The Ghost Bus Tours

Cheesy. Disappointing.
A group of 5 of us were going to be in London for the Chiefs/​Lions game at Wembley, and when we realized we’d be there over Halloween, we started looking at fun things to try. The Ghost Bus Tour came up in a search and looked really cool so we bought our tickets.
Upon arrival, we saw a HUGE crowd gathered around waiting for the bus. Our tour was scheduled for 9:15pm, but there were people there waiting who had been scheduled earlier but who still hadn’t departed. The operators were trying to reschedule people, place them into groups, etc. Apparently, there was an event that had closed down a lot of roads that had caused them to have some serious delays… OK, not their fault, and they were trying to accommodate, so we were being patient with them.
When we finally got on the bus, we were ready for something exciting… in their advertisement, they say they have «costumed actors» who present you with a unique entertainment experience. Imagine our surprise when the only «actors» we encountered were the tour operator and one other man who kept doing some random stuff going up and down from one level to another and staring wildly into the camera… and at one point, got off the bus altogether! The script was horrible, and they really didn’t give much information at all about the locations that we passed. And the bus was going so fast, you really didn’t even have time to see any of the locations anyway.
Save your money and don’t waste your time with this.

I really enjoyed the tour… there were some great fun facts and the guide and the actor had everyone laughing pretty much the whole time. It was a quick ride… only about 1 ½ hours, wish it was just a tad longer… Which I guess is always best instead of wishing it was over!

Was highly excited to do a ghost tour in London, had even been looking forward to it before my arrival from the states! Was highly intrigued at the beginning of the tour when our tour guide was delivering cold hard facts but then another tour guide hopped on the bus to which my surprise commenced a theatrical event; which very quickly became a nuisance. It was a nuisance because I was not aware of a skit being involved but mainly because of our tour guide being too focused on the skit she would not finish explaining the stories & details. It was 90% theater, 10% facts. My family & I left EXTREMELY disappointed.

I would honestly save my bucks and use something a bit more interesting. The data points he host used were good but it was not scary and there was another random gentleman who joined (part of the show) and who was super smelly. I would say for a work do this was a little less than ideal because ur stuck in one seat but it was a nice idea on their part.

Brilliant tour.
With the guide telling you of morbid history and pointing out the various esoteric interesting tidbits of history, as well as the common knowledge ones.
Keep in mind what makes this necrobus tour special are the the guides. You have the initial tour guide and are later joined by Mr. Hinge. The two build the tour into an interesting mix of horror, comedy, and just out right fun.
This is not so much a simple ghost tour as it is a giddy romp with ghost tour trappings.
It is worth the price of admission just for the terrible puns, silly one liners, and interesting history.

It’s a cold and rainy night in London. It’s dark and more than a little stormy. What better way to celebrate the festive season with a trip on the Necrobus visiting some of London’s most haunted sights and hearing stories about executions, hauntings and murders.
Santa would be proud.
The ghost bus looks the part. An old routemaster painted black with dark velvet curtains and poor lighting, the story goes that this particular bus used to transport the dead through London. It is indeed creepy.
The host or storyteller did a good job and was the right mix of silly, scary and strangely attractive, maybe that’s just me — I do tend to fancy the most inappropriate men…
Being a bit of a fraidy cat I got a bit caught up in the moment. I was convinced someone was going to pop up behind my seat and scream at me. Or that the stories would be really scary.
But it just wasn’t that scary. The stories were as expected and the windows were so steamed up we couldn’t see the places we were going past and talking about, which was a shame cos some of those gothic buildings give me the creeps!
And the jokes we’re of the tried and true ‘dad joke’ variety which is a bit silly, but which my male companion killed himself over. There’s no accounting for humour.
Would I recommend it? Sure, if you are new to town and want to do something touristic, especially if it’s raining and the ever popular Jack the Ripper tour doesn’t appeal in the wet nigh and the London Dungeon isn’t open late. But at £20 it’s not the best value attraction in London and I don’t think I’d go again.

What a funny tour! I never would have taken it, but my family was in town, and we’re kind of weird about ghost tours and things, so we ended up giving it a try. We spent a few hours riding through a rainy London, learning a different set of stories than we’d heard on the «traditional» bus tour we took a day previous. We also had a lot of fun getting scared and watching the goofy show the actors put on.
If you’re into the macabre or darker parts of history, this is probably the most compact way to get accurate yet entertaining history. You’ll enjoy the chance to sit on an antique double-​decker bus, in old seats, and with cool lamps and shades on the walls. It really is an experience as much as a tour!
The route runs all over Central London and down through Bankside. That’s quite a route, covering a bigger area than most single route bus tours I’ve taken. The pick-​up and drop off at Northumberland Avenue is very conveniently accessed from Westminster, Embankment, and Trafalgar Square. It’s definitely worth checking out this tour if you like this kind of stuff (even if you find it silly, you’ll enjoy how goofy the story-​telling is at different points).
Also, the name is just funny to say aloud. Give it a try!

I went on this a couple of years ago as a work event and it was unintentionally hilarious for all the wrong reasons! This was mainly because the audience — the majority of the passengers on the bus were foreign students who didn’t get the humour of the two male actors performing and because you could tell they were getting desperate and feeling at the end of their tether trying to entertain us all and losing some passengers en route who were desperate to disembark before the end of the tour!
The Ghost Tour was okay but I was glad to not have forked out just under £20 for it and it was pretty tame and lame infact, I wasn’t scared and I’m the biggest scaredy cat going!
We started the tour near Baker Street, passing along the Euston Road to Kings Cross, through Holborn and over to London Bridge before ending close to Trafalgar Square.
The tour was in near darkness, fitted with dark drawn curtains and dimly lit lamps and smoke constantly blown out to provide a gloomy air along with spooky sound effects.
Some of the tour consisted of real life ghost stories but a lot of it was made up and bad acting which descended into fits of giggles, embarrassed laughter and cringey moments! I felt bad for these guys.
Hopefully this has improved since I encountered this but I certainly wouldn’t want to pay to find out!

I booked this bus for my boyfriends 21^st birthday and we had the best time! It was great because we wanted to surprise him so all of our friends and family boarded the bus before us and hid upstairs and a little later on we came along to greet this rather spooky looking bus man and got on and went up to greet everyone. The bus is decked out to look eerie, it reminded me Phantom Manor at Disneyland! You can take a trip on the bus individually or book it for private parties, I highly recommend this by the way! The bus takes you around all of the main sights in London that included death and horror stories, very interesting indeed! There are actors on board too, all fully in character as well as special effects to get your mind going and really get the right atmosphere! Expect a few twists and turns and beware of things that go bump in the night!

This is absolute silliness!
This big, black, double-​decker tour bus does look a bit forbidding with its screaming skull on the side and destinations to ‘Notting Hell’ and «Earl’s Corpse». The inside is outfitted with red velvet drapes and tiffany lamps at every window. The two-​person seats are squishy and comfy and are set up to face each other so you can get to know your fellow tour mates.
The tour guide is a raggedy lookin’ fella that likes telling bad jokes and sneaking up behind people to shout in their ears. He tends to stay at the back of the bus where he speaks directly into a camera that projects his face onto the TV screens all over the bus. The black and white image and smoke machine add to the creepy effect.
The tour starts at Trafalgar Square and putts around London for about an hour and 15 minutes. There are a few ‘real’ ghost stories and facts about the places we pass, but the main part of this tour is the theatrics put on by the tour guide and a ‘Mr. Hinge’ who appears later on the tour. Tickets are £18 online or you can buy them from the guide though I think they may be a bit more.
All in all, this is a really fun trip and fantastic for getting you into the Halloween spirit. Just don’t expect a serious history of haunted London!