A narrow close is a different place with a ghost story in your ear. On this Edinburgh ghost tour, follow a Mercat storyteller from the Old Town into the Blair Street vaults, then gather in a candlelit cellar for more tales over a whisky, beer or soft drink. Our featured Blair Street Ghost Tour with a Drink gives you two hours for the stories to unfold.
Narrow closes, old burial grounds and chambers beneath the city give Edinburgh’s ghost walks their setting. A storyteller introduces the people and reported hauntings associated with those places, so the city becomes part of the tale.
Choose the featured Mercat evening for a small group and a cellar finish. For Greyfriars, a stronger fright or a walk above ground, compare the alternatives below.
Some walks build towards a quiet cellar and a drink; others make the graveyard or a more intense vault visit the main event. Compare the route and duration alongside the age rules.
Featured eveningMake a night of it: Old Town stories, the Blair Street vaults and more tales in a candlelit cellar, with a drink included.
Minimum age 5. Not suitable for wheelchair users or visitors with mobility impairments.
Walk among the graves at Greyfriars before exploring the South Bridge vaults, with history and ghost stories linking the two settings.
Suggested for ages 12 and over. Not wheelchair accessible.
An adults-only visit to Auld Reekie’s South Bridge vaults, including the stone-circle room, a torture exhibition and the operator’s more intense ghost stories.
Not suitable for people with claustrophobia, mobility impairments or wheelchair users.
Spend the evening with stories around Greyfriars and the underground chambers, at a lower starting price than the featured Mercat tour.
Minimum age 7. Not wheelchair accessible.
Fit Old Town ghost stories and a vault visit into a shorter walk. A useful option when you want the underground experience without a two-hour evening.
Minimum age 5. Not suitable for wheelchair users or visitors with mobility impairments.
For visitors drawn to reported hauntings: an adults-only tour that puts paranormal stories at the centre of the Old Town and vault visit.
A spiral stair is required to enter the vaults. Not wheelchair accessible.
An adults-only Mercat walk combining the Blair Street vaults with Canongate graveyard. Choose it when burial-ground stories are a priority.
An Old Town ghost walk offered in several languages. This one stays above ground; vault admission is not included.
Follow stories of ghosts, mysteries and witchcraft through the streets. A lower-priced alternative with no vault entry and a minimum age of 5.
The featured two-hour evening ends in Megget’s Cellar, with a whisky, beer or Scottish-made soft drink included. Choose it when you want time for more stories after the vaults.
From £31 per personBook NowThe featured walk begins in the Old Town and enters Mercat’s Blair Street vaults. Some other tours combine an underground vault visit with a walk through Greyfriars or Canongate graveyard. Check the captions and individual cards when choosing: the photographs show several routes, not one itinerary.
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The featured Blair Street evening cannot accept children under 5.
The late-night terror, extreme paranormal and Mercat vault-and-graveyard evenings require guests to be 18 or over.
The underground routes include steps and are not wheelchair accessible. Several exclude visitors with mobility impairments.
Blair Street Ghost Tour with a Drink
Meet your Mercat guide at the eight-sided stone monument on the Royal Mile, opposite the City Chambers and beside St Giles’ Cathedral.
Meet Mr Boots, a protective cobbler and the stone-circle legend, with each account tied to its own vault route.
Read the guide →Follow the plague of 1645, a named witchcraft prosecution and the murders behind Edinburgh’s anatomy trade.
Read the guide →Check stairs, enclosed spaces and minimum ages before choosing your ghost walk.
Read the guide →Guests describe guides who balance humour with darker stories, and an underground setting that makes those stories more immediate. The summaries below refer to the featured tour with a drink.
Editorial summaries of verified GetYourGuide reviews. Reviews for the underground vaults evening ghost tour with a drink. Read reviews for this exact tour on GetYourGuide →
The guide made the evening exciting, haunting and funny in equal measure.
Bo and Ashley mixed documented history with spooky stories, and the vaults felt intensely atmospheric.
Bo and Ashlee stood out as engaging guides and storytellers.
The underground choices enter the Blair Street or South Bridge vaults. The two clearly labelled street-level alternatives do not.
“Scariest” is subjective. The adults-only Late-Night Vaults Terror Tour and Extreme Paranormal Underground Tour are the most explicitly intense choices.
Yes. The Haunted Vaults & Graveyard Tour, Evening Underground Ghost Tour and the adults-only Vaults & Graveyard Evening Tour all add a graveyard route.
Yes. The featured Blair Street Ghost Tour includes a whisky, beer or Scottish-made soft drink.
They are enclosed, dim historic spaces reached by stairs. The late-night terror tour explicitly lists claustrophobia as unsuitable. Contact the operator when uncertain.
Join the Blair Street Ghost Tour with a Drink for Old Town stories, an underground visit and a candlelit cellar finish. Pick a date for your two-hour evening with Mercat.
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