This was really the only let down of the trip. We started in a BeerKeller type place where we had bratwurst and steins served by people in lederhosen accompanied by Oompah music which was a great laugh. But once the guide turned up, when the actual bar crawl began it put a dampener on the evening. We don’t have a problem with Alex personally, but he seemed to be carrying a clipboard with directions to each bar and not really knowing anything about any of the venues. I was told over the phone before the tour started that fancy dress was not appropriate and we wouldn’t be allowed in to the bars or club at the end, so we dressed in normal going out clothes, only to see other stag groups wearing fancy dress on the tour and throughout Berlin, which was somewhat annoying. We were also asked between bars to split into smaller groups (our full group size was 13) as we may not be allowed into some of the bars in such a large group size. This begged the question, ‘if we might not be allowed into some bars as a large stag group, why were we going to these bars on a stag do bar crawl?’ In the end we weren’t feeling much enthusiasm for the guide and the tour so we stayed in the 2nd bar (3rd including the beerkeller) and carried the night on ourselves. Very disappointing.

The bars were very touristy, the person who showed us around smelled very bad and was quite odd. He also didn’t know where we were going and we had to sneak into bars as the tour wasn’t cleared with them.

I am not sure what the guide added to the bar crawl. He seemed unfamiliar with the bars and their policies.