After Homecoming this Saturday, it will be easy to reach the level of inebriation required to traipse around town in a costume without feeling like a massive tool. Don your costumes a week early—it’s up to you whether your sartorial decisions will involve an obscene amount of salmon-colored apparel—and join the District’s finest in kickstarting Halloween a week early with the Nightmare on M Street Halloween Bar Tour.
You’ll have to select a check-in location from four of the 36 bars participating in the event. Although all check-in locations are conveniently situated near a Metro station (and McFadden’s is definitely doable by foot from the Hilltop), the event struck a deal with Uber to offer new members $25 off their first ride and to enter existing members into a raffle for Uber credits.
Even if you don’t select McFadden’s as your check-in location, be sure to stop by and enter its Midnight Costume Contest. The first prize is a trip for two to Las Vegas to wreak salmon-tinged havoc in Sin City.
Feel free to lose your iPhone, your dignity, or all recollection of the night, but don’t lose the wristband you’ll receive at check-in. Without it, almost all of the bars will deny you entry. The few bars that won’t will charge you a cover, which the wristband exempts you from. Additionally, all of the drink specials will be off limits without a wristband.
Let’s be real: as college students on a budget, it’d be nice to drink something other than Natty Light or Burnett’s without striking up a large tab. With $2 Coors Lights, $3 Blue Moons, and $4 Bacardi drinks in Dupont Circle and Gallery Place, you’ll feel like you’re moving up in the world.
Nightmare on M St.
Around Dupont Circle
Sat., Oct. 25, 5 p.m. – 1 a.m.
