Edinburgh Underground Vaults Opening Times

Private events at the vaults.

Edinburgh underground vaults opening times. Learn about our history. The bridge consisted of 19 stone arches spanning a chasm just over 1000 feet long. Apart from lighting our vaults have remained mostly unchanged since they were built in the 1700s. The cask room celebrates the history and continued role of the vaults building.

Discover the edinburgh vaults aka south bridge vaults 18th century underground chambers that lie far below the city. Since then we have been offering a wide range of underground and graveyard tours to visitors from all over the world. On this underground walking tour with an entertaining and informative guide hear tales of this dark and almost forgotten place built below one of edinburgh s busiest thoroughfares. Unusual venues of edinburgh are an established and growing company offering three unique venues in the edinburgh vaults for weddings parties private dining gigs and a whole host of other events.

The vaults original lifespan was short having been abandoned in the 1830s after only opening in the late 18th century. However edinburgh was a fearful and superstitious place at the turn of the 18th century both of real and imagined harm. This tour is perfect for a peek into the city s ghostly past because things don t only go bump in the night. If you want to get the biggest thrill take the night tour â it s spookier and for adults only.

Tours take place daily at 1pm 3pm 5pm or 9 30pm and 10 00pm depending on booking agent. A daytime walking tour of edinburgh s most haunted vaults and we re the only people with access. Once a storage room for fine casks of wine and spirits it now welcomes up to 32 guests who can admire the rare collection of cask samples and whisky artefacts as they indulge in this discreet space. Auld reekie tours was formed in 1995.

At its highest point it stood 31 feet above ground and had foundations which penetrated edinburgh s bed rock as far down as 22 ft.