Talk:Pub crawl

Santas
Why is this page ("pub crawl" in wiki) no longer displayed in Google, but comes up as "Running of the Santas"??? Has someone been manipulating the SEO on this?

Bar tour
"Bar tour" is a term more common to American English, while "Pub Crawl" is used throughout the English speaking world, including the US. In the US, the term "pub crawl" conotes getting incredibly drunk, while one may not necessarily become sloppy drunk participating in a bar tour. The "bar tour" article deals with the culture surrounding American bar tours. I think it would be better for the articles to cross-reference each other than be combined into one.

I think you're making this up. "Bar tour" what is that! I am American and have never heard this term. Yet I have been on many 'pub crawls'! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.152.23.8 (talk) 23:37, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

My local CAMRA branch describes its excursions as pub crawls. 12:16, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Red Dwarf
Would a reference to the infamous pub crawl in Red Dwarf be appropriate? --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 19:56, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Possibly, perhaps a fictional pub crawl section or even a new entry maybe in order. -- BarFly (t) (c) 22:48, 12 April 2006 (GMT)

Unsourced material will be removed without mercy
This article is terrible. It cites exactly one source, the OED, for one piece of information. (I strongly doubt that Guinness World Records, whose most recent edition (ISBN 1904994121) was published on 2006-08-08, lists a world record purportedly made two months after its publication.) All information must be sourced, and unsourced material will be removed without mercy. Uncle G 11:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

>>>Just pointing out that Guisness doesn't hold records on Pub Crawls as it no longer takes records on alcohol related events, so the statement can't be true regardless.

Why exactly are there so many "citation needed" tags on this article? Particularly with the Monopoly Pub Crawl, because there's NOTHING there that's not verifiable facts.


 * There are far, far too many "Examples of famous pub crawls" in here. Every town of any size will have one - we can't go including all of them! The Monopoly board one is an example of one that probably should stay because it's genuinely well-known beyond the confines of London... but how many people outside Stoke, Mumbles or Wiesbaden have heard of those? 86.132.142.39 01:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I've removed a ton of unsourced material. Material added in without reliable sources is subejct to removal. - 152.91.9.144 23:00, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

The image used hardly looks a 'likely stop' - more a picturesque country pub!

Commercial Pub Crawls
This page used to have several links to companies running pub crawls around Europe. Some are still mentioned in the Details section but all links to commercial pub crawls have been removed except for the one in Rome. I think this violates neutrality; either all commercial companies get a link, or none. The majority of the article is for private routes for the public to freely participate in so it makes no sense to have the commercial ones in the same section. I suggest we create a subheading for pub crawl companies and put in as many as we can find - or the Rome ones are cut.

I'd like links to professional pub crawl operators to be included under a separate heading please. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.215.51.203 (talk) 04:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Stampede pub crawl.
In Calgary, Alberta, Canada was apparently over 7000 people in 2009. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.158.204.178 (talk) 10:19, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

"Other notable pub crawls" really should be removed.

Criticisms
I don't know if there are any official sources for this, but some criticisms or arguments against pub crawls could be included. For example, there are significant overhead involved in moving pubs/bars/clubs after every drink, such as:
 * You have to pay for every drink individually, rather than make one payment for all your drinks, if you stay in one location.
 * You may have to sacrifice a good seating or table arrangement to move to another location.
 * As the night continues and locations get more busy, it may be more difficult to find a table and seating, order a drink, or even get into the establishments.
 * As drinkers move to different locations and become more inebriated, drinkers may find themselves in an unfamiliar (and potentially dangerous) location, and it may be difficult to return home safely.

Ouizardus (talk) 19:40, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Terms
The term "bohemian death march" created by Special:Contributions/76.164.159.115 at 16:01, 10 March 2010, as vandalism, became a term used in a few places across the internet.

Books Group (14 Oct 2010). ""Pub Crawls: Pub Crawl, the Claret Run, Pub Golf, Otley Run, the Tom Waits Run, Portland Urban Iditarod, King Street Run, Brides of March"". Google Books. Books LLC. Retrieved 14.10.2014.

Marcos Pitti (November 2nd, 2013). ""Da de los muertos Pub Crawl"". carpechepe.com. Carpe Chepe and Exploradores Urbanos Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada. Retrieved 02.11.2014.

Meghan Pescio (Aug 28, 2013). ""Livin' Local: Vegas Cycle Pub – A Pedal Powered Pub Crawl"". pinpoint publications. Pinpoint Publications Limited Liability Company. Retrieved 28.08.2014.

21st birthday bar crawl
In the mid-west - especially college towns - a bar crawl is when someone turns 21 their friends take them to every bar in the area and they get a free drink for their birthday. The friends usually end up carrying their friends home. Have seen this at Ohio State, Ohio U, Kent State, Pitt, and Indiana. Add this to the article?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.131.162 (talk) 01:18, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

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contradiction in terms
In the UK, pub crawls are generally spontaneous nights out in which the participants arrange to meet - mm, if "participants" "arrange" to meet the activity can hardly be called "spontaneous", can it? Generally spontaneous also doesn't square with drinking sessions based around a special occasion such as a birthday or a leaving celebration. It also doesn't square with my experience. I haven't been to the UK for a while and the usage may have changed, but I'm rather sure that when I lived in Nottingham in 2005 (the nation's binge-drinking capital at the time, is it still?) a spontaneous night out with friends that involved "bar-hopping" was neither considered nor called a "pub crawl"; that term would expressly refer to a fixture in the social calender, something you'd "take part" in and be a "participant" of, much like a field trip, an event someone organized, arranged, appointed, planned, plotted and premeditated with malice aforethought - but definitely not something you'd describe as generally spontaneous merrymaking with little apparent coherence or structure. Then again my recollection may be clouded by the current usage of the term here in Germany/Berlin, where "Pub Crawl" is encreasingly encroaching on the "traditional" German terms Kneipentour and Kneipenbummel. Commercial package tours for tourists are invariably advertised as "pub crawls". Many student clubs will also take you on a "pub crawl" these days, though many still stick with "Kneipentour", but you'd never ever just meet up with your mates and call it a "pub crawl", that kind of spontaneous bar-hopping is still a Kneipentour. --Judith Wahr (talk) 16:06, 8 December 2018 (UTC)