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Hammond Castle & Salem Private Day Trip
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Salem Ghost Tour/Prices
Salem Ghost Tour Price
A guided ghost walk in Salem starts from $120 per adult and most evening walks sit between $29 and $36. Day trips from Boston, workshops and private tours cost more because they include more than the walk. Every price here is a from price: the listing sets the final figure by date and group size.
the short answer
For one evening, budget $60 for two people on a stories walk. That buys the tour most people mean, from the pick below.
Book the pick · from $30six bands of the market · sorted by floor, from the data
Salem ghost tours prices
Bar = the tier's range. Left edge is the cheapest tour in it, right edge the dearest. Tiers sort by their floor from the data; neighbours have swapped before.
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i
Self-guided audio
1 tour · not a walk
A recording and your own feet. No guide to ask, no time slot to keep.
from $10 -
ii
Walking tour, group
21 tours
A guide and a group, ninety minutes or so on foot: stories after dark, the record in daylight, or the film sites. The tour most people mean.
from $25 -
iii
Haunted pub crawl
2 tours · after dark
Bars between the stories, or equipment in hand. You pay for what is added, not for better ghosts.
from $36 -
iv
Day trip from Boston, shared
4 tours · not a walk
The coach both ways and a guide for the day. Compare it with a Salem bed plus a walk, not with a walk alone.
from $120 -
v
Workshop or photoshoot
4 tours · not a walk
Materials or a studio hour, indoors. The only tiers that work in the rain.
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vi
Private walk or private day
2 tours · not a walk
A guide to yourselves, on foot or with a car. Sets the ceiling of the market; splits well between friends.
Six tiers cover every tour in Salem. The cheapest is a recording and your own feet; the dearest is a guide to yourself for a day. Most people buy the second tier, a guided group walk, and most of what costs more is not a better walk but something added to it.
Two things move a Salem price more than anything else. The first is October: the same walk that runs mid-week in May can double on a Saturday near Halloween, and the cheap slots go first. The second is what is bundled. A pub crawl includes a drink or two, a ghost hunt includes equipment, a day trip includes the coach and the guide for the whole day. Compare the walk to the walk; compare the day to the day.
What an evening in Salem costs
Take two adults arriving in the late afternoon and leaving on the last train. The walk is the fixed cost; everything around it is optional, and the receipt shows which is which. Museums and the Witch House are daytime; if you want them, arrive earlier or come back tomorrow.
If the total looks steep, the cheaper walk in the same band saves the difference without changing the evening. If it looks low, the pub crawl adds bars and a later finish, and is the only line on the receipt that replaces dinner.
one evening · two adults · receipt
| Stories walk, two adultsSalem Night Tour · the fixed cost | $60 |
| Pub crawl insteadoptional · replaces the walk and dinner | $80 |
| Train from Boston, return, twooptional · if you sleep in Boston | $20 |
| Broom workshop before the walkoptional · indoors, the rain plan | $270 |
| Evening, with the walk | $160 |
Prices are from prices and change by date. Bars and food are estimates, not partner links.
who is paying · pick one, no script needed
What the same evening costs, by party
One person pays the adult fare and nothing else. Two pay twice and share a pub crawl if they want one. A family pays child fares where the listing has them and loses the pub crawl entirely. A group of friends pays the most in total and the least per head, because private walks split.
On my own
One adult fare, no add-ons. A group walk is the cheapest guided evening and the easiest to join alone; the pub crawl is the sociable version for a little more.
| Stories walk, one adultSalem Night Tour · the fixed cost | $30 |
| Train from Boston, returnonly if you sleep in Boston | $10 |
| Evening total | $40 |
Two of us
Two adult fares. A pub crawl replaces the walk and dinner at once and is the usual upgrade for a couple; the cheaper walk saves the difference without changing the evening.
| Stories walk, two adultsSalem Night Tour | $60 |
| Pub crawl instead, twooptional · replaces walk and dinner | $80 |
| Evening total | $140 |
Family with kids
Child fares where the listing has them, and no pub crawl at all. The stories-and-history walk is the one most families take; the Hocus Pocus walk is the daylight alternative if the ghosts are too much for the youngest.
| Walk, two adultsHistory and Hauntings | $72 |
| Broom workshop before, fouroptional · the rain plan | $270 |
| Evening total | $824 |
A group of friends
The most in total and the least per head. From about $240 people a private walk costs less per person than the group fare, and you set the start time; the pub crawl is the alternative if you would rather not organise anything.
| Private walk, the whole groupone fare, split between you | $157 |
| Per head, at 6 peoplecompare with the group fare | $26.17 |
| Pub crawl instead, per headoptional · nothing to organise | $80 |
| Evening total | $356 |
what the money buys, tier by tier
What is included at each price
A guide is included in every tier but the first. Transport is included only from Boston. Drinks are included only on the pub crawl, and a broom only at the workshop. Everything marked as an option costs extra on the booking page, and that is where most of the gap between tiers comes from.
| Tier | Guide | Drinks | Transport | Materials | Private | |
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| Self-guided audiofrom $10 | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | Book |
| Walking tour, groupfrom $25 | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ◐ | Book |
| Haunted pub crawlfrom $36 | ✓ | ◐ | ✕ | ◐ | ✕ | Book |
| Day trip from Boston, sharedfrom $120 | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | Book |
| Workshop or photoshootfrom $52 | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | Book |
| Private walk or private dayfrom $157 | ✓ | ✕ | ◐ | ✓ | ✓ | Book |
✓included
◐depends on the option you pick
✕not included
What no tour price includes
Tips, museum tickets and parking are never in the fare. Budget a tip for the guide on any group walk, buy museum tickets separately and in daytime, and if you drive, count the garage as part of the evening. None of these are sold on this site.
Tipping is customary on group walks and built into private ones; the guide will not ask. Museums, including the Witch House, close before the evening walks begin, so a museum ticket is a daytime decision and belongs on a second day or an early arrival. Parking downtown is metered by day and garaged by night; on October weekends the garages fill by mid-afternoon and the streets around the common close, which is one more argument for the train or a Salem bed.
Why prices say "from"
Every price on this site is the lowest adult fare the listing offers on any date. Children, seniors and students are often cheaper; Saturdays in October are almost always dearer; private options multiply the figure. We write from because writing anything else would be wrong on most days of the year, and we never put a price in a page title for the same reason.
The booking page shows the exact figure for your date before you pay. If it differs from the from price here, the date is the reason, not the tour.
the page in one sentence
From is the floor on the calmest date; your date sets the rest, and the booking page shows it before you pay. Prices on this page were last checked 14 September 2026.
price does not buy rating
The dearest tour has no rating; the best-weighed walk is in the cheapest tier
The most expensive thing in Salem is a private day with no reviews behind it. The walk with the strongest review record costs about as little as a guided walk gets. Pay more for what is added, never for a better score.
Before you book
How much is a ghost tour in Salem?+
A guided evening walk starts from $25 per adult; most fall between $29 and $36. Pub crawls, ghost hunts and extended walks cost more because they include more.
The price ladder →Are Salem ghost tours more expensive in October?+
Yes, on weekends especially. The same walk can list at a different from price for a Saturday near Halloween than for a Tuesday in May, and the cheap slots go first. Book October dates early.
Salem in October →Is there a free way to see the ghost tour sites?+
Yes. Every comparison table on this site has a row called Walk it yourself, free, with the route the tours cover. You lose the guide and the stories, which is most of what a ghost tour is.
The free row →Do children pay the same price?+
Usually less, and the listing sets the age bands. Pub crawls are adults only. The booking page shows the exact fare for your group before you pay.
Check a date →the cheapest good evening
The walk at the bottom of the ladder
History and Hauntings is the cheapest guided walk we list and among the best supported by reviews. If price is the question, this is the answer; if you want more theater for a little more, the Night Tour is one band up.