Was in Missouri for a conference and I'm so glad I made the time to come out and see historic…read moredowntown St. Louis. It really is a great city with incredible history. Have done running tours in Philadelphia and it's a great way to see the sights on foot. I'm glad when major cities offer such a tour. Food tours, mural arts, walking are all great too but running was my chance to take a break midweek from the sciencing and networking. Joe had several tours available on the weekends but I was able to do one on a Wednesday evening as part of the summer schedule. As I caught a Lyft from St. Charles during rush hour to the meeting spot at Kierney Plaza, Joe was understanding if I was a little late start. Turns out I was the only runner signed up so it became more like a personalized tour. What I loved was hearing Joe's vast knowledge of St. Louis along the way, and his passion for running. He even carried a camera and took photos throughout. Of course we stopped at the arch, but also Lacledes Landing, the riverfront, bridge, Lewis and Clark statue, the ballpark, Citygarden sculptures, City Museum, and other neat houses/buildings even after the sun went down. The price for the downtown tour included the photos (via Dropbox), bottled water and a t-shirt. I forget the exact distance but the pace was comfortable enough for conversation. Had fun out on the road, exploring! There's a lot to be said about opting for the active, outdoor, fun option while traveling for conferences. Happy to have chosen the road less traveled! There was a brief hiatus in September but regular tours should be back.

Had a great running experience today. I was the only one who showed up for a tour today and ended…read moreup getting an outstanding one-on-one tour of the city and its landmarks by Joe. I highly recommend this to any style runners. He makes lots of stops and runs at the slowest runner's pace.

Came here for a tour and had a good time! I grew up in STL and never knew about this! Very nice…read moreworkers/ they offered us a 45 min tour that ended up over 1.5 hours...the tour guide could talk ALOT. I liked the tour but it went a little too long. I would come back and bring others here to visit!

This museum has a wide variety of telephones and equipment from 1800s to the present. The tour…read moreguide is very informative and knows a lot about the telephones on display. Well worth seeing

Travel agent Carrie Willard at the St. Peters, MO office has planned several international trips…read morefor us. She is very knowledgeable and has a pleasant disposition. She follows up quickly and has provided great suggestions. Highly recommended that you use Carrie to help plan your next trip.

How am I the first to review this place!? I've been using TravelPlex since it was Majestic Travel…read moreback in 2004/2005! The store was located close to "home" and I fell in love with one of the travel agents, Carrie Willard. Carrie is highly knowledgeable in all facets of travel, including up & coming hot spots, secret tips within the industry, and safety regulations to ALL places I've considered over the years. Still to this day, I reach out to Carrie when in need of travel advice. She is ultimately the first "vendor" I established a long-life loyalty with at the ripe age of 17. Still to this day, now at 27 years old, I trust her whole-heartedly... even if I can't book every trip I inquire about! Honestly people, if you're looking for natural efficiency & effort in planning all your travel needs, look no further! And this goes for out of towners too! Currently living in Denver (and just sending a friend living in Nashville to her as well), Carrie's service has no limitations to distance. No pun intended!

Lori was our tour guide and she provided a great tour of The Hill. She was very knowledgeable…read moreabout the history and provided fun facts as well. The restaurant choices were great. You won't leave hungry!

This tour is a 5/5 for sure! My husband and I try to do a food tour every time we visit a new city…read more We've done more than a few, and the St. Louis tour in The Hill has been our favorite so far! We learned so much about the food, culture, and history of St. Louis and had a great time meeting new people and enjoying delicious bites along the way! You should absolutely take this tour while in STL!

What a fun night to see the brewery lights. My boyfriend paid for admission online. We came here…read morearound 730pm last night and the entry process was simple. We just pull up the QR code on the phone for the staff to scan. Then was issued our s'more kits at the entrance and went to the s'mores area to roast our marshmallows. There were several fire pits for this. We also got a small Budweiser tour. We saw plenty of lights. We also got our picture take the Clydesdale. The horses were super calm so petting them was also optional. The popcorns taste great. Definitely recommend the popcorns. There were less people so we got to enjoy the scene and the lights a lot more. We spent about an hour here.

There's just something special about the AB Brewery. While we went on the coldest night of the…read moreseason, everything was sparkling and inviting. Check it out this month!

What an incredible experience! Matt Fox is an exceptional guide and educator, and this kayak…read morewildlife tour was so much more than I expected. He has a genuine passion for nature, wildlife, conservation, and teaching, and that passion made the entire experience engaging and memorable. Exploring Post-Dispatch Lake by kayak gave me a completely different perspective of Forest Park. Matt helped us notice and understand the wildlife around us--from birds and aquatic life to the fascinating connections between an urban environment and the natural world. I especially loved learning how conservation efforts can make a difference in creating healthy habitats right in the middle of a city. What makes Matt stand out is the way he combines science, education, adventure, and genuine curiosity. He doesn't simply tell you what you're seeing--he helps you understand why it matters. I left the tour looking at the natural world around me differently and thinking about what I can do in my own yard to encourage wildlife and biodiversity. If you love kayaking, wildlife, learning, or simply being outside, I highly recommend taking a tour with Matt. It was educational, fun, peaceful, and truly one-of-a-kind. I would absolutely do it again!

Great adventure!…read more Floating the Missouri River, from Blanchette Park, which is almost a baseball throw from the I-370 / Discovery Bridge... to... Sioux Passage Park in North County, right where the Missouri hits what looks like the apex of the curve, almost Arch-like in shape... this journey is mostly north... and when the river starts to flow back south, you take out at Sioux Passage Park (the Native Americans / indigenous people would save 20+ miles paddling by carrying canoes and items from the Mississippi to the Missouri and back). The canoes are about 20 feet long; single seats fore and aft for Big Muddy leaders; 4-5 dual seats in between... so you'll paddle one side at at time. Super steady. The river... so calm so quiet. A few weeks earlier, our daughter and I went fly fishing in Wyoming... small town; quiet... and still we'd hear a periodic pickup truck off in the distance. This Big Muddy journey... the Missouri River... the longest river in North America... once we passed Lambert's flight path, we hear no vehicles... zero... zip... zilch... none... not a single vehicle... so peaceful. This journey includes three stages... 1) Blanchette to the first stop where we all got out and stretched and floated in an eddy (backward current) - calm and smooth and save. 2) that island to the next for lunch 3) that island to Sioux Passage Park about one hour rowing in between... time depends on your canoe's paddlers... some are stronger than others... Enjoy the float... enjoy it wondrously. Big Mddy provides dry bags... they can readily hold a backpack and plenty of smaller items... the top rolls over and clicks close, nice and tight and dry. Clothes... you'll get sweaty... your feel will likely get sandy+dirty / dirty+sandy... that's part of the run of the trip. bring a charger for your phone... enjoy the float enjoy the nature enjoy your fellow canoeists enjoy the Big Muddy leaders THANK YOU, BIG MUDDY ADVENTURES, FOR ALL YOU DO FOR US AND ST. LOUIS AND MISSOURI AND OUR RIVERS!!!

Great tour to take to learn about St Louis sites quickly I…read morerecently took the St. Louis Trolley Tour, and I highly recommend it. We parked across the street from the Four Seasons Hotel and the bus picked us up right in their covered driveway. The trolley itself is fantastic. It has the charming, classic look of an old-fashioned trolley but with modern upgrades that make a big difference. It had excellent air conditioning and a high-quality sound system so you could hear the driver. The ride was smooth and comfortable, even on some of the older city streets. Our driver was outstanding. He handled the tour beautifully, especially considering the fact that I am fairly certain that we had to take a completely different route because a sinkhole had opened up downtown that day. Despite the detour, he never missed a beat. His narration was engaging, informative, and full of details about the city's history and landmarks as we passed them by. He made the whole experience fun and enjoyable. The route took us through Forest Park, one of the highlights of the tour. We passed by the St. Louis Zoo and several other beautiful areas within the park. Our driver even stopped for about five minutes in front of the museum, where we were able to enjoy the excellent views across the park. It was a perfect little break in the tour. After leaving Forest Park, we wound our way back through the city, traveling through Midtown and seeing many of St. Louis's other notable sights to include a beautiful church. Overall, it was a very well-run, informative, and enjoyable tour. The combination of the comfortable trolley, excellent driver, and beautiful route made it one of the best city tours we've taken. I would definitely do it again and highly recommend it to anyone visiting St. Louis.

This was an easy way to see the entire city and learn a little history. I was the youngest person…read moreon the tour (not to my surprise) and it was packed. Windows opened which was a plus!

You would think finding a decent ghost tour in STL with all its history would be easy...well, it's…read morenot. For a recent trip I settled on St. Louis Ghost (part of US Ghost Adventures). The website was easy to use and it was easy to fin da convenient time for our trip. The few reviews I was able to find seemed to be decent. I'm not a super experienced ghost tourer but we have been on others- a little spooky and eerie but very informative with great stories. I had hopes this would be similar...it wasn't. It was so terrible we left an hour into the tour which pains me because I even paid for the extended tour but we just couldn't take it anymore. We have literally never done this. We were bored, we were tired, and we both concluded that we weren't learning anything all that interesting to want to spend another hour with a guide that seemed to really not care and would keep complaining about the size of the group. First, the instructions for the meeting spot and how to spot the guide were terrible. We actually ran into others looking for the meeting spot and all managed to find it together. Frustrating start but not the end of the world. Second, the group was HUGE. Like, 30 people. The guide didn't use a mic or any way to amplify his voice but kept commenting how huge the group was like it was a surprise. Which is mind boggling to me because you sign up online so theoretically the size of the group is known. It was way too big. Check in was agonizingly long as well. I was really looking forward to hearing about the cool history and kept my expectations low on the scares. I don't spook easily but I was looking for something my hubby could enjoy as well. I was also trying to keep the cheesy factor to a minimum. The bottom line: the group was too big, the stories were boring and barely stories. There was no interesting build up. Several times the guide said, "Oh, I tried to see if there were any ghost stories on this building but couldn't find any" as we walked by. Like, really? At one point he yelled at a car or some passersby to look up US Ghost Adventures. I was also disappointed that the ending spot of the tour was way far from the starting point- not cool when parking is atrocious. It's not the safest area so I wasn't super keen on having to walk extremely out of our way. I can't recommend this company. Go grab dinner and/or some drinks somewhere fun for the cost of the tickets and I promise you'll enjoy it a lot more. I was so bummed because this was supposed to be a fun surprise activity but it turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments of the trip. Do not recommend at all.

My husband and I had an amazing time on our Brew Hop STL adventure! We went to 4 local breweries -…read moreeach one unique and delicious! On our tour we hit: Urban Chestnut, Bluewood Brewing, Wellspent Brewing and Perennial Brewing. Each brewery had a large selection of beers. We even got behind the scenes tours of Wellspent and Bluewood which was super interesting. Our guide Jesse was awesome! He is a great guy with a lot of knowledge on everything breweries. Definitely a great gift idea or weekend activity.

Jesse is amazing!!!…read more Extensive knowledge of beer. He has beers from 14 different states so he's definitely well versed in sensory! If you want to know more about beer, a 15 mile radius from STL, there are 74 breweries. You won't get to tour all 74 but you can tour 4! We traveled and toured Six Mile, Arch Nemeiss, SteamPunk, and MKNZ. The beer subject matter expert is Jesse! I encourage you to Google Brew Hop STL and sign up! He tours breweries two Saturdays a month.

It was an awesome experience! I loved hearing about the history, and our tour guide told us many…read morestories. The walk was very doable for this 70 year old. The walks were dimly lit, and the areas of interest were appropriately illuminated to bring out the colors and the textures. My husband was not excited to go, but left feeling the tour was well worth it. Make sure you bring a sweat shirt or more, it is 58-60 degrees In the cave. The light show at the end, was appropriate as it remembered a ceremony in that same place right after WWII honoring our military and first responders.

I truly enjoyed this tour. About 1.5hr drive away from St Louis. Filled the tank up and load the…read morekiddos and off to a beautiful adventure. Suggest wearing comfortable walking shoes and bringing a sweater if you tend to be get cold. Inside temp was around 65 degrees. The walking tour was about 1.5 hours long. Keep in mind, no stroller or wheelchair is allowed inside. Walk surfaces can be wet and little slippery in some areas. Our Tour Guide Aida was very informative and knowledgeable about the caves. She was also very patient with grandma and often slow down or waited for her. I think Mother Earth is amazing and everyone should visit at least once. There are other activities onsite. We did not partake in any. Arrived towards the evening hours and they were already closed up. Plan accordingly if you would like to partake in other activities. We went just for the cavern.