San Diego Gaslamp Downtown Walking Ghost Tour
Description
Go inside!! We Are the Only Tour Entering Locations dowtown! Check our site for sales. Warning-The citizens of the Gaslamp are wild! If you are brave, adventurous and can rock city night life this if for you. It's a fun experience, it moves fast and downtown is crazy, join if you dare. Too much for you? Consider our Haunted Bus Tour. Enter Locations The only tour where you enter locations. We have access to two locations and we are waiting another. Join us for a ghostly walking tour with dark history / true crime elements through San Diego's downtown Gaslamp District. SD's Downtown has a sorted history of gunslingers, brothels, killers, businessmen, and puppies. There are ghosts, ghouls, and according to the SD ghost hunters - the most active location in all of San Diego. Find out with us. Local Knowledge Only local Ghost Tour downtown. Our competitors are corporations not from SD, don't care about SD history/ghost. They care about your pocketbook. Go local, go with us!
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On our SD Gaslamp/Downtown Tour you will visit over 30 locations. Experience more locations than our competitors. We have Ghosts, Murders, Serial Killers, Gamblers, and Gals of the night. If you like the Bizarre, Obscure & Off the Beaten Path places we’ll take you there. On our tour you’ll learn…. Where Wyatt Earp Lived, Gambled and Drank San Diego’s Bizarre Zoo downtown An Active Haunted Hotel & Hospital The Secrets of the Glass Marble Exchange A German Spy Hideout The Raids of the downtown Stingaree A musician who committed suicide, TWICE! The location of the Death Zone downtown Two Serial Killers of San Diego The Death Museum of the past in a likely location Canine Celebrities And more, you’ll visit over 30 locations! Bring your walking shoes as we travel to other times and places. Who lived here, died here and still remain? Join us, it's truly dreadful...
Famous for room 309 and room 209, which are both active. One of the ghosts may be someone you have already heard of, an infamous gunslinger, can you guess who that might be? Visitors still experience mysterious cold chills, footsteps, and glowing orbs. Though the rooms are booked consistently preventing us from entering we will take you as close as we can. You'll hear the stories of those rooms and more in the lobby and bar area. You'll also have access to our videos of the rooms themselves. Perhaps after, you'll be moved to book these rooms yourself.
This is the house where people would come to die as it was a hospital of sorts with a dramatic history. Our guests have experienced being pushed around the house with a hand on their back when there is no one behind them and catching mysterious shapes on camera.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Have a Rugged Off Road Style Wheelchair? Those can work. They Won't Go in Locations Though
- Brisk Walking Tour with Breaks at the Locations
- Use the Bathroom Before. Public Bathrooms Are Extremely Scarce
- Children under 10 are not recommended
Reviews(139)
Adele was awesome! She gave an excellent ghost tour of the Gaslamp District full of history and humor. I went on this tour with my 13- year-old niece who loved it! I would recommend this tour to anyone visiting or living in the area!
Thank you - I am passing it on she will be super happy. The host really live for positivity thanks for sharing.
Rich with history and lore, it was a fun way to experience the Gaslight district. It was great to hear the history of so many of the exquisite buildings. We were fortunate enough to have both Adele and Sirius, who were entertaining and extremely knowledgeable. We had a great time!
Thanks! 4 star reviews actually hurt us when our national competitors can pay for 5 star reviews. So please let us know what we can do to improve :) B at haunted san diego tours - I apoprecaite it.
Outstanding tour. Mostly about the history of the Gaslamp area, some of which includes ghosts. But overall, both entertaining and educational. The guide was whimsical and did a great job. Two solid hours of amazing storytelling.
Thank you :) Really apprecaite it and thanks for going with the only local ghost tour operating downtown.
Adele was amazing. She was very knowledgeable and played her part in the history of San Diego Gas Light District. Her enthusiasm really made the difference in this tour. If you are looking for an evening activity, I recommend you check this one out. Not really for young kids, as it does cover the activities of the Red Light district and murders.
You are absolutely right on the young kids - people take them but yes more mature. Passing it on gratitude - Brian
This experience isn’t what I was hoping for. We walked around gaslamp district for 2 hours listening to history and about what buildings were haunted. We only got to go in one building, it was towards the end of the tour (the museum) and we couldn’t even go upstairs because there was no staff. We did get to go in a hotel but only the lobby and were just told about what rooms were haunted. I was definitely expecting something more like going into more haunted buildings. Adele, our tour guide, was great though.
Anyone reading this - if you have less than a 4-star experience, please reach out to me directly with feedback for a likely full refund of up to 4 people. We stand behind this tour. Feel free to take it risk-free. To address this. Full disclosure: Inside You went into two buildings: the hotel and the house. No other tour downtown is legally allowed into either. I am not aware of any competitor (they are all national tours and don't like to pay for access) that goes into any buildings. You went into more buildings than any other tour. We have access to the lobby, side area, and bar in the hotel. The house we have access to the first floor their staff says their insurance does not allow people upstairs at night. We can't control that. We pay a lot for access and people do have experiences there. Expectations/Adele To leave a one-star review is just cruel and hurtful. We are very clear on where we go and what the tour does if you bother to read the info we send you. Punishing us, a small local business (the only actually local ghost tour left downtown), for information we sent you is just mean. You could have just read it and canceled or gone knowing what to expect. We are transparent in part to get people not to take the tour if it’s not for them. Adele will be bummed - the host makes the tour. Most people love her tours; I think this is the only negative one I have seen from her experience, so you got that. I am genuinely bummed you did not like the tour. I would have totally refunded you had I known. It is a real bummer and hurts us for sure. Hopefully you feel better though. Oh look I just found one from last week: Perfect tour guide Our tour guide was very knowledgeable, funny and very entertaining. I would recommend Adel to anyone wanting to take this tour.
Our tour guide was very knowledgeable, funny and very entertaining. I would recommend Adel to anyone wanting to take this tour.
Thank you!! Passing this on totally makes our day :)
Been on may “ghost tours” around the world. Never walked out on one before🤷 Not offensive, just insubstantial .
Hi Hans we have your information and have attempted to reach out several times. Will keep reaching out. What is unsubstantial? What does that mean need to know how to improve. Are you upset because you enter two locations on that tour that other ghost tours are not allowed in? Are you even sure you are reviewing us? We are the only ones downtown that take you into locations as I type this. Did you go into places? I know our competitors make up stories to make their routes faster so they can do more tours in a night maybe that was insubstanital being rushed? Sorry just don't know how to react to this and since you will not reply personally don't know how to improve. Anyone reading this if you have less than 4 star experience please reach out for a likely full refund up to 3 people if you can please just give us feedback on how to improve. We really want to be the best. We are all in this together so yes please feedback if you do not like.
We started out with a large group. Our tour guide walked extremely fast and was talking the entire time before the group could catch up. Most of the stories seemed to be made up. Most people left. Not worth the price paid.
Good day H4 — on price, please keep in mind that your booking platform takes 40–50% of each ticket, so you are giving that money to them. I don’t want to charge that much, but we all pay for your booking platform choice. If you ever wonder why prices are so high nowadays for experiences, look to your booking platform’s cut. Are you sure you are reviewing us? There are about six out-of-town national corporate ghost tours downtown - people often mistake us for them. We are the only remaining local tour. You would have gone into the Davis-Horton House, while the competitors would have stayed outside. You would have also gone into the Horton Grand Hotel (competitors aren’t legally supposed to go in there, but sometimes sneak in). I’m asking because none of our hosts have mentioned losing people in a long while, and we really focus on not leaving the group behind, even if we have to cut content for a slower group. If it was us I really wish I knew who so I could gently remind them. Please remove the review if it was not us, would be super grateful. If it was us — anyone reading this, please come to me directly and let me know what went wrong and how we can fix it, I will likely give you a full refund for up to three people. We want to be the best, and I need to know the details. :) Thanks for thinking local out there - keep our cities unique and not just the same corporate slop. We do appreciate you all greatly and if it was us I am so sorry it was dissppointing.
Our hostess was great! Very knowledgeable and very entertaining. I love all the history and creepy facts
Thanks! Super kind we appreciate it.
It was fun. Educational, and spooky. She had a few jokes that were a bit far but she was fun too. Great guide
