Private Melbourne Nightlife Experience
About this activity
Highlights
- Explore Melbourne's hidden bar scene
- Experience local nightlife with expert guides
- Discover unique venues off the beaten path
- Enjoy personalized recommendations
- Immerse in Melbourne's vibrant evening culture
Full description
Included / Excluded
- Guided tour of Melbourne's vibrant nightlife
- Visit to exclusive bars and hidden gems
- Personalized recommendations from local experts
- Transportation to and from the meeting point
Itinerary
Head to one of the city’s slickest hidden cocktail bars for a chance to break bread and ice with your personable Localing host. Share a few tastes and interests to help make the experience personal. With tireless hours of research, and reading, drinking and story swapping, you are in tried and capable hands. Begin with a gin or a classic cocktail in the intimate ‘Bar Americano,’ or with wine and tapas at our favourite laneway wine bar. Learn about the city’s dark side and the many curious characters from both sides of the law, who have helped to shape Melbourne.
Continue to one of the city’s ‘rooftop bars’ and enjoy a different view of Melbourne, a local craft beer and a few more tasty share plates. Meet the people at the creative heart of this vibrant industry for some unique insight. Down a cobble-stoned lane, take a left, a right and another left past the colourful street art, heaving dumpling joints and tantalising sounds of karaoke - leave it all behind in a hidden speakeasy from another time and place. Visit late night Tokyo, or a ‘gold rush’ opium den, a dive bar on the wrong side of a fridge door …expect the unexpected from the Melbourne night. Bring your appetite, as you will have the chance to sample an array of delicious cuisines. Melbourne's best bar food, from charcuterie boards delicately adorned with local produce, to scrumptious dim sum or discover the joys of the humble Aussie jaffle.
Meeting point
Start Location
Localing Private Tours Australia, 425 Smith St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia
Important information
Know before you book
- Tour operates in all weather conditions
- Minimum booking of two people required
- Gratuities for the guide are appreciated
Know before you go
- Wear comfortable walking shoes for the tour
- Bring a valid ID for age verification at venues
- Ensure your phone is fully charged for photos
Cancellation policy
0All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Accessibility
- Service Animals Allowed
- Easy Public Transport
Good to know
- Minimum drinking age is 18 years
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- This is not a group tour done in private, it is a completely custom experience with your interests and preferences front and centre... the perfect tour for people who don't like tours.
Traveler reviews
Dinner, Tales and Cocktails
Night out at charming nightspots and walking tour of laneways. Bianca was the perfect guide, full of interesting historical information about everywhere we were. The tour included 3 stops for drinks, small plates and then gelato, but the tour is easily adjusted to the guests’ preferences. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
Highly recommend
We had the best time with Matthias! He took us to 3 fun hidden places throughout the city! Food, drinks, and stories were a real highlight for our visit.
Melbourne Nightlife Experience
Our guide, Dingo, was a terrific ambassador for Melbourne. He clearly loved his city and gave us an in-depth, hyper-local view into the patchwork of the city’s culture. We spent four hours seeing great architecture, graffiti adorned alleyways, dumpling shops, dive bars, rooftop speakeasies - all accompanied with almost always believable back stories from Melbourne’s colorful past. This is a must do for any traveler to Melbourne. Highly recommended.
Best city tour
We are no stranger to tours but this was so much fun. Dingo’s love and passion for the city was infectious. I love Melbourne. Street art, best dumplings, and bars…couldn’t have asked for more.
Great flexible and fun food and drink tour!
Mercedes did a great job showing up some fun nightspots for food and drinks. Started off at a rooftop with a great view, then a lane way bar surrounded by street art and finished at a posh cocktail bar. So lovely and fun! Highly recommend!