York Viking Hunt: Discover Hidden Treasures
4.7
15 Ratings
York

Embark on a thrilling Viking treasure hunt in York with Eric Bloodaxe. Solve riddles, explore landmarks, and uncover hidden gems.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Minster Yard - Participants will engage in a mobile chat with Eric Bloodaxe, the final Viking King of York. Eric will lead them through the city, presenting riddles to solve. These riddles will correspond to items along the path, and solving them will reveal the treasure.
What's Included
  • Self-guided scavenger hunt
Additional Information

Join Eric Bloodaxe, the final Viking King of Jorvik, on an exciting journey around York to help him locate his missing treasure in this interactive chat-based Treasure Hunt!
Participants will engage in a chat on their phones with Eric Bloodaxe, the last Viking King of York. Eric will lead them through the city, presenting riddles that need to be solved….

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Location
Exhibition Square
This activity is self guided, just go to York Art Gallery & open the link on your smart phone & then Eric will take over.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Silvia_g
Dec 25, 2024
Great activity - Fun, different way to visit a city, follow the clues make the time.pass quickly, easy information, but made you think to solve the clues
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Matthewpl7829dt
Aug 29, 2023
Really good fun. - Me and the wife really enjoyed this tour. The clues and riddles are great fun. Definitely worth giving ago. Family's with children will definitely enjoy this tour as it can be done in an hour or you can like us stop at a few of the local pubs for a refreshment break.
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Lucyss5111id
Apr 26, 2023
A great trail - Got to see parts of the city we hadn't explored before which was great, and it was lots of fun discovering all the items.
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Ian5012
Apr 14, 2023
Great fun - Great fun for all. Children 5 and 9 enjoyed working out clues. Good trip around centre of York on last day of school holidays.
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Ryan_b
Oct 30, 2022
We had a fun morning... - We had a fun morning doing the guided tour round York, our kids really enjoyed guessing the clues too.
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Attecus
Sep 10, 2022
More like Eric Touraxe, amirite? - Very fun tour, we saw parts of the city we'd never have happened upon on our own. Cheers Eric, would highly recommend.
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O6902sxkatherined
Aug 11, 2022
Excellent - Really well done. My 10 and 13 yr old had fun completing the challenge. Can be completed in your own time and allows for detours.
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T5698drpaigep
Dec 19, 2023
Valhalla Jaunt - Great fun but needs interactive voice ",D Enjoyed all the little bits of history and random figures on walls etc that you wouldn't normally notice walking around. Can do this anytime regardless of saying 12:00 for starting time as self-guided "]
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Ljhales2017
Sep 10, 2023
Discovering York - A great way to get around York and pay attention to the smaller details. Make note, one of the buildings needed to answer a question (2nd one) is currently covered in scaffolding and the clue is therefore covered. We had to guess this one. Thoroughly enjoyed it, but would be nice if the link to get started was hyperlinked, as we had to manually type the link in on one phone, then share the link with the other phone via WhatsApp. Don't worry about taking your time or a detour, you can pick up wherever you left off when you're ready.
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Chloepg4002kv
Jul 13, 2023
Would definitely recommend - We really enjoyed the treasure hunt - it took us about an hour and was just the right length. We were taken around some of the lesser known tourist spots which we might not have otherwise found and I feel like was the price was reasonable, even though we had to pay for 2 phones and there was no option to pay for 1. The only reason I gave 4 stars rather than 5 was none of the images loaded on either of our phones which made some of the questions more difficult or spots harder to find. However overall would recommend :)
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