Bratislava City Tours · Bratislava
The same public-bus day as the lunch tour, with a tasting of three beers and a small snack added after lunch. Book it if you are over 18 and want the beer sorted, not the full brewery crawl.
Bratislava City Tours runs this as a variant of its bus trip with lunch. You take the regular Slovak Lines bus from stop C1 at Vienna Hauptbahnhof at 9:50 AM and get off at Most SNP, the first stop in Bratislava, at 11:20. A guide meets you there for a one-hour Old Town walk, then you go to lunch, a two-course daily menu, and to a tasting of three beers with a small snack.
The guide does not join lunch or the tasting, and you ride the bus alone. One guest called the bus part stressful and bought a separate ticket home. Groups are 15 at most, and the trip is adults only.
Rated 4.1 from 17 reviews. The tasting gets fair marks, the lunch less so: one guest got soup and pasta, another found only one main course left. A reviewer who loved Bratislava suggested skipping the package and trying the Old Town's own microbreweries instead. That is a fair point if you know beer; this tour suits people who want it arranged.
Slovak Lines from stop C1 on Südtiroler Platz. QR code and passport in hand.
Get off at the first Bratislava stop, under the bridge, where the guide waits.
The Old Town highlights with a local guide.
A two-course daily menu, then three beers with a snack.
Explore on your own, then the bus to Vienna Hauptbahnhof.
★★★★★We thoroughly enjoyed this excursion and would recommend it. It was organised, informative and our guide was excellent!
★★★★★Bratislava is a really cool city, and the amount of time given during day is enough to see everything. The beer was really good and had some awesome old buildings - definitely recommend
★★★★★Was a very easy tour to take from Vienna. Directions for catching the bus was very clear. Met with our walking tour guide easily [...] Beer tasting was good.
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Adults 18 and over only. The listing has no child or youth rate.
Three samples with a small snack, after the two-course lunch. Extra drinks are on you.
Yes, plus the beer tasting: the same 9:50 AM Slovak Lines bus, the same one-hour walk and a two-course lunch. Compare it with the lunch-only version.
No. The guide leads the one-hour walk; lunch, the tasting and the bus are on your own.
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Return bus tickets, a guided walk, lunch and a three-beer tasting (adults 18 and over).
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