The Edinburgh Vaults, one of the city’s most fascinating sights, can only be accessed on a tour. This one focuses exclusively on the vaults, an underground warren below South Bridge in Edinburgh’s Old Town. Step inside with a local guide who’ll reveal tales of hardship and struggle in 18th-century Edinburgh, grisly stories from the city’s dark past, and lead you to a hidden witchcraft temple.
Greet your guide on the Royal Mile and escape the tourist trail to discover Edinburgh’s deepest secrets on this underground walking tour through the Edinburgh Vaults. These infamous vaults fill all 19 arches of South Bridge in Edinburgh’s historic Old Town. As you walk, you’ll learn the hideous conditions in which Edinburgh’s poorer citizens lived during the 18th century.
Descend into the dark, dank vaults and learn what it was like to live in the darkness—and which criminals sought their prey there. You’ll explore candlelit Niddry’s Wynd, visit a witchcraft temple with a haunted stone circle, and brave the Haunted Vault, where a myriad mysterious events have occurred.
Updating Map... Enjoyed this tour a lot! I was looking for something fact based with real history rather than ghost stories or anything naff, so I recommend this one. Great tour guide who added a bit of atmosphere without going at all overboard with it.
Tour guide Tuesday was knowledgeable and looked after us well. The tour was quite scary and may not be suitable for those with a nervous disposition! Reasonably priced and enjoyable in a scary sort of way.
Enjoyed hearing about the history of the vaults, am not normally claustrophobic but a combo of the ghost story type information and also the dark definitely had me feeling a bit freaked out! Tour guide was Euan, very knowledgeable and seemed to enjoy his job....More
Guide was kind and knowledgeable enough, but there wasn’t enough material to make the tour interesting. It was icky, drippy, hot, and smelly. Couldn’t wait to get out of there.
I went on the underground walking with my partner and brother. Our guide Sven was great, really informative and questions we had he knew the answers too. The tour was informative. My brother and partner don’t believe in ghost but at one point even they...More
