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Hidden Secrets of the Royal Mile Tour
Starting 9th October 2020
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 10:15am & 2:15pm
Cost: £14 per person – 90min
Contact us to organise private tours for groups of a minimum of 2 people up to a maximum of 10 people. Private tours available in Mandarin.
Join us as we delve into the past and explore the hidden realms of the legendary and Infamous Royal Mile. The Royal Mile dates back to around the twelfth century, steeped in rich history with its impressive and majestic blend of period architecture, intriguing statues and monuments, and darkened wynds and closes leading to hidden atmospheric locations. You’ll discover and walk in the footsteps of the some of the most honourable, and some of the most abominable but equally fascinating characters that have shaped the old town of Edinburgh.
Sinister Old Town Experience
Starting 9th October 2020
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 12:15pm & 4:15pm
Cost: £14 per person – 90min
Contact us to organise private tours for groups of a minimum of 2 people up to a maximum of 10 people. Private tours available in Mandarin.
Discover the sinister side of Edinburgh’s Old Town, from villains to aristocracy and slums, prisons and execution sites to the time encrusted architecture of the high and mighty. Our costumed guide will regale you with tales of Edinburgh’s chequered past. Travel in the footstep of our capitals most wretched characters who roamed these very streets, learn of the abominations they committed or received and the legacy they left. Hear the deprived antics of our ancestors at the Grassmarket, truly a place of grime and punishment, before we embark on the most macabre of destinations, Greyfrairs Graveyard. We’ll resurrect the dark deeds of this ancient cemeteries expired inhabitants. Blood curdlingly haunted, you might just encounter the infamous MacKenzie Poltergeist. Surviving that, we’ll unveil the sobering sinister secrets of the not always so majestic Royal Mile.
The Vaults Tour
Daily: 10am, 11am*, 12pm, 1pm*, 2pm, 3pm* & 4pm
(* tours not available on Mon, Tue, Wed & Thurs between 4/9/20 – 31/10/20)
Cost: £14 – 60min
Private Tour Rate: £120 for groups of a minimum of 2 people up to a maximum of 12 people – £75 for groups of 2 to 6 people.
SCOTLAND’S MOST HAUNTED UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE
Visit the infamous vaults hidden under the South Bridge in Edinburgh’s Old Town. Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums. Explore these dimly lit vaults, once the haunt of criminals, body snatchers and witches alike!
Each vault has stories of crime, disease and death and lots more, with which your guide shall enlighten you with all the gory details. You will see a genuine witchcraft temple, recently used by the “Source Coven of the Blue Dragon” and you will enter their former temple, and learn why it was no longer safe for them to practise their craft in that vault. DARE you step inside the infamous stone circle?
Haunted Vaults Tour
Nightly: 5pm, 7pm, 9pm
Cost: £14 – 60min
Private Tour Rate: £120 for groups of a minimum of 2 people up to a maximum of 12 people – £75 for groups of 2 to 6 people.
Dark as the Devil’s heart, visit our haunted underground vaults that date back to the 1700s. The guide will enlighten you to the dark history of these former slum dwellings, home to the poor and destitute as well as a criminal underworld. Hear tales of the paranormal activity and ghostly apparitions that are said to haunt these vaults. Once experienced, never forgotten.
The Terror Tour
Nightly: 10pm
Cost: £18 – 75min
*For over 18s only
Private Tour Rate: £120 for groups of a minimum of 2 people up to a maximum of 12 people – £75 for groups of 2 to 6 people.
First you’ll be taken to our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments from the Nuremberg and Bamberg Castles in Germany, dating back to the late 1500s and early 1600s. Then you’ll be guided through our paranormally active and haunted underground vaults dating back to the 1700s. Renowned as the world’s scariest place. Frightening! *For over 18s only
The Vaults & Graveyard Tour
Nightly: 6pm and 8pm
Cost: £18 – 90min
Private Tour Rate: £120 for groups of a minimum of 2 people up to a maximum of 12 people – £75 for groups of 2 to 6 people.
MOONLIT GRAVESTONES AND HAUNTED 1700″S VAULTS AWAIT YOU!
Edinburgh’s Old Town is steeped in Folklore, Legends & Myths, and an abundance of evil.
Your guide shall take you to Greyfriars Graveyard, home of the famous Greyfriars Bobby – nice dog – who had cocked his leg where rotting corpses lay below and whose names were made famous in many novels and history books, and sent chills down many a reader. Then on to the infamous and haunted Niddry Street underground vaults, probably the scariest place in the world! Once home to the destitute, prostitutes, criminals, witches and a hellfire club, and is possessed by something evil that awaits you. Please wear stout footwear, and this tour is not suitable for the under 16s or those of a nervous disposition. You have been warned!!!
The Ghost & Torture Tour
Only available as a private tour
Private Tour Rate: £120 for groups of a minimum of 2 people up to a maximum of 12 people
A DARK UNNERVING EXPERIENCE ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND.
Our costumed guide takes you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets dispensing the history of the dark characters that used to roam them. Then you’ll enter our medieval torture exhibition with instruments from Nuremberg and Bamberg castles in Germany dating back to the 1500s and 1600s. Finally you’ll be guided through our haunted underground vaults to see our old stone circle Pagan temple, a recently working witchcraft temple and our infamous haunted Vault. Be afraid, be very afraid!
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Company Information: Auld Reekie Tours LtdRegistered in Companies House, Edinburgh. Registered Office 45 Niddry Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LG.Company Registration Number: SC434404.Contact Telephone Number: 0131 557 4700. Email address: ian@auldreekietours.com