Josef was a hilarious tour guide. Plenty of quirk and humor — perfect for the stories. Ended up being just over 2 hrs bc we had so many questions and we enjoyed it so much! Also bc it was a night, the cool night air and empty greens was such a delight. Highly recommend for a group who doesn’t enjoy the regular slog of tour talks
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- Guided Tour
Excludes
- Gratuities
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Your guide will be waiting for you to the left side of the memorial against war and fascism. Look for a red and white striped umbrella!
Itinerary
Learn about the creepy burial rituals of one of Europe's most powerful royal families, the Habsburgs!
St. Michael's church, home of aristocratic catacombs
Plague Column
Blood Alley
Home of the famous bubonic plague musician, Augustin!
Former place for executions in the Middle Ages
Medieval alley and home of famous legend
Learn all about the spooky legends surrounding Vienna's main landmark!
Language Offered
Additional Info
Cancellation Policy
Reviews
Our guide was wickedly funny and the perfect person to share Vienna's darker history in a fun way. Definitely worth it and would go again.
Lisa was very informative and funny! These tours really bring out the interesting and dark parts of history they don't really teach you in school. Highly recommended!
Lisa was fantastic! She had so much energy, was funny, knowledgeable, and personable. The tour was just my family, and we all had so much fun. Lisa's stories were gruesome and funny and surprising, including true stories and legends. Highly recommend!
We loved our Private Vienna Ghost Tour and our guide, Lisa! She had the very best stories and we had so much fun walking around and learning about Vienna history. We saw many different sites and she had interesting information on everything. The pace of the walk was great, and she took the time to answer our questions. I would recommend Lisa to anyone, she has great energy and made the tour so enjoyable!
There was a glitch. The tour operator never got the booking from Viator. We showed up on tine but no one ever met us. She called later after getting my texts to apologize and said she never heard from you. We were very disappointed!!!
Lisa and her little sidekick (also Lisa) took us on a 90 minute adventure through the streets and alleys of central Vienna. Interesting and captivating stories at every stop. Pace was perfect and cobbled streets were level and easy to navigate. Lisa is energetic and a natural storyteller. Although an Austrian, she spent enough USA time to speak unaccented American English. Spent one-on-one time, speaking with many of the tour guests between stories. A fountain of information. Deserves every star in the rating. Our group of 4 was 22 y/o to 75 y/o and we were richly rewarded with a fun evening.
Lisa was the best!!!! She had remarkable energy and told us the most fascinating secrets of Vienna. She was a wealth of knowledge in regard to the tour and additional travel tips. My entire family loved this experience and we would highly recommend this tour to anyone!
What a wonderful tour of creepy/spooky Vienna. Lisa was phenomenal! She is so engaging and great at story telling, my two kids were discussing the stories till the next morning. The hour and a half flew like a breeze. Some of the stories were deliciously frightening!
Lisa was a great guide, energetic and very friendly. The tour was informative, she was easy to follow and understand (odd stories on ghost tours, but that’s the point!) and we had a blast!
Wow-we booked this last minute for my partner and my mom as something to do in Vienna when other plans fell through-THANK YOU LISA!! We had the absolute best time with you, walking Vienna and learning creepy history! Don’t make a deal with the Devil…but please make a deal with Lisa! Highly recommend!
Our English speaking guide Lisa was very knowledgeable & friendly. We enjoyed the tour with her & would highly recommend it.
So happy we booked this tour. Such a nice and fun way to get the history of Vienna. Lisa was such a wonderful tour guide. She is native but speaks perfect English. She was super engaging and energetic, very knowledgeable with the stories that she told about the history. When my husband and I first got here to Vienna, we thought that they really isn’t much to it except for shopping and after completing this tour, we really did get to get the full story of the history of the town. There is so much depth! She also had great tips as well recommended to spend the rest of our time here. We went in the afternoon and still got the spooky experience along with seeing the beauty of the city. Thank you Lisa highly recommend this tour!
This was an unexpected fantastic and fun experience. I had booked this instead of a normal sightseeing tour as both my daughter and I are interested in the darker sides of history. Our tour guide Lisa was absolutely amazing. Super knowledgeable, animated and welcoming! We met up in the evening, and she guided us through the city centre and told us lots of interesting back stories of the various places and buildings. It was a trip back in time. If you like to hear about the dark and bloody times of Vienna led by a great guide, I can highly recommend this private tour.
Five of us (all adults) took the tour on July 26. Our guide, Lisa, is a Vienna native, but due to her time in Miami, speaks English with no discernable accent. She was very engaging and high-energy as she escorted us down the streets (and some alleyways) of old Vienna. You'll learn about the Blood Countess, the Basilisk and other dark or spooky elements of Vienna's history that the other tours leave out. It was easy to find the meeting place (and locate Lisa), and, as at least one other review sort of indicated, it felt like we kind of had the city to ourselves that evening. While I didn't think there were too many genuine "chills," the mood was still great and we enjoyed ourselves immensely!
If the concept of a Spooky Vienna Ghost Tour sounds even a little fun to you, I want to wholly endorse this tour. I have taken a lot of private tours, and Lisa's was one of the most memorable and just flat out *fun*. For my wife and I, this was due to two separate components, the content of the tour and the guide. The content is spooky, fun, and most of all SURPRISING. Vienna is beautiful and regal, but the fact is that it's been a major city in Europe for a very long time, and some downright creepy stuff happened in this city! I really don't want to spoil any surprises, but I was surprised enough to explain out loud several times. You will stop at places whose story has permeated pop culture, created icons, and they make up part of an incredible historical fabric. The guide we had, Lisa, was one of those people that radiated fun, a real joy in her weird Spooky city, and absolute competence in her craft. I found myself completely drawn in to her stories, and as a testament to her ability, it never felt contrived or forced, it was story after story that weaved together. She is an absolute top tier guide. Lisa also provided us with other general information about the city which was really great! If you're on the fence about this tour, ask yourself: "am I in the mood to see spooky, weird and offbeat stuff, in Vienna, with an awesome host?" If you are, the decision to take this tour is easy.
Everyone in our group is from Vienna. For my friend’s Birthday we celebrated with all the fascinating spooky and most important REAL stories the inner city of Vienna has to offer. It was a Sunday eve and many streets are empty at that time so it really felt special. The biggest thanks goes to Lisa our tour guide. I’ve never experienced a more exciting story teller than Lisa. We all were loving the information she fed us. Thank you Lisa we will for sure try more of your tours. For example Segway - can’t wait!! It was a pleasure!
The Private Spooky Vienna Tour is a great way to see the city and learn about its history at the same time. Lisa was an awesome guide who is very knowledgeable about the history of the city but is also very engaging and kept our entire group entertained with insights into both the past and present. I would highly recommend this tour, especially if you enjoy learning the darker side of history!
My family and I really enjoyed this tour, Lisa is excellent. My daughters both agreed that this was their favorite tour during our time in Vienna.
Lisa was a fabulous guide and showed our family a completely different side of Vienna, beyond the pastries and music (which are also wonderful). As with any old cities, there are dark stories and shadowy corners. We spent an exciting several hours exploring this history, which contrasted heavily with the holiday decorations. Lisa brought these stories alive. Highly recommended!!
Lisa was a great guide. Full of information not only about the ghost stories, but also very helpful just with information about Vienna, places to try, etc. Really interesting tales. We’ve done a few of these now in different cities. Fun tours when done well because it really gives you some details most people miss in a visit. This tour was done very well. Top notch all the way around. Thanks so much!
Lisa was our tour guide and she was absolutely brilliant! Ghost stories are up to you to believe but she sure makes it interesting besides her knowledge about the history of Vienna is commendable! She is like a doctor with solutions to all your what, where, when and how!! Ritwik
Amazing experience, Lisa is a friendly and informative guide which makes for an educating tour and a peek into Austria's history that you probably wouldn't get from other tours. Additionally, the tour is themed more toward the darker elements of Vienna's past making it a unique experience. I would highly recommend this tour, especially if you like ghost stories and historical events.
Lisa was extremely enthusiastic, you can tell she loved telling the stories. This is a great way to see Vienna at night with an eerie twist. This was a great tour and we learned some really crazy things about Vienna! I highly recommend this tour.
Great Tour. I would give more than 5 points if I could. Lisa was a great guide and she made it fun and entertaining. The 1 1/2 hours were over in a flash.
My boyfriend and I have never been to Vienna before and wanted to do something different. We’re huge horror fans and thought we’d give this tour a try. We were able to visit places we never would have thought of on our own and took a lot of cool pictures. Definitely recommend!
Lisa was an amazing tour guide during our Ghost Tour of Vienna. She told spooky & historical tales as she guided us through the streets of Vienna. Lisa is highly recommend by our family if you plan to visit Vienna in the future.
We had such a fun time on this tour. Our guide Lisa is hilarious and engaged with our entire family. Everyone had a blast. I highly recommend!
Lisa has a great tour for Kids! on the day after a family tour of the KHM Museum Lisa took 4 little rascals on a "kids only" tour of the scariest parts of Vienna. The adults had some time off- a double win! 2 hrs later grinning faces full stories returned (and yes- they could sleep that night ;😴 Georg
I live in Vienna and had friends visiting - I knew I wanted to do something different while also having it be informational and interesting - and I hit the jackpot here! Lisa is enthusiastic, warm, a wonderful storyteller, and incredibly knowledgeable. The stories were 'spooky' of course but also contained rich history. Highly recommend!
We had a lot of fun with all the stories. I was afraid I might get scared, but it was more spooky than scary. Everyone had a blast.
The ghost spooky tour was interactive and so much fun, keeping our attention the almost two hours walking around the city of Vienna at night. Lots of laughter and I was able to take very cool pictures !! Tour guide Lisa was so gracious, knowledgeable and I was delighted the way she engaged the historical elements of the tour. Definitely worth it! ! Weather was perfect!!
A perfect activity to do with friends and as a couple! Very entertaining until the very end! Not only recommended for tourists but also for locals.
I was engaged throughout the toir and felt like I was in a real life movie. Would recommene it to anyone anytime!
This was a such a fun tour and Lisa was an amazing guide! She was waiting for us at the meeting point and did a great job of taking us through the City and sharing the super interesting, darker side of Vienna. We loved all of it and would highly recommend!
I'd rate Lisa a 10 for this tour if I could. This was the final tour we took during a two-week holiday, and it was truly the best for last. Lisa's interaction with our whole family was absolutely amazing. My sons (9 & 4 y/o) were marginally interested in previous tours we did, but they were engaged and fascinated with this tour. They absolutely loved seeing all they sites and hearing all the stories, as well as adding some of their own information for Lisa's repertoire. We really couldn't have asked for a better tour guide for our family, it truly was a one-of-a-kind experience for all of us!
We really enjoyed this tour, Lisa was an amazing guide, super enthusiastic, knowledgeable and always ready to answer any question. In this tour we heard lot of stories about Vienna's spooky past while visiting the centre and learning lot of history about the city. I'd really recommend this tour if you want to visit the centre of Vienna from a different perspective and if you are a fan of spooky stories which probably you wouldn't hear during a usual tour.
Wow ! Vienna has a dark and interesting history This is must do for people who enjoy haunted stories It gave me nightmares but my kids loved it !
I loved walking down Vienna’s old cobble stone streets, and listening to Lisa’s scary stories often with unexpected endings. Spooky details based on historical cases. “If death were a person he/she would be Viennese”.
Our guide, Lisa, was super energetic and very eager to show us all the spots where some very disturbing and spooky things went on in Vienna. The tour was informative but not overwhealming with too many details either. Even though I live in Vienna and knew some of the stories I still learned a lot of new things and really enjoyed the tour. It was my pleasure to be one of the first people to give this tour a go, I would definitely recommend this tour to others..especially in October and in the evening ;).
Die Geistertour ist mehr als zu empfehlen und war eine der besten Führungen, die ich jemals gemacht habe. Neben der tollen Stadt und den abenteuerlichen Gruselgeschichten war dies auch zu einem wesentlichen Anteil unserem sensationellem Guide Lisa zuzuschreiben, die unsere siebköpfige Gruppe mit einer irren Euphorie durch die Stadt manövriert hat. Witzig, abwechslungsreich und keine Sekunde Langeweile. Kann man blind buchen. Die fränkische Truppe war total geflashed :) Gerne wieder!
The tour is absolutely 100% recommended. Even as a Viennese, I got to know many new, exciting stories and secret places in Vienna. Would I repeat at any time:-)
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