Sisters Grimm Candlelight Ghost Tours

Mark was our tour guide for the evening. He was very knowledgeable and witty so we were pleased to have him. It was pretty sweet because we were just going to go on the walking tour but the owner allowed us to join the dinner tour which is I think $ 65 and we only paid $ 28 for the both of us with a military discount. He was extremely nice and their outfits fit the theme. Unfortunately, we did not get greeted by any of the ghosts that they spoke of, but we did get shown pictures of the ghosts that other customers had experienced on the tour. The ghost tour itself was a little long, about two hours. Be prepared to walk and not have anywhere to sit down in between. There was only one little girl in our group and she was tired by the end of the tour. The other tour group seemed to be really large so we lucked out of only having a group of about ten people.

Found this on Unilocal and decided being new to that are it would be a great way to learn about about haunted spots, the tour we went on was way too large and made it very distracting to hear and see the tour guide. Also in a part of the tour there is a light show at the same time in the main plaza which was very distracting to hear and see what the tour guide was presenting. This is more of a historical tour with minimal haunts and stories about ghosts and Grimm. Good walk and learning about some history but expect to be spooked.

Great tour! Been to San Antonio many times, but never knew this side of it. This was also the first ghost tour my family and I have ever been on. Two teenagers and an eleven year old were very interested. Our tour guide Rebecca did a great job! I give two thumbs up!

We absolutely loved this tour. Our guide was James and he did an excellent job with showing us around the city. It definitely wasn’t an easy job as he managed to keep a large group organized and entertained. James’s commentary on everything was very interesting and left everyone very pleased. He did such a great job and I would not hesitate to boom this tour again. The places this tour shows you give a great view and feeling of the city. The history associated with San Antonio is breathtaking and will make you think twice about what hotel you book! Overall, I highly recommend this Sisters Grimm Ghost Tour above all else and look forward to booking in the future.

I had a great time with James on the tour! He was informative and funny and told great stories! The tour contain stories about the history of San Antonio but real a supernatural! There was a lot of walking so wear comfortable shoes. We also came upon a laser light show on the front façade of San Fernando Cathedral. The show was great but the fact that it was going on was a bit distracting during his speech. It would be better if the talk at that point in the tour were moved a little away from that exact spot to a little further from the light show! However it was a great tour and would do it again even with the same circumstances! l

We truly enjoyed our dinner and ghost tour. Mark was a wonderful tour guide. Loved his sense of humor and storytelling. Getting to see and hear about the Menger and city on Friday the 13^th at night added more suspense and excitement to the evening. I give it

I’ve been to ghost tours in a few cities and this was the best one yet. The guide was super knowledgable and informative, but told the stories without being completely cheesy and over dramatic like ones I’ve been to in the past. One of our favorite parts of our trip here!

I had first done this for my step-​grandson who was visiting from Colorado but I booked the wrong date. I went the next day with a couple of friends. We loved it. James, our tour guide, was knowledgeable. The pictures and visuals inside the bus were great. We made great stops and ending in a cemetery was great. I thought it would be scary. But, it was actually quite informative. I can’t wait to take this tour when my step-​grandson returns in the summer. I’m a San Antonio native and I learned alot about my city. I recommend this to everyone!

Our tour guide, Lauren, had an incredible 300 year old family history in San Antonio. The stories she told of her own family mixed in with the history of the city really added a wonderful touch to the experience. I loved learning about the intriguing history of so many buildings you would never otherwise think to notice! This was a wonderful tour, reasonably priced, and a great way to spend a night in SA!

My husband and I love ghost tours. I guess you can say we are ghost tour aficionados. We do them in every city we visit. We decided to do this one with a friend of ours. We read online about several different companies in SA offering tours but this one seemed the most intriguing.
They offer three tours: 90 minute ghost walk, a bus tour and a dinner at Menger Hotel/​tour. We chose the walk at 8:30pm. We checked in with our guide Lauren who was dressed in period clothing. Kiddos to the guides in the special clothing because even in March it was 90°!! Overall we visited 8ish places: Alamo, Emily Morgan Hotel, Menger, Casino Club, a haunted site where a book store sits, a cathedral, a former Bexar County jail and a Spanish palace. Lauren did a great job telling stories that were historical with great haunted flair. The size of our group was about 30 but everyone kept up and listened. Well behaved group! I have been on tours with groups half this size and the people talked when the guide talks, leave the tour or were rude. Everyone was captivated by our guide and wanted to hear every bit of what she had to say.
We had a midway stop at a light show at the cathedral which was nice. Lauren is very approachable and we chatted with her the whole time in between building visits. She gave us information about the city, her family’s history of living here for centuries, and even great places to eat. It helps to have guides knowledgable of their city.
I would highly recommend this tour to anyone. I hope all the guides are as great as Lauren who seemed very happy to give the tour and loved her job. Thanks for a wonderful night downtown.

Being part of the first bus tour offering, we found the tour to be charming, informative, and enjoyable. James was our tour guide, and he did very well keeping the group engaged with great monologue and interactive conversation.
The bus tour gets you on your feet at many stops through the historic district. I recommend this tour for many reasons. The distance travelled, the guide, and the great presentation on and off the bus will surely leave you with a profound respect for San Antonio’s history!

I’m a wierdie. I do ghost tours everywhere I go. This one was the longest, and one of my top fave tours. The guides were fun, knowledgeable, answered questions, we’re so Patient while we took endless pictures of randomness. Cannot wait to have a slumber party at the Emily Morgan hotel! Great history too. Just do it

Great tour and guide. I’ve done ghost tours back home and this was the best I’ve been on. Eric our guide was really personable and funny. The stories were cool and I really liked that he showed pictures throughout. The light show at the cathedral was unexpected but very pretty. Definitely wear comfortable shoes this was a lot of walking and a good bit of standing in one place. Make sure you take a look around in the Menger Hotel even if you don’t do the dinner. It was gorgeous and had some really cool display cases.

WEAR COMFORTABLE SHOES. Was pretty cool. no candlelight. Might try dinner next time.

We were on the 8:15 ghost tour on 9÷27÷15, that met in the Victorian Lobby of the Menger Hotel. The stories weren’t presented with a whole lot of enthusiasm. And we’re a bit on the boring side. Maybe a different guide could provide a better experience.
It seemed like we were waiting around most of the time. Lots of bathroom breaks and stops to see light shows and neat looking buildings.
The weekend groups are too big for everyone to be able to catch up with the guide. There were so many that we weren’t able to all cross the street together. The cross walk only allows so much time for a certain amount of people to cross. And they exceed that limit by a lot.
This is the part of the review that I would like to give a negative star rating. At the end of the tour the guide left behind 10 out of town and state tourists at 11:00pm., between the Governors Mansion and Cathedral. Not a cool thing to do to paying customers. We never saw the guide again. There was just no way to catch up.

My husband and I signed up for the ghost dinner at the Menger and ghost tour package as a treat for not only my birthday, but as our first night away with each other since our son was born. As a native to San Antonio, an ex-​paranormal investigator, and an archaeologist that currently works downtown, this tour seemed a real treat to all my interests.
The dinner was well enough, the food was okay but nothing to write home about. Not the tours fault (side note: the Colonial Room has a FANTASTIC brunch buffet). What got me was that, according to the website, you get «frights and delights as you dine upon San Antonio’s finest foods and hear the chilling ghost stories of the Menger Hotel… After dinner, you journey continues 30 minute tour of the Menger Hotel and the „Nightly Ghost Walk“ of the city.» (Sisters Grimm website-​Dinner Tours description). I take this to mean that AS I am dinning, we would be hearing ghost stories of the Menger. No such luck. Instead you have to spend the time getting to know your table mates and making small talk for an hour. It was not terrible, just not what was expected (which seems to have been the theme for the entirety of the tour).
Next was the tour of the Menger. This part of the tour consisted of standing in the Victorian lobby (which anyone can do, guest or not) and on the second story atrium (again, which anyone can do) while listening to a few short stories about the Mengers residential spirits. Again, this part of the tour was nice enough, but since I had done my own investigations at the Menger, I was well aware of the prominent spirits at the hotel. This is not the tours/​tour guides fault, but it would have been nice to hear more stories about personal experiences with these spirits, not just their background and origin.
Next stop on the tour was the Alamo. It kind of eerked me that the tour guide told our group that a «mass burial» was under Alamo Plaza from the victims who fell during the Battle of the Alamo. THIS IS NOT TRUE (but if you have the report/​study that proves this to be true, please email me… because as and archaeologist working in SA for the past 3 years and as a resident for the past 30 years… I have never encountered such a report). Personally I feel making up some tidbit to make the tour seem more spooky is disrespectful to the individuals who fought and died for our state, as well as to those who ARE buried there. Keep in mind the Alamo was the chapel for the mission, so yes, there are graves in the vicinity… but not a mass grave of war-​torn body parts as implied during the tour. I even had one of my fellow tour-​mates ask me if this was true, since it seemed a little hokey.
Oh…and no ghost stories or experience accounts related to the Alamo were given by the guide. Just the implication that because people died there, it MUST be haunted…
The last few stops on the tour were not haunting stops per-​say. Two of the stops were made at buildings that were «an example of the unique architectural diversity of the city»…I am not on a historical architecture tour… I am on a GHOST tour. Although they were nice to point out, I do not think they warranted a stop on this tour and a 2 – 5 minute spiel on the history of the building.
Where the tour really lost me was at the San Fernando Cathedral. It was wonderful to see the cathedral at night with the light show, but AGAIN… not fitting for a GHOST tour. After we spend five minutes so everyone could watch the light show and buy overpriced water, we went around to the original section of the church to look at «faces» in the limestone blocks of the church… This was too much for me. I did not pay $ 65 to look at «faces» in rocks. The tour guide later claimed that they (the company) scientifically and systematically attempted to disprove/​replicate any paranormal photos submitted to them and only showed us the photos they themselves could not debunk. So, why is it that they will go through such lengths to try and debunk photos, but will indulge in «faces» in rocks on the cathedral?
We stuck out the rest of the tour since we paid (a pretty penny) for it, but calling this tour a ghost tour I do not believe is adequate. Maybe a haunted HISTORY tour… but not a ghost tour. If the company wishes to make improvements, try adding personal accounts (the tour guides experiences, as well as those of the employees, guards, and visitors to the stops), as well as visiting well known haunted establishments (Emily Morgan, Crockett, Gunther, Indigo, Federal Building, etc.) which are located within a closer walking distance to the starting point of the tour. It was disappointing to have to walk across downtown to not even hear a decent ghost story.
Overall, not a bad tour. Just not what was expected/​advertised/​anticipated, and definitely NOT worth the walking/​time/​money.

It was a fun tour.
My friend and I had a good time.
Didn’t like the shared seating and I’m not sure If they mentioned it in the reservation print but neither my friend nor I were expecting to share the dinner table with strangers. It was okay, but would’ve been a better experience (especially for the price) if we could’ve had the chance to sit alone and enjoy our dinner together.

I went on this tour with my teenage son almost a year ago. It was so interesting and eerie. Last week I attended a teaching convention downtown and met a teacher from Arizona and she said she made reservations for a ghost tour. I asked if it was with Sisters Grimm and she said no. The following day I asked her how it it was. She said it was absolutely horrible and that the guide was awful. She said she wish she would have went on the Sisters Grimm tour that I suggested.
I just wish I could of went inside in some of the places the tour guide took us to. From now on I will be adamant that any out of towners I meet go on this tour. The lantern and period dress is what makes this even more unique.

My parents and my husband & I had such a great time on this ghost tour with Laurie.
We started off with dinner at The Menger Hotel. My parents & I had the chicken which was delicious and my husband had the steak. You choose your entrée when you place your reservation, and if choosing steak, there’s not an option to specify how you want it cooked. All steaks were cooked about medium well, and even my husband, who prefers his steak to moo, said it was a pretty tasty steak.
After dinner, the tour started on the 2^nd floor of The Menger. Laurie told a few stories, no spoiler alerts here. We then had an opportunity to wonder around the hotel & check out the 3^rd and 4^th floors.
The tour continued outside & the walking began. It wasn’t a bad walk (do wear your tennis shoes) & Laurie did a great job keeping the group together through all the other downtown activities happening. The tour wasn’t just fun & entertaining, it was very informative too with history (besides The Alamo’s history) and other sites of downtown you might miss if you stick to Alamo Plaza and the Riverwalk. If you’re spending a few days in San Antonio, I would recommend doing this tour on your first night so you can revisit some of the tour stops later in your stay. Have fun! :)

I loved it! The tour guide was awesome. She made the experience fun and entertaining. Her costume was lovely as well. Bring sneakers or comfortable shoes because you will need them!
This tour made my knowledge of San Antonio broader and I now have great appreciation for the city I live in.