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Visitors and residents alike now have an engaging and informative NEW attraction in which to experience Sarasota’s multi-layered past. Discover Sarasota Tours, which offers four different daily and nightly sightseeing tours aboard an air-conditioned trolley opened near downtown in October. In addition to the City Sightseeing Tours, Happy Hour Sightseeing Tours, Circus Tours and the Ghost Tour of Sarasota, Discover Sarasota Tours also offers special monthly tours. These tours include: Public Art of Sarasota, Psychic Sundays and The Amish Experience. New specialty tours will be added in each month. All tours depart from the DST Trolley Depot located in a cute 1930s cottage near downtown with a charming vintage gift shop. The 90-minute tours are led by  tour guides most of whom have acting or entertainment backgrounds. Early daytime tours run at 10 AM, afternoon tours begin at 1 PM,…

Magical History Tours When is a trolley a time machine? When it’s one of the trolleys on Tommy Hauser’s recently launched Discover Sarasota Trolley Tours. Each air-conditioned trek is an enlightening voyage through space and time. Want to know where the local ghosts are hiding? Checkout the “Spooky Side of Sarasota” tour for gripping tales…

Five Fun Facts From Discover Sarasota Tours About What Makes Our Town Special BY ILENE DENTON November 30, 2018 Discover Sarasota promises it offers fascinating insight into Sarasota’s rich cultural past. A new trolley tour company launched this fall with costumed guides who offer, as founder Tammy Hauser promises, “tours of the most interesting people,…

Trolley tours offer new view of Sarasota sites and history BY THOMAS BECNEL, STAFF WRITER October 17, 2018 Discover Sarasota Tours provide themed trips around town For Sarafina, a ghostly hostess for the new Discover Sarasota Tours, the best moments are the unscripted ones. Even the goriest story can’t compete with a sudden shock. Last…

Discover Sarasota Spooks on Tour BY SRQ DAILY SATURDAY PERSPECTIVES EDITION | SATURDAY OCT 13, 2018 All aboard for Discover Sarasota Tours’ City Ghost tour! Delight in stories of the supernatural and the shenanigans of our beloved city, from Sarasota’s bootlegging and circus days to modern times during our 90-minute after-hours trolley tour. Come dressed…

Trolley company to launch guided themed tours of Sarasota by Ray Collins SARASOTA, FL (WWSB) – Tammy Hauser moved to Sarasota three years ago and says she was surprised there were no guided trolley tours of Sarasota like you’d find in similar cities like Savannah or Charleston. “I thought, ‘there are enough people that are…