Whether you’re celebrating a birthday, bachelorette, family reunion, or just want a day out with your favorite people, our private detours are all about you. From Hill Country wine tastings to food truck eats to street art strolls and live music crawls, we’ll design an experience tailored to your group’s styles and interests.
Your own guide, vehicle, and customized experience!
If there are two things Austinites love, it’s BBQ and craft beer! This event takes you to one of the best BBQ pits in town. There, we’ll feast on an assortment of local smoked meats and create your own rub.
Led by working artists, musicians, comedians, and other local creatives, this tour offers your team an insider’s look at what makes Austin the Creative Capital of Texas.
Discover Austin’s musical heritage and what makes us the Live Music Capital of the World. As we travel through the stories of Austin’s musical heritage!
You have enough to do with planning a wedding, so let us create fun for your bachelor’s or bachelorette party! Whether your crew is into laid-back hangs or nonstop action, we’ll create a custom itinerary that hits all the right notes.
Our Texas History Tour provides a continuous shuttle between three of the city’s major attractions so you can soak up the nostalgia at your own pace. A dream tour for history lovers!
Led by a local musician, this experience shows you what our music scene is all about. If you’re in Austin and want to really experience the city, the Live Music Crawl is the way to do it!
Discover the best of Austin in just one evening. This customized tour is great for getting exactly what you want from a night out.
Explore Austin’s finest breweries! This tour will take you to the cream of the hops to sample their best brews and even tour one of the breweries.
We leave Austin and take a leisurely half-day visit to quaint Dripping Springs, the “Gateway to the Hill Country.” We’ll sample some great examples of locally produced beers, spirits, and wines, and learn about the craftsmanship, ingredients, passion, and patience that go into making these drinks so special.
Part city tour, part culinary adventure, we will taste exactly what you need to taste while visiting Austin, including tacos, BBQ, and locally crafted brews and spirits—or swap the booze for an indulgent dessert tasting! This Detour will send your taste buds into overdrive!
Austin is a haven for foodies, and this tour gives guests a taste of our favorite local cuisine. We’ll hop around to two different local favorites, taste-testing chips, dips, specialty apps, and other treats, paired with refreshing margaritas. Eat and drink your way through Austin’s Tex-Mex scene.
The essential Central Texas detour! Hear about the lifestyle, food, music, and history while zipping around the city, then head for the hills through the beautiful Hill Country!
We’ll weave through the city showcasing the very best and most offbeat street art, while learning how the street art culture ties into the history and culture of Austin.
Escape the city and unwind in Texas Hill Country, where open views, exceptional wine, and legendary BBQ await. Whether you choose a wine-focused day or the full wine and food experience, we take care of the planning so you can focus on the connection, conversation, and scenery.
Explore South Congress! Local artists, gorgeous and intriguing street art, fun and weird historical Austin tidbits, fantastic flavors, unique boutique shopping and so much more along the way.
Discover the best of the city in just two hours! This fast-paced “bucket list” tour gives visitors a great snapshot of Austin: explore cool outdoor art, snap photos at city landmarks, and check out funky neighborhoods only a local would know about. By the time you’re done, you’ll be able to say you “get” Austin – the history, people, music, culture, food, and what keeps it “weird.”
On this detour, you get to do the three best things in Austin in just one night! Join us as we feast on local BBQ, then head to the famous Austin Honky Tonk for live music and a two-step lesson.
If you want to get away from the big city and discover small-town Texas, this detour is for you! We’ll take a relaxing 90-minute drive west of Austin, weaving our way through a string of small towns en route to Fredericksburg, a quaint city with a rich German heritage.
We took the Real Austin Tour with Ike as our guide. We instantly hit it off with Ike. Our demented sense of humor made the tour extremely enjoyable. Ike is very knowledgeable the history, music scene and was able to answer our questions. I named a couple of obscure bands and he knew them.
We had a fantastic tour with Kelty! She is a 7th generation Austinite, and her pride is obvious and contagious! We learned so much about the city and she gave us great suggestions which we used throughout our stay. Thank you, Kelty!
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