Guide to Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas is a well-balanced city with many fun bars, tons of great food options, and ample activities- both indoors and out. Whether you’re coming to Austin for a bachelor or bachelorette party, a music festival like Austin City Limits, or just for a good time, there’s so much to do!

Restaurants:

Breakfast/Brunch

• Quack’s

  • Great for picking up a cold brew and breakfast pastries

• Wu Chow

  • Dim Sum

• Launderette

• Paper Boy

Lunch

• Franklin BBQ

• La Barbecue

• Perlas Austin

  • Fresh oysters- go during oyster happy hour for $2 oysters and cocktail specials

Dinner

• dipdipdip Tatsu-Ya

• Barley Swine

• Uchi

Bars:

Rainey Street

Rainey Street is a street of little houses where each house is a different bar with a different theme. Some of our favorites include:

• Lustre Pearl

• Bungalow

• Icenhauer’s

• Lucille’s

• Container Bar

• Unbarlievable (circus themed with a slide in the middle!)

Dirty 6th Street

• Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar

West 6th Street

Breweries

• Austin Beerworks

• Zilker Brewing Company and Taproom

Activities:

• Take your friends on a party barge on Lake Travis

  • Bring your own coolers filled with drinks, snacks, and BBQ food- the barges have a grill on board where you can cook up a nice lunch

    • I recommend renting a party barge from the company Just For Fun

• Cool off with a relaxing day going river tubing:

  • Float down the San Marco River-just an hour drive away from Downtown Austin

  • Floating down the San Marco River takes between 3-4 hours. If you have, wear water shoes (Tevas/Chaco’s) and bring a waterproof case for your phone, credit card, keys, etc.

    • Note: Do NOT bring anything with you that you’d be sad to lose- leave your lucky hat and good jewelry at home!

  • Bring your own cooler

    • You can rent a float for your cooler and tie the cooler’s tube to yours

  • I recommend renting tubes from Texas State Tubes

• Mini Golfing at Peter Pan Mini Golf

• Go swimming at Barton Springs

• If you’re in Austin in October, check out the Austin City Limits music festival

• Go shopping on South Congress

  • Try on cowboy boots at Allen’s

• See a movie at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

• Checkout the Whole Foods Flagship

  • Walk the endless aisles of the OG Whole Foods location

Hotels:

• Fairmont Austin

• Commodore Perry Estate

Transportation:

• Car 🚗- Uber/Lyft

• Scooter 🛴- Bird/Lime

• Walk🚶‍♀️