Key West Ghost and Mysteries Guided Tour

Key West Ghost and Mysteries Guided Tour is a 90-minute evening walk through Old Town, booking from $33 per person at our August 2, 2026 check, when it carried 4.5 from 1,117 Viator reviews. That is the deepest review record of any guided walk in the Key West haunted set we track. Two rules decide whether it works for you before anything else does: the listing requires a minimum of two people per booking, so a solo traveler cannot book it, and the tour is listed not wheelchair accessible. Nine stops are named, none of them flagged as a pass-by, and the group is capped at 16.

What you will see

The nine stops in the table above are a compact Old Town loop bounded by Duval, Simonton and Caroline, and none of them carries a pass-by flag. Five have research behind them. The two Simonton Street addresses, the Key West Theater and Old Town Manor do not, so we name them and claim nothing about them.

The Curry Mansion Inn at 511 Caroline Street comes with dates that do not agree. Jefferson Browne's 1912 history Key West: The Old and the New puts William Curry's arrival from the Bahamas at March 3, 1847 and his death at January 23, 1896, calling him the richest man in Florida; the inn's own history page and Wikipedia give 1837 for the arrival, and Wikipedia January 24 for the death. The first-millionaire phrase belongs to the marker program and the inn, not to Browne. The house standing there is not Curry's own: Browne records the October 1846 hurricane carrying his earlier residence out to sea, and the present building is his son Milton's rebuild, dated by the inn to 1901 and by Key West Historic Marker 66 to 1905. It is not individually on the National Register, only inside a listed district, and the Aunt Sally key lime pie story is lore, as the marker program itself calls it.

The Queen Anne mansion at 313 Duval is a different Curry house, built circa 1890 for Robert Oliver Curry, another of William's sons. Marker 109 prints a flat 1890 and the Key West Citizen circa 1890, so we write circa. The tenant is what matters for a walk in 2026: Keys News reported on 5 March 2026 that the Hard Rock Cafe at this address would close on 30 April 2026, and on 1 August 2026 Hard Rock's own cafe locator no longer listed Key West at all. A Keys News caption of 2 June 2026 names the Smokin' Tuna Saloon as the incoming tenant, renovating, with no opening date announced. If a guide or an older page still calls this stop the Hard Rock Cafe, that is out of date.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 401 Duval is four churches on one lot inside eighty years. Browne records the vestry vote of 10 July 1838 and a cost of $6,500 for the coral rock church but attaches no completion year; the 1839 completion belongs to the parish's own narrative and to marker 92. The 11 October 1846 hurricane took it. A frame church of 1848 burned in the citywide Great Fire of 30 March 1886. A wood church of 1887 was destroyed by the 11 October 1909 hurricane, sixty-three years to the day after 1846. The present concrete church held its first service on 8 June 1919. John William Charles Fleeming, one of the four original proprietors of Key West, died on 19 December 1832 and was buried on this ground, and his widow gave the lot on 5 May 1838. There is no grave to visit and no monument: the parish and marker 92 both say the location is unknown.

The Artist House at 534 Eaton Street is where Robert the Doll's owner grew up, and it is not where the doll is. The property dates its own construction to a decade rather than a year, in its words "Built between 1890-98". The Otto family moved in in 1898, and their youngest son Robert Eugene "Gene" Otto, the artist whose childhood doll became Robert the Doll, inherited the house and died in 1974. The doll has been across the island at the Fort East Martello Museum, run by the Key West Art and Historical Society, since Myrtle Reuter donated him in 1994, and he came out of a private house on Von Phister Street rather than out of this one. Nobody sees him at this stop.

La Concha at 430 Duval opened on January 22, 1926. Key West Historic Marker 12 records that Carl Aubuchon started construction in 1925 and that the hotel opened after a short-lived labor strike, "modern, fire proof"; within six months of the 1929 crash it was sold and renamed the Key West Colonial Hotel. Several claims attached to it do not survive a check. It was not the island's first luxury hotel: Casa Marina opened on 31 December 1920. The roof suicide counts are operator copy rather than record, and marker 12 says nothing about them. The tallest-building claim has no survey, permit or municipal record behind it; what is documented is the city's referendum height cap. On Tennessee Williams we keep the hedge the institution closest to him keeps: the Key West Art and Historical Society, which runs the Tennessee Williams Museum, says it is believed he wrote the final draft of A Streetcar Named Desire here in 1947. Marker 12 states that flatly, and the hotel's own timeline files the stay under 1946.

Who it suits

Pairs and groups who want 90 minutes on foot in Old Town in a party capped at 16 rather than a coach load. The two-person booking minimum is the rule that settles it for a lot of readers, and it is unusual: no other listing in the nine-product Key West set we track carries one.

• Solo travelers cannot book it. The listing requires a minimum of two people per booking, and we have not softened that anywhere on this page.
• Skip it if anyone needs step-free access or a seat. The listing is marked not wheelchair accessible, though strollers are listed as accessible.
• Check the bands before booking young children: the infant band starts at 1, the child band at 6, and children must be accompanied by an adult.
• Pack for weather rather than a backup plan. The listing says it operates in all weather conditions.

How it compares

We track six guided haunted Key West listings that were bookable at our August 2, 2026 check: this walk, both 21-and-over pub crawls, Ghost City Tours' family-banded walk, the equipment-led ghost hunt and the Ghosts and Gravestones trolley. Three are named but not ranked: a $9.75 self-guided phone tour whose nine reviews are too thin to rank, the private haunted-history walk, out of stock at the same check, and the Sebago sunset sail, which is not a ghost product. Inside the six, this walk is third-cheapest at $33, above The Ghosts of Key West Walking Tour at $29.99 and the 21-and-over crawl from Key West Promotions at $32.20. Its 1,117 reviews are the deepest of any guided walk in the set; only the Ghosts and Gravestones trolley carries more, at 1,363, on a seated one-hour ride. On access the six split three and three, and this is one of the three listed not accessible. The Key West page lays them all out.

Questions people ask

Can I book for one person?

No. The listing states that a minimum of two people per booking is required, so a solo traveler cannot book this walk.

How long is it, and when does it run?

An hour and a half, in the evening per the listing at our July 29, 2026 facts pass. No clock start time is verified, so take the departure from the booking page.

What is the minimum age?

The booking bands run adult 13 to 90, child 6 to 12 and infant 1 to 5, and the listing states that children must be accompanied by an adult. Those bands were read on August 1, 2026.

Is it wheelchair accessible?

No. It was listed not wheelchair accessible at our August 1, 2026 check, and strollers are listed as accessible. Accessibility is set per listing here, so do not read this one across to another Key West tour.

What happens if it rains?

The listing says the tour operates in all weather conditions and asks you to dress appropriately.

Where does it start, and how big is the group?

On the sidewalk at the corner of Duval and Caroline Street, on the corner that says The Abbey, arriving 10 to 15 minutes early. The posted maximum is 16 travelers.