City of the Dead Haunted Graveyard Tour > Reviews

Advantages: Nice and spooky, full of information
Disadvantages: Not for the faint-hearted!

...history and discovered that York City Council boobooed on Margaret Clitheroe's house (it's not the one that it's supposed to be - it's actually a few doors up the street!). Anyway, this time round I was able to combine business and pleasure, have a few quid in my pocket, leanr a bit of gory history and get some exercise too! A few years ago a friend of mine told me about the under-city tours that take place beneath Edinburgh. Because myself ... Read review

Advantages: History lesson, scare buzz and girlfriend will hug you!
Disadvantages: How much is real and how much is imagination?

The last tour of the evening was scheduled for 10:45 p.m. "Good" I thought, "so the tour will terminate at midnight, the perfect time to be in a hunted graveyard!" My girlfriend wasn't looking forward to the experience at all but decided to come along for the only reason that she was more scared to spend part of the evening in the hotel room by herself. At the rendezvous outside Saint Giles Cathedral there was a group of approximately twenty people. ... Read review

Advantages: The Best Outdoors Tour
Disadvantages: None

As an avid part-time researcher of all things that go bump in the night, I went into the Covenanters prison looking for answers! Like most ghost tours you pay your modest fee upfront to a cloaked drama student who puts on his/her most sinister of voices and leads you into a dark, bloody world of ancient times. You are told of the murderous past; hangings, witchery, public tourture and body snatchers! A gust of wind breezes past your neck and ... Read review

Advantages: Very informative tour and really quite spine chilling
Disadvantages: summer months are too light to appreciate it fully

...have been on loads of city tours but this one has got to be one of the best! I have been on this tour a couple of times and each time is as fascinating as the last. You get a tour around the Old Town of Edinburgh, providing you with a great background knowledge of the city and its murky past, before the cemetry gates are unlocked and you are led in. The cemetry is a World Heritage Site so is amazing just to experience that in itself, but the tour ... Read review