| Rating |
Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Ghost Tour
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| Thu, Aug 6 9:00 PM |
TATraxler |
Female |
20-29 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Couple on a Date |
| Very informatative on past history of the sights, Good energetic tour guide. Bummed we didnt get to see any ghosts! |
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fun and scarey
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| Fri, Jul 31 9:00 PM |
barbarareith |
Female |
50-59 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| The girl that led the walk was funny, animated, lively and had a lot of knowledge about the ghosts in Richmond. I recommend this tour to anyone. It was my 2nd time. I brought my friend from work this time and we are going to go on the pub tour next time. |
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Interesting for the Older Group
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| Sat, Jul 25 9:00 PM |
dmessmer |
Female |
30-39 |
Local |
Family With Children |
| Our group consisted of an over 65 couple, a 34 year old female, and 3 teen girls. The girls thought it would be much scarier, so they lost interest pretty quick. The tour was more of a historically informative description of certain spots in the City, but told using stories of ghosts.
I enjoyed it, but I thought it was overpriced. |
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the guide was less than interesting
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| Fri, Jul 24 9:00 PM |
teetoes1079 |
Female |
20-29 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| We signed up for this hoping for some history and a little spooky fun. The guide was somewhat informative on the poe museum grounds but when we left the "stories" became such a jumble of occurrences it was difficult to follow and boring. There was no story telling involved, it was more the guide relating experiences of others "a waitress felt someone touch her shoulder but when she turned no one was there" type of thing. I don't expect theatrics but give some details! Show some emotion! This could have just been the guide we got, I don't know. |
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A "must" in Richmond
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| Thu, Jul 16 9:00 PM |
Diane65 |
Female |
40-49 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| Our family loved the ghost tour we took in Richmond. The stories were great and interesting , we saw parts of Richmond we had missed during our daytime walk and we learned about Richmond's history.
I would surely recommend this tour to my friends! |
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Fun and informative
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| Fri, Jul 10 9:00 PM |
4nowars |
Male |
30-39 |
Local |
Couple on a Date |
| Not only can you have shivers runnig up your spine as you tour a part of Richmond's ghostly past, you can also learn a little bit of the 400 odd years of history in Virginia's capital city. Murders....accidents.....and vampires, oh my! |
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Great, very scary ghost tour!
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| Fri, Jul 10 9:00 PM |
carol6958 |
Unspecified |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| My children and I (16 yrs., 21 yrs.) had a wonderful time listening to the very scary ghost stories, and touring the city. The highlight was undoubtedly the 1925 train explosion in the tunnel. We went to the tunnel the very next day to investigate. Our tour guide was very peppy and entertaining! I would recommend this activity to anyone looking to do something a little different on their trip to Richmond. |
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Do not take younger children
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| Thu, Jul 2 9:00 PM |
emilygolec |
Female |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| My family, friends and I have done ghost tours in several different cities. If we are near a city that does one on vacation we usually go. I loved that this tour started in the Edgar Allen Poe museum. I wish I had gotten a chance to go back and actually go inside at a different time. The tour guide had many stories at each stop. The walk was about 1.5 miles with many stops. The guide was friendly and I would rate her average as guides go on these tours. They don't dress in halloween costumes like some ghost tours do. I LIKE this it makes the tour and stories seem more authentic. The thing I didn't like was I didn't feel safe in all areas we walked through. Usually, if you are in a group walking like that in a big city you feel pretty safe even if you go through some questionable areas, but we went by some people hanging out and yelling through the streets, a group that had drugs, and one of the stops for a ghost story was next to an abandoned warehouse that had weeds growing up and boards put over puddles for us to walk over. We didn't just stop at the front, we walked down beside the building as far as we could go into this overgrown area. After seeing the people in the neighborhood, I was worried we might encounter more than ghosts down this alley. The guide said it was the scariest stop and it was!!! |
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Great Experience
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| Fri, Jun 26 9:00 PM |
jcarson |
Male |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Individual |
| I would, and have, recommended this tour. Can't wait to try one of the other tours!!!! |
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Entertaining!
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| Fri, Jun 26 9:00 PM |
blkleinman |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| We thoroughly enjoyed our "ghost tour" of Shockoe with an informative and enthusiastic guide, an English teacher with drama background. She had several interesting historical stories that I'm now curious about and will research further. I think the most fascinating aspect of the tour was how the present (lively partying people, music, busy restaurants, etc.) was juxtaposed with the past (the train tunnel collapse at the end of a dirt drive and Julep's - a restaurant- haunting by a murdered apprentice from another century. Beginning the tour at the Poe Museum's courtyard is an excellent idea, and we loved hearing about the little entity "Jonathan," who might peer from the upper window of the adjacent building. Be sure to wear comfortable shoes though! You will be walking vigorously and over some patchy areas of sidewalk here and there. I definitely recommend the tour. |
