Every Boston ghost tour we can verify, priced against the
$30 national median — so you can see which are a
fair price for a night's walk and which are not.
From the operator's own listing, not our summary of it.
Highlights
Catch a wicked buzz with your favorite drinking buddies
Explore sordid tales from the past
Learn about Boston's haunted history
Admire city highlights like the Double Cola Company and the Mountain City Club
Learn dark secrets behind charming locations like the Miller Plaza Pavilion
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How a Boston ghost tour works
1
Pick your night
Ghost tours run after dark and the good ones sell out on weekends. Check the widget above for what is actually running while you are in Boston.
2
Book with free cancellation
Most of these can be cancelled up to 24 hours before, so booking early costs nothing and holding out costs you the good guide.
3
Turn up where they say
This one meets at The Boston Haunted Pub Crawl starts at the Samuel Adams Statue located outside the Faneuil Hall Marketplace, located at 1 S Market Street. This is located at the intersection of North and Congress Street. This is where your tour guide will be waiting for you.
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Wear the right shoes
You will be walking on old, uneven, badly lit ground for an hour or more. It is the advice every operator gives and most visitors ignore.
On the tour
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Live dates and prices for Boston: Haunted Pub Crawl of Historic Pubs and Taverns, the
best-value Boston ghost tour we track. Instant confirmation.
Join the Ghosts of Boston Tour and explore haunted houses, eerie cemeteries, and ghostly Revolutionary War sites. Discover the spirits of American Patriots still roaming the city's historic grounds!
Typical nationwide
$29.99
Typical for a ghost tour in Boston · 5 tours, median $32.50
Explore the true crimes of the historic Beacon Hill neighborhood on a guided walking tour in Boston. Step into the dark history of the city while learning about famous murder cases and serial killers.
Typical nationwide
$35
Above the for a ghost tour in Boston · 5 tours, median $32.50
Explore the dark history of Boston on a 90-minute walking tour. Hear chilling tales of cursed artifacts, unsolved mysteries, & restless spirits as you explore eerie burial grounds & haunted locations.
Typical nationwide
$32.50
Typical for a ghost tour in Boston · 5 tours, median $32.50
The ground is free by day. You are paying for the guide and the dark.
What you are actually buying
Boston's colonial burying grounds - Granary, King's Chapel, Copp's Hill - are public and cost nothing to walk through in daylight. A ghost tour buys you the narrative and, where an operator has it, access after the gates close. That is a real product. It is not entry, and any listing implying otherwise is overselling.
The taverns are genuinely old
A haunted pub crawl is usually a theme laid over whatever bars are nearby. In Boston several stops are eighteenth-century taverns that were standing for the events being described, which gives the format more claim here than in most American cities.
Small core, short walk
The colonial city is compact and the Freedom Trail already proved that visitors will walk it. A ghost tour is the same geography after dark, which is the easiest possible version of this format.
What a night here actually costs
Boston's 5 bookable tours start at $27 and run to $35, against a national ghost-tour
median of $30 measured across 208 products.
That puts Boston squarely in the typical band. The middle half of all ghost tours runs $25 to $39.25, this city sits inside it, and price is therefore not the variable worth optimising here. With 5 products the field is small but real - enough to choose between, not enough for competition to have weeded much out. Read the review counts rather than assuming. We feature it on price and review depth rather than on quoted reviews - GetYourGuide has not surfaced review prose for this product, and we would rather say so than show you another tour's reviews under its name.
Ready for your night in Boston?
Boston: Haunted Pub Crawl of Historic Pubs and Taverns — rated 4.5 by 133 verified guests, from $34.99.
Free cancellation.
Boston tours run from $27, against a national ghost-tour median of $30 across 208 products. The strip on each card shows exactly where that price sits in the category.
Which Boston ghost tour is best?
We feature Boston: Haunted Pub Crawl of Historic Pubs and Taverns because it carries the strongest combination of price and review depth — 4.5 from 133 verified reviews. The comparison table above puts it against the next two so you can disagree with us on the evidence.
Are Boston ghost tours family friendly?
Read each listing: some are explicitly 21+ because they are bar crawls, and those say so in their inclusions. The walking history tours are generally fine for older children, though the point of them is atmosphere after dark.
Can I cancel?
Most of these carry free cancellation up to 24 hours before the tour, which means booking early costs nothing and waiting costs you the better guide. The widget above shows the terms for the date you pick.
Is there more on haunted places in boston?
Yes - Haunted Places in Boston lists only the Boston products that match, priced against the same national distribution as everything else here.
Is there more on boston ghost tour walking?
Yes - Boston Ghost Tour Walking lists only the Boston products that match, priced against the same national distribution as everything else here.
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