Incredibly helpful! The staff was excellent with recommendations as well as putting together our Bend Ale Trail passports with recommendations as where to start. Would definitely recommend going there first to check out the town with insider info.

Visit Bend is the information hub for Bend and a place you have to go to if youre visiting. They have a great and friendly staff, combined with amazing stuff for sale that all benefits the town and parks. They also are the last stop for the Ale Trail, visit 10 breweries in town and get a SiliPint, 110% worth struggling through 10 beers on a hot day in town.

Great and highly accessable tourist information spot. The staff was super friendly, offered maps and a number of brochures with neat ideas in the area. Bathrooms were clean and available for anyone. Destination is also where you can redeem your Bend Ale Trail passport. The staff offered our child a free coloring book as well, which was unexpected but extremely nice. A great way to get a feel for the area and locals advice.

Great information center, very friendly and knowledgeable volunteers, conveniently located downtown and open 7 days a week.

Great staff with depth of knowledge of the area. Quick to share advice, maps and other info of the outdoor offerings and local attractions. Great place to make your first stop in town.

Staff was busy talking with someone, seemed personal, and I needed to interrupt after waiting for quite some time for them to finish. All in all, there was plenty of literature and ideas to pursue without staff.

The Bend Visitors Center was lovely. Tons of information and the staff are very helpful. We finished the first 10 of 16 breweries. Got a great beer mug out of it.

Plenty of information on the area (not just Bend, surrounding areas as well), plus all the Bend-branded Silipints and HydraFlasks you could want. Plus some worthwhile freebies (bidon, neck gaiter). Worth stopping in if you arent familiar with the area.

We enjoyed our time in Bend and loved completing the Tap Trail. My only complaint and reason for not giving a 5-star review is the inclusion of 10 Barrel Brewing. Aside from one brewery that closed down, 10 Barrel is the only place we didnt visit, on principle. We do not support Anhaeuser-Busch and their bullying and buying up segments of the craft brew market. For those unaware, 10 Barrel sold out to them a couple years back, but still pretend to be a craft brewery, so unsuspecting tourists are actually just giving money to Budweiser. I believe the Tap Trail should be only independent craft brands, and Visit Bend should remove 10 Barrel from it.

Beautiful city! Fun place to visit with gorgeous views!

GREAT area to visit to figure out what to do in the area! Very nice people there and awesome things to check out

The people of Bend are great in a town that has grown so fast with expert planning. Tge Bend Ale Trail was fun and most of the breweries had great beer.

Best place to start the trip of Bend. All info available at the visitor centre. Adjacent to public parking garage.

Come for the beer trail, stay for all the cool things you discover along the beer trail.

Kind and helpful staff. Plenty of free brochures and maps to help you plan your area visits. Some great postcards and souvenirs too. And... restrooms!

Nice, helpful staff. Lots of brochures and maps. We used the information every day of the week we were there. Lots of great ideas of things to do.

Drove 5 hours to Bend to do the Ale Trail for the weekend and 100% recommend!! Visited 11 breweries and had a blast at almost all of them. The people in Bend are so nice and accommodating. Would definitely plan a trip to go back. Great town with a lot to do.

Delightful staff that was helpful throughout the experience, even as awkward tourists who didnt know what they wanted. Helped us get going towards Glass Butte for our obsidian haul, and we wouldnt have known exactly where to go without their help!

Perfect visitorcenter with enthousiastic people. There is a frer outdoor art tour that is rewarded with chocolate from the local chocolate store.

Wonderful staff! Helpful and friendly. Several maps to look at and some to purchase!

This is where to end your Ale Trail journey. We got our Awesome silipat pint glasses and our DDs got a hydroflask. Lots of stickers, brochures and very informative people working. Definitely a good place to start or end if you want some ideas for your Bend adventure

Very nice visitor center with knowledgeable and friendly docents. Very nice public toilets and a nice selection of souvenirs. I can highly recommend the Ale Trail and Round-about Art booklet - this is where you can pick up your prizes.

Its a good idea to gi to a visitor center when one is unfamiliar with the area. Even though I thought I researched Bend, there was a lot of things I learned. Naturally the staff was friendly, helpful, and had good tips. This center also had a lot of free printed guides and maps that were useful. Its certainly better than getting packets fro the wall rack at the local motel.

Great place to get maps, guides, and helpful suggestions for exploring Central Oregon. Also they have beautiful posters and cards for sale!

The Visitor Center in the city of Bend incredible they were very helpful Ive never gone to a visitor center but if theyre all like that Im going to start happy travels

We completed 10 ale trail stops and came down to get our prize! Very welcoming service... as it should be! Thanks for the prize!

This local bar serves the stiffest drinks and a perfectly poached egg breakfast. Fast service, excellent servers.

Very helpful information here. I love visiting Bend but its getting a little full of stuck-up Richies! Lets keep Bend cool and friendly to everybody make sure to keep your nose down so you dont bump it on the doorway. Youre no better than anybody else so dont act like it

Visit Bend is an awesome resource for unlocking the potential for one of the most diverse and amzing outdoor recreation areas in the country!

These are some friendly and informative folks! I highly recommend stopping by.

Very cool store

Bend, Oregon is amazing and the Visit Bend center downtown is great!! We were gratefully guided to so many great spots to visit and explore! Awesome vibe and wonderful welcoming people everywhere! We cant wait to move to Bend! -Sarah and David

Super helpful people and their knowledge made our trip so much better - Go see them first on Day 1!

Very nice visitor information office

Ill probably come back and stuff

Bend is pretty awesome, but way too many round abouts & people who dont know how to operate them

Website talks about Pet Friendly Bend, its notCity of Bend is NOT dog friendly. $275 fine for off leash. Cannot take any dog to ANY public outdoor events. Off leash parks are small, dusty, and disease infected. Cannot be off leash on trails in summer. Most people and businesses are dog friendly, city council is dog hostile.

Nice people and very helpful.Yah gotta do the Bend Ale Trail!

I love this town and this place is worth the stop.

Very helpful Bend ambassadors, with great information and ideas for things do in the area. The Bend Ale Trail being a great option, of course.

This is the best visitor center on Oregon! (Oh wait, full disclosure, I volunteer there!)

Fun town. Will definitely be back

Really informative and friendly staff. Were able to answer all of my questions and took away from there some good local magazines.

Was most amazing,extremely friendly staff;was very helpful!thanx for the wonderful experience.

The people here are very helpful figuring out whats good to do around Bend and when

Helpful. Good way to figure out what to do in bend

Welcome to Bend. Now come on in and say hi already!Looking for the best spot to catch a magical sunset? Or wondering who has the tastiest mac and cheese in town?The Bend Visitor Center in downtown offers a state-of-the-art visitor center experience with a friendly team of “Bend Experts” here to help you make the most of your vacation in Bend. Check your email at our iPad stations, shop for cool Bend souvenirs like the famous Bend Ale Trail tees along with select brews and wine from local craft breweries and micro-wineries, and even nab an original painting as a memento of your Bend vacation.Open daily all summer and Monday through Saturday during the winter months, stop by to pick up a FREE Bend visitor guide, trail maps for hiking and biking, suggestions on not-to-miss activities, and more.Bend’s Art & Soul: Pillars of ArtVisit Bend is covered in graffiti. Believe it or not, that’s something to celebrate. The Pillars of Art program is a pop up art gallery located in the Bend Visitor Center. Visit Bend launched the Pillars of Art program to give tourists a close-up look at Bend’s unique arts and culture scene and it’s a fun way to support emerging local artists. Every six months, a different artist creates chalk drawings on the cement pillars in the lobby. The artist also gets to showcase and sell their art. Think of it like a gallery with a twist.See you soon! -- The Visit Bend Team

Staff very friendly and helpful. They also provided information about serounding areas.

Super friendly and helpful staff!

Plenty of great info and some Bend / tourist swag

Good visitor info. Friendly staff. FREE!!

Fun place.

Great place for information, staff are fantastic!!

Friendly staff. We loved the ale trail!

They were very helpful with my beer trail exploration

They have added a couple new breweries to the ale Trail.

Great

This is where to go to start and finish the Bend Ale Trail!

Clean,nice

Staff was friendly, got the promised Bend Ale Trail beer cup. Noted that the souvenirs were a bit on the pricier side.

Bend sucks

Lots to see

Bend is a hidden GEM ..!!

Great place

Very pleasant and helpful!

Staff is knowledgeable and awesome

Friendly & helpful!

Very helpful, and informative!

Friendly and helpful staff.

Really nice staff full of info

Fun place to explore!