Your experience

Explore haunted Cologne at your own pace with a self-guided clue-solving city game on your smartphone.

Getting started

Unlock your game in the Questo app using your booking number and email, then download the app and log in with the same email. Once you are set, open the self-guided city exploration game on your smartphone and head into central Cologne whenever you choose. Start at any hour that suits you and move off on foot, using your phone as your only guide.

What to expect

Cologne Cathedral

This Gothic landmark anchors one part of your haunted route, with stories tied to its surroundings and the nearby square. The game leads you around the exterior areas, where you uncover eerie tales connected to the cathedral and its setting.

Features

• Clue-solving on your phone turns the streets around Cologne Cathedral into a trail of haunted locations, using on-screen prompts so you do not need a map, GPS, or a physical tour guide.
• Access to Cologne Cathedral as a haunted location is included in the route, with the interactive city exploration app providing clues and stories that reveal secret narratives linked to this site.
• Flexible start time with pause and resume options means you can begin near the cathedral when you like, take a break if needed, then continue the self-guided city game on your smartphone later.

Domplatte

Domplatte, the large square surrounding the cathedral, becomes one of the central stages for your investigation. Here, everyday city life overlaps with tales of ghosts and unexplained events.

Features

• The interactive city exploration app with clues and stories directs you across Domplatte, asking you to observe details in the square so you can solve each step and unlock the next haunted location.
• Access to haunted locations at Domplatte forms part of the self-guided city game on your smartphone, letting you explore this open space without a guide while your phone reveals the hidden stories.
• Full flexibility to start, pause, and resume anytime allows you to linger in Domplatte, step away for a break, then pick up the clue trail right where you stopped.

Historic Old Town

Cologne’s historic Old Town is where many of the game’s most atmospheric spots appear, from narrow streets to older squares and houses. You follow a path that connects some of the most haunted streets, villas, and squares in Cologne.

Features

• As you walk through the historic Old Town, you discover haunted streets, villas, and squares in Cologne, with each correct answer on your phone unlocking a new secret story at haunted locations.
• Access to the historic Old Town is built into the route, with the self-guided city exploration game on your smartphone using location-based clues so you can experience an interactive exploration without needing a map, GPS, or guide.
• Flexible start time with pause and resume options means you can explore the Old Town at your own rhythm, fitting the clue-solving around café stops or photo breaks while the interactive exploration app keeps your progress saved.

Highlights

• Turn Cologne's cathedral and Old Town into a clue-based trail on your phone, uncovering hidden haunted tales at locations you might otherwise miss.
• Unlock the game with your booking number and email in the Questo app, download it to your smartphone, then start, pause, and resume the trail anytime.
• Follow app clues from Cologne Cathedral across Domplatte into the Old Town, stopping at streets, squares, and villas that define the route.
• Use your smartphone to navigate, with the app guiding you instead of a map, GPS, or physical guide, so you explore Cologne on your terms.