We decided that if we were in one of the most haunted cities in America, then we should definitely go on a ghost tour. Looking at the options available to us, we decided on the "Dead of Night" tour to scratch that itch. It started well enough, but it became quickly apparent that our host was far more interested in being speedy and gruff/edgy than providing an accurate experience. I understand that a certain amount of theater and exposition is to be expected on these tours, but some of the history was just flat out wrong. Hessians =/= Haitians.
Even more off-putting was our host constantly checking the time and telling our group that he needed to hurry back to the start point to take the next group, and that he had another group at Bonaventure Cemetery the next morning: things myself and many of the other attendees I talked to after the fact just didn't care about considering we were on our own paid experience.
Ultimately, this isn't a tour I can recommend. We had the same lines parroted back at us at every stop, and it wasn't very creative.
I expected more.
Response from Host
Nov 2021
Itās extremely unfortunate your guide provided you with this type of tour. It is completely unacceptable, and we assure you that is not the standard we set at our company. We appreciate all feedback, and we assure you we will use this for future tour improvement. To make up for this, we would like to offer you free tickets to use in any of our cities, without expiration, in hopes of giving you a much better experience.