PUB CRAWLS · CITY NIGHTLIFE
The best bars, in the right order.
Temple Bar in Dublin, the ruin bars of Budapest, cheap pilsner and big clubs in Prague. Real reviews of the pub crawls and bar-hopping tours worth booking, in the cities that come alive after dark.
Worth flying in for the night out
Three cities built for the crawl.
Plenty of places have good bars. Dublin, Prague and Budapest have a nightlife all their own: the trad-music pubs, the cheap-beer megaclubs, the fairy-lit ruin bars. These are the cities people book a trip around the night out.
Ireland
Dublin
No city does the pub better. A guided crawl through Temple Bar and the lanes off it lands you in the snugs and back rooms where the trad session is real, not put on for tourists, and the Guinness is poured the way it should be. The guide knows which doors to knock on and when the singing starts. By the third pub you are part of it.
See all 23 Dublin pub crawls →Czechia
Prague
The pub-crawl capital of Europe, and it earns the title. Some of the cheapest, best beer in the world, a vodka-and-ice Ice Bar built to be photographed, and a five-floor megaclub waiting at the end of the night. A crawl here runs from quiet cellar pubs to the biggest dancefloor in Central Europe, all in a few hours.
- 1 Prague: Entry ticket to Ice Pub Prague with Nightclub Option
- 2 Prague: Pub Crawl with Unlimited Drinks & 5-floor Club Entry
- 3 Prague Historic Pub Tour with Drinks Included
Hungary
Budapest
Nowhere else has the ruin bars. Crumbling old buildings in the Jewish quarter strung with fairy lights and filled with mismatched furniture, each one stranger than the last. A guide leads you between them with a round of shots at every stop, ending at Szimpla Kert, the one that started it all. There is no nightlife anywhere quite like it.
- 1 Budapest: Guided Pub Tour to Ruin Bars with Games & 6 Shots
- 2 Budapest: Ruin Bar Pub Crawl with Entry Tickets
- 3 Budapest Original Ruin Pub Crawl Including 5 Shots
If you only book one night
The crawl more people book than any other.
Of every pub crawl on the site, this is the one travellers come home and tell their mates to do. Start here.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Pub Crawls Right Now
Dublin trad pubs, Prague megaclubs, Amsterdam bar-hops, Madrid taverns. The nights out travellers are happiest they booked.
Start with a city
The best pub crawls, city by city.
Dublin for the trad pubs, Prague for the cheap beer, Budapest for the ruin bars. Pick the city you are headed to and we will show you the crawls worth booking there.
Where the night is biggest
Three corners of the map made for going out.
Pick the kind of night you are after. Each of these is a region the site covers deeply, with a very different way of staying out late waiting at the end of it.
Prague
The pub-crawl capital of Europe.
No city has built more of its nightlife around the crawl. The beer is among the best and cheapest in the world, the Ice Bar is carved from a literal block of it, and the night usually ends on the top floor of a five-storey megaclub. A guide handles the route, the queue-jumps and the unlimited first hour, so all you do is keep up.
See the best Prague pub crawls →Amsterdam
Bar-hop the canals after dark.
Amsterdam packs more bars into a small centre than almost anywhere: centuries-old brown cafes lit by candlelight, loud spots off Leidseplein, and the Red Light District where the night runs latest. A guided crawl threads the canals between them, with the local rules of the road and a few rounds of shots sorted along the way.
See the best Amsterdam pub crawls →Krakow
The Old Town goes underground after dark.
Krakow hides its nightlife in the cellars: vaulted brick rooms under the medieval squares, one bar leading to the next through doorways you would never find alone. A crawl here pours unlimited drinks to start, packs in karaoke and drinking games, and finishes on a dancefloor that does not slow down until the sun is up.
See the best Krakow pub crawls →Madrid after midnight
The city that never goes home early.
Madrid does not really start until midnight. A crawl moves you through the old taverns of La Latina and the loud bars of Malasana, a vermouth and a small plate at each, building toward the clubs that do not open their doors until two and do not close them until breakfast. A local host keeps the pace and gets you past the queues.
- 1 Pub Crawl Madrid by Mad Party Crew
- 2 Madrid: Guided Pub Crawl Madrid Experience and Club Entry
- 3 Madrid: Pub Crawl Madrid Running since 2005 Bar Exploration
How big a night
How hard do you want to go?
A gentle few pubs with the stories that go with them. A proper Temple Bar crawl with a live session in the middle. Or the lid fully off, unlimited drinks and a club at the end. Pick the city that sounds like your kind of night.
Ease in
Edinburgh, the slow one.A handful of Old Town pubs at a civilised pace, with the stories that go with them, from the writers who drank in them to the underground vaults below. A pint or a dram at each, and you walk out knowing the city better than when you walked in.
The proper crawl
Dublin, the trad-and-pints night.Temple Bar and the streets around it, four or five pubs deep, a guide who knows which ones have the live session and which pour the better Guinness. Somewhere in the middle the singing starts and you stop checking the time.
All in
Krakow, the lid-off night.Unlimited drinks for the first hour, a host who has done this a hundred times, then the cellar bars of the Old Town and a club door held open at the end. The kind of night you book when you came to make a mess of it.
Budapest
A bar inside a ruin.
Budapest turned its abandoned buildings into the strangest bars in Europe. Crumbling courtyards in the old Jewish quarter strung with fairy lights, hung with bathtubs and bicycle wheels, each room weirder than the last. A guided crawl leads you between them with a shot at every door and ends at Szimpla Kert, the original ruin bar that started the whole thing.
See all 14 Budapest pub crawls →By city
Pick a city to go out in.
Dublin for the trad-music pubs. Prague for the cheap beer and big clubs. Amsterdam for the brown cafes. Budapest for the ruin bars. Krakow for the cellar bars. Madrid for the late nights.
More cities
More cities worth a big weekend.
Nashville for the Broadway honky-tonks, Edinburgh for the Old Town pubs, Istanbul for the party-bus nights, London for the historic boozers. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
Three cities, three nights out
Pick a city, build the night around it.
A live-music bar-hop in New Orleans, a honky-tonk crawl in Nashville, an Old Town session in Edinburgh. Three cities, three completely different ways to spend a night.
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