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Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum Day Time Tour
Your guides on this 90 minute tour of the historic buildings of the former Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum will impart their knowledge and stories from the patients who resided in the facility. Some stories encompasses patients memories, local tales, urban myths, and the treatments the residence underwent.
Tours run most weekends at 3.00pm and bookings are essential.
Telephone: 0473 376 848 (Midday to 7.00pm only)
Website: www.asylumghosttours.com
Ghost Tours of Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum
After darkness falls the 90 minute begins with your host guiding you through the many abandoned hallways, cells, common rooms, surgeries, and punishment areas where so much horror has occurred over the history of Mayday Hill Lunatic Asylum.
The tour encompasses facility history, memories, local tales, urban myths, and stories of the supernatural. So guest must be 13 yo and over to attend, bookings are essential.
8.00pm (9.00pm Nov-Feb Inclusive) – Sunday to Thursday (13yo and over)
9.00pm (10.00pm Nov-Feb Inclusive) Friday and Saturday (13 yo and over)
Telephone: 0473 376 848 (Midday to 7.00pm only)
Website: www.asylumghosttours.com
Paranormal Tours of Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum
When all is quiet your quest begins using the latest ghost hunting equipment and lead by experienced guides who will attempt to find out who, or what haunts the foreboding asylum. Regardless of your experience there will be whispered tales of spirits and an entertaining exploration of the most haunted areas of the asylum.
This tour is for over 18 yo only.
2 hour tours operate Wednesday to Sunday nights 8.30pm (9.30pm Nov-Feb Inclusive)
3 hour tours operate on Friday and Saturday nights 11pm (9.30pm Nov-Feb Inclusive)
Telephone: 0473 376 848 (Midday to 7.00pm only)
Website: www.asylumghosttours.com
Echoes of History Guided Tour
Walk the streets of Beechworth and learn about the rich history of gold rush town, including the story of Robert O'Hara Burke, the role of the Golden Horseshoes in the election of the Ovens Golden Fields first parliamentary representative and tales from Beechworth's China Town.
Tour departs daily at 10.15am from the Beechworth Visitor Information Centre and runs for approximately 90 minutes.
Telephone: 1300 366 321
Ned Kelly Walking Tour
A victim of police persecution or was he a bank robbing bush ranger? The Ned Kelly Walking Tour tells the tale of this childhood hero who saved a young child's life to becoming Victoria and New South Wales most wanted bush ranger. Tour highlights include the house where Magistrate William Henry Foster who presided over Ned Kelly's committal hearing in the Beechworth Court lived, and the site where Ned Kelly won a bare-knuckle boxing match that lasted 20 rounds.
Tour departs daily at 1.15pm from the Beechworth Visitor Information Centre and runs for approximately 90 minutes
Telephone: 1300 366 321
Rogues, Ratbags and Mongrel Dogs tour of the Old Beechworth Gaol
The Old Beechworth Gaol is more than just the Ned Kelly story with many other characters spending time behind bars, and more than a few characters who helped keep them there.
The Rogues, Ratbags and Mongrel Dogs tour is the perfect way to get behind the walls of the Old Beechworth Gaol and see what life would have been like behind bars.
The guided tours run at 11:45am Thursday to Monday with additional tours on long weekends and school holidays.
Telephone: 0417 116 571
Website: www.mongreldogs.com.au
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