R-Rated Vampire & Ghost Tour of Philadelphia

While the tour was very informative and our tour guide Adam was awesome, we chose this particular tour because it was advertised to be a ghostly/paranormal themed tour of philly and it wasn’t that. It was more of a historical tour about founding fathers and writers and such, not really about hauntings and the paranormal. We had a lot of fun on the tour and we would recommend it to any one, the only reason we’re giving it two stars is because the description is very misleading and we were disappointed that this wasn’t what we thought we signed up for.

We like to do ghost tours when we visit a new city, so we signed up for this one. Our guide was an older gentleman who obviously had tremendous knowledge of the city, and he was very nice...but there were a few frustrating things. One: the tour was supposed to last 2 hours...and it went on for over 2 1/2 hours. This could have been fixed by leaving out stories that have nothing to do with vampires, sex or ghosts. Two: not scary at all...and very little in the way of ghost info. Pretty disappointing if that's what you are into.

Tour guide was fun, energetic, and entertaining

The tour guy spent to much time on stuff not associated with tour. i.e 1/2 way through tour he asked for 5 star review and prior to last stop he did a whole 5 minute story as that this stop was the most important and then told us what he did with his tips. I have no problem tipping and leaving good reviews if asked at the end of the tour, not throughout the tour

We had high expectations for our tour last night. The group was very large so we had to maneuver to be able to hear the speaker. The speaker didn’t keep our attention very well and it seemed as she was just shouting instead of portraying a good story. I saw a few people decide to leave and after an hour and fifteen minutes we decided to as well. I saw so many good reviews for this company and high expectations I just wish it help our attention and was more entertaining

This was a horrible experience. First Groupon gave me the wrong address for the start of the tour. We are to meet at the stairs of the Independence Visitor Center, not at 599 Market St. We couldn't find the crowd at first. Then, when I called the number to get support, the Grim Tours customer agent was incredibly rude to me. Our tour included 12 people plus the tour guide. At the end of the tour, 6 people were left because so many people bailed because it was too cold and too boring. It was freezing outside, which you'd expect for a tour in January, but we just stood in the cold instead of actually walking around. The stories weren't connected to Philly and the credibility of the stories was very questionable. The tour guide was very boring and not engaging. At one point he made a problematic sexist comment about his wife which made the group uncomfortable. Also, Groupon said the tour would last for an hour and 45 minutes, but when we arrived to the tour, we were told it was going to last 2 full hours. Then the tour guide said he never finished in 2 hours and that he tended to run 15-20 minutes over. My group had to bail at 10:08 because were too cold and the guide was sad he had to "cut the tour short" because he had "2 more stops." I think that was disrespectful to his audience because it was clear we were too cold and he wasn't keeping us active. At least when you're moving, you're staying warm, but he was leading us to places all around Independence Square (hardly a tour, right?) and having us stand still for 20 minutes at a time. My friend spiked a fever at the end of the evening.

I had an emergency and had to cancel. Asked if I could use the ticket another time and was told that a manager would get back to me and never did.