Colchester City Pass: 5 Top-Rated Tours in One Price
Explore Colchester like an explorer, not a tourist - follow clues street to street and solve the story at your own pace. No group, no guide, no schedule.
A pass for self-guided story tours - not a museum-ticket pass.- Never expires
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The Colchester pass unlocks 5 of Questo's self-guided walking tours in Colchester for one price - typically far less than booking each separately. Each app-guided route walks you to Colchester's landmarks - St John's Abbey Gate, The Obelisk and The Mersea Island Museum and more - to solve clues and uncover their stories on the street, all at your own pace, any time, with no booking and no guide. The pass covers the tours themselves; entry tickets to any museum or paid attraction along the way are separate.
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What it actually is
What's included
One pass unlocks all 5 of Colchester's self-guided Questo story tours - murder mysteries, ghost walks and history trails - played on your phone, at your pace. It never expires.
What it isn't
It does not include entry tickets to museums or attractions. The routes walk you right past them - and if you want to go inside, you simply buy that ticket on the spot.
What it feels like
It feels like an adventure, not a tour
Go at your own pace
No group rushing you along.
Pause anytime
Stop for lunch, resume when you like.
Step inside
Enter any attraction on the route - tickets bought separately.
Finish another day
Your pass never expires.
Just your people
Play solo, as a couple, or with friends and family.
What's included in the Colchester City Pass
How the Colchester City Pass works
Buy the pass once
One payment unlocks every tour in the city - no subscription, no per-tour checkout.
Open the Questo app
Your tours appear instantly in My Quests, ready to play in any order.
Play any tour, any day
Self-guided and GPS-led. Start when you like, pause for lunch, finish whenever.
See the experience
This is what's actually on your screen
Pass the device & play
One quest · three beats
Why a Colchester City Pass beats buying tours one by one
A single guided walking tour in Colchester costs more than the whole pass - and the pass gets you all 5.
What players say about Colchester tours
★★★★★ 4.6 from 250 reviews“Great walk around the town and learnt lots of local history 👍”
“lived in Colchester for almost 10 years and discovered places we’d never seen before on this tour!”
“excellent. enjoyed the game very much. would recommend.”
Real players in Colchester
1,000,000+ explorers - and counting
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Things to do in Colchester with your pass
Looking for things to do in Colchester? The Colchester pass turns the city into an outdoor playground. Each tour is a self-guided, app-led walking route: your phone leads you from clue to clue with GPS, taking you to Colchester's landmarks like St John's Abbey Gate, The Obelisk, The Mersea Island Museum and West Mersea War Memorial to uncover their stories from the street - on your own schedule, with no fixed start time, no guide to follow and no group to keep up with. The pass unlocks the guided routes themselves; tickets to step inside any museum or paid attraction are bought separately.
One pass covers 5 adventures, so it's an easy plan for a weekend, a date, a family day out or a first visit. Most travelers spend a few hours per tour and come back for more across the year your pass stays valid. Headed elsewhere? You'll also find passes in nearby London.
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The Colchester City Pass unlocks 5 self-guided Questo tours across Colchester, including A Siege in Colchester, West Mersea Highlights Exploration Tour and Exodus Hinge & Colchester’s Lost Centurion: Roman Britain Walking Tour & Escape Game. Buy once and play any of them, in any order, on your phone.
Ready to explore Colchester your way?
One pass, every tour, 12 months to play. No booking, no guide.
Get the Colchester Pass - £34.99