4.9 Stars / 636 Reviews
Melbourne’s Best Hidden Bar & History Walking Tours.
How Do Our Tours Work?
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More Fun Than A Walking Tour
Think of us as the bar tour that grew up, got a haircut and studied history at university.
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Choose Your Tour & Ticket
Select the tour you fancy and a ticket that works for you, with tours from just $75! Life happens, so you can cancel or modify your tour up to 24 hours before it runs.
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Meet Your Guide
We’ll send you Google Map directions to the meeting point by email and text, including your guide’s name and phone number.
Our Future Tour Dates
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"Drinking History Tours is a Melbourne gem...get on it."
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"If you find walking tours too sober and pub crawls declassé, this is the walk for you."
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"The perfect combination of history, humour, socialising and, of course, drinking."
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Exceptional! Highly recommend! I had such an amazing time on the creepy tales tour. It helped me to view Melbourne in a completely different way. Tess was such a friendly, fun and informative guide. The bars we visited were incredible, with some of the best cocktails I've ever tried. And the banter between Tess and her colleague Jay was truly top notch and really added to the overall experience. What marvellous humans they are. I would 100% recommend this tour!read moreread less
Jessica B10/05/26 - Newts critique of Jay Jay WAS the tour and Melbourne showed us around Jays vivid imagination. Aside from his historic recall and his amiable disposition, Jays facts and theories filled Melbourne’s inanimate with energy and vibrations of years past. And his choice of bars was perfect.read moreread less Global3784377628810/05/26
- Great tour of places I would have never been with new friends. Maria our tour guide was very knowledgeable of the history of bars and hotels. She was also friendly and extremely helpful. It was interesting tour that took us to places we did t know despite having travelled to Melbourne on many other occasions. Our group stayed and talked well beyond the set tour time and left feeling like friends.read moreread less
Rob J19/04/26 - Great Tour Great tour, Maria was a great guide!read moreread less Labergenser19/04/26
- Fabulous double-date adventure! I really enjoyed the face to face storytelling, walking through the streets of Melbourne learning about the history and discovering Melbourne’s awesome bars!
I also really appreciated the First Nations peoples stories.
Tess was a fantastic, engaging tour guide!!!read moreread less Kathryn M12/04/26 - Thanks Tess! Tess provides an amazing and interesting experience for us all. Great stories, amazing pubs. 100% recommend this oneread moreread less Bryan W12/04/26
- a fun night out Great evening, thoroughly enjoyed the hidden bars. Maria was an awesome guide and had many tales to share.read moreread less Julie M29/03/26
- Hidden bars creepy tales Had an amazing time. Tour guide was wonderfulread moreread less kim v21/03/26
- Creepy sure, worth it? Absolutely! Tessa was an amazing guide - friendly, knowledgeable and interesting in the people and their stories on the tour.
Small intimate group of people, the stops were perfect - unique, well hidden and interesting. The reservations were made at each stop so no waiting.read moreread less 845jodib13/03/26 - Highly recommended Tour guide Jay was fantastic- knowledgeable and an all round good bloke! Sure got my steps in for the day and stayed hydrated Amazing little bars you’d never find on your own and laneways you’d never walk down!read moreread less jhorner201711/03/26
