The Real Mary King's Close

Our guide james l is good at explaining the history on each room with good sense of humour. it is nice to see the guide and team wear the clothes from the people of the past. i like how the tour include media of the person from the past to help to share their life story and hard time. it is interesting and sad to know about mary b scott life and also life of the people suffering. this tour may be scary to a young child in some of the room showing the one who suffer from the plaque. the guide offer the kid a place to hide from the scary scene. there is great effort to create the scene of the livelihood of the place as our tour is on friday at 9.30am, there is fire drill alarm which disrupted the tour. some of the tour to the room is skipped like the plaque doctor but john try to catch up by sharing the history without going to that room. it is interesting to see the street is standing and conserved as much as possible. i wish mary king close tour will be longer about 1.5hr instead of 1hr covering the history of building and how the life is after. it would be great if the guide can highlight the parts that are the conserved element like through the glass house. as this is highly confidential place of the government place, note that no photography is allowed. thanks james l for being our guide.

Awesome experience of the underground streets of edinburgh. thank you to our awesome guide emma, she made the stories really come to life. it’s best to book in advance as on the day entries tend to be available only for the last slots

Awesome experience. so cool to go below and see the old city and rooms and hear about the way of life 400 years ago. our tour guide sam was really good as well and very knowledgeable. must do in edinburgh.

No doubt the experience was worth it. our guide sydney was really invested, fun and made us feel part of the history of the place. i loved the fact that the tour is indeed based on the real stories of the real people that lived there. i do recommend to book in advance. well worth the price and quite a unique experience.

A very cool experience to be able to learn more about the history of the area and walk through the labyrinth of closes that are "under" the city. our guide, ben, was incredible. he deserves 5-stars; however, the experience was rather expensive and cost much more than what i think it should be worth. it's also disappointing that one can't take pictures inside