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Post by Graveyardbride on Jun 6, 2017 16:26:21 GMT -5
GHOSTour is fully escorted by professional tour guides, giving travelers the utmost in British local lore and history and also emphasizing paranormal insight. Visit our website www.GHOSTours.com for more info and to read tour reports from past travelers.
Visit every imaginable horror and host-related site including Castle Rising, the London Dungeon, the Tower of London, Whitby, the Abbey Ruins, York, Yorkminster (and the Crypt), Nottingham, Lincoln, the Lyceum Theatre (Bram Stoker’s London theatre), the Royal Hotel (where Stoker wrote Dracula), Borley Rectory, Essex, the Mill Hotel, Sudbury, Highgate Cemetery (known for the Highgate Vampire and Avenue of the Dead), the Dracula Experience, Cambridge, and many other legendary locales. Enjoy pub crawls to some of the weirdest and scariest inns and pubs, such as Spaniard’s Inn, the Golden Fleece, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, and the world’s oldest pub located within the actual Nottingham Forest (of Robin Hood fame). Experience moonlit haunted GHOST walks in London, York, Lincoln, Whitby, plus the sinister Jack the Ripper walk. Shop at some of the finest Goth and paranormal collector’s shops in the world.
Combine this with independent late-night séances, visits to graveyards, on-board classic ghost and genre films, our infamous Mad Monster Masquerade Ball farewell bash and other surprises, and you’ve got what is undeniably the most memorable macabre tour in haunt history.
We are now accepting reservations for the next haunted travel adventure: GHOSTour to England, May 13-20, 2018. The trip is a deluxe travel packages for only $2,999 per person (a $5,999 value), including round-trip airfare to Britain, transfers, luxury coach transportation, all hotel accommodations, all attractions, admissions, events, parties, special guests and entertainment. US travelers fly out of the New York City, where people from all over the world meet as a group to travel together to the UK. If you are joining us from elsewhere, or wish to arrange your own airfare, you may take part in this adventure by booking a land-only package.
Source: Tours of Terror. |
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Post by Kate on Jun 6, 2017 19:56:11 GMT -5
Has anyone been on a ghost tour to England with people that they didn't know? As much as I want to visit England, I don't think that I would enjoy it unless I was with family or friends.
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Post by kitty on Jun 6, 2017 23:29:50 GMT -5
To those the group members who went to England in 2010: Did ya'll go to any of the locations that are on this list?
Another thing, in this the ruins of the abbey that we used to have on the page of our old group was called "Whidby," but in this article, there's a place called "Whitby." Are they the same or are they two different places?
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Post by jane on Jun 7, 2017 1:11:59 GMT -5
To those the group members who went to England in 2010: Did ya'll go to any of the locations that are on this list?
Another thing, in this the ruins of the abbey that we used to have on the page of our old group was called "Whidby," but in this article, there's a place called "Whitby." Are they the same or are they two different places?
Of the places on the list, we went to the Tower of London (though some of the others and I stayed at the hotel and rested because we had been there before), Borley Rectory, Highgate Cemetery, the Spaniard's Inn, and Whidby, and we went on the Jack the Ripper tour. We also went to a LOT of other places and on tours that aren't on the list.
I think that it can be spelled either way. I was told that the town was named for the Whidby family, so I always spell it "Whidby" and you probably remember it from my reports while we were on our trip. We spent three nights there and we went to the Abbey ruins, the cemetery and on a Dracula tour and a ghost tour while we were there.
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Post by jason on Jul 1, 2017 18:52:37 GMT -5
I don't mind tours that last only a few hours, or maybe a day, with strangers, but I wouldn't want to spend several days with a bunch of people I didn't know or know anything about. However, I did enjoy the Vampire tour of Rhode Island back in 2012, or whenever it was, but there were some people from this group that I had at least met before who were there, too.
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Post by natalie on Jul 6, 2017 10:28:13 GMT -5
I don't really like tours, personally, because yes, you're stuck with the same obnoxious people, sometimes for days at a time (and when they get drunk, they get even worse!), and because you cannot veer off the chosen path. A lot of these tours will focus on touristy stops, which sometimes are very gimmicky and cliche, while ignoring other stops that are a bit more obscure because they are not "popular." They tend to stick with places that are popular (hence, what is known as "tourist traps"). I like to have the freedom to explore neighborhoods on my own, see historic homes, walk around to explore the streets of each town, the museums, and photograph spooky or interesting things. I'm sure I'd irritate the tour guide in doing so, and would be forbidden from straying because they would feel responsible for me. I'd prefer to go with a small group of people who have similar interests and will want to see the things I want to see, and perhaps add on to the suggestions with other spots to visit, whether reputedly haunted, historic, or just unusual. Oh, and they must be adventurous and open to walking quite a bit, as I enjoy that.
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Post by demdike on Aug 21, 2017 17:51:35 GMT -5
To those the group members who went to England in 2010: Did ya'll go to any of the locations that are on this list?
Another thing, in this the ruins of the abbey that we used to have on the page of our old group was called "Whidby," but in this article, there's a place called "Whitby." Are they the same or are they two different places?
Of the places on the list, we went to the Tower of London (though some of the others and I stayed at the hotel and rested because we had been there before), Borley Rectory, Highgate Cemetery, the Spaniard's Inn, and Whidby, and we went on the Jack the Ripper tour. We also went to a LOT of other places and on tours that aren't on the list.
I think that it can be spelled either way. I was told that the town was named for the Whidby family, so I always spell it "Whidby" and you probably remember it from my reports while we were on our trip. We spent three nights there and we went to the Abbey ruins, the cemetery and on a Dracula tour and a ghost tour while we were there.
Just a note about Borley Rectory, the actual Rectory was burnt down in 1939. The church still exists. I have heard the villagers are not keen on too many visitors but the story of this place is really catching my imagination. I have never seen that spelling of Whitby but I like the variation. A good book to help one get to grips with the story is called the Borley Rectory Companion by Pete Underwood and a couple of co authors. It is important to get the right source material. The actual characters of the people who,lived there is even more exciting than the ghostly stories that hung round the place. The guy who built it, the reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull had reportedly heard stories of a ghostly nun and coach and four attached to a nearby Rectory. Borley was never built on the grounds of a monastery, there has never been one in those parts, but there may have been a murder on the site. A lot of myths are mixed in with the very real and fascinating story of a totally creepy house. |
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Post by demdike on Oct 3, 2017 1:49:16 GMT -5
Is this trip going ahead? Whitby isn't that far from me if anyone would like to meet. Haven't been to the old sea town for some time.
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Post by madeline on Oct 3, 2017 3:10:14 GMT -5
Is this trip going ahead? Whitby isn't that far from me if anyone would like to meet. Haven't been to the old sea town for some time.
I'm not sure anyone from the group is taking this tour, but I could be wrong. Lee and Joanna post a lot of tour notices just for information.
Some of us from the group went on a private month-long tour of England in 2009 and I knew only four of the others who went, but we set some ground rules beforehand and everyone stuck to them, so we all got along and had a good time. We had a private coach with a driver and his wife, so it we didn't have to stick to a strict schedule. We had made reservations at all the hotels and inns where we stayed and we had already picked out a lot of the places where we would stop for lunch, usually haunted pubs. We spent three nights in Whitby and stayed at a place called the Bagdale Hall Hotel because it's said to be haunted, but those of us who had rooms in the old part of the hotel were cold because the heating wasn't all that great. Those who stayed in the annex said it was nice and warm in their rooms. Whitby is very atmospheric, especially at night when the tide is coming in. I loved visiting the Whitby abbey ruins and cemetery and walking along the waterfront at night. It was easy to understand why Bram Stoker chose Whitby as one of his Dracula settings.
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Post by julia on Oct 4, 2017 2:43:23 GMT -5
Is this trip going ahead? Whitby isn't that far from me if anyone would like to meet. Haven't been to the old sea town for some time.
I was with the group on the 2009 England trip and I enjoyed our time in Whitby, though it was somewhat crowed because we were there over the weekend when there are more visitors. I also found the hotel damp and cold, as Maddie said, and I live in Maine, which gets much colder than England.
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