5280 Wine Tour Co

I booked the holiday lights and wine tour. One the day of the tour, I received a call from Sean who said they we’re having trouble getting their liquor license. He asked if I wanted a refund or to reschedule. I elected for the refund — which I never received! They owe me 130 dollars and now they won’t return my calls or emails! DO NOT waste your money!

This place is a scam. Bought a holiday wine tour through groupon and paid $ 130.00 for two tickets, and could not get a hold of the company. Have called, emailed, and tried to book online to get no response from the company and see that their online booking system is still down. Will never recommend this company, or buy from again!

Wish I could do a NO STAR report. The rest of these reviews are accurate to a T except the actual 2 that had a good experience. We had bought a Groupon for this back in SEPTEMBER for a haunted wine tour, and were pretty darn excited about it. My husband and I love Halloween and all the fun fall festivities. And lets face it, wine too: D Anyway, we booked the tour back on the 4^th of October, for one of only 3 dates left because of extreme over-​booking on their end. We had to do one for tonight, the 17^th of November. No biggie, keep the Halloween season going a bit longer. Fun! Not… I never got my email confirmation after I signed up for the online booking, then signed up for the 17^th which said confirmed and that I would get an email confirming. Never got that. Never got the email that was supposed to be sent 72 – 48 hours before the tour. I called and called and called today (literally, I just kept hitting redial to see if I could frustrate someone into answering the phone). Finally after about an hour of worrying (and an email which is supposed to be the best way to get a hold of them) that they just jacked my $ 130, I finally got someone on the line. She explained that I NEVER signed up for tonight (um, hi… it said you are confirmed for the 17^th). So it was my fault and now they have no more tours. UNTIL THE SPRING. No thanks, not going to let you use my money and shut down your company with all the Groupon bucks you’re getting. Thanks to Groupon, my new heroes, they quickly, and I MEAN QUICKLY! refunded my money and were awesome with their service. I suggest grabbing a couple bottles at the liquor store and watching some horror flicks, much cheaper. I can’t believe they sell their normal tickets for $ 130. YOU’RE NUTS if you buy tickets from them… even if it’s discounted for Groupon. They need to get their act together, and run a better business. ‘Nuff said.

I have also rated this as one star only because a no-​star rating is not possible.
My friends and I purchased a Groupon for this company’s Haunted Wine Tour, which promised a flight of five Colorado wines along with a three-​hour tour. The days prior to the event we tried to obtain event detail information on the website and found not only a hard-​to-​navigate site but also erroneous and missing information. When we finally arrived at the winery before the event we found that they were serving only a tasting of three wines and that the tour was in fact only two hours long. We were told that they would honor the five-​wine serving, but only for us and only if we didn’t tell the rest of the people there. The driver of the tour bus also admitted that «bodily fluids» were often a problem on the bus. We decided that we were not getting what we’d paid for and decided against attending the tour. When we called and spoke to the owner we were met with excuses and finally a promise to refund our purchase price. I sent an e-​mail everyday for three days asking the owners if they had issued the refund and if not, what they needed from me in order to do so. When I finally received a response, they were beyond rude and completely insulting. I will not be doing business with these people ever again, based solely on their response to a customer who was unhappy with the fact that I did not get what they had promised me and what I had paid for.
If the owner responds to this, I fully expect that there will be only excuses offerered, no apology and no corrective action. If you read the responses to the other reviews you will see that this is a pattern.

Nice excuses by the owner in the response. Bullshit! Had you tried to resolve the issue in ANY way, you wouldn’t have gotten the bad review. A month early is not late booking. These responses show me how truly scummy this place is.

I would have not have rated with any stars it was that bad. Do not waste your time or money. My good friends and I bought a Groupon for the Haunted Wine Tour. Wine plus scary attractions around Denver with good friends, sound like a no brainer right? Wrong!
My friend booked us for Friday and it said we were on the waiting list. He called to double check and they said, you are good to go, there was something wrong with the website.
We head down there, super excited, had been talking about it for weeks. Got there early to make sure we were ok. And the bus driver said, welp you all are on the waiting list. He said no worries you should be good to go. A hour later when everyone gets on the bus, he says sorry, it is full and off the bus goes.
At this point we are furious and it takes A LOT to make me mad. We call 5280 wines and apparently it was our fault. We spoke to the owner and he said he would contact us Monday… It is Tuesday. NO CALL!
Do not waste your time or money. Groupon was great and refunded us right away.

I was able to do the Haunted Wine Tour again this year and again I was not disappointed. 5280 Wine Tour CO teamed up again this year with Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research guys. The stories and jokes (sarcasm being one of my guilty pleasures) are great. Starting off the night at D’Vine with a tasting and a very tasty tasting as always.
If you’ve never been, this tour is such a treat. If you’ve been before, go again as some of the stories have updates. More tours were added this year because of the demand.
Sangria is still flowing and this year there are gourmet cookies for each guest. So, it does sound like the owners of 5280 Wine Tour CO did hear the jeers about the individual Famous Amos cookies.

The 2 stars are for price. I’d be more than happy to pay up to $ 30 for their «wine and lights» tour, which I’m sure is pretty similar to their haunted tour (they still had their haunted decorations up in the bus). Luckily, I got a groupon for $ 50 which was still too much in my opinion. I can’t believe some people shelled out $ 100-​$ 130 to get driven around in a bus drinking sangria out of a cooler (we were hoping for wine on this very chilly december night) and fed single serve famous amos cookies in the bag.
The owners/​tour guides were very nice, and although the lights weren’t very abundant, they were able to find a couple good pockets of houses around cherry creek. They did make us get off the bus and carroll in front of a random Cherry Creeker’s home which seemed a little awkward, but hey it’s the holidays.
Again, not a bad tour, just very over priced. It’s a good tour for $ 30, not $ 130.

My boyfriend and I were on a brewery tour in Denver with a large group. After drinking beer non stop for 4 days it was so refreshing to change it up with some delicious wine. We had booked with 5280 for their Haunted Wine Tour and we had a fabulous time! Lisa was so warm and friendly when we met her. Brian Bonnen from the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Society was awesome! If we lived in Denver we would absolutely book more tours with them and see the wineries.

I’m a wine lover. Let’s face it, I have had more glasses of wine than I have had water and I cannot resist a foreign bottle. So when some friends decided to do a Denver wine tour I laughed. However, CO has over 30 wineries with a ton in Denver. Guess who’s laughing now?
The 5280 Wine Tour (not affiliated with the magazine) is quite an experience for any wine lover. And, let’s be honest, anyone who is interested in trying wine but does not know much about it should go. Our group of 20+ was picked up in a party bus and a hummer limo (part of the package deal) and we started by going to a winery (Balisteri) in the middle of commerce city (I kid you not) where we tried over 22 local wines!
We were then taken to the Denver Wine Row where we visited 4 different tasting rooms, all with over 5 wines each (or more) to try. My recommendation? Go straight to Garfield Wines and try their Ice wine and Au de Chocolat — both dessert wines are incredible and this is coming from someone that does not like dessert wines.
Why the four stars? Price. I got a great deal on Groupon but without the deal it is about $ 100 per person which seems a bit steep. All in all, this was an awesome day tour of the city and CO wines are definitely worth trying and learning about!