Pub crawl planner & country pub walk planner

What you tell it

• The town, city or neighbourhood you want to start in.
• How many venues — anything from three to eight.
• The day and start time, so opening hours can be checked against your arrival.
• The longest walk you want between two pubs: 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes.
• A style — any good pubs, historic & old inns, real ale, riverside & canal, and so on.
• Which venues — pubs only, pubs & bars, finish at a cocktail bar or lounge.
• Extras: a food stop, and finishing near a station or taxi rank.

What you get

• A few crawls to choose from, each in walking order, with no venue used twice.
• Directions for every leg, and what each place is worth going for.
• Opening times checked against when you would actually arrive.
• How to reach the first pub and get home from the last.
• A note on the walking between pubs — including anything unlit or without a pavement.

Country pub walks

The crawl planner is built for towns and cities, with short hops between venues. For the countryside, choose Country pub walk: a daytime route from village to village along public footpaths, with two or three real pubs as the stops and roughly 30 to 90 minutes of walking between them.

Walking between pubs

Country crawls are not the same as city ones. Lanes between rural pubs often have no pavement and no lighting, and they are darker than you expect by the third stop. Carry a torch, wear something bright, and keep the group together. If a leg does not feel safe, taxi it — asking the planner to finish near a station or taxi rank gives you a clean way home. Crawls are for over-18s: pace yourself, drink water between pubs and never drink and drive.

What it costs

A pub crawl counts as one search, the same as planning a walk. Your first three searches are free when you sign up; after that it is covered by Standard or Pro. If a crawl cannot be built from enough open pubs, it is not counted.

See pricing and the terms.

Questions

How does the pub crawl planner work?

You choose a town or city, how many pubs you want to visit, a day and start time, and the longest walk you are happy to do between venues. It picks from the real pubs and bars listed for that area, checks they are open when you would arrive, and puts them in walking order with directions from one to the next.

Does it make up pubs?

No. Every stop has to match a real pub or bar in the area's listings — within about 150 metres of its actual front door — and no venue is used twice on the same crawl. If the listings show a place closed when you would arrive, it is left out. Village pubs often have no listed hours at all — those can still be included, clearly marked ‘hours unconfirmed — check first’.

Can it include bars, or finish at a cocktail bar?

Yes. You can ask for pubs only, a mix of pubs and bars, or a crawl that ends at a cocktail bar or lounge with pubs along the way. You can also ask for a food stop and for the last venue to be near a station or taxi rank.

How much does a pub crawl cost?

One crawl uses one search, the same as planning a walk. Your first three searches are free when you sign up; after that it is covered by a Standard or Pro plan. A crawl that does not come back with enough open pubs is not counted.

What is a country pub walk?

A separate mode for daytime walks from village to village along public footpaths, stopping at two or three real country pubs with roughly 30 to 90 minutes of walking between them. It uses the same walk planner as our countryside walks, so you get directions, a sketch map and the path notes — with pubs as the stops.

Is it safe to walk between country pubs at night?

That depends on the lane. Country legs often have no pavement and no lighting, so carry a torch, wear something bright and keep the group together. If a leg does not feel safe, taxi it — the planner will try to finish near a station or taxi rank if you ask it to.

Does it work outside Britain?

The crawl planner needs real listings to work from, so it does best in towns and cities where pubs are well mapped — which in practice means most of Britain. It can work elsewhere, but the venue checks are only as good as the listings available.