Auld Reekie Terror Tour (Edinburgh)

Having just returned from a long weekend in Edinburgh, the first thing I wanted to advise people to go do was the 'Auld Reekie' ghastly terror tour! This tour is a walking tour, so my first bit of advice is for the ladies not to wear high heels! You will be walking over cobbled steets and up and down steep hills, so best to get your sensible shoes on! Auld Reekie is a Victorian nickname for Edinburgh - although the guide did not explain this, we found this out later while overlooking the city from Camera Obscura. It is a rough translation of old smokey, because of all the chimneys belching out smoke all over the city back in the nineteenth ...  Read the complete review

So yes, Edinburgh probably is one of the scariest cities with all its crazy history, narrow creepy streets and of course the underground vaults. On the May bank holiday a group consisting of me and 5 of my closest girlfriends went to Edinburgh to experience the terror tour. We were excited about it all day long and at around 10:30am we met our guide along with a group of about 35 - 40 other people. The guide was dressed suitably in olde style clothing with a huge fake gash down her neck and started by telling us a little bit about what the tour would consist of. Then she took as a short walk to where we would pay, this would probably have been fine ...  Read the complete review