merkat Cross to the end in the Canongate church graveyard. It was spooky in the South Bridge vaults but the guide had no end of tales…”
The Old Town and the New, the castle and the closes, and every road north into the Highlands.