"Sugar, Tobacco and Rum" Tour
General Information
- Category: Half day tours
- Modality: Landing tours
- Duration: 6 hrs
- Departure time: 08:20 hrs Playa Marina-Paradisus Varadero * 08:35 hrs Iberostar Varadero-Blau Varadero * 08:50 hrs Meliá Las Antillas-Sol Club Palmeras * 09:00 hrs Meliá Varadero-Sol Club Sirenas Coral * 09:10 hrs Be Live Experience-L
- Tour guide: Yes
- Children are allowed: Yes
- Languages spoken: English and Spanish
Program Details
"Sugar, Tobacco and Rum" Tour
We propose you to make this tour so that you know more than three pillars that characterize the Island of Cuba: Sugar, rum and tobacco.
Itinerary
-Pick up at the hotels according to the staggered schedule established for the excursion,
-Tourist guide
Tour to the Sugar Museum and the "José Smith Comas" Steamship. Visit to a Sugar Cane plantation with demonstration of manual cutting. Welcome and tour inside the old factory, where machines and equipment that were used in the process of obtaining sugar cane are exhibited. Tasting of the sugar cane juice "Guarapo". Delivery of souvenir (case of 1 bottle of rum for adults and national candies for children).
-Ride on a train pulled by a steam locomotive from the beginning of the 20th century to Cárdenas station.
Visit to the Ronera de Cárdenas, former Arrechabala Rum Factory, which includes tour of the distillery, aging and bottling areas of the products of this old factory, including the cradle of the internationally famous Havana Club rum, which will allow you to learn about each step in the elaboration of various rums that today are also symbols of Cuban craftsmanship and a real pleasure for the palate.
Lunch at a self-sustainable project, a private restaurant in the city of Cardenas.
Panoramic tour of Varadero's Tourist Pole, along 1st Avenue to 64th Street.
Visit to the House of Rum on 1st Avenue and 63rd Street including:
Explanation on the process and history of rum making in Cuba. Tasting of rums and creams. Free time in Varadero Boulevard.
- Visit to Plaza Las Morlas which includes:
Explanation of the facilities and attractions of the plaza. Explanation by the staff of the house about the Cuban tobacco manufacturing process and its pairing with different Cuban rums in the Casa del Café. Demonstration of the manual twisting process and the possibility for the client to make a tobacco. Pairing of tobacco and rum. Coffee tasting.
Free time at Plaza Las Morlas.
Return to the hotel.
TIPS: • Light clothing, sunglasses, water bottle, sunscreen, hats or caps, tennis shoes, sandals or comfortable shoes and camera
-Depending on the availability of Plaza Las Morlas, the pairing of tobacco and rum could be done at the Casa del Tabaco and in this case would not include a coffee tasting.