rum factory

[nickiscorpio]

hi can you visit the rum factory without doing the full tour that includes other areas in same trip??
if so does anyone have any details, prices location etc
thanks nicki

[halwiki]

Rum factory - balderdash. It's a bottling plant. The rum is distilled on the other side of the island, and bottled in Puerto Plata. The operation looks exactly like a soft drink bottling plant, or any other automated operation where something extremely simple takes place over and over.

Save your time for something better - like pouring Brugal out of the bottle!

[Kyle]

make sure you do San Felipe, Malecon and the cable car ride as well while you are visiting POP....

[dv8]

brugal plant - indeed they only bottle ron there.
as far as i know tour is free with "tip" for the guide.
they also do have a shop onsite with brugal tshirts, hats, bags etc.
tour takes less than hour and it is only worth effort if you like ron or are interested in the process.
production plant is closed for visitors.

[Me_again]

Did it in 1987 -- did it again in 2007. The place is now bigger and cleaner and it's moved out of town.

Go on! Do it! Just so you can be smug about it later when someone posts a query like yours.

[cobraboy]

Originally Posted by Me_again

Did it in 1987 -- did it again in 2007. The place is now bigger and cleaner and it's moved out of town.

I think it was ''86 or '87 when I toured it, smallish green building if my memory hasn't gone totally pffffttt, few employees, and about as many shots of ron you wanted during the tour. The big new plant is like seriously corporate compared to the old building, and I mean old.

[Me_again]

Originally Posted by cobraboy

I think it was ''86 or '87 when I toured it, smallish green building if my memory hasn't gone totally pffffttt, few employees, and about as many shots of ron you wanted during the tour. The big new plant is like seriously corporate compared to the old building, and I mean old.

Yep.That was it -- down some back street in the town itself. Any time a bottle -- even full -- was skewed on the line, someone with a broom handle knocked it off into a bucket.

[oriole100]

And you can buy rum there cheaper then in the stores or airport. I think that's still the case but not sure with the new taxes.