The Real Mary King's Close Reviews 57

Myself and my husband have been before in previous years but this time we brought our 8 year old daughter for the first time. We love coming here and taking a trip back in time under the Royal Mile cobbles. This time it was especially good as it was Anthonys our tour guide first ever tour. He was brilliant, really informative and played his part of Walter very well. I would definitely recommend this tour for everyone.

Our tour guide Annabelle was absolutely fantastic. She was professional, knowledgeable, easy to understand and most of all she was very quick witted and funny. A really enjoyable experience and a must see when in Edinburgh.

Our guide Ryan was very good. It’s a very interesting tour but at £24 for an hour is far too much.

This was so unbelievably dull,the Canadian tour guide we had felt like we were watching some child's school presentation, it was dire,no body laughed at the poor attempt at jokes, £24 a ticket for something that should have been £10 at best and taken 10 mins to walk through, seriously dragged out , tourist trap beware

It’s was a really interesting tour. Our tour guide Olivia was very informative and entertaining

True crime experience with Matt the tour guide was informative and spooky. I highly recommend.

Did this tour Febuary 2025 and was a excellent tour the tour guide was Robert Furgusson (Ryan) he was very informative and made you welcome to the tour and had a great experience to see how pepole lived in Old Edinburgh.Would recommend this tour if you like history.

Sam was a fountain of knowledge and taught us a lot about the history of Edinburgh and Mary Kings Close. We would recommend this experience, we went as a group of 6 and we all really enjoyed ourselves. Sam did well to keep us all entertained and was witty and so knowledgeable. Thanks very much! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Let me start by saying I couldn’t fault the tour, the staff were amazing and the person that presented my tour had the right balance of enthusiasm and passion throughout.

Unfortunately this Tourist attraction seems to care more about small savings then being accessible and inclusive towards its customers and target audience. I planned on purchasing a few items from the gift shop but was unable to do so as you’ve decided to operate a cashless business this not only excludes customers who use cash as their primary payment method but also hurts your business as your main target audience (tourists / foreigners) are deterred from purchasing due to credit/debit card international rates and fees they’re charged. If you were to be inclusive and accept people’s money you’d make more money with only a small amount being spent on the cash handling costs.

Price: overpriced for what it is.

This company deliver a first class experience. The guide "Damien" was very engaging and knowledgable and his interaction with our group was brilliant. He was extremely witty and definitely added to the experience. All in all a must do trip while visting Edinburgh.

My son came back from a residential and he said that this was one of his favourite bits so I highly recommend it if you are a child or adult. My son was delighted with his tour guide Sam who they learnt lots of facts from. So if you go to Edinburgh come and see this amazing place.

This tour was a great experience.

Thank you to our tourguide Rose!

Had a great tour with our guide Sophie. Excellent fact based tour (not a scare tour) which was brought to life by Sophie's enthusiasm, charisma and humour. Highly recommended.

Had a really good time at the mary kings close our tour guide was amazing sorry I forgot our tour guides name he had glasses with long brown or black hair he was so funny he made my partner Brandon laugh when we left he said he was a lovely guy he told us everything about the mary kings close thanks so much for the tour

Just finished the tour with Natalia. Really interesting and well worth doing. Natalia was great, full of energy and so informative. Thank you!!

We had high expections. But at 9.30 PM - both the guide and ourselves seemed to tired. We give 2 stars due to the idea of a town below - and some of the informations were interesting, so thats why they do get 2 stars. The prices are way to high.

Had a great experience with Nell she was amazing, got in to her character and her story telling was brilliant 👏

Interesting but a bit of an overpriced tourist trap and we were disappointed considering it cost us £93.00 for only one hour's entertainment for our family. We did the evening tour expecting it to be eerie and exciting for the kids but it was no different to what it would have been by day. We were guided round lots of empty old stone basement rooms and told historical information and stories of how people lived. The guide was enthusiastic but I could see the kids interest waning towards the end as it was quite repetitive. Of all the things we saw and did in Edinburgh this was the worst value and enjoyed the least by the children so we wouldn't really recommend it to families. It would have more appeal for adult tourists.

My tour started at 1015. The information from their office said to get there ten minutes early to get checked in with audio devises and such. Once getting there ten minutes early, we checked in and were sent to another room to meet our tour guide, Becca. Becca did an amazing job and did her best working around the interruptions. I didn’t do as well. At 1025, after the tour started, the office personnel interrupted our tour with a group of eight that were late, even though the email they sent out said “don’t be late! If you’re late, you will miss the tour and forfeit your money.” This group of 8 came in loud, talking and caused a major interruption to our tour. They disrespectfully talked over our tour guide and made me want to just leave immediately. I kept thinking it would get better, but it didn’t until 1045. The staff came in three times, interrupting Becca, by bringing more audio devices into the room for the late group. Had they gotten there on time, they would have received their audio devices before the tour started. Finally at 1045, thirty minutes into the hour tour, the tour ran smoothly. The staff should stand behind their own rules. The rules are there for a reason. The interruption/disruption was completely avoidable, but the staff chose to break their own rules and punish the ones that showed up on time for the tour. Again, Becca was great. She adapted the best she could to the inconveniences. The staff that broke the rules should look for another job or get some retraining

We went on Sunday 31st March to try the experience and it was delightful.
What made it special was the fact it wasn't fake or replicated just get tourists. It was real! Real streets, houses, rooms which gave us an actual sense of how people lived back then.
The tour guide, dressed in period costume was very knowledgeable of the tour, she was a delight to listen to, made the tour very interesting and we all loved her humour that she slipped in during her presentation.
Great health and safety video before we entered the street as it can be tight and steep in places, but someone always on hand to assist if needed with health issues.
I feel it was the best guided tour I have ever done, having left with sensing real history.
Loved the gift shop at the end. Well, every good time travel journey needs a gift shop at the end.🙂
Definitely doing it again and would highly recommend it to anyone who wants the feel for real history.