Scot Free Tours Aberdeen

Name: Scot Free Tours Aberdeen
Address: Mercat Cross Castlegate, Aberdeen, AB115BB, GB
Telephone: +447851039597
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Free history walking tours of Aberdeen. City Centre, Old Aberdeen, Dark History & Old & Nu Aberdeen! But there is a bit more to this city than that.
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Sure, we all know about the oil and the granite and the weather. There are stories that you will never have heard. Stories about death, pirates, war, wizards, infra-red telescopes and Annie Lennox. And more death. Those are the stories that we want to share with you. Welcome to Aberdeen.

14/11/2024

🎄Christmas arrives in Aberdeen! ✨

This Sunday 17th November, Union Street will be a riot of colour as the Christmas Lights Switch On Parade dazzles and delights Aberdeen. Santas on Scooters will kick off the festivities, beginning at Albyn Place and parading down Union Terrace and finishing at His Majesty's Theatre. There will be panto characters, festive floats and many musical maestros. Will you be there?

Our City Centre tour of Aberdeen begins in Castlegate, just beside Aberdeen’s Christmas tree!

Book on a tour today on scotfreetours.com

05/11/2024

Remember, remember the 5th of November! 🎆

Tonight the skies will be lit up with sparkling and whooshing displays of colour at Aberdeen North Pier. But did you know Aberdeen once displayed a wanted poster for Gunpowder Plotter Thomas Percy?

The document, dating from 5th November 1605, urges the people of Aberdeen to search for the infamous co-conspirator of Guy Fawkes. They even provided a description of Thomas Percy, detailing him to be a “tall man with a great broad beard, a good face, the colour of his beard and head mingled with white haires, but the head more white than the beard, he stoupeth somewhat in the shoulders, well coloured in the face, long footed, small legged".

Despite Aberdonians on the lookout, Thomas Percy was later found and killed in Staffordshire.

Will you be joining the fireworks tonight? You can find all the information here:
https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/leisure-culture-and-parks/major-events-aberdeen/aberdeen-fireworks-night-2024

📸 Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives

29/10/2024

We have officially reached 500 five star reviews on TripAdvisor! ⭐️

Scot Free Tours was first founded in 2016 by Lia Sanders. Since then, we have grown to a team of five tour guides and toured thousands of people around the Granite City. Here’s a snapshot of our most recent reviews!

⭐️Just spent 2 days joining these tours. Very informative and relaxed. Fun to do. Full of history of Aberdeen of which I'm a local but learnt something new each time. I joined Rebecca's tour of Old Aberdeen on Saturday and Ricks tour on Sunday about Nu Art. Highly recommended and will go on others. Thanks for the tours 😁

⭐️ Rick was our guide for the NuArt tour and he was brilliant. He is very friendly, outgoing, interested in everyone in the group but mostly he is very knowledgeable about Aberdeen and its history. We enjoyed the tour a lot and the 2 hours went very fast.

⭐️ Fantastic walking tour of Aberdeen. Our guide was very knowledgeable, highly entertaining and made the tour very enjoyable and entertaining.

Book a tour today on scotfreetours.com - there are five tours to choose from!

🍂 City Centre
🌙 Great Scot: Free Walking Tour of Old Aberdeen
👻 Fiends For Life: A Dark History Tour of Aberdeen
🚢 Old & Nu: Aberdeen’s Historic Centre and NuArt
🍺 Craft Beer Tour

23/10/2024

Do you have plans for Halloween? Let’s share ghost stories… ☠️🧙🏼‍♀️⚰️🌙

Join tour guide Hollie this Halloween weekend and wander Aberdeen’s dark streets as you learn about medieval torture devices… Gibbets. Thumbscrews. Whippings. Dunkings… and of course the scold's bridle.

These well known spots in Aberdeen have spine-tingling stories that lurk in the shadows. What will you discover?

👻 Friday 25th October @ 6pm
🎃 Saturday 26th October @ 6pm & 8pm
🧛🏻 Thursday 31st October @ 6pm

📍 Outside Aberdeen Maritime Museum

Book a tour today on scotfreetours.com - or simply turn up!

BEWARE! 🧟‍♀️ This is your last chance to join this tour in 2024!

16/10/2024

Are you enjoying Autumn? 🍂 Aberdeen is looking magical as our trees have their last hurrah!

Why not enjoy the Autumn leaves on a free walking tour of Aberdeen. There are five tours to choose from - from Old Aberdeen, to the city centre, to a craft beer in the pub!

🍂 City Centre
🌙 Great Scot: Free Walking Tour of Old Aberdeen
👻 Fiends For Life: A Dark History Tour of Aberdeen
🚢 Old & Nu: Aberdeen’s Historic Centre and NuArt
🍺 Craft Beer Tour

🎟️ Book a tour today on scotfreetours.com

07/10/2024

🎃HALLOWEEN IN ABERDEEN! 👻

Spooky Season is upon us! Join our dark history tour Fiends For Life this October to discover the grisly past of the Granite City.

Witches? ☑️
Ghosts? ☑️
Pirates? ☑️
Murderers? ☑️
Kidnappers? ☑️
Bodysnatchers? ☑️

Join a tour as darkness descends upon the streets you walk every day…

📍 Aberdeen Maritime Museum
🌙 Fridays @ 6pm
🕷 Tours throughout October and the Halloween weekend
🧙 FREE (Donations welcome!)

🎟️ Book a place on scotfreetours.com

25/09/2024

Autumn is officially upon us and the trees have begun to turn! 🍂 Here’s a rather picturesque shot of King’s College, with the fantastic sculpture by Kenny Hunter reclining in the foreground.

This sculpture is called ‘Youth with a split apple’, first unveiled in 2005. But who could it be? An infamous trickster of King’s College? Or perhaps the founder himself, Bishop William Elphinstone?

Join an autumnal tour of Old Aberdeen and let guides Rick and Rebecca enlighten you to the beginnings of King’s College.

🥾 Great Scot: Free Walking Tour of Old Aberdeen
📍 The Old Townhouse, Old Aberdeen
🍂 Selected Saturdays @ 11am and Sundays at 2pm
✨ FREE (donations are welcome)
🔗 book your place today on scotfreetours.com

20/09/2024

This weekend marks the final day of Summer 2024! We’ve had such a blast touring people around the Granite City, hosting locals and tourists alike. It’s been a busy summer - we’ve welcomed over 500 guests, expanded our SFT tour guide team to five, and received almost 100 5 star TripAdvisor reviews! Have you been on a tour this summer? ☀️ 🏖️

Book a tour today on scotfreetours.com - there's 5 to choose from!

🫧 City Centre
🌊 Great Scot: Free Walking Tour of Old Aberdeen
🛟 Fiends For Life: A Dark History Tour of Aberdeen
🚢 Old & Nu: Aberdeen’s Historic Centre and NuArt
⚓️ Craft Beer Tour

09/09/2024

🌺This morning’s Duthie Park Fun Day celebrates Britain in Bloom’s 60th anniversary! 🌸

Did you know Aberdeen has won a medal every year since 2008? We’ve been award-winning since 1964!

One man responsible for many of Aberdeen’s accolades was the great David Welch. In 1967, he was appointed the city council’s director of leisure and education and he sure did ruffle feathers when he proposed replacing turf with roses down the entire stretch of Anderson Drive. Along with cultivating parkland and sewing millions of bulbs, Aberdeen won so many Britain in Bloom awards under Welch’s direction that we were excluded from the competition! (Well, excluded from winning gold after our hat-trick!)

Today, David Welch’s magnificent influence on Aberdeen’s gardens and parks can be seen at Duthie Park’s Winter Gardens. You can also learn all about this remarkable gardener on our free walking tour of Old Aberdeen where we tell tales of his long career.

🥾 Great Scot: Free Walking Tour of Old Aberdeen
📍 The Old Townhouse, Old Aberdeen
🌼 Selected Saturdays @ 11am and Sundays at 2pm
✨ FREE (donations are welcome)
🔗 book your place today on scotfreetours.com

*The family event being held in Duthie Park is from 10am to 2pm and includes Spike the Talking Cactus, origami, self-guided tours, photo selfie props, stalls, and music from Aberdeen Music Service’s String Ensemble and Aberdeen Rock Choir.

04/09/2024

THIS WEEKEND! 📜 ⚔️

September marks the 380th anniversary of the Battle of Justice Mills, the 1644 ‘Battle of Aberdeen’. To coincide with the anniversary, Provost Skene’s House is displaying the Montrose Letter.

Along with the letter, this Saturday visitors will be able to meet soldiers from the Royalist forces of the Marquis of Montrose and the Covenanter forces of Lord Burleigh in the Painted Gallery, Provost Skene’s House. What questions will you ask them?

On the 13th September 1644 over 100 Aberdonians suffered violent deaths when the town was ravaged by Montrose’s soldiers. With a 2000-strong army, Montrose wrote this letter to demand the city of Aberdeen surrender to King Charles I.

Join our free walking tour of The Green which goes into the bloody story of how the little drummer boy began the Battle of Justice Mills.

⚔️ Old & Nu Aberdeen: Free Walking Tour of Aberdeen’s Historic Centre & NuArt Street Art
📍 Meet outside Contour Cafe, The Green
🕰️ Selected Sundays @ 2pm
🛡️ Free (Donations welcome)

28/08/2024

Since 2017, Nuart has brightened the Granite City nearly every year and has since become an award-winning and internationally renowned street art festival!

This piece by Case Maclaim is framed by Aberdeen Inspired's Umbrella Project, an installation of colourful brollies that celebrates neurodiversity.

Join us on our Sunday tour Old & Nu: Free tour of Aberdeen’s historic centre and Nuart street art to learn about the art and artists’ themselves.

🖼️ Old & Nu Aberdeen: Free Walking Tour of Aberdeen’s Historic Centre & NuArt Street Art
📍 Meet outside Contour Cafe, The Green
🕰️ Selected Sundays at 2pm
☀️ Free (Donations welcome)

20/08/2024

On this day, 20th August 1589…

King James VI of Scotland marries his new wife Anne of Denmark! However what would come after would destroy many lives across Scotland.

As the newlyweds travelled to Scotland, Dr Fian and his coven of witches raised a storm just off the east coast at North Berwick. The storm swept up the Royal ship and threatened to wreck the lives of the King and his new Queen. From that point on, the king was obsessed with witchcraft and a frenzy of witch hunts were sparked across Scotland.

Aberdeen accused around 80 witches of witchcraft, many were detained with jougs (an iron collar), many were tortured, and many were sentenced to death.

Join our dark history tour Fiends For Life where tour guide Hollie unveils the stories of innocent men and women accused of witchcraft in Aberdeen.

Next tour - this Friday 23rd at 6pm!

⚔️ Fiends For Life: Dark History Tour of Aberdeen
⚰️ Selected Fridays @ 6pm
📍 Aberdeen Maritime Museum
🌙 Free (Donations welcome)

14/08/2024

Summer is here! ☀️ 🏖️

It’s been blissful sunshine in the sparkling Granite City (although it took its time to arrive! ☔️)
Here’s some fun things to do in sunny Aberdeen this summer…

1. Build sandcastles at Aberdeen beach
2. Wander around the old fishing village of Fittie
3. Sunbathe in one of many of Aberdeen’s green spaces (Union Terrace Gardens, perhaps?)
4. Enjoy a tipple on the terrace at Aberdeen Art Gallery
5. Go dolphin spotting at Torry’s Greyhope Bay
6. Walk the cobbled streets of Old Aberdeen
7. Head to our brand new £1mil playground at Hazlehead park
8. Visit the stunning floral paradise of David Welch’s Winter Gardens
9. Marvel at nature at Donmouth Local Nature Reserve
10. Join a free walking tour of Aberdeen, of course! Book your place at scotfreetours.com

🫧 City Centre
🌊 Great Scot: Free Walking Tour of Old Aberdeen
🛟 Fiends For Life: A Dark History Tour of Aberdeen
🚢 Old & Nu: Aberdeen’s Historic Centre and NuArt
⚓️ Craft Beer Tour

07/08/2024

We’re well into our busy summer season! Tours are very popular among tourists visiting Aberdeen and those that call Aberdeen home. We’ve welcomed guests from Germany, Italy, Switzerland, China, Iran, Ireland, Australia, USA, and so many more.

Here’s a snapshot of July’s five star reviews…

⭐️ We recently participated in a walking tour in Aberdeen led by Rick, and I couldn't have been more impressed. Rick was incredibly friendly and knowledgeable, offering deep insights into the historical aspects of the town. His enthusiasm and passion for Aberdeen's history were evident throughout the tour, making the experience both educational and enjoyable. He had a knack for storytelling that brought the history of Aberdeen to life.

⭐️ Excellent tour of Old Aberdeen (Aberdon) with Rebecca today. The tour was both informative and well planned with a lot of detail imparted in a relatively short time. Rebecca certainly knew her history and was very engaging.

⭐️ We did the Aberdeen City Centre walk, Taylor our guide was both informative and amusing, we really enjoyed it. A great insight to the history of the city.

Book a free tour of Aberdeen today on scotfreetours.com - we have five tours to choose from!

25/07/2024

Have you ever visited St Machar’s Cathedral and wondered about its ceiling, or its hidden star etched into the wall, or perhaps the fact it looks like half has been knocked down?

Join Rebecca on a walking tour of Old Aberdeen and marvel at Rebecca’s stories of the last 1500 years.

Did you know Rebecca only joined Scot Free Tours at the beginning of this summer season and already has 25 five star reviews? Amazing! 🌟

🥾 Great Scot: Free Walking Tour of Old Aberdeen
📍 The Old Townhouse, Old Aberdeen
🍂 Selected Saturdays @ 11am and Sundays at 2pm
✨ FREE (donations are welcome)
🔗 book your place today on scotfreetours.com

16/07/2024

Aberdeen’s Festival of the Sea! 🌊

From 15th-28th July, Aberdeen is celebrating the history, traditions and relationship between the city and the sea. Where best to celebrate this than the picturesque Fittie?

Dating from 1809, these quaint cottages stand at the mouth of Aberdeen harbour. This would have been the perfect place for the fisherman and their families to live due to its proximity to the water's edge. The cottages were built facing a square, with no windows or doors in the east walls which sheltered the people from the harsh North Sea. Today, Fittie is a colourful oasis just a stone's throw from the city centre and is filled with unique and wonderful ornaments, paintings and seashells. 🐚🪸

Head to Aberdeen City Council’s online pages for details of the events hosted at Fittie Community Hall, Union Terrace Gardens, and the city’s gallery and museums.

10/07/2024

Do you enjoy terrifying true crime documentaries and podcasts? Well why not learn the true crime stories of Aberdeen on a dark history tour.

Fiends For Life is a 90 minute ghostly walk of Aberdeen that delves into the city’s many mysteries. With stories of murderers, pirates, bodysnatchers and witches, be sure to be shocked, thrilled and delightedly disgusted by the fiends that walked Aberdeen’s streets.

🧙🏼‍♀️ Fiends For Life
⚰️ Fridays @ 6pm
📍 Aberdeen Maritime Museum
🌙 FREE! (Donations welcome)
🔗 Book your place now at scotfreetours.com

04/07/2024

Tricksters of King’s College 🪅🎓

Graduation season is upon us and King’s College has an alumni dating back over 500 years. Many were immersed in academia, and a few in skullduggery…

Have you heard of the riot of 1659? Or the student led jailbreak of 1705 from Aberdeen’s Tolbooth? Or perhaps the 1770 story of a siege! Once upon a time, the students had heckled some sailors drinking nearby. The students made a run for it, only for the sailors to be hot on their heels. The students had rushed into the college grounds and hid behind the gate but the boisterous sailors battered down the gate… but what was their fate?

Join us on a tour of Old Aberdeen where we tell tales of Aberdeen’s Greats and those that were out after dark.

🥾 Great Scot: Free Walking Tour of Old Aberdeen
📍 The Old Townhouse, Old Aberdeen
🍂 Selected Saturdays @ 11am and Sundays at 2pm
✨ FREE (donations are welcome)
🔗 book your place today on scotfreetours.com

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http://www.aberdeenfreetours.com/

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There's nothing worse than waiting out in the cold to do a tour...only for no-one to show up! Thanks to everyone who came on a tour this weekend so that our tours could all run.

Some photos of tour groups from the last few weekends of wonderful weather 🌞 Starting this weekend, there will be even more chances to go on our your as we'll be running our city centre tour TWICE on Saturdays at 11am and 2pm. To reserve a place on the tour just visit our website.