Mercat Tours
Mercat Tours is based in Edinburgh , Lothian, and offers a professional and friendly team to help you have a great time and enjoy the experiences available.
We choose our Storytellers for their enthusiasm and skill – and never ask them to read from a script. Each one brings their own energy to the story, whether they’re telling you about Adam Smith, the father of economics – or the city’s rioters, rebels, torturers and murderers.
The stories are all true – with no artificial jump scares or tricks on our tours.
With Mercat, we’ll take you deeper into the past than a bus tour or guidebook ever could. In the words of our Storytellers, we bring the city’s stories alive in rich, engaging detail. And whether you choose one of our history or ghost tours, you’ll see a side to Scotland’s capital that most visitors miss.
Activities at Mercat Tours include:
- Blair Street Underground Vaults
- Hidden & Haunted Ghost Tour
- Doomed Dead & Buried Guided Tour
We have also included their opening times and contact details. If you have any questions, you can contact the venue directly.
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Edinburgh
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Blair Street Underground Vaults
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
It's a side of Edinburgh few get to see, but under those bustling streets is a whole new, dark, eerie world! Take your map and descend into the depths of the city's oldest vaults. See where the city’s body snatchers hid their catch and where the poor drank, worked, and sheltered. Maybe you'll even spot a few ghosts?
Wear something warm - you're about to get the chills. Deep beneath the hectic streets of Scotland’s crazy capital, the city’s oldest vaults still pulse with the vibes of times gone by.
An expert guide will start things off, and help to get you in the mood with a little history. Check out the Discovery Room and the stuff dug up in the first excavation! Then, armed with your map, you'll be on your own.
On this unique, self-guided experience you'll descend into the Blair Street Underground Vaults, where the dank darkness throbs with stories to thrill and scare you. Stay close to your companions...
Don't say we didn't warn you.
Useful Information
- Entrance to the vaults
- A map and a guide of the vaults
Hidden & Haunted Ghost Tour
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
This tour is so creepy, it's for adults only! Learn about the ghosts and ghouls of Edinburgh's gripping past with this underground adventure. Expect torture, murder, treason, hauntings and more on the scariest walking tour in Scotland!
Join a fact-and-myth filled Scottish guide for the lowdown on the city's dark, dodgy and just plain horrible history.
You'll start at street level for an after-dark exploration into some of Edinburgh's most unsavory happenings. Walk around the windy wynds and closes of the Old Town, learn about bloody plots, treason and torture, and try not to look as terrified as you feel.
Diving deeper into the darkness, head down to the Blair Street Underground Vaults by torchlight! Your goosebumps will take on new life as you learn about the murders and hangings that happened right here in the vaults.
It might not be your imagination running wild - it might have just turned colder in here!
Doomed Dead & Buried Guided Tour
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
Think cannibals, body snatchers, deals made with the Devil – and all that's before you even head underground.
Learn about the famous characters whose souls still roam the perpetual darkness of Blair Street Underground Vaults. Meet Canongate graveyard's most famous figures, including David Rizzio, a confidant of Mary Queen of Scots, and the infamous cannibal of the Canongate. This creepy ghost tour of Edinburgh's spookiest spots guarantees sleepless nights.
Useful Information
- Exploration of Blair Street Underground Vaults and Canongate Kirkyard
- An English-speaking guide
- Small tour group