Minneapolis Zombie Pub Crawl

Ugh. So over this poorly planned and organized event. This isn’t worth your time or money. Just get drunk with your friends and dress up at home. I will never go again.

What a waste of money! I won’t be going again. Absolutely not worth it. Just go the bars like everyone else without a wristband. This pub crawl literally offered nothing special that was worth the price, and some of the performers didn’t even show up.

I went yesterday with a bunch of friends. Honestly I expected more. When we first got there the line seemed super long but surprisingly it went by really fast. They need to provide more portapotties cause the line for it was ridiculously long. Line to buy tickets for beer was also stupid long. Other then that the quarentin location itself was ok. They had a stage and around 10 – 12 food trucks. It felt like they didnt have enough staffing to serve their people. The quarentin location got boring so we went to look for the bars.
Tons of people were dressed as zombies on the streets. But it really wasnt worth it to walk 7+ blocks down the street cause all the bars were packed a.f.It was a shot to see how ZPC was but I wont go again.

Meh. I don’t know. It’s fun to dress up like a zombie and head on out with a bunch of other zombies. It’s scale and size truly make you think the apocalypse has come. There is quite a bit of camaraderie between your fellow zombies, and that’s fun.
On the other hand, as an actual party it’s kind of dumb. They oversell wristbands like crazy. ALL of the participating seven corners bars were at capacity and turning away people at the door. At 7:30pm. Even if we could have gotten in, good luck getting a drink. We staggered and shuffled our way down to the cabooze, trying other bars along the way. Being the furthest away bar participating in the crawl, the cabooze was only modestly busy at 8pm (though by 10pm it too was at capacity). This was the only bar in the whole crawl we were able to visit. I would rather have just paid a $ 10 cover there, then paying $ 35 for a wristband that got me into zero other bars. They said there would be drink specials for zombies but we didn’t see any. At least not at the cabooze there weren’t any deals for people dressed up and bearing wristbands.
Oh sure, they say, we bring in national acts! Yeah, washed out, decades old national acts. But, but, the high prices raise money for charity! Yeah, thanks but I can donate on my own. But, but, we have a fun zone with a giant inflatable zombie! Oh. Ok. you got me. That IS worth $ 35! /​sarcasm.
It’s just another one of those things that are overhyped for halloween. I’ll probably do it again, being a horror and zombie fan, but it’s kind of played out now.

The Minneapolis Zombie Pub Crawl has been on my bucket list for the last couple years. I kept forgetting about it because it always seems so far away from Halloween as it’s typically the first or second weekend of October. It was always a case where I’d come to visit my dad, try to catch a show at the Cedar and realize Zombies were everywhere and I was missing out. Not this year! I finally made it!
My friend, an incredibly awesome girl who had an awesome idea, decided to do her Bachelorette Party at MZPC. I ordered the Dual City band but we ended up staying in just Minneapolis. It was a great time. She had a night she will never forget… if she remembers it.
Honestly, if you go to the ZPC with low expectations, you won’t be disappointed. I know how these things go. It’s crowded, hard to get into the host-​bars and good luck getting a drink in less than ten minutes. However, the true party is on the street. It’s great to see everyone playing along, take pictures of the great costumes, watch the look of horror of on an unsuspecting passerby’s face, and to witness people generally acting a fool. And many Zombies will inevitably act like asshats.
I saw Zombies touching people who probably didn’t want to be manhandled, tipping over road construction cones, getting into fights and puking in the street. But it’s a Pub Crawl! If you don’t think that will happen then you live under a rock. Sometimes those people ruin it for others (ex: causing a bar to close down an hour early), but other times it makes for a good story (ex: drunky hugging the mounted police’s horse and then being pinned to the wall by said horse). Overall, things were kept under control and I’m sure my $ 20 wristband fee will be going to help clean up the apocalyptic aftermath.