Pub Crawls - World's Biggest Pub Crawl

World's Biggest Pub Crawl

The World's Greatest Pub Fest, held annually in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest pub crawl. The World's Greatest Pub Crawl, as it was then known, set the official record of 4,718 participants, on June 14, 2009. Maryborough, a city of 26,000, three hours north of Brisbane, is home to 17 hotels. The World's Greatest Pub Crawl began in 2005 and has broken the Guinness World Record each year since then, although on occasions the record has been beaten between events. The World's Greatest Pub Fest, as it became in 2010, is held on the Sunday of the June Queen's Birthday long weekend. Charity is a major focus of the crawl, with proceeds of the 2010 blue-themed event going to prostate cancer causes. It has been presumed that bad weather may have prevented the city from re-breaking its record on June 13, 2010. Numbers will not be official for weeks or potentially months.

On October 9, 2010 London tried attempting to break Maryborough's Guinness World Record with an event called World Record Pub Crawl 2010. Organizers were expecting 5,000+ people. Due to problems with local authorities, the event was cancelled.

In Charlotte, North Carolina there is a yearly pub crawl on Saint Patrick's Day. In 2012 the pub crawl had more than 15,000 participants roughly 6000 more than the previous year which had 8987. Making this pub crawl the largest in the world.

Annually in London, thousands of New Zealanders take part in the Waitangi Day pub crawl, a crawl around the Circle Line on the London Underground. Starting at Paddington they work counter-clockwise around the line, usually ending at Westminster for a haka (traditional New Zealand challenge/dance) and then many continue on to the Temple Walkabout bar. While numbers vary depending on the weather, in 2008 there were reported to be around 12,000 people involved.

The Adelaide University Engineering Society (AUES) holds an annual pub crawl attracting students from all over South Australia to as many as 34 local pubs and clubs. In March 2012, they sold 4000 "2012 The Alcopocalypse" T-shirts, for their event on the 23rd of March. On the 22nd of March 2013, their "Boozing Bad" pubcrawl sold a reported 5127 shirts.

In 2010, The Twelve Bars of Christmas in Chicago hosted 10,000 patrons, becoming the biggest Christmas pub Crawl on record.