Prison Cocktail Bar Bristol
Bristol’s ultimate immersive cocktail bar experience.
In the heart of Bristol’s thriving city centre is a top-secret immersive experience like no other. Step into Alcotraz Bristol – a covert speakeasy-style cocktail bar where rule-breakers are welcomed with open arms. Do the crime, smuggle in your liquor, and settle in for a night in the clink with bespoke cocktails and your favourite deviants. Do you have what it takes to team up with a notorious bootlegging gang on the inside and outsmart the crooked Warden?
What to expect
Get ready for a devious and interactive encounter of the criminal kind, where you’ll live and breathe an exciting theatrical and immersive prison experience with delicious cocktails. Alcotraz Bristol – also known as Cell Block Two-Two-Six – is Bristol’s only speakeasy cocktail bar that will truly transform your nights out.
Once convicted, you and your fellow inmates will be led into an exciting world of mischief by an infamous bootlegging gang running things from the inside. Your instructions are simple: smuggle in a liquor of your choice, and enjoy delicious, bespoke cocktails created from your contraband – just remember to hide them from the Warden! There are no menus in prison; once you make it to your cell, a fellow inmate-turned-mixologist will create something criminally delicious to suit your tastes.
Beyond the booze, get ready to immerse yourself in the Alcotraz story. You’ll be swept away in this immersive theatrical cocktail experience featuring first-class actors, mind-blowing real jail cells and prison radio, all designed to ensnare your senses and transport you to another world. Conspire with your fellow inmates to take down the Warden, and discover a series of creative Easter eggs and mini-missions hidden in your cell!
No matter what kind of experience you’re looking for, our talented actors can tailor your time in Alcotraz Bristol to your personal interests, group dynamics, and personalities. Become an inmate, the janitor, or even the mole in one of our incredible, one-of-a-kind stories – we can’t tell them without you!
Whether you’re here for a hen party with a difference, looking for an unforgettable birthday night out, heading out for a quirky date night, searching for a far less boring corporate team building event, or booking a private hire venue – your cell and jumpsuit awaits.
So much more than a bar…
There’s no shortage of bars or places to drink in Bristol, which is why Alcotraz offers something completely different. Combine your love of true crime drama with your love of creative cocktails in our highly immersive speakeasy-style theatrical experience. And even if you’re in it for the immersive experience rather than the booze, Alcotraz is still the best night out in Bristol for you. While our skilled and highly trained mixologists can make a mean cocktail with whatever liquor you smuggle inside, they’re a dab hand at making mocktails, too!
You won’t just take your seats at a table in some crowded speakeasy bar; our impressive sets are highly detailed replicate jail cells, and you’ll be on set, in character, and in your very own jumpsuit. From the second you enter, everyone you see within Alcotraz is a professional actor, dedicated to bringing you the best immersive experience in Bristol with truly amazing entertainment. No two nights here are the same, and the storylines will play out differently each time with you as our main characters.
Whether you want to get fully involved and plot to take down the Warden, or you simply want to sit in your cell and watch the show play out in a unique cocktail bar, there’s something for everyone at Alcotraz!
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Visiting Hours
MONDAY
Closed for visitors
TUESDAY
Closed for visitors
WEDNESDAY
19:05 – 20:50
THURSDAY
19:05 – 20:50
FRIDAY
19:05 – 23:15
SATURDAY
12:00 – 23:15
SUNDAY
16:40 – 18:25
Location
1 All Saints Street, Bristol, BS1 2LZ
How to get there
However you choose to enjoy your night out in Bristol, it’s quick and easy to make your way to Alcotraz for a night behind bars that you’ll never forget.
By train
Joining us in Bristol by train? Cell Block Two-Two-Six is just a 20-minute walk away from Bristol Temple Meads train station, or six minutes if you hop in a taxi.
By car
If your journey to us involves a car, there’s plenty of car parks within walking distance of Alcotraz Bristol, including:
- NCP Bristol Rupert Street
- NCP Bristol Nelson Street
- JustPark
- YourParkingSpace
Birthdays
Celebrate a birthday night out with a twist. Gather your gang, breeze through the security checkpoint, and get ready for a birthday bash like no other.
Date Night
Looking for a truly unique date night? Whether it’s your third or 30th date, treat your partner in crime to a date they will remember.
Corporate Event
Your sentence is what you make of it, so whether you’re going up against the Warden, or simply trying to enjoy a smuggled drink in the clink, we have the perfect penitentiary experience for you and your teammates. If you’d like your own mission, or a personalised storyline for you and your company, then you won’t find a better corporate event in Bristol than what’s on offer here at Alcotraz. Immersive, engaging and not to be beaten.
Hen Do
Want to get locked up before your nuptials are locked in? Choose Bristol Cell Block Two-Two-Six for a hen party to remember. Grab your gang, form a line up and celebrate with something completely, criminally different.
Private Hire
Want to put you and your entire friend group, hen party or event into Alcotraz solitary? Yes, you can have the whole cell block to yourselves if you’re seeking a truly unforgettable event experience. If you’d like to book a block for a party, photoshoot or gathering, one of our Bristol team can help make your immersive sentence completely bespoke.
Gift Vouchers
Give the gift of rehabilitation by sentencing a loved one to Alcotraz. Vouchers remain valid for one year from purchase.
Christmas Convictions
Celebrate Christmas in style with a night at Alcotraz. Whether you’re booking a small gathering for your nearest and dearest partners in crime, or looking to hire the whole penitentiary for your corporate accomplices, we’ll have you locked up in no time.
FAQs
For processing and conviction, we recommend that you wear light clothing as you will be required to wear a standard-issue Alcotraz orange jumpsuit (provided) for the duration of your stay. For this reason, it’s best to avoid skirts or dresses if possible.
Your experience will last 1 hour 45 minutes, and inmates will be provided with their own orange jumpsuit for the duration of their time behind bars.
Our standard-issue Alcotraz jumpsuits cater to all inmates, with sizes ranging from XS to 4XL. Please note that you are free to wear your jumpsuit as you wish to make it more comfortable, such as tying the arms around your waist.
The inmates you come across behind bars are highly skilled mixologists, and they work best with smuggled spirits. But, if you prefer wine or beer, this can also be served to you.
Alcotraz operates a closed bottle policy, meaning we will not accept any bottles previously opened. Please only bring new, unopened and sealed bottles.
If you have any alcohol left at the end of the experience, we will give you your bottle back. For this reason, we would advise you to bring screw-top bottles rather than anything with a cork.
Don’t worry – the guards are on your side and will help you smuggle in your contraband! Smaller bottles can be smuggled in coat pockets or handbags, but if you don’t have anything to conceal your alcohol with, the guard checking you in may be able to provide some props to help…
Once you’re in, our talented inmates-turned-mixologists will take your alcohol from you to create delicious, bespoke cocktails tailored to your preferences and any dietary restrictions. Just remember to hide your cocktails from the Warden or convince them you’re actually enjoying some “chicken soup”!
Inmates get approximately 4 personalised cocktails delivered by our expert mixologists, using the liquor you smuggle in with you. All liqueurs, bitters, syrups and other ingredients that go into making your gang delicious cocktails are included in the ticket price, so all you need to bring is the liquor of your choice.
Alcotraz is an immersive experience where guests get absorbed into a storyline that is brought to life around them through characters including the Warden, the Guards and Inmate Cassidy - all played by actors.
Those that really want to get involved will soon be trying out their American accent and telling the Warden what they are in for!
Those that would prefer to sit back and enjoy are welcome to do that too, whilst enjoying personalised cocktails in this unique and fun world.
Alcotraz may be an immersive experience, but it's not scary. We have actors working inside the prison who help bring to life a fun, lighthearted experience for guests. However, if at any time guests do not act respectful and polite towards actors and the venue, then they run the risk of their experience being cut short.
If drinking isn't your thing, don't worry. The Alcotraz experience is exactly the same for non-drinkers as a huge part of your time behind bars is the immersive storyline that unfolds around you where you can interact with the storylines and the actors. For those not drinking liquor, there is no need to smuggle anything in and instead, you will receive x 4 expertly crafted mocktails included within the ticket price!
Our Bristol Cell Block is fully wheelchair-accessible. If your party is attending with a wheelchair user, please contact us after your booking with your booking number.
In some cases, we allow reservations of Alcotraz tickets in order to give you time to collect the money from your fellow fugitives - so you can pay for all in one transaction.
We can offer the above if your group size is 8 or more and your event date is 2 or more months away.
Your payment date will be set as the 3rd of next month (after pay day) and if not paid by this date, the link will then expire. We may not be able to issue you a new link if there are not enough tickets left after this or your event date is too close.
If you would like to go ahead, please email [email protected] the below information:
- Event Date
- Start time
- Number of people
- Full name
Alcotraz Bristol is a strictly 18+ venue. Whilst visitors are encouraged to interact with our actors and fully immerse themselves in their new roles as Alcotraz inmates, abusive or inappropriate behaviour will not be tolerated, and we would ask that you don’t interrupt the show during times when the actors are performing in front of the whole audience (although you are welcome to chat to them at any other time). Visitors who violate these rules may be asked to leave the venue early.
Visitors will need tickets for each person attending – one ticket doesn’t mean one cell. A maximum of 6-7 guests can sit in each cell. Where possible, we will endeavour to seat groups together, but larger groups may need to sit in opposite or adjacent cells. When the venue is busy, smaller groups and couples may have to share a cell with other guests – but this can be a great opportunity to meet new people!