Cruzan Rum Distillery

Our tour guide, Biggie, was amazing. Loved the tour and the energy he brought to sharing the history. We will definitely be back. 5 out of 5, would recommend.

Absolutely a must when visited St Croix. We showed up and were on a private guided tour 15 minutes later. The tour was all outdoor and lasted about 30 minutes and was very informative. We finished the tour and went to the sample and cocktail tasting, highly recommend Chandy, who makes a killer drink and will show you a great time. Price of the tour includes the tasting and is well worth the money. If you don’t want a tour, the sample session can be bought individually and is also worth a stop. Thank you for a great time!

This distillery tour was more informative than the Bacardí tour in Puerto Rico. We got to see everything behind the scene, including the fermentation tanks, storage for barrels, and more. Of course the tour ended with tasting of many types of rum and in generous portion. Highly recommend!

Amy was wonderful! She was a great tour guide, very knowledgeable and very kind.

Cruzan "Biggie" is an amazing tour guide. Thank you. We loved the barrel guy ❤️ Everyone here is sooo nice. Thank you for a great tour ❤️

Fun family excursion. This was a true experience - you can smell the fermenting molasses when you approach and walk through the plant. The visitors center was beautiful and a nice place to just relax and enjoy a cocktail. I got the opportunity to try multiple varieties I had not yet had - including the Black Strap and Hurricane Proof - which was an experience. A great mix of cocktails and tastings - with mocktails for my teen.

We really enjoyed the tour and learning the history of rum making on the island, and the distillery. Our tour guide, Robert, "Tiny", was fun and friendly. Surprisingly, this was one of the highlights of our time on St. Croix. After the tour, we were treated to samples of their rum. Their flavored rums were quite enjoyable. My only suggestion is to offer customers an alternative to two free cocktails. We had a busy afternoon planned and would have been happy with the samples and a "tour discount" on our purchases. In any case, we recommend this tour for anyone who likes history or rum. :-)

Deisha, our tour guide was friendly and informative. Loved learning the history and the process. Rum tasting at the end was pretty good, too!

I have always been a fan of Cruzan Rum. Learning how it is made it even better. Because St. Croix is an American territory, you can bring back up to 6 bottles to the States. I also learned that the flavored rums are bottled in the states. I highly recommend the tour. In the end, you receive 4 samples and two cocktails. I tried the banana, the vanilla, and the peach.

Rum was great, tour used to be more interactive I heard. Staff were very friendly and nice!

Tour was so awesome and informative. Learned so much about the rum making process and got to see the inside view of the process while they're doing. Staff were awesome and filled with knowledge.

The distillery tours are back up and running....and we had a great time! The tour was just long enough to be informative but not to long to bore you :) And the cocktails and samples given out afterwards were phenomenal!!!

Pros: - You get four shots and two cocktails after the tour is done - You can buy bottles cheaper than anywhere else on the island and cheaper than in the states - Parking on site - Great sitting area Cons: - You have to go on tour to do a tasting - The tour is outside in the heat and our tour guide that day was either new or just didn't enjoy his job - you have to wait till a tour starts - we initially tried going on a Saturday and it was closed. Extras: The tour is $10 per person. Bathrooms on site are clean

On our vacation to St Croix we had to do SOME touristy 'stuff' so a day of shopping and a tour of the Cruzan Rum Distillery was mandatory for us. Neither Wifey nor I are big drinkers, but we do live a cocktail from time to time and if it's summer then Cruzan Rum is a nice way to start! We really had a blast on the tour and the tasting afterwards. I absolutely love learning things when I'm on vacation so we were able to nerd out for a bit. After the tour, you're offered a tasting and I recommend taking them up on it. We tasted four kinds of rum and had two cocktails at he bar. Drinking age is 18 in St Croix so my daughter tried a few too...I think she found a couple she'll like when she turns 21 (yeah, ok...). Probably shouldn't have driven to our next destination, but it all worked out. I tried the Single barrel, light, cruzan confusion and diamond dark. Also had a tropical punch and a delusion for my cocktails (so good...). There are mango trees all over the location so the bartender sliced up some warm, fresh mango to eat between tastings. We walked away having purchased a case of flavored rum. I'd go back for another tour if we ever make it back to St Croix.

While I was in St. Croix a couple months ago, this was on a lot of lists of 'Places to See' in St. Croix so I naturally had to go. I also love rum. Cruzan will give you a guided tour through the facility, which is awesome. If there is a molasses truck dropping some off, they'll even let you taste the raw molasses they use for the rum. It was really neat. After the amazing tour, you get to same a couple of the rums and a couple of their mixed drinks that they make with their rums. I bought a few bottle of rums to take back to the states with me and they packaged them really nicely. I would definitely go to the Cruzan Rum Distillery if I'm in the neighborhood again.

Had an amazing time here, definitely recommend to everyone! Great learning experience with great drinks! Very family friendly

We had a large group on an island bus tour, and the Cruzan Rum Factory was by far our best stop! Our tourguide (wish I remembered her name) was absolutely fantastic- she was energetic, funny and really engaged with our group. The tour is just about the right amount of time and really covered everything from history to how the plant works to who owns it and how it's operated now. Then of course the tastings are a favorite for everyone. They are generous and plentiful! We all left feeling good and full of rum! Aside from the great people who work there and the amazing rum that comes from the Cruzan Rum Factory- it's in a beautiful setting. Make sure to make time to sit and enjoy a drink on the patio or under the gorgeous tree out back. Truly a must do when on island- as a tourist or a local! https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g147403-d148453-r362101361-Cruzan_Rum_Distillery-Frederiksted_St_Croix_U_S_Virgin_Islands.html#

Great tour that was informative and short. Loved seeing the process, and even got to try the molasses coming out of some big tanker truck. Tour guide was awesome! Lovely gift shop and bar where you can try some rum and drinks. It was hot, so we only had one drink (delusion), and it was yummy. Best thing: 6 bottles of fruity flavored rum (1L each), plus a box and packing for $51. Box is packed and perfect for checking as cargo on your flight back to the US mainland.

Our tour guide was a complete rip and I am being nice! She was not very informative. She talked like she was reading from a script and not like she really knew. The gal giving the next tour was upbeat and smiling and engaging the group. I want a do-over.

Fun friendly Rum factory tour with drink sampling afterwards. Nice selection of bottles of Rum and many flavors, and priced to sell. Limited souvenir selection of hats, shirts, key chains, small bottles of run and other items.

On our visit the Distillery was off for the holiday. That didn't stop the tours though, you just don't get to see things in motion. Very informative, learned a lot about the history of the island as well as rum making. Our tour guide knew her stuff too. Knowledgeable in everything St Croix. She even informed us there isn't an open container law on the island, yep you read that right. She harvested plantains while on our tour and gave us some to take back to the Villa, I smashed and fried them. After your tour is done you go to a tasting room and you get two large drinks and four shots. All Cruzan rums, but wait after those are done you can have more, lots more. I tried every rum they produce and a few specially drinks. Macerated cherries in rum doesn't sound good, but after the first one I ask for one with every drink.

I don't drink a ton of rum, but I still enjoyed my visit here. The tour was a short 30 minutes. It was hot as heck and the tour guide didn't seem real interested in showing us around, but that didn't bother me too much. At the end of the tour, you get to hang out in their courtyard and sample a couple of their rums. Cost is only $8 for the tour and samples, but the entire place is credit card only!

This Cruzan Rum tour was very informative, but what made it stand out more than other distillery tours was the guide's personality, what you get for your money, and the experience of tasting straight molasses before it goes into the distillery process. Our guide was funny, entertaining, and kept us all involved with pop questions. The molasses tasted exactly how it smells, if that makes any sense. Also, you only pay $8 which gets you a tour, four shots, and two mixed drinks. I highly recommend visiting this establishment while on St.Croix!

It's definitely interesting to see and learn how Cruzan Rum is distilled and processed (lots of molasses in vats, distilling machines and barrels; bottling done in Florida - see photos above). But, it's even more fun to drink the rum samples at the end (http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/bVOJnbUrB54gpEsKiuFJgQ?select=0akrk9jpI8JdbktLpuh4Hg) and if you're Asian - get toasted off of just one and be hangover free. It'll only cost ya $5 (tour+drinks)! Also: best to buy the rum here- 6 bottles for $43 and they'll package it up with bubble wrap so you can get through customs!

We toured both Rum Distilleries on St. Croix, starting at Cruzan, since it is the original island distiller and have been around a long, long time. Apparently, every tour is NOT the same. I've seen reviews that say there was unlimited tasting afterwards. When we were there, there were TWO drinks after the tour. You were given two tickets and got two drinks. Period. Although they did let us have tiny tastes to pick what we wanted. Also, another person said they got to taste the unfiltered rum. We were not offered that opportunity, either... little bummed by that. It is very possible that our tour COULD have been a little different because we were slow as my dad was on crutches so we couldn't move too quickly. You arrive, you sign up for the tour ($5 per person) and then you wait until they are ready for you. Then your tour guide takes you through the plant on foot to see everything up close and personal. Seriously, you get to walk right by the open vats of boiling molasses. There are stairs you have to go up and down, so keep that in mind if you have any challenges with stairs. They take you through the whole process and your guide tells you what you are seeing. I'm sure that the tour varies by what guide you have. Our guide was good, but described what we were seeing more in a rote manner, which was a little wooden. It's okay, we enjoyed it. My favorite part was when we got to where they empty the barrels and a guy does it by hand by hitting the barrel to get the stopper to pop out. Then he rolls the barrels until all of the liquid comes out and goes through a filter in the ground. Very cool to get to see that. The tour is interesting and cool. I HIGHLY recommend it. After the tour, you go back to the tour center and at the bar, you get to have two drinks. They create a signature drink of the week or you can order from other drinks or create your own. Of COURSE you can also buy all kinds of fun goodies, I was sucked into buying Tervis cups that "you can only get there!". We had a great time.

Nice tour with great Cruzan Rum drinks. Xenia was a great tour guide, informative and friendly

What I liked about this tour was how much we were able to walk around and see all the different parts of the brewing process. We were walked up on the catwalks and able to peer down into the tanks (btw, I don't recommend for the older people who don't get around easy). They told us about the whole flow and why they don't bottle on the island and just about anything you could ask, they already told you or would be willing to answer. My favorite part of the tour was when they allowed us to taste the unfiltered aged rum. It was such a harsh taste and burned the throat but when else will I be able to do this again?! My one complaint would be that the distillery seems kind of dirty in a few areas. I don't know how they take care of regular maintenance issues like this but my tour looked like it was in desperate need for some scrub down.

Excellent tour! Very informative about the history of rum making in the Caribbean and the process of making rum. A few steps to negotiate if you want to peer into the tanks, but otherwise easy for all ages. All the guides are personable and knowledgeable. Yeshira does a great job!

Highly recommend doing the tour. Interesting and informative if you don't mind the heavy molasses smell. Our tour guide we awesome!

I had taken the Captain Morgan your last year and expected this to be similar, but I was wrong in the best way! Our tour guide was so much fun and the tour was very informative and interactive. The rum is excellent and the tastings afterwards are generous and I didn't try anything I didn't like. If you're debating which your to take...it's this one!

Very informative and enthusiastic staff! I would suggest going on a day when there are not any cruise ships...there are some additional perks! I will definitely be back!

This tour is interesting, inexpensive, and worth your while. It was interesting to see the steps in making the world's best rum....Cruzan rum! The tour guide was very knowledgeable, and welcomed all questions. At the end, you get to sample their rums, and can purchase whatever flavor you like.

this is an older distillery. It runs on island time. That ou get up close and personam with much of the process. They took great care of us and it was one of our best visits on the island. We went in at a quieter time of day which may have made it more accommodating. we left as the big tour group came in. The rum is really good and it was difficult to decide what to take home. The prices seem great and they do a great packing job.

This tour surpasses the Diageo Distillery by far. You get a "hands on" perspective on how one of the best rums in the world is made. I particularly loved learning about the process of creating the 'dark' and the 'light' rums. The taste bar at the end of the tour is the icing on the cake!! Ask the bartender to concoct any one of the famous drink recipes listed or if you're brave enough, take a shot of 151 straight! Whether you're an avid drinker, a rum connoisseur or just visiting the island; this tour is a MUST!!!

We were told to go on this tour by all the locals. This tour did not disappoint. The tour was very informative. Our tour guide Michele was a plethora of information. She was also a great bartender!!! If you are in St Croix this is a must visit. Cheers !!!

A very fun walking tour of the Cruzan Rum factory that sits on a former plantation. A tour guide leads you through the factory explaining the rum making process and gives some history of the site. The guide was hard to hear and seemed in a rush, but if you get a better guide this is well worth the visit. At the end you are taken to the hospitality area, which is beautiful and relaxing and are allowed to sample the rum and rum drinks. The drinks retail would be more than the price of admission which was cool. This was a significantly better tour than the Captain Morgan one and would have been a 5 star had the guide been better.

Awesome way to spend some time away from the beach. We had such a fun time at this distillery. Our guide was adorable and showed us all a good time. The two cocktails and 4 rum samples at the end are the perfect way to hang out and make some new friends!

My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our tour of the Cruzan Rum Distillery. The tour guide, Shelly, was very informative giving us details on how the rum is produced as we walked around the distillery. Then she became our bartender giving us rum tastings and 2 drinks.... Her Lollipop was delicious!! They also have a nice area to sit and drink your drinks as well as a wide selection of rum to purchase which they also package for you to bring back to the states! A great experience!!! Thank you!!!

Short tour just like I like them. Our guide Norman NAG was the best!! The best part was the end, Norman makes great drinks!

Great adventure on the island. Ricky, our tour guide, was fantastic and made the best drinks on the island. Very informative, fun, and not too long. Highly recommend!

We went while they shut down for a week so the tour wasn't enlightening. The sample room was great. Ended up purchasing a box of expensive rum. When we got to our home airport the box of rum was brought out by a baggage handler in a big bag. All the bottles cracked and the airlines said they can't cover the bottles since they were not packed right. So beware they say it's free but when we checked in for our flight we had to really argue that the rum was free to check. We were also told that the rum would be just fine but clearly not.

Wow so far this place is the greatest in the island Norman Alexander George an his hommie tore it up. You have to try all his rum drinks.

We visited the distillery last week. The tour was informative, funny, and an all around great time. Our guide, James, is an expert Rumologist! He kept the laughs coming. At the end of the tour, we were able to sample a couple drinks and a few rum flavors. This tour is leaps and bounds better than Captain Morgan. The atmosphere is better, the tour is much more informative, and the guides are more knowledgeable. We look forward to getting back there next year.

The tour was well worth it. For $8 you get a guided tour of the facility, two mixed drinks at the end and several shots of rum. The pina coladas were delicious and the Blueberry Lemonade rum shot went down so smooth! Our tour guide, Yashira, was great and made the tour fun. We got to see how the rum was made, taste the molasses it uses in production and learn about the different types of rum. Heading back to the distillery today to pick up 6 bottles of rum and an airplane box to take them home in!! Don't miss this tour.

This was definitely a highlight of our trip to St.Croix. Friend and I came here to go diving and had some time to kill before flying out on a Monday. The distillery is a stones throw from the airport and tours are only $10, which includes 4 samples (aka a shot) and 2 mixed drinks. So it's worth the tour for the drinks alone. I had the Key Lime Pie and the Guava coolada, extremely tasty. Oh yeah, and the tour was brief but informational as well. Very much worth you time and $10. DONT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!!!

Make sure they are actually running product, otherwise they don't really have much to show unless looking in empty fermentation tanks is exciting The warehouse where they store the barrels while aging them smells wonderful though. If you go on a day a ship is in port, it will be very crowded and the sample drinks may be pre-made and dispensed using drink tickets. Other days, the staff is not rushed and you may get up to 4 shots and 2 cocktails and get a lot of interesting stories and other information as well. Of course if you are arriving on the ship, you don't have a choice. Since this is the only place in the world Cruzan is distilled, it is a worthwhile tour for $7-$8. I expect a ship "excursion" will mark this up a lot, so just get a taxi and do your own visit. If you don't have a chance to purchase any of the rum from the gift shop, K-Mart on the island sells it for just a few cents more. (K-Mart also has the lowest prices for other liquor as well).

Dont even bother wasting your time going there, there tours are never available, ive been coming every morning for three days and turned aroumd every time being told "tommorow".

Not only is the rum delicious, but the tour is a great sneak peak into the run process that's existed on the island for over 200 years. We had Jason as a tour guide and he was amazing, we were laughing the entire time and even got to try some of his delicious Cruzan recipes at the end of the tour. Would definitely recommend.

We got there for the 1pm tour of the island rum distillery. The lady at the gate warned us to make sure there was a designated driver. Uh, that wasn't me. There was a 5 dollar fee and a little wait, after all it was just the end of lunch and we are on the islands. Our tour guide appeared and the tour started promptly. We got to the large vats, about 20 all over and each one was roughly about 12 feet wide and 24 feet high. The stairs were steep, and the smell of the fermenting rum was intoxicating. I thought I had died and gone to rum heaven. Besides the large containers, there was another covered area with hundreds of barrels, each one with about 100 gallons of aging rum. We walked all over looking at more containers, until finally got to the guest area. I would have done anything to take one of those barells with me. At the guest area there were over 50 different bottles of rum along the wall, and all sorts of flavors: banana, mango, coconut, and more. Our tour guide poured our first elixir, then another taste. We took our time sipping, and we tried another flavor, and another. We tasted the coconut cream rum, and tasted the black rum which tasted like molasses. To our surprise, all the sugar is imported from Guatemala. But the rum poured like a never ending spicket. The tour was fantastic, but our guide was a little hard to understand. This is definitely more hands on than the Bacardi Rum factory in San Juan. At the end, I'm glad I wasn't driving since all the rum and the island heat got to my head. Luckily we had a light lunch before tasting. This is a place to check out if ever in St. Croix.

Jason is THE BEST GUIDE anyone could ask for!! He is a distillery rum PROFESSIONAL!! We learned so much about this 300+ year old business that supplies the entire world Cruzan Rum and it was awesome. The process begins with PURE molasses delivery, and we were given the opportunity to taste the molasses directly from the process line, & I personally, have never done anything like that in my life. Definitely an incredible experience. THANK YOU JASON for making our trip a forever memory!!! Love, Dan and Maria

This is one of the better tours in St. Croix. We were there recently for a week and rented a jeep ( another must do for your stay) and everyone recommended this tour. The guides are hilarious, full of personality and know their history ( I wish I could remember our guides name but I forgot after all the rum samplings). You get to go through the entire distillery and find out how rum is made and be a scientist ( that's what they call tourists who start a rum tour with drinking at 9 am) . Once the tour is over they take you back to the gift shop area where everyone gets two mixed drinks and 3 rum samples, and your guide shows off their bartending skills and their personal drink creations. This tour was definitely worth the $8 we paid and the customer service is great. A must do when in St Croix!

Definitely recommend do this your if your coming to St. Croix! It's $8 to enter and you get 4 free run shots and 2 free drinks. They do a really good job of explaining how all the rum is made and kids are welcome!

Our tour guide Abigail made an already fun experience even better. It would have been cooler if they were actually making rum at the time.

The tour is short and sweet. Very informative. The staff is knowledgeable and very friendly. And cruzan rum is by far the best rum out there. Thank you for the great drinks and fantastic time.

Had a great time visiting the distillery with my parents while on St. Croix. The plant itself is not too big, and not much to look at really. But it's still an enjoyable tour just to see how it all goes down. And the "open bar" at the end is a nice end point for the tour. Or at least I was told since I don't drink. LOL Very nice place, lot's of history and a great price to see how it's made.

We had an amazing time on this tour! Darnell was VERY enthusiastic and offered a lot of information about the history of Cruzan Rum! He was THE BEST TOUR GUIDE. He even took us (party of nine) at the last minute so we wouldn't have to wait 30 minutes for the next tour. The gift shop and bar were set in the best location of the distillery and the drinks were delicious! I definitely plan to visit again and hope to see Darnell:-)

DARNELL WAS THE MAN! Thank you so much for such a great experience and your, will never forget it! And the rum isn't bad, either.

First, and foremost... our tour guide Norman was fantastic!! I'm a history buff and a rum lover. And, he delivered on both fronts. He answered our questions and gave us a very insightful talk about the many changing hands of St. Croix. Then, he made us some tasty drinks. Our group was feeling real nice at the end. We selected our 12 duty free bottles of rum and happily sauntered away!