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Open-bar catamarans, canal boats where the fridge is the point, crawls that walk you past the queue. What each one actually includes, how many drinks that means, and what the door will ask you for.
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Four drinks-included nights worth building a trip around.
A saloon boat on the Amsterdam canals, a Prague hall where the jug keeps coming, a Santorini catamaran with the bar open all afternoon, and a Shinjuku bar crawl with the ordering done for you. What each costs, and how much of it is really included.
01The canal boatAmsterdam Classic Saloon Boat Cruise with Drinks and CheeseNinety minutes on the water with the drinks and the cheese board thrown in. The cheapest good idea in Amsterdam.
02The endless jugMedieval Dinner with Unlimited DrinksA medieval hall under the Old Town with unlimited beer, wine and mead across four courses. Nobody counts.
03The open-bar deckLuxury Catamaran Day Trip with Meal and Open BarA full day off Santorini with a cooked meal and the bar open from the moment you cast off.
04The bar crawlTokyo Bar Hopping Tour in Shinjuku (All-You-Can-Drink + Dinner)Three Shinjuku izakayas, all-you-can-drink at each, and a guide who does the ordering in Japanese.
Six places that run on drinks-included nights.
Canal boats in Amsterdam, catamarans off the Aegean, all-inclusive decks out of Punta Cana, pedal bars across American old towns, sangria sailings from the Costa Brava, sunset party cruises up the Tagus. Six starting points, and the best night out in each.
Pedal bar, party bus or a boat off Key West. Pick your American night.
American drinking tours are built around a vehicle or a licence: something that carries you between bars, or a bar that carries you. Three kinds of night, what each costs a head, and where they run thickest.
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Bar crawlsFour bars, a shot at each, no queue and no cover.
Cocktail toursThree or four proper bars, a made drink at every one.
Party buses and pedal barsA vehicle with taps. You pedal, somebody else steers.
Sunset sailingsKey West and the Gulf coast, drinks poured as the sun drops.
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The crawl is still the cheapest way into four bars and a club.
A guide, a group, a shot at each stop and guest-list entry at the end. In Prague, Budapest and Krakow the whole night costs less than the club door alone would; in Tokyo the guide is worth it for the ordering. These three carry more travellers than any other crawl on the site.
The cheapest open bar in town is usually a boat.
A party deck buys you the drink price of a supermarket and the view of a rooftop bar. Catamarans that anchor long enough to swim between rounds, canal saloon boats with the fridge left open, sunset sailings where the DJ starts as the light goes. Half of this site happens afloat.
The drinks-included nights more travellers take than any other.
Every night out we have reviewed →Thirty thousand people have been on the boat at the top of this list. Here is what earns each of these the slot, and what it costs to get on board.
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Amsterdam Classic Saloon Boat Cruise with Drinks and Cheese
Spend about an hour on Amsterdam’s canals aboard a classic covered wooden saloon boat. Your guide points out the Anne Frank House, Jordaan, Rijksmuseum, Skinny Bridge, and other landmarks. Select the cheese and drinks option for Gouda, mustard, beer, wine, and soft drinks.
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Amsterdam Luxury Canal Cruise + Unlimited Drinks & Bites option
from $18
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Heated Canal Cruise with Unlimited Drinks & Bite
from $18
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Medieval Dinner with Unlimited Drinks
from $75
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Sunset Boat Party Cruise with DJ and Open Bar
from $27
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1-Hour Evening Sightseeing Cruise with Drink
from $29
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Sunset or Dinner Cruise with Live Music & Open Bar
from $51
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Luxury Saloon Boat Cruise with Cocktails & Waffle
from $21
Amsterdam invented the unlimited-drinks canal boat and still does it best.
A heated saloon boat, ninety minutes of canal, and a bar you serve yourself from. Some run cheese and bitterballen with it, some run cocktails and waffles, one runs through the Light Festival in December. Prices start around the cost of two beers on a terrace.
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In Cancun and Punta Cana the open bar starts at the jetty.
The all-inclusive habit moved offshore years ago. Catamarans to Isla Mujeres with rum from the moment you board, Punta Cana party boats with a snorkel stop and a natural pool, Cabo cruises that run the bar from midday. Read the drinks list before the itinerary: it is the part that varies.
- 1Isla Mujeres: Catamaran with Open Bar, Snorkeling and Lunchfrom $59
- 2Isla Mujeres Cruise with Beach Club, Snorkel, Lunch and Open Barfrom $53
- 3Los Cabos Luxury Sunset Sail with Light Appetizers and Open Barfrom $109
What a drinks-included night actually costs.
Every trip on the site, grouped by the per-head price. A surprising number of unlimited-drinks boats cost less than the two cocktails you would have bought on land.
Canal boats, one-hour evening cruises, crawls with a shot at each bar and the cheaper brunch sittings.
The full-day standards: open-bar catamarans, pedal bars for a group, all-you-can-drink dinner halls.
Private charters, VIP tables with bottle service and the small-group boats that keep the deck half empty.
Three drinking nights that only work where they were invented.
Every city has bars. A heated boat with a self-serve fridge on a seventeenth-century canal, a hall that pours mead by the jug, and a fourteen-seat bicycle with beer taps do not travel.
The saloon boat with the fridge open
The classic saloon boats were built as private launches, which is why they have a cabin, a heater and a bar rather than rows of seats. Skippers hand you the fridge and get on with the driving. Ninety minutes covers the Jordaan, the Golden Bend and the seven bridges of Reguliersgracht, and the low bridges are the reason nobody stands up.
- 1Amsterdam Luxury Canal Cruise + Unlimited Drinks & Bites option★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 30,518 reviews
- 2Heated Canal Cruise with Unlimited Drinks & Bite★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 21,431 reviews
- 3Amsterdam Canal Cruise in Open Boat with Unlimited Drinks Option★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4,976 reviews
The hall that pours by the jug
Under the Old Town there are cellars set up as medieval banqueting halls, and their whole trick is that the drink is not counted. Beer, wine and mead keep arriving between four courses, there is a floor show, and the tables are long enough that you end the evening with strangers. Book the early sitting if you want to remember the third course.
- 1Medieval Dinner with Unlimited Drinks★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 19,847 reviews
- 2Pub Crawl with Unlimited Drinks & 5-floor Club Entry★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 2,955 reviews
- 3Folkloric Dinner Show with Unlimited Drinks★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 1,310 reviews
The pedal bar that is also the bar
Somebody in Arizona worked out that a fourteen-seat bicycle with a serving counter is legally a vehicle and socially a pub, and every walkable old town in the country now has one. You pedal, a driver steers, and you stop at three or four bars on the way. Most run BYO between stops, which is exactly as sensible as it sounds.
- 1Party Bike Private Party Up To 14 People in Old Town Scottsdale★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,541 reviews
- 2Istanbul Party Pub Crawl with Party Bus in Sultanahmet and Taksim★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,882 reviews
- 3Nashville’s Wildest Honky Tonk Public Party Bus (21+)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,305 reviews
Four nights out that will not wait for you to land.
Most drinking can be arranged from a bar stool an hour beforehand. These four cannot: they run on boat capacity, single sittings and one vehicle at a time, and the weekend slots go weeks out.
- 01Premium Small-Group Catamaran Cruise with BBQ, Open Bar, TransferA catamaran deck holds a fixed number and the small-group sailings are the good ones. Summer Saturdays out of Santorini and Cancun go weeks ahead.
- 02Pub Crawl with Unlimited Drinks & 5-floor Club EntryCrawls run on guest lists the venues fix in advance, and Friday and Saturday groups cap out. Turning up on the night means the bar queue everyone else is skipping.
- 03Pedal Bar Crawl of Old Town ScottsdaleOne vehicle, one group, one time slot. There is nothing to squeeze you into, and hen and stag groups book the good afternoons out months ahead.
- 04Bottomless Brunch at Ibiza Boat Club with Drinks & DJBottomless sittings are timed and usually two a day, because the drinks window is part of the licence. Late arrivals lose the window, not the price.
What “drinks included” means, and what the door will ask you for.
Included can mean an open bar all night, a fixed number of tokens, or one welcome drink and a card machine. Age limits run 18 in most of Europe, 21 across the United States and Iceland, and boats check passports rather than photos of them. Crawls and clubs enforce a dress code that quietly means no shorts and no trainers; brunches run a fixed two-hour window; and the one thing worth planning before the first round is how you are getting back.
Spain drinks late, and sells it by the boat and by the crawl.
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Barcelona runs on tapas routes where the wine is poured at every stop. Ibiza and the Costa Brava sell beach-hopping catamarans with the bar open from the jetty. Madrid does the late crawl, the flamenco ticket with a drink, and the vermouth hour nobody warns you about.
Barcelona tapas routes, wine at every stop
Four or five counters in the Gothic Quarter and El Born, a glass poured at each and enough food between them that you can still find the metro. The best defence against a Spanish drinking schedule.
Beach-hopping catamarans with the bar open
Out of Ibiza, Mallorca and the Costa Brava: paddleboards off the back, a cooked lunch, sangria and beer included from the moment you board. Book the morning departure and the coves are still empty.
Madrid and Barcelona crawls, club entry included
Four bars with a shot at each, then guest-list entry to a club that would otherwise cost you the same as the whole night. Spanish clubs do not fill until two, so the crawl is also the way to survive the wait.
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By kind of night: deck, crawl, brunch or bar
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