Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
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All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
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Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Nashville’s ORIGINAL Prohibition cocktail crawl explores jazz-era joints, hidden gem bars, and shocking-but-true stories from a sin-soaked past. Small groups, local experts, and pay-as-you-go drinks keep it fun and flexible.
Over roughly two hours, you’ll visit four carefully chosen venues in downtown Nashville, each selected for its Jazz Age character and connection to Prohibition. Expect a mix of insider, era-inspired joints and select speakeasy-style spots.
You'll drink in outrageous history as you sip and stroll. Enjoy true tales of bold flappers, crafty bootleggers, unexpected enforcers, and the clever workarounds that kept the spirits flowing.
Drinks & food – Pay as you go and ONLY buy what you want! Drinking is not required!
Tips – Usual 20% (~$11.60) IF you have the fun we hope you do!
Meeting Points
Departure
170 4th Ave N
Meet your host OUTSIDE the hotel — Look for someone with some Jazz-era flair — We're looking for you, too!
NOTE: Our 1:30 PM Tours, meet outside The Hotel Indigo/Countrypolitan (315 Union St)
HOT TIP: Arrive 20–30 minutes EARLY for pre-tour cocktails at exclusive “Gatsby Insider” pricing!
Return
Rep. John Lewis Way North & Church Street
Final locations can vary but will be close to this intersection.
Itinerary
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Downtown Nashville
THE MEN’S QUARTER
Nashville’s most notorious playground — where the booze poured freely, the dice and the patrons could both be loaded, and the cops on the beat knew the word on the street... and looked the other way!
SMOKEY ROW
Once a blurry-eyed haze of cigars, fallen souls, and back-room brawls — the air thick with mischief, moonshine, and whispers you didn’t dare repeat.
THE INTERSECTION OF “SIN & SALVATION”
Where the shadows of church steeples fell across gin joints and hooch houses, and bells mingled with the calls from “Cat Houses.” Proof this town’s halos and highballs have always shared the same streets.
Walk these streets with us and you’ll begin to FEEL the echoes of the time — and maybe even the seductive pull a little sin can have for the saintly.
30 minutes
2
Printer's Alley
Dare to duck into Nashville’s most notorious back alley!
Step into history (and maybe a little trouble) in the legendary Printer’s Alley — where the hooch flowed, the jazz jumped, and the coppers knew to mind their own business.
By day, it was a hub for printing presses and bible-binding. But by night? A Prohibition playground for gangsters, politicians, and high-rollers slipping past the law for bootleg whiskey and hot music.
Today, the shadows still hum with speakeasy-style bars, sultry blues clubs, and hidden nooks that keep its glamorous, slightly scandalous spirit alive.
Walk here with us, and feel why Nashville’s legendary past — and its coolest locals — still choose this strip for nights a little edgier (and more historic) than Honky Tonk Row.
Nashville’s ORIGINAL Prohibition cocktail crawl explores jazz-era joints, hidden gem bars, and shocking-but-true stories from a sin-soaked past. Small groups, local experts, and pay-as-you-go drinks keep it fun and flexible.
Over roughly two hours, you’ll visit four carefully chosen venues in downtown Nashville, each selected for its Jazz Age character and connection to Prohibition. Expect a mix of insider, era-inspired joints and select speakeasy-style spots.
You'll drink in outrageous history as you sip and stroll. Enjoy true tales of bold flappers, crafty bootleggers, unexpected enforcers, and the clever workarounds that kept the spirits flowing.
Drinks & food – Pay as you go and ONLY buy what you want! Drinking is not required!
Tips – Usual 20% (~$11.60) IF you have the fun we hope you do!
Meeting Points
Departure
170 4th Ave N
Meet your host OUTSIDE the hotel — Look for someone with some Jazz-era flair — We're looking for you, too!
NOTE: Our 1:30 PM Tours, meet outside The Hotel Indigo/Countrypolitan (315 Union St)
HOT TIP: Arrive 20–30 minutes EARLY for pre-tour cocktails at exclusive “Gatsby Insider” pricing!
Return
Rep. John Lewis Way North & Church Street
Final locations can vary but will be close to this intersection.