Fun and educational Always enjoy the on and off activities…read morewith the staff. I've done this tour twice and would do it again! Only downside is no air conditioning

We decided to go on the Friday 5:00pm LaZoom Comedy Bus City Tour. It was well run and very…read moreorganized. The City tour is Family friendly and packed with good silly fun. The Comedian(s) are punny and shared some fun facts about the city. There was one bathroom stop at Green Man Brewery. Overall a fun time.

Really nice way to learn more about Asheville history, and when you buy a one-day ticket, you can…read moreride the trolley the second day as well. I ended up riding parts of the same route three times with different drivers, and it was worth it because each driver added different details and stories. I particularly enjoyed one driver who was a former teacher from Maryland. He had done extra research and brought the history alive with details about what life had been like at the psychiatric hospital and what Zelda Fitzgerald thought about the women's dormitory. I learned more about Asheville each time I rode. The easiest place to board is Stop 1 at the Asheville Visitor Center, where you can get the sticker showing you have a trolley ticket, since the drivers don't carry the stickers. It is helpful to stick it on something you can hold up so the driver can easily see it and know you want to be picked up. The Visitor Center also has bathrooms, a gift shop, and a whole lot of great tourist brochures. There is free parking. If you buy your ticket online, I found the boarding instructions confusing and somewhat contradictory. They say you can board at any stop but also tell you to go to Stop 1 at the Visitor Center. You can show the driver your online confirmation if you board at another stop, but the bigger challenge can be figuring out exactly where some of the stops are based on the website directions and where Google Maps takes you. I never figured out exactly where Stop 4 at 2 S. Pack Square was, even though it was the closest stop to the AC Asheville hotel. During Boomtown FestAVL, that stop was also moved because the area was shut down, but the changed location wasn't listed on the website. After that experience, going to the Visitor Center and getting my sticker was much easier. The entire trolley loop takes about 90 minutes. From the Visitor Center, the first three stops take about 30 minutes. Here are some notes that may help if you want to use the trolley for sightseeing: Stop 1 - Asheville Visitor Center: The Visitor Center is behind the Chamber of Commerce building and has a free parking lot, bathrooms, tourist information and a gift shop. Stop 2 - Omni Grove Park Inn: In addition to visiting the inn, you can walk down the steep hill to Grovewood Gallery, which has lots of art and pottery, the Antique Car Museum, and the Biltmore Industries Homespun Museum. Remember that if you walk down the hill, you eventually have to come back up. Pro tip: You don't have to walk back up that steep hill! Go to the parking garage behind the Grove Park Inn and take the elevator upstairs to the hotel. You will wind your way through the hotel, past the stores, and eventually find your way outside to the Sammons Wing entrance where the trolley dropped you off, downhill from the main entrance. Much easier than climbing the hill. Stop 6 - Grove Arcade: A historic building with pretty architecture and several stores and restaurants on the ground floor, including Spicewalla for spices. We also had a really good meal at Huli Sue's, which serves BBQ and Hawaiian-inspired food. Stop 7 - River Arts District North: The trolley leaves you near a traffic circle, and from there you can walk to different buildings and explore the art galleries. I particularly liked the North Carolina Glass Center, where you can buy reasonably priced glass or take classes. There was also a large building with many individual artist studios farther down the street near the coffee shop. Stop 8 - River Arts District South: I wasn't sure how to walk there from the North stop, so I just got back on the trolley and rode there. There are more large buildings with art galleries to explore. Stop 9 - Biltmore Village: Shops and restaurants in the community George Vanderbilt created for workers on his estate. Stop 10 - South Slope Brewery District: Like the name implies, there are lots of microbreweries in this area. I thought the trolley was worthwhile both as transportation and as a way to learn about Asheville then spend more time at some of the stops the 2nd day.

Great guide and driver tonight 9-14-26. Very interesting and…read moreinformative plus a funny antidote here and there. Good food at the pub where you meet the trolley.

This was a great way to see part of Asheville and learn the history and the present. The drinks…read morewere great the views were awesome and the guide was very knowledgeable.

What a terrific addition to the roster of Must-Do Activities in Asheville. This isn't just for…read moretourists, either! We are locals, and this experience made us feel the magic of being tourists in our own town. Looking down several stories and gazing out several miles, both, gave us such unique perspectives of the City. And yes, you can go to these rooftop bars on your own, but the Asheville Rooftop Bar Tours provides endless historical and architectural anecdotes of the area. Sam even shared numerous photos dating back to the 1800's, giving unique snapshots to the past while you gaze upon the present. You also gain access to the reserved premier seating on the decks, dedicated wait staff, and oftentimes off-menu craft cocktails and mocktails. Ask for the witty and charming Sam, but if he is busy, you will have fun with the rest of the staff! Ten outta Ten!!!

On a recent anniversary trip to Asheville, my husband and I enjoyed Eating Asheville's historical…read moredowntown food tour. We decided to splurge for The High Roller option as it was only around $10 more a person and included beverage parings with the food. Included is up to 6 stops at restaurants, bars, or desserteries with at-least 3 alcoholic beverages pairings and then other non-alcoholic options. The tour lasts about 2.5- 3 hours. This is a walking in food tour, so you have to be able and willing to travel on foot some. It wasn't a ton of walking, but did work up a little sweat as it was a warmer Friday afternoon (this tour is offered Thursday- Sunday). We had a small group of 6 people plus our tour guide. She was very sweet and personable. I think she may have been semi new at this as her story flow was a little jumbled, but it didn't bother me too much as honestly she was trying and I was interested in food way more than history. She did point out some important sites along the way and give us some fun Asheville facts. Great thing about these tours is they do vary. While the company has a number of places they work with which ones are selected for you, depends on the day, time, season etc. So you could honestly do these tours more than once and experience new things still. Our tour began at Asheville Charcuterie where we each enjoyed a personalized board of meat, cheese, cracker, fruit, and a local spicy honey. It was also served with a Bold Rock cider. This was a cute shop where you can get a drink or snack there or take items with you to go. Next was to the Grove Arcade where we hit Bebettes, a New Orleans coffeehouse with fresh out the oven beignets with a warm chocolate dipping sauce, served with a shot of coffee. So yummy. I felt bad about all the power sugar I got everywhere. Gotta love a dessert on stop 2! For the third s location was Strada Italiano. The food here was excellent. We sampled one of their arancini balls and a grilled Florentine ravioli. Both were delicious bites and executed flawlessly. Great Italian fare with some red wine. My husband and I agreed we want to come back here for a full Italian dinner experience on our next trip. Starting to feel a little full at this point, not gonna lie but things continued to get more hearty at The Rhu. We got to enjoy their house breakfast sausage and pimento cheese on a buttermilk biscuit. Thank goodness they only gave us half each as these bad boys were thick. All three components were so tasty, with the pimento cheese winning for me. It came with some iced tea, which was definitely southern and sweet. I knew we had one more food stop left before dessert. Imagine my surprise when it was an Indiana buffet at Mehfil. On the fifth stop? Lord, a bad day to wear jeans! They place was so generous giving us a like private mini buffet of items like tandoori chicken, saag paneer, naan, butter chicken, rice and more. I truly wish I had room to eat more as everything was so tasty, especially their tandoori chicken. Also they had the best beverage pairing with a pear mule cocktail - perfectly light and smooth for a warm day. Our tour guide joked that we would need to cancel our dinner reservations, turns out they weren't kidding. The last stop was Asheville Chocolate. So many amazing sweet treats you could enjoy at this place. We wrapped up our tour with a chocolate truffle and cookies and cream gelato. I had to ask my husband to help finish these as I was stuffed. Before departing, we tipped our guide. This is not required, but we were happy to do so as she worked hard and took great care of us. After the tour, not gonna lie went back to our hotel and had an amazing nap! Sign of a good food tour! I thought this food tour was a great deal for the $90 per person price. I know at first it sounds like a lot. But we more than got $15 worth at each place from the food and drink itself, plus to convenience of being able to just walk in to a reserved table at a popular restaurant with a planned bite ready in a few minutes. Not to mention, having a personal tour guide to take you around and teach you about where you are, what you are eating , and Asheville in general. If you like to eat, and can eat a lot (you will be very full but it's worth it), take this tour. It was a great way to get a taste of places you've never been and decide where you wanna go back to and try a full meal next time!

Did we have a good time overall? Yes. However, do I think…read moreit's worth the $92/person price tag all in with taxes and fees... to sample 5 places with varying portions of food and drink? Not quite. The classic before fees is $79/person. It offers "minimum of 5 stops and at least 2 drink pairings" from their website. Don't get me started on the 15.5% extra they tack on for "taxes and fees". If the unavoidable city tax for Asheville is 7%, the remainder is 8.5% for what? Their website/payment services? To be fair, the pricing is similar to one we took part in NOLA $78/person with Destination Kitchen but the food and portions were more balanced (albeit without drink pairings). For $10 more base price, you can book the high roller tour $89/person. After all is said and done I'm wondering if we should have spent the extra amount and upgraded to the high roller since the descriptor highlights "most elegant, trendy, and acclaimed" options. I understand the business also needs to make a profit along with giving a cut to the tour guides. At the beginning and throughout the tour, the guide continued to emphasize that if we were still hungry by the end that they have not done their jobs. However, there's more to consider. I'll go through the 5 places we tried and how one of the newest additions isn't even listed still on their website so if you were to look ahead of time for the offerings you would not expect it! We met our group inside the Grove Street Arcade on a Monday in September which is a great spot with some shops and public restrooms before we started. STOP 1 - The Rhu https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-rhu-asheville This is the cafe/breakfast bakery sister to Rhubarb, which is more upscale. They prepared a small cup of iced sweet tea with half of their breakfast sandwich. The refreshing tea with sugar cubes paired nicely with the buttery biscuit sandwich. Value: $8.50 for full sandwich and drink was not listed so going to estimate total is worth one sandwich. STOP 3 - Bold Rock https://www.yelp.com/biz/bold-rock-asheville-asheville The Cidery story actually started in VA but I'm glad they expanded to NC. We sampled a 6~7 oz cider paired with a Bruschetta and Bacon Apple Grilled Cheese. (American, cheddar, goat cheese, local apples, bacon, Dijon aioli, sourdough) It was super tasty and really enjoyed everything!! Value: ~$5 half pour, ~$10 for the food so one of the better values STOP 3 - Mëhfil https://www.yelp.com/biz/mehfil-asheville-2 Full buffet spread of ~6 Indian dishes with Mango Lassi and a tasty alcoholic beverage too! Now this place is the spot I mentioned isn't even listed with their logo on the restaurant page... I checked their Instagram which isn't updated frequently either and they announced just the day before our tour so this is brand NEW. Unfortunately this is one of the cuisines my SO does not eat. We would not have known that reserving in advance... which is a shame. Value: ~$25-30 honestly since they were offering generous full size portions of their dishes that you could serve yourself, this was hands down the best cost wise. If you were to fill up it would be at this stop. The staff were also super nice and hospitable! STOP 4 - Manicomio Pizza https://www.yelp.com/biz/manicomio-pizza-asheville Plain and simple pizzeria with some funky designs. We sampled a single slice which may have been their special of the day with cherry tomato and artichoke and a lemon wedge to spritz. It tasted good, but forgettable. They just gave us water. Value: $5.50 by the slice for daily special STOP 5 FINAL - Sunshine Sammies https://www.yelp.com/biz/sunshine-sammies-asheville Makes sense we'd end on dessert and we sampled 1/2 a sandwich of I believe their seasonal pumpkin! It was a sweet way to conclude the tour. Value: $4, a full size seasonal flavor is $8 I was full from the generous spread offered at Mëhfil which carried the food and drink side of the tour. Unfortunately my SO didn't get to fully enjoy the experience, and there was no way we could have expected they'd take us to the new restaurant that was just announced. Even being generous with some of my estimates, I landed at value of ~$60, which is still short of the cost you're paying especially when more than half of these locations are more fast casual spots. The most disappointing was the pizzeria, since aside from the artwork I didn't feel anything unique about the taste and seems like a wasted opportunity given the list of other more interesting restaurants. I enjoyed the historical information the guide sprinkled throughout along with background about each of the locations. Next time I'll keep in mind for Mondays where many restaurants aren't open.

The absolute best haunted tour I've ever been on! Tadd was an excellent guide and storyteller. We…read moredid the Supernatural tour and really appreciated the history presented. He certainly made you think and laugh. It was also fun to nerd out on culture and history. Our group ended up being about 20 people instead of the 30 some that had signed up. Look, the tour starts at 8. Show up on time or get left in the dust.

What a fun time! Brian was an amazing story teller and kept us entertained for well over two hours…read more Lots of cool things were learned, and quite a lot of interesting architecture and facts about what we were looking at. We did not see any ghosts but felt like they could have popped up at any time. A great and different experience! So glad Asheville is back!!

My son wanted to take a tour of Asheville, and we found an amazing option, Tukit. The guide was…read moreable to pick us up where we were staying downtown. It was just the three of us, and you can see a lot in the vehicle, which is electric and very quiet. Jennifer was excellent. She knew a lot and even put a happy birthday sign on since it was my son's birthday. We saw the historical sights and then got to choose the last leg of the tour. We chose the Omni Grove Park Inn, which was a lot of fun. One of his favorite parts was the wild turkey Jennifer pointed out on the Montford Area part of the tour.

Our tour guide Jennifer did amazing! My husband and I chose the history tour, and she was well…read moreinformed. She was also very conversational and personable. The tukit was also very cute and romantic. 10/10 would do again.

Our tour guide was awesome. He explained the brewing process and had a ton of knowledge. The tour…read moremade four stops and since it was raining our driver offered to drop us off at a different brewery rather than our original starting point which saved us a walk. Looking for a laid back way to enjoy some beer use this group.

This was a great brewery tour for the price, just shy of 50 bucks. We went to three breweries and…read moreloved every single one of them. We were a group of 5 and it was just us. I can't remember the name of our tour guide but he was super knowledgeable about beer and the area. He has lived in Asheville for 30 years and gave us tons of info about the area and things to do. Also very knowledgeable about the business. We really enjoyed it. The bus we rode on was comfortable and the tour guide had waters for us to drink. It was just over 3 hours. We never felt rushed. It was on Sunday, Father's Day. Things were pretty empty which was s nice contrast to our usual Sunday's in Miami. Overall great time, great tours. Highly recommend If you are in Asheville for a couple days and want to visit a few breweries.

This review is long over due!!! I had the pleasure of meeting up with a couple of my girlfriends…read morewhom I hadn't seen since COVID... and really since I changed jobs since we used to work together. We booked the pub cycle tour last minute and we had a blast! We had a bachelorette party that was also part of our tour and all of us had a great old time. We made a few stops and had some drinks and commiserated about cycling while drinking was actually a lot harder than we expected. We certainly got our workout in! What was also great was we were able to BYOB so that was cool! Next time I'm back in town I would definitely try to book another ride!

My girls booked a Pubcycle tour for my bachelorette and it was such a fun experience!! Our Captain,…read more"Captain Kait," was hilarious, super knowledgeable, and a great captain. My only complaint is that these tours only stop at one spot for half an hour. I would've liked to get off and try 2 spots, but it is what it is. It was super fun and I would definitely do it again!

I highly recommend this tour. Asheville was brought to life for us by our guide Tebbe. My sister…read moreand I were lucky enough to book a private walking tour, and it was the highlight of our visit to Asheville. Tebbe is a masterful storyteller with a deep command of Asheville's history, economics, and politics, and he weaves them all together to bring the city to life. He traced Asheville's story from its Native American highway of towns spaced 20 miles apart, through every boom, bust, and upheaval, right up to the residential growth reshaping the city today. What could have been a dry history lesson of dates and buildings became a beautifully described story of how Asheville became the city it is now. Tebbe was incredibly patient with our questions, genuinely engaged with our curiosity, and made the tour feel like a conversation with a new friend rather than a scripted presentation. We found ourselves completely drawn into his stories. This tour sticks out as probably the best city walking tour I've ever taken.

Peter made this interesting walking tour of Ashville. His humor enhanced is extensive knowledge of…read morethe development of Ashville from it occupants to architecture. I loved it so much I'd do it again Thank you Peter

I originally booked Asheville Brews Cruise for a tour for 18 people for my bachelorette, originally…read morescheduled for October 2024. Due to the hurricane, I had asked to reschedule my booking to the end of March 2025. I had put down an over $1000 deposit, which I was told was fully refundable at the time of my booking. At first J.C. was very communicative and said that he was happy to reschedule and that he would send the updated paperwork. However, I never received the updated paperwork and tried over 3 months to get a response from J.C. as to whether Asheville Brews Cruise would still be able to provide a tour for my bachelorette. With no response, I assumed that Asheville Brews Cruise could no longer support a tour for my bachelorette party and therefore booked a tour with a different company and asked for a refund of my original deposit. With again no response, in February, I finally tried messaging Asheville Brews Cruise over Instagram to get a refund on my deposit. J.C. finally responded and noted that he would reach out about a refund. But to this day I have still not received that refund after trying to communicate with Asheville Brews Cruise over email, text, and through multiple phone calls. While I understand that all businesses in Asheville are going through a hard time post hurricane, the lack of responsiveness over 5 months and failure to refund my substantial deposit has put me at my wits end. I would not recommend booking with this company for any future tours.

J.C. is the right man in the right place! We got this tour from our great friends who live in the…read moretown and we really thanks them for that experience! All you want to know about the Asheville beers and breweries, just ask the guide. As we are from the country where the "beer was born" (Czech Republic, Pilsner) I appreciated the knowledge of that history as well We spent a lot of fun there and tasted many types of beers during the tour, the Brew Cruise bus was amazing, we met nice people from other countries. Absolutely recommend that