Finding a bar is easy. Finding five in one night is not.
Which crawl gets the group past the club door, what a welcome shot is really worth, and where the guide goes when the second bar turns out to be dead. Reviews of the nights out you can book for tonight.
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Four nights out that fill up before the weekend does.
The crawls and bar tours people come back from happy. What each one costs, where it starts and what actually gets you through the door.
01The gentle startLuxury Saloon Boat Cruise with Cocktails & WaffleA saloon boat down the Amsterdam canals with a cocktail in hand and a waffle at the end of it. Nothing about it is hurried.
02The ruin barsGuided Pub Tour to Ruin Bars with Games & 6 ShotsCourtyard bars stitched into half-collapsed tenements in the seventh district, walked in the order a local knows they wake up in.
03The Shinjuku hourShinjuku Local Bar and Izakaya Guided Walking TourStanding bars in the lanes behind the station, ordered for you in Japanese, with the plates that are meant to go with each round.
04The one you pedalPedal Bar Crawl of Old Town ScottsdaleA bar on wheels through Old Town Scottsdale. You do the pedalling, the patios do the rest.
The American night out splits four ways. Pick your version.
From a pedal bar through Old Town Scottsdale to an unmarked door in Manhattan and an open bar going past a skyline. Four kinds of American night, what it costs to walk into each, and which one your city does best.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · All-Inclusive Pub Crawl with Moonshine, Cocktails, and Craft Beer
Cocktail roomsShort menus, proper ice, a bartender who explains the build.
Hidden barsUnmarked doors and small rooms, with someone who knows which are worth it.
On the waterOpen bar, a deck, and the skyline doing the work.
Straight pub crawlsFour or five bars, a group, and no decisions left to make.
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A courtyard full of mismatched furniture, a counter with six stools behind a railway station, a brass band walking the street ahead of you. Six places, and the best night we have found in each.
A bar crawl is a shortcut to the part of a city that stays open.
Someone who drinks here every week picks the bars, walks you in at each one and gets the group past the door of the club at the end. That is the whole product, and it works in almost every city on this site.
Cocktail bars are a guided tour now, and the good rooms are small.
Twelve seats, a short menu and a bartender who tells you what is in it. Somebody who can get five people into a room like that is worth the ticket, which is why these book out first.
- 1Luxury Saloon Boat Cruise with Cocktails & Wafflefrom $21
- 2Luxury Saloon Boat Cruise with Cocktails & Wafflefrom $18
- 3Rome Cooking Class: Make Pasta and 3 Spritz Cocktailsfrom $99
Amsterdam starts on the water and ends in a brown café.
All of Amsterdam after dark →A boat with a bar on board is the easiest first hour anyone has invented, and they run long after dark. After that the city belongs to the brown cafés, the jenever counters and whichever club still has room for a group.
A boat with a bar on it
Ninety minutes of canal with a drink in your hand, which is the correct way to work out where you are before the walking starts. The covered boats run in any weather.
Jenever, gin and the Bols house
Dutch gin came first and the city still pours it. The Bols house runs on timed tickets and ends with a cocktail you mix at the counter yourself.
Five bars and a club at the end
The crawls here work the Jordaan and the Red Light edges, and the guide is the reason the last stop lets fifteen strangers in together.
What a night out actually costs, by the round.
Every crawl and bar tour on the site, grouped by price. The cheap end is not the bad end: some of the best nights here are a ticket and a shot.
Ruin-bar crawls, club entry with a drink, and the standing-bar walks through central Europe and Asia.
The long ones: open-bar boats, all-you-can-drink bar hopping, cocktail classes that come with dinner.
Private guides, chartered party boats and the once-a-trip night that earns it.
The nights out more people book than any other.
Every bar crawl we have reviewed →The most popular nights on the site, with what each one costs and what gets you through the door.
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Luxury Saloon Boat Cruise with Cocktails & Waffle
Spend about an hour on an open Friendship Amsterdam boat, passing the Old Church, Red Light District, Central Station, Skinny Bridge, and Amstel River. Your captain and host explain the city as you go. Drinks are sold onboard, blankets are provided, and boats depart throughout the day.
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Entry ticket to Ice Pub Prague with Nightclub Option
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Luxury Saloon Boat Cruise with Cocktails & Waffle
from $18
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Pedal Bar Crawl of Old Town Scottsdale
from $69
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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
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Key West Sunset Sail with Open Bar, Live Music and Hors D’oeuvres
from $79
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Pub Crawl with Unlimited Drinks & 5-floor Club Entry
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Tokyo drinks standing up, in lanes you would walk straight past.
Golden Gai, the alleys under the tracks at Shinjuku, a counter with six stools and no English on the wall. A guide here is not a luxury, it is the door.
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Budapest turned its bombed-out courtyards into the best bars in Europe.
Szimpla started it and the seventh district followed: bars built inside half-ruined tenements, furniture nobody matched on purpose, a different room every ten steps. Cheap, loud and all within a walk.
- 1Guided Pub Tour to Ruin Bars with Games & 6 Shotsfrom $16
- 2Bar Crawl with a Local Guidefrom $44
- 3Ruin Bar Pub Crawl with Entry Ticketsfrom $11
Three drinking traditions that never travelled.
A cocktail bar looks much the same from Berlin to Bangkok. A courtyard ruin bar, a counter for six behind a railway station and a room cut out of ice do not.
The Ruin Bars
In the seventh district the tenements were left standing but empty after the war, and in 2002 somebody opened a bar in one rather than fix it. Szimpla Kert still has the bathtub seating and a Trabant in the middle of the room. The crawls string four or five of them together, which is the only way to see how differently each one uses the same ruin.
- 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
The Izakaya Counters
An izakaya is not a pub. You order food with every round, the counter seats six or eight, and the good ones in Omoide Yokocho and Namba have no English menu and no interest in printing one. A guide orders for the table and moves the group on after two drinks, which is how three bars fit into an evening.
- 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
The Ice Bars
Everything in the room is carved from ice, including the glass the drink arrives in, and it is held at about minus five so the walls survive the night. You get a cape, a pair of gloves and roughly half an hour before your hands decide for you. Entry is timed, because only so many people fit.
- 1Magic Ice Bar Entrance and Welcome Drink★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 2,536 reviews
- 2Tromsø: Magic Ice Bar Entrance and Welcome Drink★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 734 reviews
- 3Queenstown: Minus 5 Ice Bar Experience with Drink Options★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 592 reviews
Four nights out that will not wait for you.
Most bars need nothing but a decision and a taxi. These four run on fixed sittings, timed entry and rooms that hold twelve people, and a Friday goes weeks out.
- 01Alcotraz Prison Cocktail Experience in ManchesterOne cell block, one group, one sitting. When the slot is sold there is no second seating that night.
- 02Entry ticket to Ice Pub Prague with Nightclub OptionThe room is held below freezing and holds only so many capes at once, so entry runs on timed slots.
- 03Tokyo Bar Hopping Tour in Shinjuku (All-You-Can-Drink + Dinner)The counters in the Shinjuku lanes seat six or eight. Guides cap the group at whatever the bar will physically take.
- 04Bols Cocktail Experience Entrance ticket plus CocktailA timed ticket into the Bols house, and the evening slots are the first to go on a weekend.
The door is the one part of the night you cannot argue with.
Drinking age is 21 in the United States and 18 or 20 almost everywhere else, and every guide on these tours checks it. Bring the passport rather than a photograph of it. Trainers and shorts will stop a group at club doors across most of Europe, the meeting point is usually the first bar and not a hotel, and an included shot is one shot, not a round.
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