Bourbon and Derby: Makers Mark or other and Churchill Down

The distillery tour was awesome. Construction going on at Churchill Downs. Hard to hear the tour guide. Could doend more time at both places. Our driver was great. Polite and friendly

The tour guide was awesome! But my experience with the company I booked my tour was not very pleasant. If booking with this company make sure you have no other plans and don’t fall in love with your itinerary because they can’t garante anything they say. When I booked we’re supposed to go to Churchill downs at 9:00 am then to Woodford distillery, then to Buffalo trace but instead they changed everything to the afternoon then when I called they changed it back to the morning now starting at 8:00 am and changed distilleries!!! They were not bad but not what I paid for.

Let me start by saying our driver Juan was AMAZING! And Marjorie that booked everything and setup our itinerary was also excellent. However the tours title said Buffalo Trace and Churchill Downs. All the pictures of Churchill Downs showed horses and kids petting them. They texted me to let me know that they didn’t have enough tickets for BT distillery. I was okay with that especially with Covid going on. During this text exchange setting up our itinerary they sent me a picture of 1792 Full Proof award winning bourbon and part of the itinerary said 1792 tasting. When we got to Barton’s for the tasting it wasn’t Full Proof. It was very cheap Old Barton’s, and 1792 Small Batch. During the Churchill Down tour we never saw a horse anywhere. Overall we made the most of our tour but it was nothing like advertised.

Churchill Downs was great, the tour guy was very informative and interesting to listen to. We were Picked up our hotel and the driver was very helpful.

I’ll confess that my friend and I got shut out of a different tour we were interested in taking, but this Bourbon and Derby your turned out to be perfect on all counts!!! Our driver, Juan, was so accommodating and super helpful as we made our way (slowly) through the distillery tours and gift shops. He even took us back to one gift shop so we wouldn’t miss our next tour. He even recommended dishes to have at a restaurant we had reservations for that evening. One of the best, most memorable tours ever! The only critique I had was in the booking process. It was a little confusing. It’s labeled as Bourbon and Churchill Downs, and I knew CD was an extra charge but thought I had already arranged it. Turns out I didn’t but Juan quickly corrected it for us.