Blair Street Vaults Tour: Explore Edinburgh's Hidden History

Explore Edinburgh’s hidden history on a 5-star small group tour of the Blair Street Underground Vaults. Discover secrets beneath the South Bridge.

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Mercat Tours - Get exclusive access to the city’s oldest, deepest Blair Street Underground Vaults.
    Discover secrets & stories of Edinburgh’s underworld.
    See and touch 19th century artefacts.
    Visit our Discovery Room with 3D model & display.
  • Mercat Cross - Tour meeting point.
  • Royal Mile - Explore the closes and understand the buildings…
What's Included
  • Small group experience
  • Exclusive access to Blair Street Underground Vaults
  • Award-winning local storytellers
  • TourTalk radio receiver for immersive storytelling
Additional Information

Small, personal 5 star group tour with a maximum of 18 people.
Descend into the unique Blair Street Underground Vaults of Old Edinburgh.
Far below the busy, bustling Edinburgh streets there lies a dark, quiet and forgotten place. These wonderful dark rooms of arched ceilings, fireplaces and 18th century wine vaults lie beneath the South Bridge, one of…

Location
Mercat Cross
High Street
Mercat Cross, High St, Edinburgh EH1 1RF. Look for the 8 sided monument with white Unicorn on top. You will find a member of our visitor services team waiting here to check you in. They will be dressed in black, holding an iPad, wearing an orange lanyard & holding a black & orange umbrella.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Lancem162
Dec 17, 2024
Great tour of the Edinburgh underworld! - What an informative and cool tour! I would highly recommend to anyone wanting to see part of the old Edinburgh underworld! Our tour guide Roger was excellent, with a sharp wit!
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Melindae456
Dec 16, 2024
Awesome - Loved the Hidden and Haunted tour giving us a glimpse of the darker history or Edinburgh. Our guide Naomi was engaging, informative and the epitome of the kind and friendly Scottish people.
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Paulcc7263ex
Dec 15, 2024
Very interesting tour so much history to the area's underground in the vaults. Our guide Linda was excellent great stories and l - It was very interesting to see and travel through the vaults under the city of Edinburgh. I would highly recommend doing this tour.
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O1595artommyr
Dec 13, 2024
Would recommend ! Brilliant experience. - We’ve just had a brilliant historical tour of the vaults with the hugely knowledgeable Naomi ! We both found her a great tour guide, with plenty of interesting knowledge and facts about the vaults. Naomi’s enthusiasm made the experience engaging and memorable. We enjoyed seeing the depths of the city, hearing the history and stories of life within the vaults. Had been recommended the tour by friends and would totally recommend to anyone with an interest in history, Edinburgh and architecture. Thank you!
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746marijnb
Dec 10, 2024
Great tour! - Absolutely fantastic tour! Our tour guide Anastasia was very knowledgeable and a good story teller. I really appreciated the headphones as well as it filtered out all background noise. If you like history, this is the perfect tour!
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Hannahcx9557lt
Dec 6, 2024
Great experience - Our tour guide Linda was fantastic, very knowledgeable with a great sense of humour. We were a group of 4 and all agreed this was our favourite tour of our 3 night stay. Well organised with clear meeting instructions. Very interesting to hear all about the history of the vaults. When we return to Edinburgh we would definitely book a tour through them again.
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F9131ylangiet
Dec 4, 2024
History underground, from a moment lost to time - The story telling was absolutely phenomenal. I learned alot about Edinburgh and enjoyed exploring the vaults .......
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Jacobf309
Dec 3, 2024
Exciting and educational - It was a very interesting trip and Veni made himself very easy to understand and was good at telling about how it was to live before
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Z7518fudebbieg
Dec 3, 2024
Underground vaults - This is a great way to learn about Edinburgh’s history, and also the geology. I found it very interesting and Roger was very knowledgeable with dates and names. I really enjoyed it.
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Andrewty6682sh
Dec 16, 2024
Ok but not super interesting - Vaults themselves were fun and interesting to walk around but didn't find the stories or historical information very interesting and felt the guide was losing a lot of peoples interest. Some bits seem to last much longer than they needed to be. Might work better as a cheaper 30 min tour.
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