Appleton Estate Rum Tour

We came here with Inside Tours Jamaica and had an amazing time. The tour guides were informative and gave an amazing presentation regarding the history of rum production and Appleton. The tasting at the end was great and they have an awesome gift shop. If you’re in Jamaica hit this place up. Make sure to get your drink at the bar when you are waiting to start the tour it was amazing!

This was such a unique, fun experience. First of all, the property itself is beautiful! So luscious and green. The tour and tasting are very well thought out and organized. There’s a buffet so we got some food to eat, which was included in our entry fee. Very delicious and leaned more home cooked. I really enjoyed the tour, they gave us a behind the scenes tour of the rum making process, and had us try the products every step of the way and ended with actual tasting of different flavors. It was great and I’d highly recommend it.

The Appleton Estate tour was a really good experience. It was interesting to see the process behind the rum-making and you could tell a lot of care goes into every step. The staff were warm, welcoming, and very knowledgeable which made the tour even more enjoyable. One suggestion for the future would be to offer a souvenir option, maybe a small flask of Appleton rum at a discounted price or a package that includes it. It would be a nice touch for visitors to take a little piece of the experience home. Still, even without that, the tour was well worth it and I’d definitely recommend it.

Thank you for an incredible experience at Appleton Estate! Our guide, Danielle, was warm, friendly and so knowledgeable! And the food in the restaurant was excellent! The rum tasting was also a fantastic experience and tasting the different varieties was definitely a learning experience. I had no idea that the tastes could be so different and Danielle did a great job explaining the flavor profiles. We also decided to taste the 15 and 21 year aged rums and fell in love with both of them! We purchased the 21 year old rum and look forward to savoring it in the future!! Anyone visiting Jamaica should make it a priority to visit Appleton Estate!! :-)

It was a wonderful tour full of history and rum of course. The tour cost $3,000 jmd for Jamaicans, this includes cocktails. Please bring an ID. We were hungry so we headed straight to the restaurant. Our server was Burma and she was awesome. The food was reasonably priced and it tasted good. I had the jerk pork and chicken mix ( see picture) with original daiquiri and mek mi tell yu...it did good. Great day of fun and rum. Our tour guide was Rasia and she was awesome. 😃😃😃 Go check it out and leave a top of appreciation 😉☺️

The Appleton Estate Rum Tour was excellent! The welcome drink was a pleasure and the feel of the welcome center was luxe with comfy seating. Once our tour began we watched a brief film about the estate after which we walked out onto the grounds. The history and breakdown of how rum was made was insightful and eye opening. My favorite part of the tour was the tasting session where we were able to identify the different notes in different versions of Appleton rum. The well stocked gift shop was also a good shopportunity. My only slight issue during my visit was the food. The grilled chicken was adequate but was most definitely not jerk, as described. Overall a good experience. Will recommend and revisit again soon.

I drove all the way from St. Andrew to get this experience. Was it worth the drive? Read and find out. Good: - Imagine smiling before the tour! That's what we got from Randeen the bar-tuff. He was a comical introduction. 8/10 - Rasia was our tour guide. She did an amazing job in keeping up her energy, keeping us engaged and entertained and making the tour interesting. Jokes, pun & all round fun. 9/10 - The grounds looked immaculate, aesthetically speaking, the whole place looks magnificent like a 5 star hotel and the male bathroom spotless 10/10. - I was marvelling about the onsite restaurant on my Whatsapp only to hear that I was late to the party and everyone knows the restaurant deserves a Michelin Star. I had the oxtail and my wife the curried goat. Thank God Dezrine stopped us from leaving, would be regrettably to have missed that culinary experience. 100/10. - Pazz was a fan favourite. Who is Pazz? Got to go there to find out. 10/10 Bad - This really was only a bad for me, but everyone else was okay. The servers tended to everyone one and not me and my wife and even persons who came in after us got seated and attended to. So stating this to be fair and just. The service was speedy for everyone; "just not us." Which was unfortunate. We decided to get up and go else where when a vibrant server Dezrine asked us if we enjoyed the service to only find out weren't attended to. She apologized, invited us to stay and took excellent care of us. We thank her for the suggestions. Speedy Service: 8/10 Our Service: 4.8/10 (before Dezrine) Dezrine's Service to Us: 9.3/10 Indifferent - I did another rum tour to a location closer to me and realise both were pretty much the same, in substance regarding rum production (not factoring history, aesthetics and landscape, etc) 5/10 - The other tour had us meeting the master blender there, so maybe as a suggestion since Joy Spence is so highly looked up to, maybe including a word from her in the introduction video since it is a "Joy Spence Experience" minus the Joy Spence...🤷🏾‍♂️ Just saying.... 5/10 👏THE👏FOOOOOOD👏WAS👏WORTH👏THE👏DRIVE👏 and the experience as well, of they had an Air BNB, I'd sign up to escape reality in that tranquility 😌. The destination was worth the journey (especially for Pazz and the Food) 1000/10.

Awesome tour. Our tour guide, Peter, was amazing. If you're a rum lover, especially Appleton, you need to visit. I learned so much. Didn't know that slaves were the first to distill rum. A monument with their names is erected on the property. The master distiller is female. The only one in the world. I could go on and on, but you should go visit. You won't regret it. I will be going back again, for sure.