Saw Casa Bacardi, it was boring...big let down!!! The "tour" consists of a short (100 metre) bus trip to a visitors centre where you walk around a bunch of staged displays before watching, Thomas the world's slickest talking bartender show you how to make a rum and coke, also known as a Cuba Libre....it's pretty tough! We got 2 free drinks each - Mojito = poor effort, tastes like lemon cordial...Dragon fruit - not bad actually, best part is its native to Hawaii...Apple - tastes like an apple. Oh and we got free key chains for saying we liked it there on their little survey. They really need to do a proper tour where you get to see how rum is actually made and how the plant works rather than look at videos and stationary displays depicting 120 years ago. Oh they have a nice building though and a good view for the workers...advice wait for the bus if you go, everyone takes the $3 "publico" tourist taxi but the bus is just as easy, supposedly every 15-20 minutes and costs .75 instead, only a 5 minute trip.
On a side note the Casa Don Q in Old San Juan, while a big tourist trap, is a hell of a lot better...unlimited drinks, they mix em good and have good mix ins...plus the rum is a lot better and even their pictorial historical description of the manufacturing and company history is more interesting!!! Yummy stuff...Passion fruit rum and their Mojito mix is great and yummy minty - so good we have 2 bottles in the freezer now...Now we just need to find a supermarket that doesn't sell mint by the kilo and charge $9 a pop.
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