St Louis Carriage Company

i’m always looking for new and fun things to do in St. Louis. When I saw a Groupon for St. Louis Carriage Company, I decided to check it out. The tour meets in front of Union Station and lasts about an hour. In terms of the good things about the tour, I felt I learned a lot. I’ve lived in St. Louis for about 5 years and there was still a lot this tour taught me that I didn’t know before. For example, did you know that our city hall is modeled off of the city hall in Paris?
Another good thing about the tour was the woman who led it. She was super friendly and answered a lot of our questions about the city. I appreciated the speed at which she drove and how enthusiastic she was about the city.
Finally, I really loved that the tour showcased the neighborhoods of Lafayette Square and Soulard. They did a great job of showcasing the beautiful homes and parks of both areas.
Now the bad things about the tour… I felt that there were several really key spots in St. Louis that the tour didn’t cover. I know they only have 60 minutes, but the tour should DEFINITELY include a drive through Forest Park. Forest Park is the best thing about this city and has SO much to offer. I really feel this tour does a disservice to the city by not going through Forest Park. The same could be said about the fact that MOBOT wasn’t mentioned. Again, I understand they can’t talk about/​show us everything on the tour, but I found this a huge disadvantage of the tour.
Second, while the trolley was a neat idea, neither the A/​C nor the speaker phone was working on our tour. Luckily, I tend to like it warm and it was a nice day, so the A/​C wasn’t a huge deal for me. The speaker system on the other hand was a definite downside as our tour guide had to compete with the noise of traffic and the trolley to tell us about the city. I really hope they fix these problems ASAP.
Finally, I think this tour is overpriced for $ 22 a person. We had a Groupon and so that ended up not being a big deal. With that said, I probably would have given this place 3 stars without our deal.
In sum, pretty good way to spend an hour provided you have a coupon/​Groupon.

I ordered a Cinderella carriage ride for my 3 year old grand daughter. I cannot begin to describe how incredible the experience was. They were not only very professional, but they were also kind, fun, and full of energy. It was apparent the driver enjoyed his ride with our princess. I can’t say thank you enough. Thank you
Marie J

Dangerous driver, overcharged, BAD experience. I don’t normally write bad review’s…however this company is so bad I feel I should share the experience… my family and I went on a 4^th of July vacation to St. Louis, after leaving the arch saturday my daughter saw a beautiful pink Cinderella carriage sitting there… needless to say she HAD to ride in it. We bought a half hour ride for $ 95, (a bit pricey but it made my daughter happy) I thought we were off for a nice relaxing half hour ride, I WRONG. The girl driving ran every single red light thru major intersections, was talking on her phone 2 different times and was constantly swatting the horse with the leather straps the whole time… I felt bad for the horse which seemed to be doing nothing wrong in the first place. If all this wasnt enough our half hour ride ended in 17 minutes, when we got back I asked if that was a half hour and she said yes she timed it but so did i and it was only 2 minutes longer then the 15 minute ride she also offered… she picked up another fare before I could say more and there we stood, out our ride and money. So I looked up the companies website for the number to call about this and I see I was grossly overcharged for the ride. The web page says the Cinderella rides are $ 75 for three people. This was the worst experience of our whole trip, being overcharged and not even getting what we paid for.

The horse and carriage ride was a bit of a splurge for our family of four during our recent trip to St. Louis. It’s a bit pricey ($ 40 for about 15 minutes, total) but the driver was very personable and gave us some good tips for our other site-​seeing plans around town.
My kids liked the ride and getting to feed Jedi, our horse, his carrot afterward. It’s not something I’d pay for on a regular basis, but it was a fun little excursion and we enjoyed it.

I had the pleasure of taking a tour of downtown St. Louis with St. Louis Carriage Company. Booking and paying for the tour was super easy! I found a great deal on Groupon (tour for 2 -$ 17), called the number listed and booked the tour. Super simple. The tour was about an hour or so long. We toured the downtown area and listened to a bit of history and fun facts about St. Louis. This tour is definitely worth trying if you’re a newbie to the city.

We did the touristy thing and took a carriage ride. It was located across the street from The Old Spaghetti Factory, so after dinner we wanted to spend more time with our Illinois family and decided to take a ride. For (7) adults and (2) kids we paid $ 75.00 for a 30 minute ride. Our carriage driver Nicky was very personable and friendly. We rode near the restaurants, passed the famous Gateway Arch, and near the Riverfront. The architecture of the Arch is stunning and quite a sight to see. The Riverfront is very beautiful and relaxing. My only gripe would be the fast racers that drive by blaring thier explicit lyric rap music and blasting thier suped up mufflers. Having to endure sitting through this the majority of the ride made it not fun. Plus having my kids exposed to that music made me so frustrated. Unlike in our car, we could roll up our windows and play our children’s music to ignore it. So our 30 minute carriage ride seemed like forever. Overall, the experience of riding in a carriage, and my kids being able to pet a horse was nice, but the rest I could forget.

I must admit I treated myself and two friends to a lovely little carriage ride around the downtown area. We were on our way back to the hotel we were staying in and the poor horses were out front so I asked the guy how much and he said 40.00. This is something I have always wanted to experience (of course I had a more romantic fantasy of sharing it with my husband) but let’s get real life is no soap opera and it is also short so I decided I was going to live in the moment and announced to my buddies that jump in i’m getting us a ride. I enjoyed it the young man that was driving the horse if that is what you call it was nice and entertaining. I did ask about the poor horse because being an animal lover I am a little disturbed that they are exploited like this and want them to have a good life. He assured me that they like working and that they have nice stables close to the city. I enjoyed it and consider this not to bad of a price for a special treat…

St. Louis Carriage Company was hired and scheduled have 2 ponies at my daughter’s birthday party. I had the permits required for the park where the party was held. The park had all of their information. The contract was signed.
THEY DID NOT SHOW. THEY DID NOT CALL. ALL ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT THEM WERE IGNORED.
My daughter asked again today why the ponies did not show up to her birthday party. She is young and took it very personal that the ponies did not come to her birthday party as expected.
I am so disgusted in this place.
Thanks for the childhood trauma, jerks.

We went for a carriage ride because we got the Groupon for $ 25. They apparently sold over 1,000 of them. All in all, a pretty good deal for $ 25. The carriage ride we took (there are multiple routes, I believe) started at the Hyatt (formerly the Adam’s Mark) and went around downtown for somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes.
The carriage driver didn’t talk too much, which was fine by me. Maybe he would have talked more if we weren’t from St. Louis and didn’t know much about the city. He did point out a few attractive historical buildings that we passed along the way.
I noticed that he incorrectly identified the old Southwestern Bell Building as the so-​called «Ghostbusters Building» (which is in New York City), but I’m willing to give him a pass :) I’ve thought they were similar in appearance myself.

Great place. Ask for Shannon we have had him for several trips through downtown. They also do rides through Tillis park for the Christmas lights.

I recently took my wife on a carriage ride.
The views are beautiful.
The one piece of advice I’ll give, is make sure somehow with conversation that you are from St Louis. If not, the driver will tell you everything you know (and some of what you do not) about St Louis.
If you are looking for a quiet/​romantic time, that will avoid the «narrative».
Overall:
Expensive
⁵⁄₅ Professionalism
⁵⁄₅ on Cleanliness
$ 45 for 30 minutes, driver gets a commission plus your tip.
I tipped $ 10. She said that was average, I asked as I was curious to how they get paid.

Gosh, I wish I had had my camera! My husband surprised me with a romantic carriage ride. The horse was gorgeous, a dark male with beautiful eyes. The carriage driver — what do you call them? — was very sweet and a little silly, and yet supremely professional. We went calmly down various roads downtown and kept out of people’s way. Typically I don’t agree with carriage rides because of the dangers — but this guy did a great job in keeping everyone — including the horse — safe.