Alcotraz Prison Cocktail Experience Liverpool: Smuggle & Mix

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Duration1h 45m

GroupUp to 50

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

Smuggle liquor, craft cocktails, outwit the Warden inside a working prison bar

Alcotraz is an immersive theatrical cocktail experience in Liverpool where you bring your own bottle of liquor, smuggle it past costumed guards, and work with the inmates to craft four personalized cocktails tailored to your tastes. The experience runs roughly two hours inside a speakeasy hidden on Seel Street, staffed with actors playing crooked guards and long-serving inmates who help you hide contraband and mix drinks using liqueurs, bitters, homemade syrups and the liquor you've brought. Minimum age is 18; the bar is wheelchair accessible.

The Experience

Walk through unassuming doors on Seel Street and into Alcotraz, Liverpool's first immersive theatrical cocktail bar. You'll be handed an orange jumpsuit at the entrance and led into a space built around real metallic prison cells—the backdrop for the next two hours. There's no printed menu here; instead, the working inmates and guards will ask what liquor you've smuggled in and what flavors you're after, then build four personalized cocktails from that base, adding liqueurs, bitters, homemade syrups and purees to match your taste.

The game is the point. You're expected to get creative about how you sneak your bottle past the guards at the door—they're actors playing crooked officials, and the whole setup is designed around the fiction that you're smuggling contraband into a prison. If you'd rather not improvise, Inmate Cassidy and the guards have their own system for hiding what you've brought. The Warden is watching, so the stakes feel real even though nobody's actually in trouble. It's theater built around the act of making a drink, not a tour of a themed space.

Bring one 35cl bottle per two people, or come empty-handed and let the staff handle the smuggling for you. The experience includes all the mixers and ingredients except the base liquor. You'll need to be 18 or older; the bar is fully wheelchair accessible with accessible transportation options nearby.

What’s included

Four personalized cocktails crafted from your own liquor and the bar's liqueurs, bitters, homemade syrups and purees.
immersive theatrical setting with real metallic prison cells.
costumed guards and inmates who help you smuggle contraband and build drinks.
roughly two hours inside the speakeasy.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportPublic transport nearby

Operated by Alcotraz Liverpool: Cell Block Three-Six

Is this one for you?You walk in as a smuggler, the inmates craft your drink from what you bring and what you crave, and the whole experience becomes a heist you're actually running.