City of the Dead - Reviews

The City of the Dead Tour has consistently recieved excellent reviews from both the national and international media since it began in 1999.

Reviews of City of the Dead

• "WONDERFUL" – 'Beyond Chance', US Discovery Channel
• "Puts the city's other ghost tours IN THE SHADE" – Edinburgh Evening News
• "TERRIFYING" – 'World's Scariest Places', US Fox Channel
• "BRILLIANT storytelling with a good knowledge of the actual history of Edinburgh rather than half baked myths" – About Edinburgh
• "GREAT entertainment" – Scottish Connection, BBC Radio Scotland
• "Delivered with GREAT PANACHE. even the guide gets scared" – Reuters News Agency
• "I was finding it hard to catch my breath and one of my friends was hanging on to my hand FOR DEAR LIFE" – Kylie Rimmer, Daily Record Newspaper
• "Extremely SPOOKY. Very ATMOSPHERIC" – Good Morning Television
• "INFORMATIVE, INTERESTING and, more than anything GOOD FUN" – What to do in Scotland Magazine
• "EXCELLENT" – Radio Caroline
• "The MOST HAUNTED place you'll find in Edinburgh" – Radio 1
• "FASCINATING" – 'Out and About', BBC Radio Scotland
• "STEALS A MARCH on the likes of Mercat, Auld Reekie and the Witchery Tours" – Sunday Telegraph
• "Very, very SCARY" – Lanarkshire Television
• "The most HAUNTED spot in the country's most HAUNTED city" – The Weekly News
• "The Capital's 'REAL' ghost tour" – Evening News
• "GREAT ENTERTAINMENT & quite scary enough for me" – 'Heaven & Earth Show', BBC1
• "ENTHRALLING" – 'Great Graveyards of the World', US Discovery Channel
• "City of the Dead has had the media RAVING" – SX Magazine
• "The tour is a careful mix of HISTORY, HUMOUR AND HORROR" – Bite Me Magazine
• "Scotland's SCARIEST place" – Daily Record
• "The BEST-DOCUMENTED case of poltergeist activity ever studied" – Lonely Planet Guide To Scotland
• "You are standing inside a tomb with about 20 other people - and the girl next to you JUST FAINTED. No, I'm not making this up" – Boots'n'All Travel Guide

Media Comments on City of the Dead

• "City of the Dead Tours steals a march on the likes of Mercat, Auld Reekie and the Witchery Tours" – Sunday Telegraph
• "Puts the city's other ghost tours in the shade" – Edinburgh Evening News
• "Brilliant storytelling with a good knowledge of the actual history of Edinburgh rather than half baked myths" – About Edinburgh
• "Fascinating" – US Learning Channel
• "Expertly brings Scotland's dark history to life" – Discovery Channel
• "Great entertainers" – Scotsman Newspaper
• "Makes Blair Witch look tame" – Fox Family Channel
• "Extremely Spooky. Very atmospheric" – GMTV
• "Excellent" – Radio Caroline
• "The most haunted place you'll find in Edinburgh" – Radio 1
• "Wonderful" – US History Channel
• "Great entertainment… and quite scary enough for me!" – Toyah Wilcox, Heaven and Earth Show, BBC 1
• "Very, very scary" – Lanarkshire Television
• "The tour is a careful mix of history, horror and humour" – Bite Me Magazine
• "Scotland's scariest place" – Daily Record
• "The best documented and most conclusive poltergeist case in history" – Radio Scotland