Ghost Tours Edinburgh ScotlandAbout Ghost Tours Edinburgh Scotland
This site sets the bookable ghost tours in Edinburgh next to each other: tours down into the South Bridge and Blair Street vaults, the locked Covenanter's Prison in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Old Town ghost walks through the closes, dark history and witch trial walks, a comedy horror ghost bus and an adults-only late-night tour. Operators include Auld Reekie Tours, City of the Dead Tours, The Ghost Bus Tours, Mercat Tours, City of Edinburgh Tours, All-Star Guides, Sandemans, Enthral Experiences and Scotland City Tours. We compare tour listings, the operators' own information and recent traveler feedback. We do not operate or personally conduct these tours. The full line-up sits in the Edinburgh ghost tours catalog.
Why It Exists
Every Edinburgh ghost tour looks alike in a search result: a guide in a long coat, a lantern, a close off the Royal Mile after dark. The listings rarely put the details that change your evening in one place. How long is it, and how many people join? Does it go underground, and into which vaults? Does it open the locked part of Greyfriars, or stay on the street? Is it open to children, or adults only? Where does it start?
Those are the columns of the comparison table here, read off each listing and the operator's own page.
Where the Figures Come From
Tour prices, ratings, review counts and inclusions come from the listing on the platform that sells each tour, GetYourGuide or Viator. Meeting points and timings come from the listing and, where it is more precise, from the operator's own information. Opening hours and entry rules for venues such as museums, graveyards and the castle come from the venue's own site, and city rules come from the City of Edinburgh Council at edinburgh.gov.uk and Historic Environment Scotland. Where a figure could not be read on an official page, the site does not print it.
When two sources disagree, the page shows both and says which one it follows.
What You Will Not Find
There is no invented tour guide or travel writer behind these pages, and no claim that anyone from the site joined these walks. Reviews shown are short excerpts from four and five star platform reviews. A complaint that comes up often, such as a large group on a busy street or a hot, humid evening, is written into the comparison with a way around it.
How the Site Is Paid For
The booking buttons are affiliate links to GetYourGuide and Viator. If you book through one, the platform pays a commission and your price does not change. Links to edinburgh.gov.uk, Historic Environment Scotland and venue sites are plain links and earn the site nothing.
No operator pays for a place, a badge or the pick. The details are on the affiliate disclosure page.