Philadelphia Prohibition Pub Crawl

Highlights

Hear live commentary from the guide
Includes one drink and a light snack
Additional food and drinks available for purchase

Summary

After the sun goes down, make your way to a central meeting point to meet your guide. At each bar, you are eligible for drink specials and have time to mix and mingle. Your historic and haunted pub crawl starts off with a historic sightseeing tour around the city, stopping at landmarks like the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Then, move on to an alcohol education and Prohibition cocktail class, where you can savor a drink and a light snack. Continue to a few taverns and be entertained by your guide’s spooky and scandalous tales from Philadelphia’s history. Learn about ghosts, pirates, and Prohibition gangsters including Al Capone, Waxey Gordon, Leo Lanzetti, and Mickey Duffy, who fought to control the city’s liquor trade.

Tour info

Duration

3 hours

Why take this tour?

Explore Philadelphia on a walking tour and bar crawl led by a guide who shares lively commentary about the city's history. Start with a sightseeing tour that includes historical monuments such as the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, and tales of Prohibition when gangsters controlled the liquor trade. Then spend the rest of the tour visiting bars with prohibition cocktail-making lesson, trivia games, one drink, and snack included.

What’s included?

History Teacher Tour Guide
Al Capone, Ben Franklin’s brewing recipes, and 1920’s speakeasies highlight this tour
Prohibition Era Cocktail OR Drink Sample
Food and drinks
Gratuities
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)

Things to know

Before you book

Duration: 3h
Mobile tickets accepted
Instant confirmation

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

Operator Website

Operated by:

Grim Philly Twilight Tours

About operator:

With a seedier R-Rated mature audience's aspect, Grim Philly reveals the less told, often bloody; sometimes embarrassing (grim) histories of our city through meticulously researched tours conducted by professors, authors, and young professionals. Ghost and vampire lore are explored, and language used by our guides is more than often not suitable for children or the prudish. A wide variety of topics include ghost hunting, serial killers, and gangsters to magick, Voodoo and brothels; riots, local pirates, and the Jersey Devil. Tours are offered by foot, tavern, and boat. Voted Best Philly tours and featured on Travel Chanel- we are open year round though offerings, hours, and departure change seasonally.