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Sarasota Trolley Tour All About Design June 17, 2023 | Venice Gondolier by Kim Cool, Our Town Editor If there is something one wants to learn about Sarasota, there likely is or will be a Discover Sarasota Trolley Tour. The newest is the Discover Sarasota Architecture Tour guided by Ed Simays, a 2000 transplant from…

Meet Founder & CEO Tammy Hauser, Discover Sarasota Tours Summer 2023 | Bradenton Magazine When did you start the business? Why? When I moved to Sarasota from Minneapolis in 2015, I wondered why there were no trolley tours in a tourist town with such a storied past. As an arts consultant (part of my past…

Welcome to the Spring 2023 edition of the Trolley Times newsletter from Discover Sarasota Tours!

City of Sarasota opens Blue Ribbon Committee applications Updated: May 1, 2023 at 5:57 PM CDT SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Following a City of Sarasota Commission meeting on May 1, the city opened up applications for the Blue Ribbon Committee on its website. The committee will study financially sustainable options for the Van Wezel Performing…

DISCOVER SARASOTA TOURS NAMED 2023 SRQ BEST LOCAL TOUR COMPANY! Discover Sarasota Tours announces that it has been named the PLATINUM winner in SRQ Magazine’s 2023 SRQ Best of Local Competition in a new category called BEST LOCAL TOUR COMPANY. SRQ readers submitted a record 104,395 “Best of SRQ” Local votes this year, in the…

Discover Sarasota Tours Brews up Excitement With New Sunset Cabaret Tour SRQ DAILY | TUESDAY DINING AND FOOD EDITION | TUESDAY April 4, 2023 On May 4th, Discover Sarasota Tours will kick off its new Sunset Cabaret Trolley Tour. This is the sixteenth tour that the company will run alongside its other popular experiences. The…

DISCOVER SARASOTA TOURS PRESENTS NEW Sunset Cabaret Tour! Hop aboard Discover Sarasota Tours’ air-conditioned Dolly the Trolley for our newest tour, Sunset Cabaret with local actor, songwriter, and raconteur Steve McAllister. This entertaining tour kicks off with free wine/beer in the Trolley Cottage Tiki Bar, and then heads on a two-hour adventure. The tour includes stops at…

Meet Tammy Hauser March 27, 2023 | CanvasRebel Magazine Tammy, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. To kick things off, we’d love to hear about things you or your brand do that diverge from the industry standard Our company is a hybrid of the worlds of theater and…

Circus trolley tour for Circus Sarasota performers Updated: Feb. 26, 2023 at 6:07 PM CST Discover Sarasota Tours hosted a group from the Circus Arts Conservatory, including visiting Circus Sarasota artists, on a Circus Secrets trolley tour of Sarasota, known as “Circus City USA.” The tour began with remarks from Discover Sarasota Tours CEO Tammy Hauser….

DISCOVER SARASOTA COUNTY HISTORY NEW History Hop Trolley Tours Offered By Discover Sarasota Tours During the week of March 14-16, 2023, Discover Sarasota Tours will offer three separate days of trolley tours in three Sarasota County towns: March 14 – Englewood, March 15 – Sarasota and March 16 – Venice. Two 90-minute tours each day…

Trolley tours explore Sarasota’s Pinecraft Amish Community BY CAITLIN WILSON FLORIDA PUBLISHED 1:13 PM ET JAN. 20, 2023 SARASOTA, Fla. — Some trolley tours down the historic streets of Sarasota are aimed at highlighting the Pinecraft Amish Community, a spot where Amish and Mennonites come to vacation every year. What You Need To Know Amish and Mennonites…

DISCOVER SARASOTA TOURS IS NOMINATED FOR BEST OF SRQ LOCAL NOMINATIONS SRQ MAGAZINE | WEDNESDAY JANUARY 11, 2023   VOTING IS LIVE! Congratulations to the local businesses who were nominated during the Best of SRQ Local Nominations Round this past October and to those who ranked at the top of their category to earn their…