RVA Trolley

Be smart and just get some friends and a designated driver and explore the awesome Richmond beer experience on your own.
I love Richmond breweries but would not recommend this «tour» to anyone. You’re pretty much paying for an overrated DD and small beer glass. Add in the fact that they choose what breweries they’ll take you to.
I was assuming that samples would be included in the tour but that was not the case. We received $ 2 off at one brewery and a 50% coupon at another but these were my lease favorite breweries in Richmond.
The girl who was the «tour guide» was very nice and friendly.

We had a Groupon for the brewery tour. We had a great time and the driver and guide were awesome. Both were very nice and enthusiastic. I don’t recall how much my Groupon was, but it is $ 60 per person normally. That seems a bit high. I can see where Über might be a better option as you can stay at a place as long as u like with no restrictions. Great staff though and we enjoyed ourselves eminsly.

I agree with the 2 previous reviewers… this“brewery tour” is a joke.
Basically they are act as an expensive taxi service. I have been on tours with other companies and usually there is a deal with the business where someone greets you when you arrive and tells you about the business… perhaps offers you a discount or at least a free tasting. NOT WITH THIS TOUR!
We received a quick wikipedia style synopsis before we pulled up and then we were let off the bus and left on our own. The businesses wouldn’t have even known we were there or on a tour. (except for Strangeways which offered a discount on your first beer)
Save your money and bribe a friend to be the DD or simply use it for cab fair.

Such a huge disappoint! My wife and I went on a brewery tour with this company and it left a lot to be desired. Our tour guide drove us and a larger group to three local breweries that he knew absolutely nothing about. We were dropped at each location and left to explore each brewery on our own. Both my wife and a member of the other group were told that the fee we paid for the tour included a tasting at each brewery, but this was not the case. To make matters worse our tour guide seemed to rush us and the other group when he felt that it was time to move on to the next brewery. My recommendation would be to skip this company because the experience is not worth the price and get a cab!

What a disappointment. We recently went on the «Beer Tour» and it was a complete waste of money. When we first got on the trolley there was no one there to greet us or tell us where we were going. In fact, the trolley started driving away without anyone so much as saying a word about what we were doing. We did a loop back to the front of the storefront and that’s when our tour guide finally got on the trolley and said hello. It was also the first time we found out which breweries we were going to visit. Very bizarre.
The website for the tour features the logos (and pictures from) most of the breweries in Richmond, ergo one would assume (I know, I know, bad move) that they actually have a relationship with these breweries and some sort of promotion, i.e. discount or complimentary drink or SOMETHING that makes paying $ 60 per person worthwhile. But no. You are paying $ 60 per person for a «tour guide» who reads you the Google basics on each brewery just before pulling up. That’s it. It’s a glorified and overpriced designated driver program. From the same starting location, you’d be better off taking an Über to the different breweries. It would cost about the same, if not cheaper depending on how many people are with you, and you’d be able to leave on your own terms. Speaking of leaving, many people left our tour before it was finished — it was that good. And by many, I mean about half. That’s a really bad retention rate considering how much each of them paid to take the tour.
If you make it to the end of the tour without finding alternate transportation home, your receive a free glass that says simply, RVA Trolley. No cool historic trolley logo, nothing fun about the RVA Beer Tour. Weak. Very weak.
There’s a Groupon for this right now, but even so, it’s not worth it and Über would be cheaper.