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A Downtown Haunted Pub Crawl from Char Bar and an All-Ages Ghost Walk from Hotel ICON
305 Travis St, Houston, TX 77002
Research updated August 2026
Age
21+ for the Houston Booze and Boos Tour®; All Ages for the Houston Spooktacular All-Ages Ghost Walk
Cost
$$
Houston Booze and Boos Tour® (21+) from $29.95; Houston Spooktacular All-Ages Ghost Walk from $25; private group versions of both plus a private Nightmares and Nightcaps Tour℠ (18+) run $300-$350 for the group. Pricing per Nightly Spirits' Houston booking pages.
Access
Wheelchair OK
An outdoor walking tour of just under a mile through Downtown Houston on paved city sidewalks. The 21+ Booze and Boos Tour meets at Char Bar (305 Travis St); the all-ages Spooktacular Ghost Walk meets separately at Hotel ICON (220 Main St).
Equipment
Photos OK
Downtown Houston Historic District · Market Square Park
Nightly Spirits operates ghost walking tours and haunted pub crawls in roughly twenty U.S. cities. Its Houston program runs a 21-and-up Booze and Boos Tour beginning at Char Bar at 305 Travis Street and an all-ages Spooktacular Ghost Walk beginning at Hotel ICON at 220 Main Street, a former Houston National Bank building; both routes are just under a mile and pass through historic Market Square Park. Private group versions of both public tours, plus an 18+ Nightmares and Nightcaps Tour not sold publicly in Houston, are also offered.
Market Square Park's own listing in this corpus independently documents Nightly Spirits as an active operator using the park as a tour-route meeting point, citing the company's published material on the park's Gladys apparition story and its 19th-century jail-hanging site. Visit Houston (the city's official tourism site) lists Nightly Spirits Ghost Tours as a current attraction, and Tripadvisor/Yelp reviews describe an actively operating program.
Sources
Nightly Spirits' Houston pages describe the Booze and Boos Tour as covering 'haunted bars, haunted buildings, and Houston's Market Square Park area' from a Char Bar start, and the Spooktacular All-Ages Ghost Walk as beginning at Hotel ICON, 'featuring remnants of the former Houston National Bank,' before passing haunted Buffalo Bayou and Market Square Park en route to a downtown food hall. The operator does not guarantee a specific route or bar count from night to night.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tours cover, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
A 2.5-hour, 21-and-up ghost tour and pub crawl beginning at Char Bar in Downtown Houston, covering haunted bars, buildings, and the Market Square Park area. Tickets from $29.95; the operator's best-selling Houston product.
A 1.5-2 hour, all-ages walking tour beginning at Hotel ICON (a former bank building), passing haunted Buffalo Bayou and historic Market Square Park, and ending at a downtown food hall. Tickets from $25; children 4 and under are free with a paying adult.
A private-group version of the downtown pub crawl for celebrations and corporate events. Starts at $350 for the group.
A private, extended version of the all-ages ghost walk for a single group. Starts at $300 for the group.
A private, 18-and-up tour that begins at a haunted bar in Downtown Houston, with optional beverage purchases. Not offered as a public walk-up product in Houston. Starts at $325 for the group.
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Meeting point for the Spooktacular All-Ages Ghost Walk; named on the tour page as a former bank building.
Named stop covered on both Houston tours; this venue's own corpus entry independently documents Nightly Spirits using the park as a route stop for the Gladys apparition story and the 19th-century jail-hanging site.
Named as part of the Spooktacular All-Ages Ghost Walk route.
Meeting point for the Houston Booze and Boos Tour.
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