Bar fronts lit along a street at dusk, and a table of drinks inside

Guided bar nights, city by city

Seven bars, one guide, somebody else’s plan.

Which crawl actually gets you past the door of the good places, what the shots are really worth, and whether the club entry at the end is included. Reviews of guided pub crawls and bar tours in the cities people drink in.

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Four bar nights that set the standard.

A historic pub walk, a full party crawl, an izakaya run and a ghost tour that ends in a bar. What each one costs and what the drinkers who took it say.

Where the nights are

Six cities that built their evening around the bar.

Ruin bars in a bombed-out courtyard, Georgian pubs with a ghost story each, standing bars up a Tokyo staircase, honky-tonks that never shut. Pick the city and see what a guided night there costs.

Best ofLondonOld pubs, small groups, no shots involved Best ofDublinLive music, literature and a lot of stout Best ofPragueCheap beer and a five-floor club at the end Best ofSavannahGhost stories told with a drink in hand Best ofTokyoGolden Gai, Shinjuku alleys, someone to order Best ofBudapestRuin bars, free shots, a guide who counts heads

A night out in America

Haunted, honky-tonk or historic: three ways to drink your way across the States.

American crawls split cleanly. One walks you through a graveyard and into a bar, one keeps you on a strip where the music never stops, and one treats the tavern as a history lesson. They cost about the same and they are nothing alike.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · Adults Only Haunted Pub Crawl in New Orleans

The haunted onesCemeteries, murder corners and a drink at every stop. from $18

The beer onesTaprooms, a brewer talking, samples that add up to a pint. from $29

The history onesTaverns where the arguing was done before the revolution. from $25 All 256 American crawls →

What the queue looks like

The crawls more drinkers book than any others.

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Sorted by how many people have actually taken them, with the price and the verdict on each.

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 10,422 reviews

London Small Group Tour of Historical Pubs

Spend about three and a half hours walking from Newgate Street toward Covent Garden, stopping at four historic London pubs. Guides such as Tim, Chris, Freddie, Mark, Dave, and Ricky mix pub lore with stories of Fleet Street, Dickens, churches, courts, and literary London. Drinks cost extra, and the group is capped at 14 people.

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2 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 · 5,273 reviews Prague: Entry ticket to Ice Pub Prague with Nightclub Option from $14

3 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,587 reviews Tokyo Bar Hopping Tour in Shinjuku (All-You-Can-Drink + Dinner) from $106

4 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 2,955 reviews Prague: Pub Crawl with Unlimited Drinks & 5-floor Club Entry from $40

5 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,526 reviews Pub Crawl Madrid by Mad Party Crew from $20

6 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 2,457 reviews Dublin: Generation Pub Crawl from $16

7 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 2,158 reviews Adults Only Haunted Pub Crawl in New Orleans from $29

8 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,084 reviews Prague Historic Pub Tour with Drinks Included from $65

Shots included

The party crawl, and what “unlimited drinks” is worth.

A welcome shot at every bar, an hour of open bar somewhere in the middle, skip-the-queue entry to the club at the end. It is the cheapest way to drink in Europe and the wording matters: an hour of open bar is an hour, and the shots are small.

Every shots crawl

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 2,955 reviewsPrague: Pub Crawl with Unlimited Drinks & 5-floor Club Entry

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,084 reviewsPrague Historic Pub Tour with Drinks Included

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,702 reviewsLisbon: Pub Crawl with Open Bar (Premium Upgrade Available)

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The bill for a night

What a guided night out actually costs.

Every crawl on the site, grouped by the per-head price. The cheap end buys you a guide and a shot at each bar; the top end buys you a table, a bottle and a driver.

Under $25

The European party crawl: a guide, a shot at each stop and club entry thrown in.

1Prague: Entry ticket to Ice Pub Prague with Nightclub Optionfrom $14
2Pub Crawl Madrid by Mad Party Crewfrom $20
3Dublin: Generation Pub Crawlfrom $16

$25–60

Small-group pub walks, haunted crawls and bar-hopping tours with food at each stop.

1London Small Group Tour of Historical Pubsfrom $40
2Prague: Pub Crawl with Unlimited Drinks & 5-floor Club Entryfrom $40
3Adults Only Haunted Pub Crawl in New Orleansfrom $29

$60 and up

Private guides, all-you-can-drink Tokyo nights and a table waiting at the last bar.

1Tokyo Bar Hopping Tour in Shinjuku (All-You-Can-Drink + Dinner)from $106
2Prague Historic Pub Tour with Drinks Includedfrom $65
3Shibuya Meltdown Nightlife Tour: All-You-Can-Drink Bar Hoppingfrom $106

Pubs, not bars

Where the pub is the point, not the pit stop.

London and Dublin sell the opposite of a party crawl: four pubs in three hours, a guide who can date the tiling, and a pint you are expected to finish before moving on. Book the small-group ones. The big ones lose people.

Best ofHistoric LondonBest ofPub WalksBest ofDublin NightsBest ofEdinburgh

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★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 — London Small Group Tour of Historical Pubs

Dublin: Generation Pub Crawl

Soho Music & Historic Pubs Tour

Japan after work

In Tokyo the bar holds eight people and the menu is on the wall in kanji.

Golden Gai, the Shinjuku alleys and the Namba back streets are not walk-in territory unless you read the room and the language. A guide gets you through the curtain, orders the right thing and settles the cover charge nobody warned you about.

Best ofBar HoppingBest ofGolden GaiBest ofFood and DrinkBest ofTokyo

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House rules

Five things that decide whether a crawl works for you.

A pub crawl is the one tour with an age limit, a dress code and a walking distance. None of it is hidden, but it is rarely on the first line of the listing.

01Bring the passportAge limits are 18 in most of Europe and 21 across the United States, and the clubs at the end check paper ID, not a photo of one.
02Trainers fail at the doorThe VIP club entry that comes with a crawl is only worth anything if the door lets you in. Shoes and a collar, not shorts.
03Count the walkingA seven-bar night covers real distance on hard streets. The small-group pub walks are three hours and four stops, deliberately.
04Read the drinks lineA welcome shot at each bar and an hour of open bar are two different offers. The second one starts when the guide says so.
05Pick the night, not the dayMost crawls run Thursday to Saturday and thin out midweek; the ghost and history walks run every night and sell out earliest in summer.

Only on a crawl

Three nights out you can only have in one city.

Party crawls are the same in every capital. These are not: a bar in a condemned building, a lane of eight-seat bars, and a tour that stops where the bodies were found.

Budapest

The ruin bars

In the old Jewish quarter, landlords stopped repairing buildings and someone put a bar in one anyway. Szimpla Kert came first and the rest followed into courtyards full of bath tubs, wired-up televisions and a Trabant with seats in it. Guided crawls exist because the good ones are unmarked and the queue outside Szimpla at midnight is an hour long.

1Budapest: Ruin Bar Pub Crawl with Entry Tickets★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 1,028 reviews
2Budapest Original Ruin Pub Crawl Including 5 Shots★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 519 reviews
3Budapest: Pub Crawl & Ruin Bar Tour – Free Shots & VIP Entry★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 382 reviews

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Tokyo

Golden Gai and the alleys

Six lanes of two-storey wooden buildings survived the redevelopment of Shinjuku, and each holds a bar with six to eight seats. Many charge a cover, some are regulars-only, none has an English menu. A guide picks the ones that welcome visitors and gets the first round ordered before anyone has to point.

1Tokyo Bar Hopping Tour in Shinjuku (All-You-Can-Drink + Dinner)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,587 reviews
2Tokyo: Shinjuku Bar Hopping with All-You-Can-Drink & Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 440 reviews
3Hiroshima Izakaya Food and Drink Night Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 297 reviews

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Savannah

Drinking with the dead

Savannah lets you carry an open drink on the street in the historic district, which is why the ghost tour and the pub crawl merged here and nowhere else. The route runs between eighteenth-century taverns and the squares built over burial grounds, and the guides are usually theatre people.