Hidden bars creepy tales Had an amazing time. Tour guide was wonderful

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.

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!

5/5 Great Tour, great stops, Great guide. Jay our tour guide was awesome. Took us through some great spots with some rich history of Melbourne. The bars were great and the stories were so interesting, and spooky.

Fun times Great time. Very interesting tour. Learned a lot plus had a great time at the bars, we stopped at. Great tour guide!

Plenty to see and stories to share Tom took us on a terrific tour of laneways bars and was great fun. Knowledgable, informative and a sense of humour, will tell others it’s a tour well worth doing

Interesting stories of Melbourne with an engaging guide! Tess lead us on a relaxed and entertaining stroll around Melbourne telling interesting stories of the cities past and present. Add into the fun we went into three unique bars. Tess was very engaging and knowledgeable and made all the guests welcome. I would recommend the tour!

Tess is a legend!! This was fantastic. Tess's passion and enthusiasm made it even better than I expected. I have been visiting Melbourne for years but still saw new sights and fabulous venues.

History of Melbourne city We went on the Creepy Tales, Bars & Laneways. Lenny was great. He knows a lot about Melbourne’s history. Thank you Lenny for being a great tour guide!

Fun and interesting tour The tour was made so interesting by Tom who is an excellent story teller . The bars were awesome and learning some Melbourne history was great . The communication from the company was fantastic and kept us in the loop right down to the map where to meet and the link to the weather I would highly recommend this tour .

Loved it Jay was great very informative and some great stories really made it a great night out. Also visited some great venues around Melbourne

Fun journey learning things I did not know about. Worth the tour for sure. Bars were great. Great tour. Jay was awesome. Can’t believe the history. Jay was a pleasure to be with. Knowledgeable young man. Loved it

Must-See Creepy Tour of Melbourne! Bridgette was an amazing tour guide, extremely knowledgeable, answered any questions and provided extra info and facts where necessary. She also took the time to get to know everyone on the group and make sure we were all having a good time.

A fun way to see the underworld of Melbourne. A fun afternoon/evening, seeing places that would be easily missed. The history was fascinating and the art work in the lanes is a must see.

Drunk History, Laneway Edition I joined the tour as a surprise for my birthday, and Dr Brigette (PHD) has been a great guide! It was the history I never knew I needed haha

A history lesson with a buzz Dr Brigette Cat lady was an amazing and knowledgeable host we had such a great time with her strolling through the Melbourne laneways and learning about the rich history of Melbourne while enjoying unique drinks at some of the coolest laneway bars. Thanks for hosting us Dr Brigette!

Cool tour, awesome host I really enjoyed this tour. Relaxed vibe, very friendly host (Tess) who was happy to elaborate and address any questions. The bars which we visited were really cool and we wouldn’t have found our way to them otherwise. Highly recommended!

Awesome and Interesting! Bridget our tour guide was awesome. So knowledgeable and the facts about Melbourne was so interesting. Keen to share with others! Thanks heaps, had a great time.
The bars were great too and the time at each bar was good.

Great night to be had Great night had with Brigette
Fun and interesting story to be learnt
Bar choices were great and time managed inside well

Just a Kimberley girl in the big city :) But the bullet and decided to book the tour solo, Bridgette was amazing at making everyone feel comfortable and included, learnt some very interesting facts about Melbourne’s history and the bars were just as great

Great tour, great drinks & wonderful host! Wonderful tour - heaps of interesting info and took us to some wonderful hidden bars with amazing drinks! Tess was our host and I can’t thank her enough for such a wonderful night, such a lovely lady with great taste in cocktails!! The hostess with mostest! We will be back and will tell all our friends!

Entertaining evening So much fun! Learned some very interesting history while walking the city and enjoying local bar offerings. Brigette was a great guide as well!

Creepy tales and hidden bars This tour was fun and informative. Bridget is obviously passionate about history (and cats) and we were hanging on to her every word. Highly recommend

Fabulous! Bridgette was an absolutely wonderful! The small tour was the right mix of history, fun facts, and drinks. Would definitely recommend.

The Crazy cat crew Super fun tour. Our group was nice and small, and all crazy cat people so we got along really well! Brigette was incredibly knowledgeable and great company and all the bars were fun with yummy drinks. Highly recommend even if you’re travelling solo.

Tour experience a must! What an amazing experience our guide Lenny is a legend. So knowledgeable, made us feel at ease and it was informative, exciting and a fun time.

Whisky and Gin Joints Tour experience - January 2025 I joined a tour led very capably by Lenny. He provided lots of information and some good humour as we walked the Melbourne city streets and visited three bars with specialties in whisky and gin over more than 3 hours. Although I am a local, I was unfamiliar with these venues but will certainly return with people I know in the future. At each venue we were provided with a paddle of three tastings. Whilst I enjoy both whisky and gin, I broadened my knowledge and tasted an interesting variety of products none of which I had previously come across but several of which I hope to try again! Lenny was also able to recommend a number of other bars around the city centre to explore. It was a fun afternoon which I would recommend for anyone keen to discover great places to have a drink in Melbourne and taste Australian whiskies and gins.

Great fun and interesting! Perfect guide :) Thank you Bridget you were the perfect person to do this tour! My apologies if name spelt wrong-your name badge on the night was a cat :) it was really fun and interesting for all ages I highly recommend this tour!!

An insight into Melbourne's dark past combined with a few drinks how can you go wrong What an amazing night! Our guide Bridget provided our group with historic accounts from Melbourne's early beginnings and dark past mixed in with bar stops along the way. A must do when in Melbourne!

Drinking history Interesting tour lead by Brigette. Was a nice way to spend time discovering parts of Melbourne and find out interesting tales of the past. Seeing buildings and bars that you walk past but don’t know is a fun discovery too

Melbournes Dark 'istory This was a very fun and engaging tour - Brigette has a wealth of knowledge to share, some pretty intense things about Melbourne we wouldnt even think of.. Bars were great too.

A ‘must-do’ when in Melbourne These tours are a ‘must do’ for visitors and locals. Our tour guide, Brigette, was very knowledgeable about our particular tour - Hidden Bars & Laneway Legends - with really interesting facts and information.
She has a great manner and sense of humour and took us to some very cool hidden bars.
The afternoon went too quickly and everyone on the tour had a great time.
We got to meet the owners at the last bar and they shouted everyone a round of shots - how good is that? We have also done the Whiskey and Gin tour hosted by the same company which was awesome too!
We are booking the another tour - the Hidden Bars & Creepy Tales tour which we’ve heard is pretty amazing too!
I’d recommend when booking, you book the tour that includes the drinks especially if you’re drinking cocktails. The bar stops are around 30-40 minutes which is plenty of time to order your drink and drink it.
There were plenty of stops in between each bar with really interesting information provided by our great guide, Brigette.
Stay in town or get a driver or public transport as you definitely shouldn’t be driving after one of these tours. 10/10 - Highly recommended.

Had a blast. My partner and myself had a great time.
Highly recommend this tour. Would definitely do another tour in the future.
Lenny was a great guide.

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Fantastic Tour. Amazing Tour!!! We laughed so much. This was the highlight of our long weekend. We will be recommending this tour to everyone.

Authentic, fun journey to the past of a great city This is a fascinating and entertaining way to become familiar with this amazing city. The guides told some gripping yarns of Old Melbourne as we wander through the lanes and streets, painting a picture of a colourful past and their ghostly remains. This is an ideal tour not only for visitors, but for Melbourne residents. I was born and have grown up and lived here all my life and still learnt things that have changed the way that I look at my birthplace. I really enjoyed myself. The tour itself is expertly organised by a very professional crew and I can’t recommend this highly enough. There are some other tours offered as well, and I may do them at a later date. Check them out.

Fantastic afternoon I had a lot of fun on this tour and our guide Brigette was great. Funny weird occasionally creepy stories and a great take on the history of Melbourne. The bars we visited were very cool. I would not have found them on my own.

Great time! Alda was a great guide and we had a fantastic time! We ended up going to the old jail later in the week based on the stories we heard. The jail was very interesting.

terrible Guide needed to be more experienced and presentable. Tour content very limited and boring. Explanation of time at bars etc needed to have been told before the tour set out.

Spooky tales and yummy cocktails Had so much fun and shout out to our tour guide Brigette! Was a little nervous to join on my own but ended up being the best night!

Brigette is a true historian and shared her passion and humour with us. Great historical information with an appropriate amount of macabre content to live up to the title. Bars were spread out over the downtown core and interesting with a nice selection of beer, wine, yummy cocktails and assorted non-alcoholic drinks as well. Would definitely do another tour with Brigette if I come back. Thank you!

Hidden bars and laneway legends My 22yo daughter took some convincing to do this tour with me but absolutely loved learning the drinking history of Melbourne and discovering some hidden gems we will be sure to return to again. Our guide Michael was very knowledgeable, approachable and ensured our tour was relaxed and fun. We were lucky to have been able to join a great group. Highly recommend!

The morbid content that isn’t seen at surface level Good stuff if you’re looking to get more of the morbid details of Melbourne. You get to see some pretty cool bars too. I reckon if you’re new to the city, this tour is a good introductory to learn about some darker history.

Drinks, history and sights must do !! This tour was amazing !!!
City sights, history and drinks what more can you want. Huge shout out to our Tour Guide Tom. Fun and informative

A must do in Melbourne!

You would not be disappointed!! What a fun and informative tour! Tom couldn't be more enthusiastic, what a great afternoon.
10 out of 10

Super fun & informative! A super fun & informative trip! Tom was so knowledgeable and so much fun. My friend who lives in Melbourne was like “wow I actually learned a lot of new stuff!” Highly recommend.

Hidden Bars & Laneways great fun for solo travellers Had a great tour of Hidden Bars & Laneways. As a solo traveller from Canada, this was a great way to discover places I would probably not find on my own. Tom was a great tour guide, providing an historical context to the bar, coffee, food and art culture of Melbourne today. The visit/drinks at 2 bars was a fun opportunity to meet/chat with both locals and visitors. I would definitely recommend Drinking History Tours to fellow travellers.
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Top class bar crawl! Michael was a cool guide and a lot of fun plenty of stories and historical anecdotes. We enjoyed three top bars, and a couple of them would never have been found! Recommend

Great tour of Melbourne sights! Great tour, some places I’d never been before even though I live in Melbourne. The tour operator Tom was great, had a good engagement with each of the people on the tour. Would definitely recommend.

Cocktails and Exceptional Bars We experienced the Secret Bars and Laneway Legends tour and it was fantastic. Our tour guide Michael was very knowledgeable and managed our time without rush. Great cocktails. Highly recommend!

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Shout out to Micheal, our tour guide. We loved his stories and professional engagement with the group. Highly recommend this tour and Micheal.

Awesome tour Awesome tour ! Our guide Tom was super nice and very friendly. He knows some much stuff about Melbourne ! The hidden bars are the best thing about this tour because the drinks delicious.

Tale by Tale, Pint by Pint We were lucky to be hosted by the Big Bossman Ben as he brought us on a walk down CBD across a few landmarks, such as QV market down south to Flinders. Tale by Tale, Pint by Pint we were delightfully entertained with stories of creepy/scary/ghostly history bits of Melbourne City which you wouldn't come across even if you walked every single pavement of the CBD. Thanks for the introduction to the laneway bar scene as well!

Tom is a great tour guide! Tom was a great tour guide! He shared a wealth of knowledge with us and was very personable. 10/10, highly recommend this your for getting to know Melbourne better.

Tom is great Throughly enjoyed our tour with Tom- very informative, loved learning about the history of melbourne and found the backstories of certain streets and bars really intresting. The bars that were recommended were very fun with aspects of secrecy and good drinks

A fun tour of Melbourne’s laneways and bars. A great 3 hour tour of Melbourne bars and history. Three excellent bars - hidden bar, rooftop bar and gin distillery. Tom was an engaging, informative and entertaining guide.

Worth every cent We did the Hidden Bars & Creepy Tales tour on the weekend and had the best time. We learned so much interesting, grisly and spooky history walking through the streets of our state’s capital, thanks to our fantastic, knowledgeable and fun guide Lenny. The three bars we visited were very funky and made THE coolest looking cocktails. Definitely considering a return to Melbourne soon for another tour from your offerings. Thanks for a fun afternoon.

Laughs and Drinks in Melbourne Excellent history and drinking tour of Melbourne. Have lived in Melbourne most of my life and still learnt so much and saw parts Ive never noticed before. Brilliant guided tour with Alda who made sure we all had a great time exploring the hidden laneways full of creepy stories. We also stayed hydrated in some great bars along the way. Bravo Alda!! Highly recommended..

Drinking and history tours of old Melbourne town The tour started around 3.30 pm after some very ordinary Victorian weather.
We meet Alda outside the Transport bar and we all introduce ourselves to each other.
It was a cool breeze blowing so Alda wasn’t no time starting our Drinking and History tour.
The cocktails hit mark every time and the venues were amazing, the History and knowledge that Alda showed was brilliant and we will be back to do this again.
Highly recommend.
Alda did an amazing tour.
Well done Benno this was a brilliant idea.
Craig & Tonia from Tasmania
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Bars of Melbourne A fantastic opportunity to combine learning some history of Melbourne, some really creepy tales and some amazing bars with a lovely group of local tourists

History with drinks Our tour guide had heaps of information and each bar was unique. A great way to access bits about Melbourne. Thanks Alba, we had a great afternoon.

great tour with Alda Highly recommend Alda— interesting bits of history and on top of hitting good bars, she gave great recommendations.