Edinburgh Ghost Bus Tour: An Hour of Haunting Sights and Scary Stories

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Experience an hour of chilling thrills on the Edinburgh Ghost Bus Tour. Explore the city’s haunted landmarks and listen to spine-tingling stories of executions, tortures, and grave robbers. Get ready to be scared silly!

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Edinburgh Castle - Customers will be provided with information on Edinburgh Castles spiritual and historical past.
Edinburgh Old Town - Customers will be provided with information on Edinburgh Old Town’s spiritual and historical past.
Royal Mile - Customers will be provided with information on Royal Mile’s spiritual and historical past….

What's Included

Professional guide
Transport by Routemaster

What's Not Included

Food and drinks
Gratuities
Hotel pickup and drop-off

Additional Information

Prepare to be scared silly on a 75 minute ghost bus tour around Edinburgh’s ghoulish haunts. Under the guidance of a creepy onboard conductor, cruise around Edinburgh’s most terrifying and impressive sights, such as Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile. Ride in a double-decker ‘Routemaster’ vintage bus and feel your hairs stand on end as…

Location

Central Library

George IV Bridge

Temporarily moved to George IV Bridge. Outside the Edinburgh Central Library, EH1 1EG

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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Djg12314

Dec 1, 2024

Funny-spooky-value for money all rolled in to one! - This ghost tour is an experience - in a very good way! Great entertainment value and lots of historic info… the guide was hilarious whilst ensuring you were given many ghost stories of Edinburgh… Back at the hotel Whilst discussing how good the tour had been the light in our room went off and the shower turned on!!!! Spooky indeed! 👻 we had been told the spirts might leave the bus with us😲🤣👻???!! Whatever the weather we Would throughly recommend this trip !

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Nicebowlingshoes

Oct 26, 2024

Check In Early! - The Ghost Bus Tour of Edinburgh takes place on a vintage double decker tour type of bus. Our tour filled up, so there weren't any spare seats available. We checked in 15 minutes early and the upstairs portion of the bus was already full. Also, we went a bit late into the evening and many places we saw were just quite dark. I'm sure what we were there to see was out there, somewhere, in that great mass of darkness. That being said, the tour itself was quite lovely and our guide was very fun. It's a solid kitschy, Halloweeny, kind of tour. There's a lot of fun morbid facts sprinkled throughout. At one point we stopped to see the back end of Edinburgh Castle, which was well lit up at night, and the spot we stopped our group had all to ourselves. Overall, I'd recommend this tour, especially around the month of October.

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Shona_j

Oct 22, 2024

Worth doing! - Such fun. Great guide and atmosphere. Edinburgh locals but myself and daughter thoroughly enjoyed this bus and learned lots along the way.

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Bmd01

Sep 29, 2024

Fun thing to do at the end of a day’s exploring ! - We booked the Sat night bus for 9pm as only availability. We were lucky enough to get seats right at the front upstairs on the black routemaster so we were delighted. The conductor Chris (Ghost hunter Hume) was really funny and told lots of spooky tales as we poodled along the roads! We got off once on front of Edinburgh Castle. I was disappointed we didn’t get off at St Cuthbert’s cemetery but think it’s a council decision not to allow this. All in all it was great fun and a hilarious experience. Loved our photos with the conductor too!

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K2867neshirleyd

Sep 23, 2024

Ghost bus was great fun - Great fun. Our guide was Tommy Terror and he was excellent and engaging and told us about ghosts and murderers around the route. There were some fun happenings on the screen we were watching and we got off for ten minutes at St Cuthbert graveyard and church. Definitely recommend this. Lasted just over an hour

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Venture35582227703

Aug 20, 2024

Spooky fun - Fantastic experience. Funny, with some surprises along the way and really informative. Trevor was very entertaining

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Kjmoe2020

Aug 14, 2024

Interesting stories by a great host. - Very fun! The host was energetic and funny. Interesting stories and a lovely tour of the downtown area. There is one stop at a cemetery.

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Sharon_s

Sep 23, 2024

A fun tour to include in your list of things to do in Edinburgh - The Ghost Bus Tour was fun and it was interesting to hear the stories of the history of the ghosts. The host was entertaining and made the stories exciting.

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Andrewmw4284pd

Feb 15, 2025

waste of money - Went on the ghost bus tour as a family for some terrifying times whilst in edinburgh. For us the tour was a waste of money. it says 75min tour. first ten mins spent at pick up point. short drive round the corner with some terrible attempts to scare bus stops. Off for 10 mins of stories then back on how half way through. round another corner stop for some scary story and flickering lights. wow. round another corner and we’re back at the start 60 mins in total. some random stories and £58 wasted. Better at edinburgh dungeons or somewhere else. save your money for something else

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Francesmichelle_m

Dec 23, 2024

Awful - Pick up point was not clearly indicated. No signage to identify pick up point. Waited and no bus arrived. Poor. Ended up missing tour as pick up point unclear

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