Two summers ago Warren Baumberg, a high school teacher from New Zealand, launched Hong Kong Pub Crawl, a weekly HK$100-a-night tour of some of the city's independent bars. It is now ranked the city's No1 nightlife attraction on travel site Tripadvisor, with an estimated 6,000 party-goers having signed up for the Thursday night knees up.
Hong Kong is a high-end city. That's great. It can be a very flashy city, people popping bottles of champagne with fireworks and that sort of stuff. It gets 41 million visitors every year and if even 1 per cent are independent backpackers, they can't access that lifestyle. We've got so much more to offer.
We go to four bars and one club. At every bar we've got free shots and two bottles of beer for HK$40 and HK$30 cocktails. We have free club entry and HK$50 cocktails all night in the clubs. We charge HK$100. We don't collect the money until bar No2 so that people can see if they want to join us.