ATXcursions

Totally worth the $ 54 to take a bus down for a float. You get to hang out with your friends and drink! We had Sam and Lauren as our guides. They were super cool and fun. I will be using ATXcursions many times this summer. As many as I can!

ATXcursions makes floating the river as simple as it could possibly be. No muss, no fuss. If you don’t have a car or simply don’t want to deal with driving, their air conditioned school bus shuttle picks up from downtown. They provide coolers and ice and keep a lock box on board to store valuables while you float. If you go on a Sunday just remember you can’t buy beer or liquor before noon, so plan ahead if you want to bring alcohol.
Our two guides stayed with us during the float. They were un-​intrusive but fun to chat with when we bumped into each other on the river. They made sure everyone got tubes and got us a lift back to the top when we were done.
I wouldn’t blink an eye at doing this again.

Booked with ATXcursions for a corporate tubing event. They put up with me asking about every week if they would have ice for us, and if we could bring food on the bus.
Loved how a couple days before our event they called with a weather report. The weather was not looking good so they suggested a back up plan, which was really nice to have as a option. We ended up being able to tube and it was amazing. Everything was seamless and the whole group had a blast. ATXcursions guides were so friendly, fun, and helpful. They even stayed behind when one of my team members got ill. Would use them again for any future event.

I was part of a bachelorette group of 9 and we booked a float in New Braunfels. They picked us up downtown and were very accommodating (had plenty of coolers and ice and packed our drinks for us once we got there). We then took a ~45 min bus ride to the Comal River and were able to leave our cover ups on the bus. Our guide, Karen, was awesome!!! She checked on everyone during the ride and the float. We then all rode the bus back to downtown and it went very smoothly. We were all impressed and had a great time!

Went with a birthday, it rained, and our guides were super cool and positive. We all had a blast. Great service, don’t forget to bring some cash for a tip.

The logistics of tubing can be a drag, but fear not! ATXcusions will provide an enjoyable and hassle-​free experience for just $ 54 a person. First, you’ll meet downtown at the visitors center, where they will provide you with coolers and ice for your «river buddies.» Next, you will board a bus of strangers, who will very quickly become your fellow river companions!
Insider tip: If possible, bring a dri-​bag or something waterproof. Toss your Bluetooth speaker inside and blast the tunes!

I booked ATXcursions for my best friends bachelorette party in Austin. We booked the brewery tour and had a fabulous time! Our tour guide Dashal was amazing! He was funny, patient, and had a great sense of humor. He probably thought our group was so annoying, but never showed it. He played right along with us!
We thought the breweries that we went to were pretty cool. We decided to skip the tours and just drink and eat, which was more the speed of our group. The beer was pretty good, and the pizza at the second brewery was amazing.
Overall, ATXcursions was great with coordination and provided a wonderful experience for the tours. They were responsive, and did not act annoyed when I asked them a billion questions before I booked.
You should definitely book them for your next adventure!

Went to Austin for a Bachelor Party and wanted to go on a Brewery Tour and a River Float. I will say that the beer tour was okay. I would maybe give it three out of five stars. The beers were just okay, nothing special but not bad. I do multiple craft beer tours a year and the beer was on par with each other. What was missing was the ability to see the beer making process. Getting behinds the scenes look at the making and actually talking to the beer makers is probably what makes the California brewers a little special. Since they will walk you through their whole process. Maybe something ATXcursions could look into?
Now for the must do FIVE STARS part. The river float in San Marcos. That was probably the most fun you can do with anyone who started hungover to getting pretty drunk all over again. No one went overboard, however we met plenty of people to have a great float with with plenty of beverages flowing. This is a must do in the Austin, TX area and is the reason to go back. The float guide was great and made the trip a blast.
Thanks again for a great time.

This was a great time for a bachelor party and Virginia was the «Swiss army knife of fun.» It was great and Virginia got us entirely setup for our private float down the river.

My husband and I did the Saturday night beer tour.
Pros:
Tour guide, Virginia, is very sweet, considerate, friendly, and easy going.
Small group of 11 or less, our tour was 10.
Water was provided as well
Three stops at breweries.
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Cons:
No real «tour». It lacked information like history of breweries in Austin or even meeting the owner, or seeing how the process works at those breweries
It was really just driving us around to sample beers. I was later old my the owner that this was due to the first football game of the season, which I understand.
45 minutes at each stop to just sample beer is a lot of time.
Summary– it’s good if you’re trying Texan beer. The owner truly cares about giving customers a great experience in Austin. In my eyes, you can’t ask for more from people who truly care :)

ABSOLUTELY the best time! The bus was there promptly waiting when my friend and I arrived via taxi. Windy (like the city lol) was an absolute great hostess and was with us the whole ride. Bo was our driver and he was hilarious as well. Some people may be put off by the lack of A/​C on the bus but no one seemed to care including my friend and I. We made some new friends and will definitely be back with a bigger party of people! Recommend this business highly! Thanks guys for making my first tubing trip awesome!

Planning a trip with ATXcursions was the best decision I ever made. I found them by googling bachelor party ideas in Austin. The booking process was easy. I called their company and they were so helpful with answering all of my questions. I booked a private river tubing trip for my buddy’s bachelor party weekend. Our driver T (Talib) picked us up on time in a nice van with air conditioning. He was so polite and professional and very chill. His radio had a auxiliary cable and he let us bump our tunes on the drive. T brought us to the store to pick up beers, ice and snacks. He packed the cooler for us. When we got to the river, he gave us our wrist bands, helped us get tubes with cup holders, carried our cooler to the water, and even snapped some photos for us. Being on the river and drinking with your buddies was an experience. T said being on the river here is like being in a parallel universe, time stops and he was right. We met so many cool people, did some swimming and even got to swing from a rope into the water. At the end the float, T was waiting in a kayak for us. Since we booked private transportation, T was nice enough to take us to get some great local Texas style BBQ because we were famished from being in the river all day. This was one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had and my buddies all agreed. Thank you T and thank you Atxcursions!

These guys know what they are doing. Had one of the best days of my life! Trevor is very accommodating & professional. If you want to do a river float come to atxcursions.

Thanks to ATXcursions, I gave my younger brother one of the best weekends of his life — his bachelor’s weekend was a complete success.
We staged my bother’s Bachelor Weekend in Austin, TX for the obvious reasons — it’s a hot, fun-​oriented and easy-​going city, central to travelers from both coasts and the Midwest.
It’s not hard to occupy 11 Dad-​Bods in Austin, but I wanted the fellas to have an experience that A) gave us a plan B) ensured that we drink all day C) gave us the opportunity to get loaded in the water. That said, we did not want anybody driving or hustling around town to take us to water.
ATXcursions was the perfect choice for our daytime activities on both days of the weekend. They provided punctual transportation, laid-​back and fun-​oriented drivers, facilitated the pick-​up of all necessary materials, and handled all required bookings. Frankly, the guys at ATXcursions made sure that our only job was to simply go along and have fun — WITHOUT making us feel like we were sardine-​tourists in a tin.
On day 1, Andrew, the owner, drove us out to Lake Travis for a day on a pontoon boat. This was special because Lake Travis is not a normal booking for ATXcursions, but they set it up anyway because we requested it. Andrew went above and beyond to make this happen for us, meaning: he booked us a pontoon boat, drove farther than the normal trip, paid the boating company himself to set it up, and waited for us just to make sure that the boating company delivered. Not to mention, Andrew himself helped us lug our heavy beer coolers down 100 steps to the Marina. This was all on top of listening to a bunch of drunks in his van for an hour’s drive. The day on the pontoon was as expected — tons of beers, tons of sun, listening to tunes, swimming and hanging out — exactly the kind of first day our group needed, and everybody enjoyed it.
On Saturday, «T» picked us up at 10:30 AM sharp for a day of Tubing on the river. I’ll just say… if you are ready for a truly floating circus, then bring it! Most members of the group remarked that tubing was the most uniquely fun day of their lives…4 plus hours hooked to a beer-​filled inner tube, floating and bouncing in and out groups of revelers, splashing in the sun, getting hammered… just perfect.
Again, credit to ATXcursions — «T» was early, super personable, organized and simply ready to help us have fun! He was both tolerant of the most obnoxious drunk in our group, and simply kept us focused on having a great time.
When it came time for tubing, it was a SCENE. I’m talking 1000’s of people all renting tubes and waiting to get in the river. «T» had it down though, rental tokens ready, straps for our beer tube, and simply sorted everything out. Frankly, if it weren’t for him, we wouldn’t have even known what to do.
As I said before, if you like hanging with your buddies and drinking as you float down a spring-​fed river, then tubing is maybe the most fun you can have. ATXcursions made sure that we weren’t worried about anything else, and for a bunch of hard-​working guys, that meant the world.
The last thing I want to mention about ATXcursions are two-​fold– 1) The prices for their service were really fair; each trip came out $ 100 or less per dude, plus well-​deserved tips. Honestly, they could charge more for the level of service they provide.
Which brings me to point 2) ATXcurions’ customer service is what I appreciated the most. As the organizer of my brother’s weekend, I had to communicate times, schedules and all expected costs for guys across the country — some of whom I knew well, and some I didn’t know at all. One thing I did not want to mess up is what guys expected from the time, and how much it would cost.
Andrew, the owner of ATXcursions, was amazing throughout this process — he answered all of my emails promptly with accurate specs on costs, activity times, and expectations down to minute details. I appreciated this so much, because once the weekend arrived, I had to worry about NOTHING except herding all the cats to the next activity. This was a lot of work on Andrew’s part, but it made a great weekend happen for everybody.
So, in short, Austin is a really fun town, and ATXcursions help people to really take advantage of that.
I appreciate every aspect of the experience that ATXcursions set up for us, and the rest of our group did, too.

These guys are AWESOME!
For the Fourth of July, we wanted to do something unique. So a group of 16 of us decided on a tubing excursion. ATXCursions were right on time with a really fun bus, which was modified so that everyone had plenty of room, a great sound system, and lots of storage. Basically an hour long dance party on the way to the river. Fortunately, they provided one hell of a driver so we could all enjoy celebrating our country’s independence properly, with endless booze.
They also provided a guide, Windy (yes, like the weather), who was PHENOMENAL! Wonderful woman who made everything so easy for us. She had everything already set up for our tube rentals, directed us, and floated down the river with us providing guidance on where to go in the river. Now, you may think that sounds easy, but YOU try herding 16 drunks on a river while making sure no one lost anything. And those mini rapids can be tricky, if it wasn’t for Windy, we’d have lost way more than one pair of sunglasses. Thankfully, the beer survived the rapids — but of course didn’t survive us.
These guys make everything simple: transportation, logistics, ambiance… it was just a really, really fun day and I can’t wait to do it again.
Highly recommend these folks, and can’t wait to use them again — I hear they do brewery tours, too!

I booked ATXcursions for my bachelorette party this past weekend. I had a group of about 15 girls and wanted to float the river. I have floated previously and always hated the process: Driving to San Marcos or New Braunfels, packing coolers, catching a shuttle, standing in lines for tubes and then repeating the process back, but while drunk and with a bunch of random drunks. Some people probably don’t mind that, but I hate it and especially with no guys to help us out along the way. So when I stumbled across ATXcursions and found out that ALL OF THE ABOVE is avoidable and taken care of for you, I was thrilled.
Beau our driver and Trevor our guide picked us up around noon at the house we were staying at in Austin. Because of our large group we got the Texas themed bus. It was great — plenty of room, they allowed us to drink and play our own music and we pretty much just had a huge dance party the entire way there and back. They drove us to get beverages/​snacks/​cigarettes/​koozies — whatever you need, first. They provided us with coolers and loaded them up for us! Then we were off to the river. Once we got there, they unloaded the coolers for us, put on everyone’s wrist bands and got us our tubes. Typically they already have the tubes waiting for you, but we had to wait a bit just due to how many people were floating that day and bc so many of the rivers were closed due to the floods. This was circumstantial and totally not their fault, so we didn’t mind waiting for a bit. Once we all had our tubes, Andrew, T and Trevor helped all of us and the coolers get into the water smoothly. Trevor joined us on the float to help guide us along the way and help with anything we needed. He was so sweet and fun and I seriously don’t know what our group would’ve done without him. He kept us all together and he even dived for my friends camera when she dropped it in the water.
Once the float was complete, Trevor helped us out of the water and got all of our trash emptied and coolers together for us. We hopped on a very short shuttle back to our bus and then Beau and Trevor drove us back to our place in Austin. I just hope we didn’t scar them too much on the way back! :/​
I don’t think I will ever float a river without the assistance of ATXcursions. It was just so seamless and it really was the highlight of our weekend. Thanks Andrew, T, Beau and especially Trevor for everything! We seriously had the best time!

ATTENTION: ATXCURSIONS now does Brewery Tours!!!
The hubster and I opted for the Saturday afternoon of fun in the sun with suds! Scheduling was a breeze via ATXCs website, or if you have any questions call and Andrew will eagerly answer any of your questions and/​or accommodate all of your wants and needs. Very friendly and helpful!
The small tour group (the van accommodates about 10 people) met at Craft Pride on Rainey Street around 1pm. This provides a great opportunity to get acquainted with your other «tourmates» and get to chat with your self-​proclaimed «Sherpa» for the day! Our guy was T (yup, just T) and he proved to be amazing throughout the day. The meet up also serves as a way to start the day off with one of the many cold brews they sell at Craft, compliments of ATXCs of course! Dip your toes in the water… errrhhmm…tongue in the beer. ;)

After a suggested bathroom trip if needed, we all piled into the van and were off to Thirsty Planet. Upon arrival, T took care of everything. He checked us in, provided us with beer tasting tickets, and sent us on own to explore and titillate our taste buds. Plenty of time to sip and chat with other patrons… then our journey continued to Jester King Brewery — by far the longest stay of the three breweries you will visit during your guided trip.
T had a large, long table reserved for us and suggested we visit Stanley’s Farmhouse Pizza for some pie (which we all did)…yum BTW [see separate review if interested]. We all ordered pizzas (the bucks on you for desired grub), SFH took our cell numbers and said they would text when ready, we made our way back up to the table and there were glass settings and about 8 large bottles of JK’s finest waiting for us to sample. The whole experience is even better if the weather is nice — which it was! The group just chilled, talked, tasted, noshed (some of us were even nice enough to share SFH’s concoctions with each other, and with T also — this is highly recommended! T likes pizza too… lol). After all of the bottles had been extinguished and our bellies were content, back to the bus we went.
Last stop was Hops & Grain. No need for beer tickets here and no reserved seating. ATXCs has a pre-​arranged agreement with H&G. Once escorted in, you’re on your own. It was particularly crowded the day we visited with the tour; however, no worries! The line moves pretty fast and you receive more than a tasting… more like a full beer with each trip through the line!
During the entire tour you will never feel rushed… not one bit. The tour is not a «brewery» tour per se, but more of a «beer tasting tour.» You don’t actually take the narrated tours with herds of other people through the breweries that explain the process of making beer… blah…blah. I LOVE beer, and even have a small home brew kit, but let’s face it; unless you’re majorly into the chemistry behind beer, one tour is usually enough to satisfy any beer-​isseur.
Our particular tour consisted of T, my husband and myself, and 4 other couples — one visiting from Cali, two Austinites, and one who had recently moved to Austin. I am very happy to say that we all really connected and pretty much spent the entire day together as a group, bonding over the spoils of the day. In addition to checking out some cool brews, we also made a few new friends — which is never a bad thing, right? Simply put, this tour is designed to bring brew heads together and enjoy about 5 hours indulging in the bubbles of the Yeast Gods.
Overall: 10 stars! From beginning to end, not one flaw in ATXCursions perfect system! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
TIPS:
*The $ 59 p/​p fee includes all suds & transportation charges, including tips, at Craft Pride & all breweries; however, tipping extra is never frowned upon. [Note: although my maiden voyage was complimentary, I would happily pay to do this again! Worth every $!] The ATXCs Brew Tour is certainly at the top of my «to do list» when people visit from out of town or when there is a special occasion (thinking this would be great for a beer lover’s bday!).
**Be sure to bring CASH to tip your guide/​driver (e.g., T) GENEROUSLY, as they most certainly deserve it! Simply wonderful!
***ATXCs vans have an ice chest of bottled waters on board. Drink some in-​between breweries. Just sayin’.
****If you choose to partake in the Saturday trip, parking is available in the SkyHouse Apt’s parking garage just down the street from CP for 10 bucks (CC accepted). If you opt for the Sunday Xcursion, metered street parking on Rainey if free all day — if you can find it — but be sure you’re able to move your car before 8am Monday, so you don’t get towed.
*****The weekend tours are from 1 – 6; these are approximate hours. Be prepared to maybe go over a bit and definitely have safe plans on how to get back to your final destination. If you pace yourself and eat during the trip, you should be okay. Be cool, not a fool, and don’t drive drunk.
******HAVE FUN! CHEERS!

We went on a brewery tour this weekend with ATXcursions and had an absolute blast. We have been to most of the area breweries, but jumped at the chance to not have to worry about driving and took the tour out to Thirsty Planet, Jester Brewery (our favorite brewery) and Hops and Grain. Andrew the driver/​owner was a great guide, totally responsible, knowledgeable, and made sure we had a great time. We all met at Craft Pride at 1pm and grabbed a drink there and went to all 3 breweries. For your money you get transportation to all breweries, sampling at all 3 (which the amount of samples were all very generous) and then back to Craft Pride. Definitely worth it. This would be an AWESOME birthday party for a medium size group!

A couple of weeks ago the lady and I decided to take a little spur of the moment brew tour. We scheduled a Saturday tour with ATXcursions.
The tours start and end at Craft Pride, which is a great starting and ending point as they have great beer and fantastic pizza (VIA 313). We met Andrew and our crew at 1pm outside of Craft Pride. Andrew, our guide, was laid back. He suggested that we start with a beer at Craft Pride before we set off to go to Thirsty Planet. All beer during our tour was paid for by ATXcursions.
After proper lubrication, we set off in our white tour bus. The first stop was Thirsty Planet. I’d strongly recommend staying away from their regularly distributed beers and try some of their delicious brews that are only sold at the brewery.
Second stop was one of my favorite breweries here in Austin, Jester King. We all ordered pizzas and then sat around and enjoyed the beautiful fall weather and great beers. ATXcursions bought us 3 – 4 different bottles of beer and we split those bottles between the group.
Finally, we stopped at Hops and Grains. Perhaps my personal favorite brewery. We tried a handful of their beers, attempted to play some board games and relaxed.
Andrew was very knowledgable about the beer and the breweries. We tried ~3−4 beers per stop — They are not full pints though so you won’t be a disaster when you finish the tour. That said, I would still recommend ordering a Lyft to get to your next destination! Or, if you really love to party, keep the party going at Craft Pride or at one of the many Rainey street destinations.

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Taking a fun tour with this company will inspire you to love Austin even more.
My boyfriend and I went and toured with T (and Andrew was the amazing driver) the weekend before last.
We had such a magnificent time. We went to 3 different breweries and learned so much. It was fun and memorable!!!
We got to travel from as far as Dripping Springs all the way to Northern Austin.
The beers we experienced offered completely different flavors on all levels.
T was outgoing and excellent. Andrew was funny and even jammed out to some TLC while we were on our excursion. It was hilarious and appropriate!!!
It is wonderful that we got to literally feel like vacationing tourists in our own awesome city!
Thank you so much, T, for truly being a host with the most!
To repeat, this really was like taking a mini-​vacation in our own great city of Austin.
This business needs to grow and spread, so please, I encourage you to tell your friends!!! Message me if I can be of more help beyond this review, as I truly want to see this business thrive!!!
You should set up a tour with your beer-​loving friends and get excited and prepared to truly enjoy your day.
Cheers!