Aberdeen's Union Street: A Self-Guided Audio Tour
- 1.8–3.7 hours
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
Explore Aberdeen at your own pace with this acclaimed self guided audio tour of Aberdeen. Beginning from Holburn Junction at the west end of Union Street, you'll weave your way through timeless streets while discovering the stories that the city hides in plain sight. The tour is ready whenever you feel like taking a stroll. It plays audio automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smart phone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline. If you've got an hour and want to see all the major historical and cultural themes that Aberdeen has to offer – this is the tour for you!
Inclusions
What's included
- Lifetime access to the 'Explore Union Street' tour
- VoiceMap Application
- Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
What's not
- Smartphone
- Transportation
- Food/drinks
- Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
Itinerary
The tour takes you on a wandering walk beginning at the Western End of Union Street and ending with a dramatic and fun-filled showcase of the city's crown jewel - Marischal college. Once called "The Finest Street in the Empire", while walking Union Street you'll hear the cities most riveting stories and history. Start the tour in the app, put your phone in your pocket, and let your guide direct you through the streets. The total walking distance is approximately 2km and takes about an hour without stopping, but you can pause anytime! Most people will opt to stop for a coffee, snack or for photography opportunities along the way. The narration is crisply mastered by a professional audio engineering staff, and the tour creates an engaging experience that is suitable for all ages that can wear ear buds.
You'll see and have the chance to visit Gilcomston Church; one of Union Street's great landmarks.
This massive Wallace statue commemorates the freedom fighter during the Scottish wars for independence.
We'll pass by St. Nicholas cemetery and give recommendations for seeing it.
Get an overhead view of the beautiful Union terrace gardens and pause the tour as you like to go into them.
See this icon of 'the Granite City" and hear the stories of how it came to be.
Our tour concludes at th "Market cross" which has stood in Aberdeen since 1686.
Cancellation
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Reviews
4.6
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Ratings come from 12 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Before arrival, please install the VoiceMap mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart at any time and complete at your own pace. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 10 travellers
- Operated by
- VoiceMap Audio Tours
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- This route is wheelchair accessible with small modifications.
How it compares in Aberdeen
- Its from-price is 96% below the median of the 9 city tours we list in Aberdeen.
- It is longer than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 2 of 9.
About Aberdeen
Aberdeen is a granite city on Scotland's north-east coast, with a historic university, a fishing and oil port, beaches and castles in the countryside.
Aberdeen stands between the rivers Dee and Don on the North Sea, a city built of grey granite that glints with mica in the sun. Old Aberdeen, with its cobbled High Street, the crown tower of King's College chapel and St Machar's Cathedral, preserves a medieval university town, while Marischal College, a vast neo-Gothic granite frontage, looks over Broad Street. Footdee, a small fishing community of low cottages, sits by the harbour mouth.
Top-ranked sights in Aberdeen: Slains Castle, Crathes Castle, Drum Castle, Garden & Estate.
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