Road Trip to SUNFEST 2022 - Florida's LARGEST Music & Art Festival, West Palm Beach
Thursday April 28- Sunday May 1
50 bands! 3 stages! Floating Bars! Florida's BEST Fireworks! Our nearby lodging: Best Western Palm Beach Lakes Inn, 1800 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33401, Exit 71 east off I-95. WE HAVE THE MOST AFFORDABLE LODGING
5th Annual NKF Bicycle Bar Tour of Hope 2022
Saturday, May 28th, 11:00am to 6:30pm
A leisurely ride from Port Canaveral to Cocoa Beach and back on improved bike paths and lanes. This event supports the National Kidney Foundation of Florida, the same wonderful organization the brings you the Annual Kidney Walk and the Annual NKF Rich Salick Pro-Am Surf Festival. Eight (8) Drinks – one at each stop!
Tickets are $25 each in advance, or $35 day of
29th Annual New Smyrna Beach Bicycle Bar Tour 2022 Weekender
Friday June 17- Sunday June 19, 2022
The annual "New Smyrna Beach Bike and Bar Tour" is a long-standing tradition and will take place on Saturday, June 18th, 2022. It will be the 29th year and still going strong! It started out with 2 bike riders on the first tour and at its peak was over 3000! Stops on the tour include, but are not limited to, J.B's Fish Camp, Moe's, Chase's, Sea Vista, NSB Sea Shack, Beachside Tavern, Off the Hook, Buzzard's Beach, Clancy's Cantina, Tayton O'Brian's, Flagler Tavern, The Breakers, Crow's Nest, Ocean Breeze and Peanuts. NOTE: Stops listed are based on past Tours. Actual stops will vary as some have closed while others are newly opened.
7th Annual Toga Pub Crawl Downtown Melbourne!
Saturday June 25, 2022 6pm-Midnight
HAIL CAESAR! Come for the decadence but stay for the Debauchery. Look for ME, the Mad Hatter, dressed in the Roman tunic! Come dressed in your favorite toga, as a Roman soldier, Egyptian queen, slave, barbarian, whatever. Just show up. No costume required BUT core group WILL be costumed! Modest prizes and the adoration of your friends for costume contest winners. Live music at some locations! Food available at MOST locations.
Six (6) drinks $18 in advance or $25 day of. PLEASE TIP GENEROUSLY!
1st Annual Pub Crawl for Homeless Veterans 2022 in Downtown Cocoa Beach
Saturday July 23, 2022 6pm - 11pm
Five (5) Drinks – one at each stop! Tickets are $15 each in advance, or $20 day of.
50/50 Drawing to benefit area Homeless Veterans. https://nvhs.org
Several other items awarded too including gift certificates to other area bars and restaurants and vouchers for FREE tickets to future pub crawls!
Co-hosted by Jennifer Taylor with National Veterans Homeless Support.
6th Annual Woodstock Pub Crawl Downtown Melbourne
Saturday, August 27, 6:00 pm to midnight
Celebrating the famous ‘Aquarian Exposition’ Woodstock Music Festival from August 15-18, 1969, on Max Yasgur’s farm near Bethel, New York. Costumes encouraged but not required, though we typically have a very high participation rate.Multiple door prize winners! Costume contests, and more! Food available at most stops.
Six (6) drinks $18 in advance* on line only or $25 day of.
2022 7th Annual Pirate Plunder Pub Crawl Cocoa Village
Saturday, September 24, 2022 starting at 6pm
Six (6) drinks $18 in advance on-line only, or $25 day of.
Swash yer buckles & join us as we ‘plunder’ Cocoa Village! Brevard has a vibrant pirate community including Brethren Of The Space Coast.
50/50 Drawing for The Children’s Hunger Project! Multiple other prizes awarded too!
11th Annual Bicycle Bar Tour for Homeless Veterans 2022 - Port Canaverel to Cocoa Beach and back.
Saturday, November 12th, 11:00 am to 6:30 pm
A leisurely ride from Port Canaveral to Cocoa Beach and back on improved bike paths and lanes. Eight (8) Drinks – one at each stop! Tickets are $25 each in advance, or $35 day of. 50/50 Drawing to benefit area Homeless Veterans. Other items awarded too. Co-hosted by Jennifer Taylor with National Veterans Homeless Support.
2022 1st Annual Pub Crawl for Homeless Veterans in Downtown Cocoa Beach photos by Scott Murray
2022 3rd Annual Bad Bunny Easter Pub Crawl in Cocoa Village photos by Tami Hatten
2021 7th Annual Santa Stumble Pub Crawl in Cocoa Village photos by Tami Hattten
2021 10th Annual NKF Bicycle Bar Tour for Homeless Veterans photos by Dave Winkoff | 2021 10th Annual NKF Bicycle Bar Tour for Homeless Veterans photos by Tami Hattten
2021 Woodstock Pub Crawl pictures by Tami Hatten
2021 6th Annual Toga Pub Crawl Downtown Melbourne pictures by Scott Murray
2021 18th Annual Pirate Costume Bash & Festival pictures by Scott Murray
2020 Santa Stumble Pub Crawl in Cocoa Village
2020 Social Distancing Pub Crawl in Cocoa Village
17th Annual Pirate Costume Bash Festival photos by Scott Murrary
Cocoa Village Mardi Gras Parade 2020 - Photos by Jack Malone!
Cocoa Village Mardi Gras Parade 2020 - Photos by Tami Hatten
Santa Stumble Pub Crawl in Cocoa Village 2019
October 19 Annual Halloween Pub Crawl. 137 Attendees!
November 9th, Annual Bicycle Bar Tour for Homeless veterans. 64 Attendees!
2019 Zombie Pub Crawl Melbourne photos
2019 Pirate Invasion Cocoa Village Pub Crawl photos
2019 Woodstock Pub Crawl in Downtown Melbourne Professional photos by 'Behind Daytona'
2019 Toga Pub Crawl in Downtown Melbourne
2019 Red Dress Charity Stroll Pub Crawl in Cocoa Village
2019 Pirate Fest & Costume Bash at Squid Lips
Panama Band photos from 2019 Pirate Fest & Costume Bash at Squid Lips
2018 Cocoa Beach Bicycle Bar Tour
2018 Zombie Pub Crawl photos by Benjamin Thacker
September 2018 Pirate Pub Crawl, Professional photos provided by Scott Murray
Aug 2018 Woodstock Pub Crawl Melbourne - Professional photos provided by Benjamin Thacker
April 2018 Poker Pub Crawl Cocoa Beach
March 2018 St. Practice Day Pub Crawl Downtown Melbourne
2018 15th Annual Pirate Costume Bash 2018
Panana Band Photos from 15th Annual Pirate Costume Bash 2018
KRAMPUS Holiday Pub Crawl Downtown Melbourne 2017
Bicycle Bar Tour for Homeless Veterans 2017
Halloween Pub Crawl Cocoa Village 2017
Zombie and Halloween Pub Crawl Downtown Melbourne 2017
Pirate Pub Crawl in Cocoa Village 2017
2017 Woodstock Pub Crawl in Melbourne
2017 Super Hero Pub Crawl in Melbourne
2017 St Practice Day Pub Crawl in Melbourne
2017 Mardi Gras in Cocoa Village
2016 Santa Stumble in Cocoa Village
2016 Veteran's Day Pub Crawl in Cocoa Beach
2016 Zombie Pub Crawl in Melbourne
I made up a new word in honor of my awesome friend and sometimes partner in assorted adventures and general shenanigans, Funtrepreneur – a person who organizes and manages any lively and convivial enterprise, especially a gathering of likeminded revelers, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
Lorisa Hilburn
If you are new in town or looking to be entertained within a bigger group, check out www.MadHatterPromotions.com. Our friend Gary Haas offers pirate parties, pub crawls, even bicycle bar toursand other special events in a safe and controlled environment. As Brevard Live writer (and host of the Annual Brevard Live Music Awards – Brevard’s Grammy’s) John Leach mentioned: “What Willie Wonka is to chocolate, The Mad Hatter is to Pub crawls.” Now go find out for yourself what that means.
From Brevard Live Magazine, December 2104 issue
Cutting Edge Parties, Social Events, Networking Activities & Unadulterated FUN! A Society of Adults, Single or Otherwise, Community Connected & Involved. Not satisfied with just independent activities we bring people into the very heart of our community, to the very best cultural programs & innovative travel trips, and involve them in exciting charitable events! We often partner with other groups & organizations for events believing that the result is greater than the sum.
Special thanks to Ron Chabot of Carroll Distributing and Heike Clarke of Brevard Live for all they do.
Alzheimer’s Association, Brevard Music Aid, Candlelighters of Brevard, Children’s Hunger Project, E.A.R.T.H. Awareness, School Music Program, Friends of Children of Brevard. Inc., Historic Cocoa Village Association, Home At Last Adoption Agency, Joe Realino Fund, March of Dimes, National Kidney Foundation of Florida, National Veterans Homeless Association and the Titusville Sunrise Rotary Club and the Butterfly Project.
