Budapest Guided Bar Crawl with Optional Drink Package

The Bar Crawl & Games is a popular and fun ruin bar crawl in the heart of Budapest, which goes beyond an average drunken night out. Going through a range of challenges really pulls folks together, no matter which country you are from, and serves as a great ice breaker and team builder experience.

Booking Budapest Guided Bar Crawl with Optional Drink Package

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The 3 hour ruin pub crawl – with optional 1 hour unlimited drink package – visits some of the best and coolest places in Budapest nightlife.

Book your place in the bar crawl in advance. All details (meeting place, contact, and other essential info) will be sent once the booking comes through.

What are Ruin Bars?

The ruin bars of Budapest have turned abandoned historical apartment buildings into quirky and cozy apartment / art studio style pubs and bars. You may be sitting on a sofa, a tyre, or a bathtub, sipping a drink in a tiny room with a foosball table, a cupboard filled with meandering house plants, or a larger hall with a stage featuring an indie band. The walls may feature graffiti, communist memorabilia, disused vinyls and up-cycled industrial waste. Each square metre has the potential to come as a surprise or make you feel at ease.

Yes, ruin bars are absolutely stylish, fun and vastly popular (highlighted in leading newspapers incl. The Time magazine travel section).

Prices:

• €21 per person: with 3 shots & Club entry
• €36 per person with Drink package:with  1-hour unlimited drinks (beer, wine, rum/vodka/gin, mixers) + 3 shots & Club entry

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What You Get:

• 3h + Pub Crawl (9pm-12am)
• Professional Pub Crawl Guide
• The bar crawl ends in a club where you can dance till dawn
• 1 Welcome Shot at each Bar
  
• Optional 1h Drink Package
• Free Skip-the-line Entry to the Pubs
• Crazy Challenges: 25 to go!
• E-Ticket via email (no printing needed)
• Same day bookings accepted until 8pm only
• Best for: individuals, friends seeking friends, international folks who tend to be on the shy side or want to make friends in a new city with ease, first time visitors to Hungary

Schedule of Budapest Bar Crawl & Quiz

The program is available on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The program usually ends at approx. 1 am.

The Ruin Bar Crawl is recommended for:

Anyone who enjoys meeting fellow travellers & making friends in a fun way. It is a perfect night program for solo travellers, friends, groups, backpackers and any first-timers in Budapest. You don’t only get a great and fun party experience, but also cool tips for where to eat and what to do in Budapest. Thank the entertaining, accommodating and professional guide, you can safely discover the teeming nightlife of the city.

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Fun Challenges

Have you heard of Bingo? Well, this is not the Bingo your granny plays, we can assure you that. Each guest receives a Bingo card at the very beginning of the night but all the 25 numbers on the cards are associated with crazy challenges.

Crawlers can earn points and make friends by completing 5 challenges by fulfilling the insane and immensely funny tasks while the collected points can be redeemed for prizes at the very end of the night.

Challenges can be easy and pleasant, like getting a kiss from a handsome stranger, a lot harder or maybe lunatic, such as drinking from a shoe or licking someone in the face. Challenges may include drinking while hand standing, building a human pyramid.

Ruin Bars (usually) visited during the program:

3 bars and a club will be visited during the program (roughly 45 minutes spent in each place). The pub crawl visits 4 places of the list below.

• Ellato House ruin pub
• Ellato Garden ruin pub
• Retox Bar ruin pub
• Fogashaz ruin pub
• Instant ruin pub
• Fuge Udvar ruin pub
• Corvinteto (mostly in summer) ruin pub
  

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 Terms & Conditions

• The minimum age to attend the program is 18 years old (as is the legal age of alcohol consumption in Hungary).
• Anyone who is visibly drunk/intoxicated / disorderly will not be allowed to join the pub crawl.
• Any damage caused by Guest must be paid by Guest responsible for damages.
• No rowdy behaviour is accepted on the party.
• No drop-ins are accepted, as the places are limited. Booking in advance is required (please use the booking form on the left).
• Cancellation policy: Free 24 h Cancellation
• Ruin Bars and Pubs may have the name ‘ruin’ but you’ll be expected to respect the architecture and special cultural value of each ruin pub. Anti social behaviour, vandalism is not tolerated. Thank you for your understanding.

Last updated Dec, 2024

Do’s & Don’ts

Visiting Ruin Bar Crawls in Budapest? Please Read This Before You Go

Dear Visitor,

Budapest’s ruin bars are famous for their artistic atmosphere and quirky interiors – they’re one-of-a-kind! However, please note that in District VII (Erzsébetváros), where most ruin bars are located, there are strict local rules, and organised pub crawls may be considered illegal or disruptive by the authorities.

So, whether you’re going on your own or with friends, here’s what you should know to stay safe and respectful:

• Visit ruin bars individually and enjoy their unique atmosphere. Avoid groups of 4 or more after 10 pm to ensure no ‘pub crawl’ vibe is given to the authorities.
• Stay inside venues after 10 PM – avoid making noise in the streets respecting the residential community.
• Use restrooms inside the bars – always, never the streets.
• Be polite and respect the people who live nearby, similarly to your home town.
• Leave quietly – Budapest residents appreciate your consideration.

What’s NOT OK (Anti-Social or Illegal Behaviour)

• Joining or organising pub crawls in District VII is considered illegal by the local municipality in the 7th District following a residential vote. Even if it’s called a night guided walk or a team building activity, it is illegal.
• Drinking alcohol in public spaces or streets is prohibited.
• Urinating, shouting, or playing music on the streets is not allowed, incurs a fine.
• Damaging property, littering, or being visibly drunk in public is illegal.
• Street noise after 10 PM, especially in residential zones, is taken seriously with consequences.

After years of very unpleasant incidents of pub crawls and rowdy behaviour of groups (especially, but not necessarily, hen parties and stag parties), the Municipality of the District has put the question to the vote and the result is that no pub crawls are allowed.

Section 6 (6) and Section 6 (7):
It constitutes anti-social behaviour contrary to the fundamental rules of communal life if a person organises or leads a pub crawl in a public space, and during this activity, the participants consume alcoholic beverages in public or generate noise that disturbs local residents. For the purposes of paragraph (6), a pub crawl means an organised or guided walk in which participants visit two or more bars – pubs in succession with the aim of consuming alcoholic beverages there, regardless of whether the declared purpose or programme of the walk includes night-time guided tours, socialising, team building, or other leisure activities.

Fines You Could Face

• Public drinking: up to HUF 50,000 (~€130)
• Public urination etc.: up to HUF 150,000 (~€390)
• Loud or disruptive behaviour: from HUF 10,000 to 150,000

These are issued by local police or public order officers, District VII.