The Haunted Dinner Tour is a two-hour-45-minute outing run by Bad Wolf Ghost Tours that packages dinner, a 90 minute walking tour and a haunted happy hour into one $80 booking at our August 2, 2026 check. Read the cancellation line first: it was flagged non-refundable that day, the only one of the twelve San Antonio listings we checked that does not carry free cancellation. The rest is the comfortable end of the market. The group is capped at 20, the booking band starts at 13, and guests meet and dine at the Emily Morgan Hotel beside Alamo Plaza. No other listing in our San Antonio set puts guests inside that building. The rating is 4.2 from 99 reviews, the joint lowest of the eleven guided listings we track here.
| Detail | What the listing shows |
|---|---|
| From price | $80 per person (checked August 2, 2026), the highest of the twelve San Antonio listings we checked and $25 above the next one |
| Duration | 2 hours 45 minutes in total. The listing prices 90 minutes of that as the walking tour. |
| Cancellation | NON-REFUNDABLE at our August 2, 2026 check. Confirmation is at the time of booking. |
| Departures | No clock time is verified. The posted departure window ran to August 18, 2027 at our August 1, 2026 check. |
| Minimum age | 13. The listing carries a single adult band starting at 13 and no child band (checked August 1, 2026). |
| Group size | Posted maximum of 20 travelers |
| Meeting point | The Emily Morgan Hotel, one block from the operator's shop and adjacent to the Alamo in Alamo Plaza. Guests meet and dine there. |
| Stops named | One: Alamo Plaza |
| Included | Dinner, a 90 minute walking tour and a haunted happy hour. The listing says dinner and publishes no course count or menu. |
| Accessibility | Listed wheelchair accessible, with surfaces and transportation flagged accessible, and stroller accessible (checked August 1, 2026) |
| Rating | 4.2 from 99 Viator reviews (checked August 2, 2026) |
| Operator | Bad Wolf Ghost Tours. We do not run this tour. |
What you will see
Two places carry this evening: the hotel you eat in and the plaza you walk. The listing names Alamo Plaza as its only itinerary stop, and names the Emily Morgan as the place to meet and dine, which is a dining venue rather than an itinerary stop, and the only building any listing in our San Antonio set names as an indoor venue.
The Emily Morgan at 705 East Houston Street was built as the Medical Arts Building. Construction began late in 1924; twelve storeys of offices were finished in April 1926, and the hospital was completed that November, one floor, the thirteenth, and only there. The 1926 fit-out ran to 100,000 square feet of rentable space, room for more than 380 offices and a circular stair to the top of the hexagonal tower. The building is thirteen storeys of steel frame, two wings meeting in a triangle, a stone base under brick and terra cotta and a Chateauesque mansard crown, and the gargoyles carved as figures with medical ailments are documented by the City of San Antonio and the Handbook of Texas. Medical use ended in 1976. It was renamed the Landmark Building, listed on July 13, 1977 as a contributing building in the Alamo Plaza Historic District (1977 Alamo Plaza Historic District nomination), and remodelled into a hotel in 1984.
A few things this building is not. No morgue is documented in it: the 128-page federal nomination never uses the word. The hospital was that single thirteenth floor rather than a tower of wards, and the bed count that circulates is unverified. It is not individually listed on the National Register, it contributes to a district, and it was not the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi. Bad Wolf calls it one of the most haunted buildings in Texas; that is the operator's line and we leave it with them. Emily D. West, whose name the hotel borrows, was a free Black woman from New Haven who signed a wage contract with James Morgan on October 25, 1835 and was seized by Mexican cavalry at New Washington on April 16, 1836. She was not an indentured servant, she did not take Morgan's surname, the seduction story is undocumented, and the song has nothing to do with her (Handbook of Texas).
The walk itself works Alamo Plaza. Mission San Antonio de Valero was founded on May 1, 1718 and moved here in 1724; the chapel cornerstone was laid on May 8, 1744 and the towers, nave vaulting and dome collapsed in 1762. It was secularised in 1793, and from 1803 the Second Flying Company of San Carlos de Parras used the empty mission as barracks, probably giving it the name Alamo. The siege ran February 23 to March 6, 1836, and the assault came around 5 a.m. on the last day with about 1,800 troops. The Handbook of Texas has 189 defenders on the official list and research that may raise it to as many as 257, so thousands did not die here. The silhouette everyone photographs is later work: the U.S. Army leased and rebuilt the complex from about 1848 to 1850 and added the arched gable. The bodies of the defenders were burned by order, so there is no grave in the plaza to point at and no mass grave, and no listing in our San Antonio set goes inside the Alamo. The stop is open public space, which is how an evening group can stand in it at all.
Who it suits
A fixed-price evening for people who would rather book one thing than three: dinner, the walk and a happy hour, in a group capped at 20, from age 13 up, listed wheelchair and stroller accessible. If the alternative is a restaurant plus a $25 walk, the premium is buying you the packaging, the room and the seating.
- Do not book it if your plans might move. It was flagged non-refundable at our August 2, 2026 check, and every other San Antonio listing we checked that day carried free cancellation.
- Do not book it for the walking. It is the longest listing in our San Antonio set at 2 hours 45 minutes, but only 90 minutes of that is priced as a walk.
- Ask what dinner is before you pay. The inclusions say dinner and stop there, with no course count on the listing, and the operator's own site quotes a different price from the listing we link.
How it compares
$80 is the ceiling of a San Antonio band that starts at $9.75, and the gap is real: the next-priciest listing we checked on August 2, 2026 is The Haunted Ghost Bus Tour in San Antonio at $55, and every guided walk we priced sits between $25 and $36.52. It is also the longest at 2 hours 45 minutes, ahead of two listings tied at 2 hours 30 minutes. Bad Wolf's siblings are the cheaper way into the same stories: The San Antonio Ghost Walk is $25 for 90 minutes and the highest-rated listing we checked at 4.8 from 123 reviews, and its 21-and-over pub crawl is $30 for two hours with bar cover fees in the inclusions. On rating, 4.2 from 99 reviews is the joint lowest of the eleven guided listings we track, level with the 4.2 from 59 reviews on the Madams and Mayhem walk and on the larger of those two samples; the self-guided audio app is lower still at 3.1 from 12 reviews, but it is not a guided tour and we do not rank it. For the wider field see San Antonio ghost tours compared and haunted places in San Antonio.
Questions people ask
Can I cancel?
No. The listing was recorded non-refundable at our August 2, 2026 check, the only one of the twelve San Antonio listings we checked that is not flagged free cancellation, and confirmation is at the time of booking. If your plans are uncertain, book one of the free-cancellation walks instead.
What does the $80 cover?
Dinner, a 90 minute walking tour and a haunted happy hour, per the listing's own inclusions. It publishes no menu and no course count, and nothing beyond the happy hour is itemised on the drinks side.
How long is the whole thing?
Two hours 45 minutes in total, of which the listing prices 90 minutes as the walking tour. No clock time is verified, so confirm the start when you book.
Where do we eat?
At the Emily Morgan Hotel, one block from the operator's shop and adjacent to the Alamo in Alamo Plaza. Guests meet and dine there, which makes this the only listing in our San Antonio set that puts guests inside that building.
What is the minimum age?
Thirteen. The listing carries a single adult band starting at 13, with no child band, at our August 1, 2026 check.
Is it accessible?
Listed wheelchair accessible, with surfaces and transportation flagged accessible, and stroller accessible at our August 1, 2026 check. Dinner is indoors and the itinerary names one outdoor stop, Alamo Plaza.
