Haunted Pub Crawl Near Me: Mac's Club Deuce, South Beach's Century-Old Dive

Type haunted pub crawl near me anywhere on South Beach in October and one bar keeps showing up on the ghost-tour maps: Mac's Club Deuce, a black-painted, neon-lit room at 222 14th Street, just off Collins Avenue and a block from the ocean. The bar marks its beginning as 1926, it turned 100 this fall, and it opens at 8 am and pours until 5 am every single day of the year.

The ghost story attached to Mac's comes from the people who sell the tours, not the bar. US Ghost Adventures, which runs the Miami Haunts walks, tells guests that patrons find themselves talking to ghostly figures who vanish before the bill arrives, and that the ashes of Mac and other regulars are stored inside the bar. Nothing on the bar's own site, and none of the 2026 coverage from Axios or Time Out, repeats the ashes claim, so treat it as campfire material told on a barstool.

What is documented is plenty strange on its own. The address gave the place its first name, Club Deuce, and Time Out notes that it officially became a bar in 1933 after Prohibition ended. Mac Klein, a Brooklyn-born veteran wounded at the Battle of the Bulge, came back to Miami Beach in 1945 and took over the club in 1964 from the widow of Harold Schwartz, his partner on the liquor license, then added his own name to the sign.

Mac changed the room in ways you still see. According to the bar's history page he swapped the singer and pianist for a jukebox and built the curved bar that Axios described this year as B-shaped, with a pool table beyond it. He lived to 101 and died on March 25, 2016, and his wife Mary still runs the bar. The 100th-anniversary block party closed 14th Street and Washington Avenue on September 5, 2026.

The neon is a souvenir from television. Miami Vice shot here more than once in the 1980s, and the bar says the production installed the famous neons and left them behind under a deal with the owners. The same history page says the cast held the series' final wrap party at Mac's as an open bar, with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas behind the counter pouring for the crew.

Now the part a crawl actually needs: what it costs. Mac's posts no drink menu, but Axios reported in September 2026 that beers are $7 and domestic beers are $6. Happy hour is 2-4-1 from 8 am to 5 pm, seven days a week, which makes an afternoon start on a ghost crawl very cheap. Order a drink under $14 during happy hour and the bartender hands over a red casino chip.

That chip is the house ritual worth knowing about. Axios explained that it is good for one more drink as long as you stay at the bar, and if you walk out with it, it becomes a free souvenir of the night. Crawlers moving on to a second stop tend to pocket theirs, so the chip ends up in jacket pockets across Miami Beach long after the drink it represents was forgotten.

The other rules are short and strict. Drinks are cash only, which the bar repeats on its homepage and history page, so pull money before you arrive on 14th Street. Bartenders have one firm request reported by Axios: do not touch the blinds. The bar's own history page sums up the policy as a dive bar where everyone, a to z, is welcome, and that is the whole entry philosophy on 14th Street.

Timing decides what kind of night you get. Bartender Sharyn Sambrick told Axios there is sometimes a line at the door right at the 8 am opening, and about a dozen regulars filled the room by 11 am on the weekday the reporter visited. Firefighters from the area stop in after their shifts and call the bar the church. For a ghost crawl, that means an early start can be calmer than the nightclub hours that follow on Collins.

The bar's walls have hosted a long run of famous drinkers. Mac's own history lists Cameron Diaz, Quentin Tarantino, Matt Damon, John Travolta and Guy Fieri as visitors, and it tells the story of Kate Moss, who infamously did not make it through the front door. Anthony Bourdain's line about it is printed on the homepage, calling Mac's one of the last true dive bars and one of his favorite places on Earth.

If you would rather follow a guide than wander, US Ghost Adventures runs the Miami Haunts Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl, a 21+ walk of about two hours and 1.5 miles that starts at 6 pm at the Art Deco Welcome Center on Ocean Drive. The operator lists tickets starting at $26. Note that Tropezón on Española Way, a stop on that route, closed on October 3, 2026, so the guided path is changing this season.

For a sober daytime leg of the walk, The Wolfsonian-FIU at 1001 Washington Avenue is four blocks south. The design museum is closed Monday and Tuesday, opens 10 am to 6 pm most other days, and stays open until 9 pm on Fridays, when entry from 6 to 9 pm is free every week. It pairs well with a late Friday visit to Mac's: museum first, then the neon.

Practical notes: Mac's Club Deuce is at 222 14th Street, Miami Beach, FL 33139. Bring cash for every round, and carry ID because Florida's drinking age is 21. Axios noted that the smell of smoke still hangs in the room, so this is a bad stop for anyone sensitive to it. The trolley stops at 11 pm, so plan a rideshare or a walk for the trip home.

Mac's suits crawlers who want a haunted stop with a real past rather than a themed set: a century of neon, a former owner who outlived almost everyone, and a ghost legend you can take or leave. It is less suited to anyone after craft cocktails or a quiet table. Come for one cheap beer, collect the red chip, and let the bartenders decide how much of the story you hear.