Drinking Tours Worldwide: the 14 to Press Play On

1.Prague: Staropramem Brewery Self-Guided Tour with Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★3.7 · 2,106 reviews · 1 hour · from $14Our pick

At Staropramen’s Smíchov visitor center, you follow a self-guided interactive tour through the brewery’s story, with brewmaster Josef Paspa as your virtual host. The tour lasts about an hour and ends with one beer or four Czech beer samples. Add lunch if you like.

“It’s a nice, fast paced tour with an excellent beer tasting experience at the end! We also bought some fried cheese sticks which were amazing”

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2.Bruges: The Beer Experience Museum Entry with Audio Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 201 reviews · 1 day · from $16

At Bruges Beer Experience, you explore Belgian brewing through touch, taste, and smell, using an iPad Mini audio guide in your choice of nine languages. Learn about Trappist beer, fermentation, women and brewing, and food pairing, then add a €6 tasting. Children up to 12 have their own Bruges bear story.

“tutto ottimo, soprattutto per la presenza di un'audioguida in italiano non così scontata in Belgio. Per il resto se nel reparto bar ci fosse una più ampia scelta di cibo sarebbe molto apprezzato da chi predilige bere a stomaco pieno”

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3.Acadia National Park & Bar Harbor Self-Guided Driving & Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 66 reviews · 5 hours (approx.) · from $24

Use Action’s Tour Guide App to follow GPS-triggered driving and walking routes through Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor. Hear 30-plus audio stories as you visit Cadillac Mountain, Thunder Hole, Jordan Pond, Sand Beach, Frenchman Bay, and historic downtown sites. Download everything before you arrive.

“App was easy to use. Directions were clear. Information was helpful and interesting in both Acadia and for the walking tour.”

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4.Historic Bar Harbor Self-Guided Walking Audio Tour Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 38 reviews · 1 to 2 hours (approx.) · from $14

Use the Action Tour Guide app to walk more than two miles through Bar Harbor, from Agamont Park to the Bar Harbor Inn. GPS-triggered stories cover mansions, churches, Native Wabanaki history, Bar Island, and ocean views. Start anytime, pause for shops or photos, and keep lifetime access.

“We really liked that the audio was perfectly synced with our location. This d is great because it’s hard for us to hear in a large tour group. It was just the right amount of information. It didn’t get boring and we learned a lot about the area.”

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5.Self-Guided Craft Beer Tour (Explore Old Market)

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 19 reviews · from $118

Start at Moor Beer Co near Bristol Temple Meads, then follow a booklet and map through Old Market’s brewpubs, traditional pub, and local bars. Seven Bristol-brewed beers, snacks, tokens, and note-taking supplies are included. Walks are flat and take about three to five hours.

“Friendly people an lovely venues, the info was a little old but non the less excellently done. The beer was all tasty and the information was easy to get”

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6.Dublin Self-Guided Murder Mystery Tour by Temple Bar

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 12 reviews · from $21

This self-guided Dublin mystery starts near Trinity College, with a clue envelope collected at Spar on College Green. You follow riddles and tasks through the city center, pass Temple Bar, and finish at Parliament House. Plan on 90 minutes to two hours of walking, with no guide leading your group.

“This was a unique way to discover different parts of Dublin, but it could be better. It rains constantly in Dublin, making the paper guide impractical. A digital guide, perhaps one with GPS guidance to the different spots would have been helpful. Read more”

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7.Bristol: Old Market Self-Guided Craft Beer Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 11 reviews · from $32

Start at Moor Beer Co. for three guided tastings, then use your map and tokens to visit three Old Market pubs and bars. You’ll try seven local beers or ales, with cider available at two stops, at your own pace over about four hours.

“Great tour if you want to try some fantastic local beers and dive into the atmosphere of the local pubs. Highly recommend!!!”

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8.Brussels Old Town & Beer Secrets: Self-Guided Puzzle Walk

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 11 reviews · 1 hour (approx.) · from $6Best value

Use your phone to solve 12 offline puzzles across Brussels, from La Fleur en Papier Doré to the statue of Peter the Great. You will visit classic beer cafés, the Belgian Brewers Museum, famous squares, and less obvious corners at your own pace, with no guide or fixed start time.

“Guide/quiz makes no sense. We dropped to follow the route after 4 stops, because 3 of the stops were so poorly made/made no sense in neither the "in game" timeframe or "real life" timeframe, that we just had to give up. Examples: the answer to a question were equal to number of floors on the tallest building in a square. Answer was 6. The tallest modern building was actually 9 floors, and the tallest building in the time setting of the game was 4. No coherence...”

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9.Bristol: Self-Guided Craft Beer Tour with Optional Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★3.8 · 10 reviews · from $6

Start at Bristol Temple Meads and follow an English-language audio tour through brewpubs, brewery taprooms, a traditional pub, and the Old Market area. Walk at your own pace, stop for drinks when you like, or add a guided tasting of three small beers brewed on site.

“Generally a great tour, lots of useful info about Bristol and you did really get to see a lot of places that you wouldn't normally see in Bristol. Only issue was that at one point we were following the audio guide and missed out one of the breweries because the trail sort of loops back on itself, so make sure you're paying attention at the start of the cycle path.”

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10.Self-Guided Bike Tour to Unetice Brewery

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 7 reviews · 6 hours · from $34

Ride from Prague’s Dlouhá Street through Letná, Stromovka, the Vltava riverside, Šárka Valley, and rural villages to Únětice Brewery. You set the pace with phone navigation, a trekking bike, helmet, lock, and basket. Plan for 20 to 45 km, a Czech lunch, and possible route changes.

“Bike shop-awesome! Brewery-great. Although not touristy so you might want to make sure you have translator app downloaded-our server did not speak English. Due to a recent storm, the normal path you take using the ferry is washed out. As a result, the bike shop had us take alternative route using Google maps. *IMPORTANT* Google maps was being glitchy so we switched to Apple Maps which took us the way a car would go. The distance was almost double with VERY STEEP INCLINE! Husband and I are quite fit but up to the brewery was a two hour ride of hell! Beautiful, but painful and stressful as we were clearly…”

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11.Dublin Old Town: Famous Pubs Exploration Game and Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 7 reviews · from $8

Follow a phone-based mystery through Dublin’s Old Town, stopping at 12 pubs and bars. You solve clues, learn bits of local history, and choose how long to stay for a drink. One ticket and one phone cover your private group, with no guide required.

“Fun way to see the pubs in Dublin. Enjoyed solving the puzzles at each pub and of course trying the drinks along the way.”

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12.Austrian Beer Tasting and Self-Guided Tour of Vienna

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 6 reviews · 1 day

Explore Vienna’s Old Town at your own pace with a beer booklet in your chosen language. Visit three selected beer halls and breweries, taste six Austrian beers, compare styles from Märzen to IPA, and pair them with local snacks. Drinks, food, transport, and a live guide are not included.

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13.Amsterdam: Self-guided Red Light District Pub Crawl Mystery

★★★★★★★★★★3.7 · 6 reviews · 3 hours · from $41

You follow a self-guided mystery from Bierfabriek near Rokin to Brouwerij De Prael by Central Station. Along the way, you visit three bars, enjoy three included drinks, and solve escape-room-style clues about a 1988 Amsterdam crime. Bring a charged smartphone and expect about three hours indoors and on foot.

“The game was great! I highly recommend this activity for a date or with a group of friends. It was super cool to discover this real story from the red light district.”

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14.Amazing Bar Hunt: Go All Out in Greenville

★★★★★★★★★★3.0 · 3 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $12

Start at 103 N Main Street and let the Let’s Roam app guide your private group through Greenville’s bars. Solve riddles, complete silly photo and video tasks, earn points, and stop for drinks at your own pace. No guide or transport is included, and participants should be 21 or older.

“Be prepared to have some silly challenges. Go when most people will already be tipsy haha! It was a lot of fun though, and they chose good locations.”

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