The Real Mary King's Close Reviews 

It was so interesting, quide was very good! History & ghost stories were fab! I got cold chills in the child's room full of teddies even thought it was a hot day !

We did this tour and enjoyed it very much.
Our guide Marcus was very passionate and funny. He was very knowledgeable.
It was a view back a couple of centuries ago, how the people lived in Mary King Close.

Very nice tour! especially with Damian as a guide, who did a great job!

Went tonight to new plaque tour with My 10 year old son, who absolutely loved it, the tour quide ArrOn who acted as Walter did so really well and was really engaging and done absolutely amazing for it being his first plaque tour. We didn't know you could take a toy to leave in room at end for all the children who lost their lives. We arrived early so walked around gift shop for 10mins.

We went to Mary King's Close on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

Our guide Lauren (aka Agnes Chambers) was fantastic!

She told everything very clearly, almost theatrically..and with humor! She really holds the attention of the visitors...her storytelling style/manner keeps you captivated!

Really highly recommended!
We loved it!!!

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!!