Somebody has already walked the good bars. Book their route.
Which crawls actually include the drinks. What a Budapest ruin bar night costs against a Tokyo izakaya run. Whether the party boat is worth boarding sober. Reviews of the bar crawls, pub crawls and cocktail tours you can book tonight.
Four crawls that explain what the format actually buys you.
A guided walk between bars, a boat with a bar on it, a hidden room behind a door, a night that starts with shots. Prices and the traveller verdict on each.
01The classic routeRuin Bar Pub Crawl with Entry TicketsBudapest ruin bars with a guide who gets you past the door queue. The cheapest good night in Europe.
02The bar-hop abroadTokyo Bar Hopping Tour in Shinjuku (All-You-Can-Drink + Dinner)Shinjuku on foot with somebody who orders for you. Izakaya menus stop being a wall of kanji.
03The hidden roomSpeakeasy Drinks and Prohibition History TourProhibition-era rooms in New York with a host who has the reservations. These bars do not take walk-ins.
04The one on waterOahu’s Waikiki Coast: Moana’s Sunset Cocktail SailOahu at sunset with the bar open the whole way out. The crawl that does not involve walking.
The cities that built their reputation on the walk between bars.
Ruin bars in the seventh district, izakaya alleys under the tracks, a Bourbon Street that never quite closes, canal-side terraces and rooftops with a skyline behind the glass. Six cities, and the best crawl in each.
A US bar crawl is a bus, a pedal bike or a bartender with a key.
The country does the format three ways and they cost three different things. Pick the one that matches how much walking you are prepared to do.
The bar crawls travellers actually finish.
Guided routes through four or five bars, welcome shots at the door, and a local who has already worked out which room is worth the walk. These three are the most booked on the site.
The most booked nights out on the site.
Every bar crawl we have reviewed →These fill up before anything else on the site, and no two of them fill up for the same reason.
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Luxury Saloon Boat Cruise with Cocktails & Waffle
Cruise Amsterdam’s canals aboard a stylish open boat with live commentary, blankets, and drinks available for purchase from $21.71.
From · $21
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2
Entry ticket to Ice Pub Prague with Nightclub Option
from $14
3
Pedal Bar Crawl of Old Town Scottsdale
from $69
4
Madrid Tapas & Wine Tasting Walking Tour – Small Group Local Bars
from $93
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Tokyo Bar Hopping Tour in Shinjuku (All-You-Can-Drink + Dinner)
from $106
6
Key West Sunset Sail with Open Bar, Live Music and Hors D’oeuvres
from $79
7
Rome Cooking Class: Make Pasta and 3 Spritz Cocktails
from $99
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Magic Ice Bar Entrance and Welcome Drink
from $34
When the plan is three good drinks, not eleven ordinary ones.
A guided run through the bars that take their ice seriously, a class where you build the drink yourself, a canal deck or a sunset sail with a proper list on board. Slower than a crawl, dearer, and the one you remember.
What a guided night at the bar actually costs.
Every crawl on the site, grouped by the door price. Plenty of the best ones cost less than the round you would have bought anyway.
Guided pub crawls, welcome shots, club entry and the ticket-and-a-drink rooms.
Cocktail tours through four serious bars, mixology classes and the boats with the bar open.
Private hosts, tasting menus between the drinks, and the charter you split with friends.
The booze cruise is a bar crawl that never asks you to walk.
Open bar from the moment you board, a deck instead of a pavement, and a coastline going past the glass. Sunset sailings run the tightest schedules of anything on the site, so the boarding time is the whole booking.
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Three drinking nights that do not travel.
Every city has a pub crawl. A bombed-out apartment block full of mismatched furniture, a lane of six-seat bars under a railway, and a room you enter through a fridge do not exist anywhere else.
The Ruin Bars
Landlords in the old Jewish quarter left whole blocks empty after the war, and in 2002 somebody opened a bar in one without fixing anything first. Szimpla Kert still has the bathtub sofa and the Trabant with seats in it. Guided crawls exist because the good ones are courtyards behind unmarked doors, and the queue outside the famous one moves faster if you are with somebody who knows the staff.
- 1Guided Pub Tour to Ruin Bars with Games & 6 Shots★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 1,641 reviews
- 2Ruin Bar Pub Crawl with Entry Tickets★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 1,028 reviews
- 3Pub Crawl & Ruin Bar Tour – Free Shots & VIP Entry★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 382 reviews
Izakaya Hopping
A Tokyo bar seats six, has no English menu, and quietly charges a seating fee you were not expecting. That is why hopping here is guided: the host orders, explains the cover charge, and walks you to the next place through an alley you would never have turned down. Golden Gai and the Shinjuku yokocho lanes are the classic run.
- 1Shinjuku Local Bar and Izakaya Guided Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,794 reviews
- 2Shinjuku Local Bar & Izakaya Crawl Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 890 reviews
- 3Izakaya Bars Guided Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 815 reviews
Speakeasies
The modern speakeasy is a bar that makes you work for it: a payphone in a hot dog shop, a bookcase that swings, a laundromat with a back room. Most take reservations only, which is the point of booking a tour instead of a table. The drinks are made slowly and the room is quiet enough to hear the ice.
- 1Speakeasy Drinks and Prohibition History Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 474 reviews
- 2Nashville’s Speakeasy Secrets: Murder True Crime Cocktail Crawl★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 433 reviews
- 3Phantoms of Prohibition: Ghosts Cocktails & Bites Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 380 reviews
What a bar crawl booking does not tell you until you are at the door.
Bring photo ID even where you look nothing like a teenager, because the door staff answer to the licence and not to you. Check whether "drinks included" means a welcome shot or a whole night. Trainers and shorts fail a dress code in more cities than you think. And the meeting point is almost never the first bar.
- 01What “drinks included” meansThese say the shot count and the bar count on the ticket. Everything else is a welcome drink and then your own money.
- 02Whether the door will let you inClub entry is where a dress code bites. Trainers, shorts and stag shirts are the three that get turned away.
- 03Whether you will eatA crawl with food built in is the difference between a night out and a lost morning.
By city, and the country it sits in
By kind of night, from a walk to a boat
Three nights in one city, or one night in three cities.
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