An asylum seeker themed pub crawl, hosted by The Queensland Universities Liberal National Club, has been criticised for trivialising "the dangerous and often tragic journey asylum seekers face and associated deaths at sea".

The Queensland Universities Liberal National Club Rivercrawl 2014 used aspects of the Abbott Government's border protection policy to promote the event via Facebook.

A screenshot of a Facebook page for the Queensland Universities Liberal National Club Rivercrawl.

The page, posted on Thursday night and since deleted, advised attendees life jackets were optional as organisers would do their best to ensure no one goes overboard.

The organisers boasted that after a BBQ to celebrate a hundred days of no boat arrivals, party goers would board a CityCat to commence operation sovereign borders and “smuggle” their way into a bar at the Queensland University of Technology.