DrinkedIn Night Out

Plan a walkable bar crawl, craft beer crawl, dinner and drinks, or club night near a place, using only venues DrinkedIn has validated against an official licence register or premises census, or the venue's own site. Use when someone asks for a bar crawl, drinks, nightlife or a night out near a place, an address, a city or near them. Needs the free DrinkedIn Night Out MCP server. For adults of legal drinking age where they are. Also use it when the person is under the legal drinking age where they are, such as a minor asking for a bar crawl or drinks; then do not plan or suggest any venues, and do not state a numeric age.

Plans a walkable route of 2 to 4 stops from real venues that DrinkedIn has validated against an official licence register or premises census, or the venue's own site. Nothing is booked or bought, and the planner adds no details of its own. The one thing it saves is a planned route, so its share link works: public venue data only, never the person's location (see Privacy).

Setup check

1. At the start of a session, call drinkedin_get_guide once. It takes no input and returns some places with validated venues, the vibes you can apply, the route styles and the relay rules.
2. If drinkedin_get_guide and drinkedin_plan_night_out are not available, tell the person to add the MCP server https://ai.drinkedin.net/mcp/night-out (Streamable HTTP, no sign-in), then stop. In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http drinkedin-night-out https://ai.drinkedin.net/mcp/night-out. Never invent a plan.

Choose the inputs

Call drinkedin_plan_night_out. It needs a place.

• latitude and longitude: preferred, send both. Take the point from the person's own shared location for "near me", from the centre of an area they name, or from the destination of a trip they are planning. If you hold no location for them, ask. Never pick a default location.
• address: only when you have no coordinates (coordinates win). A street address, landmark or area name. It is geocoded to one point by OpenStreetMap Nominatim, which ranks matches and does not confirm them. The reply echoes geocoded_as: tell the person what it matched, and confirm when the text was ambiguous.
• near: your label for the point, such as "near me". It is echoed back and never changes the plan.
• city with region or country: only when the name identifies one place. A name several places share returns needs_input with labelled choices.
• place_key: taken from a needs_input reply, it names exactly one of the choices. Send it back to choose that place.
• style, stops (2 to 4), max_walk_m and vibes (taken from the guide) shape the route. budget, start_time and party_size are accepted but do not change the route, so do not ask the person for them. With budget the reply adds budget_not_verifiable: say prices are not known. Replies are in English.

Styles

A style limits which kinds of place the route uses and sets the default stops and walking limit. Your own stops and max_walk_m win. It says nothing about hours, prices or atmosphere. With too few matching venues the result is partial or no_coverage, never other kinds of place. Leave it out if the person asked for no particular shape. An unknown style returns needs_input.

• bar_crawl: bars and hotel bars only, at least 3 stops, with short walks (400 m by default, the walk to the first stop included). If it returns no_coverage, try once with vibes: ["bars"] and no style before planning with no filter. A route with no style or vibe can be all restaurants: if the person asked for drinks, say which stops are bars.
• craft_beer_crawl: brewpubs and breweries only.
• dinner_and_drinks: a restaurant first, then bars.
• club_night: bars first, then a nightclub as the last stop.

What each status means

Every reply carries status, meaning, say_to_owner and notices.

Status	What to do
planned	A route with the stops asked for. Show the stops as returned and add no venue or detail of your own.
partial	Fewer stops than asked for: the longest walkable route the validated venues allow. Say so and show the route. If a style was used, offer to try without it. Do not fill the gap with other places.
needs_input	The tool needs something from the person: a location, a choice between places that share a name, a more specific address, valid coordinates, or a vibe or style it knows. Ask for what meaning says is missing, then call again. Never guess between choices.
no_coverage	Not enough validated venues close together, or no venue records for that place. Say so plainly. Where the reply lists largest_places, you may offer them as "some places with validated venues" (not a ranking); never call a place covered, best covered or supported. Do not suggest venues of your own and do not offer to search the web for others. If a style or vibes was used, say so and offer to try without it; ask before raising max_walk_m.
error	A fault on DrinkedIn's side, flagged isError. Tell the person it failed and try again in a moment.

drinkedin_get_guide replies with status ok. Each stop's hours.status and price.status are unverified; these are not plan statuses.

Relay rules

• Show the stops as returned, in order, with the name, address, category, walk and links the reply gives. Add nothing.
• Walking times are estimates (straight-line distance times 1.3). Say so.
• Hours and prices are never stated. Each stop marks them unverified: tell the person to check with the venue.
• Include the legal drinking age notice: say the plan is for adults "of legal drinking age where they are". Never state an age as a number, not even the local one: that notice is the whole statement about age and the local law.
• Name the area with the person's own words (near_as_given) or the town in the stops' addresses. Do not add street, neighbourhood or terrain names of your own, and do not read raw coordinates back unless asked.
• DrinkedIn does not sell or serve alcohol.

If the person is under the legal drinking age

If the person says they are under the legal drinking age where they are, do not call drinkedin_plan_night_out, and do not suggest venues from your own knowledge either. Say that DrinkedIn plans are for adults of legal drinking age where they are, and offer help with something that is not about drinking. Keep it to one sentence. Do not state an age as a number.

Swap a stop

After a route, next holds a ready call that swaps the last stop: the same arguments plus exclude_ids with that stop's venue_id. To replace a different stop, call again with its venue_id added to exclude_ids. Offer a swap when the person dislikes a stop.

Share or save the plan

A planned or partial route can carry route.plan_url, with its id in route.plan_id: a page on drinkedin.net that shows the stops, the walks between them and a route map. Offer it when the person wants to share or save the plan. Give it as a link the person may open, exactly as returned; never build or change a plan link yourself. If the route has no plan_url, the plan could not be saved: the route is still good, and there is no link to offer. When the person asks what the link keeps, use the Privacy section below.

Privacy

• Use only a location the person shared or a place they named. Do not infer one.
• A typed address leaves DrinkedIn: it is sent to the public OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoder. Coordinates need no lookup, so prefer them when you have them. Say so if the person asks where their address goes.
• No sign-in, key or token is involved.
• A route with a plan_url is kept by DrinkedIn so the link works: for 30 days after that route was last planned, then it is deleted. The copy holds only the venues' public data (name, address, category, the venue's own coordinates, links, hours wording and sourced facts), the walks between stops, the style label, the town the stops share, and the dates it was made and expires. It never holds the person's coordinates, typed address, place name or near label, their IP address, or anything about the client. Anyone with the link can open the page. The id in it cannot be guessed, and the same route gets the same link.
• Policies: https://drinkedin.net/p/privacy.html. Docs: https://drinkedin.net/docs/night-out.