Haunted San Antonio Booze and Boos Ghost Walking Tour

Haunted San Antonio Booze and Boos Ghost Walking Tour is a two-and-a-half-hour evening pub walk run by Nightly Spirits, booking from $36.52 per person at our August 2, 2026 check. The age line is a real one: the listing states a minimum age of 21 and its only booking band runs 21 to 99. A costumed guide meets the group inside Maverick Whiskey, the posted cap is 14, the smallest of the three 21-and-over listings in our San Antonio set, and it runs in all weather at a stated moderate fitness level. Two limits to weigh. It is not wheelchair accessible, and the listing says so outright at both of our checks. And the three haunted bars its inclusions promise are named nowhere on it, so we publish no bar list for this one. The rating is 4.5 from 100 reviews, and it was flagged likely to sell out at our check.

What you will see

The itinerary carries five entries and flags every one as a pass-by. One is not a place at all: the first entry is the bare word San Antonio. The four real ones are the Gunter Hotel, the St. Anthony, the Alamo and Pat O'Brien's. Set that against an inclusion line promising stops at three haunted bars and the honest reading is this: the bar stops are real, the listing does not name them, and nobody should assume they are the buildings above. Pat O'Brien's and Maverick Whiskey, where you meet, are outside our research.

The Gunter, at 205 East Houston Street, has a long hotel history and a longer folklore problem. The Vance House opened as the first hotel here on November 12, 1872, became the Mahncke in 1886 and closed in April 1907. Jot Gunter, who helped finance the replacement, died on July 19, 1907, two years before it opened, and completion was celebrated in November 1909: eight stories, about 300 rooms. Brunswick had been running a recording studio in the building since 1932 when Robert Johnson made his first records here, entering a studio for the first time on November 23, 1936 and cutting sixteen songs across sessions on the 23rd, 26th and 27th (National Register nomination). His death is not a Gunter story. Neither is the 1965 room murder that trails the hotel: no primary source for it was opened in our research, the secondary accounts contradict each other, and nothing we read shows police confirming anything or a murder being proven. The word Gunter does not appear on this operator's own San Antonio page either, so none of that lore is theirs to carry.

The St. Anthony, at 300 East Travis Street, was financed by two cattlemen, A. H. Jones and B. L. Naylor, who built the first eight-story tower in 1909, with an annex in 1910. Ralph Morrison bought it for $475,000 in February 1935 and rebuilt it: two floors added, a third tower, one common facade, and the lobby thereafter known as Peacock Alley, a name from that remodelling rather than a room of 1909. The fourth tower and the Anacacho Room came between 1939 and 1941. Lyndon Johnson and Claudia Alta Taylor honeymooned here after their wedding across Travis Park on November 17, 1934, and the hotel was listed on the National Register in 1986 for local significance under commerce (1986 National Register nomination). Two claims to leave alone: the first-fully-air-conditioned-hotel-in-the-world line has no stable documentary form, and the hotel-room murder attached to this building happened at the Gunter.

The Alamo gets the same discipline. Mission San Antonio de Valero was founded on May 1, 1718, moved to this site in 1724 and secularised in 1793. The siege ran February 23 to March 6, 1836, the assault came around 5 a.m. on the last day with about 1,800 troops and lasted no more than ninety minutes, and the Handbook of Texas records 189 defenders on the official list with research that may raise the tally to as many as 257. Thousands did not die here. Afterwards the bodies were burned by order of Santa Anna, so there is no defenders' grave to point at and no mass grave, and the humped gable in the photographs is U.S. Army work of about 1848 to 1850 rather than anything the defenders saw. It is state property operated by the Alamo Trust, not a national park, and no listing in our San Antonio set goes inside it. On this route it is a pass-by in any case.

Who it suits

Adults who want the bar-crawl frame more than a published route, and who can walk two and a half hours in whatever the weather is doing. The real draw is the cap: 14 travelers is the smallest of the three 21-and-over listings in our San Antonio set and the second-smallest posted cap in our August 1, 2026 pull of thirteen, behind two Ghost City walks capped at 12.

• Not for wheelchair users. The listing marks it not accessible at both of our checks and states a moderate fitness level.
• Not for anyone who wants named, entered venues. Every itinerary entry is flagged as a pass-by and the three bars are unnamed.
• Budget for the bar. Drinks and cover charges are not listed as included, and neither is transport.

How it compares

Three listings in our San Antonio set carry a 21-and-over band, and this is the longest at 2 hours 30 minutes, the priciest at $36.52 and the smallest capped at 14. Ghost City Tours' San Antonio pub crawl is $34.99 for two hours with a cap of 30 and 4.4 from 275 reviews, so this one rates a little higher on a much smaller sample and walks in a far smaller group. Bad Wolf's pub crawl is $30 for two hours with a cap of 20, and it is the one listing in our San Antonio set whose inclusions cover bar cover fees, which this one does not. Among the nine guided walking tours we priced on August 2, 2026 this is both the most expensive and the longest: The Haunted Dinner Tour at $80 runs 2 hours 45 minutes but prices only 90 minutes of that as walking, and The Haunted Ghost Bus Tour at $55 matches 2 hours 30 minutes on wheels rather than on foot. Nightly Spirits runs the same Booze and Boos format in other cities we cover, including Chicago and Savannah. For the wider field see San Antonio ghost tours compared and haunted places in San Antonio.

Questions people ask

How old do you have to be?

Twenty-one. The listing states a minimum age of 21 and its only booking band runs 21 to 99, one of three 21-and-over listings in our San Antonio set.

How long is it, and what does it cost?

Two hours 30 minutes, from $36.52 per person at our August 2, 2026 check. It runs in the evening per our July 2026 facts check, and no clock time is verified.

Which bars do we stop at?

The listing promises three haunted bars and names none of them, and every entry on its itinerary is flagged as a pass-by, so we do not publish a bar list for this tour. Drinks and cover charges are not listed as included either, so budget separately.

Where does it start?

Inside Maverick Whiskey, where a costumed guide meets the group. The listing publishes no end point, so ask where the walk finishes if you need to plan the ride home.

Is it wheelchair accessible?

No. The listing marks it not accessible at both our July 29 and August 1, 2026 checks and states a moderate fitness level. It also says the tour operates in all weather conditions.

How big is the group, and can I cancel?

A posted maximum of 14 travelers, with free cancellation flagged at our August 2, 2026 check and confirmation at the time of booking. It was also flagged likely to sell out that day, a live signal rather than a permanent attribute, so book the date you want early.