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Arehucas Rum Distillery
4.5
#2 of 19 things to do in Arucas
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9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Tuesday
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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A journey through the HISTORY OF RUM.During the Arehucas Guided Tour visitors can enjoy the facilities of our distillery, full of history, tradition and work well done. Besides explaining the process of making our rums the tour allows us to visit one of the oldest rum cellars in Europe, made up of 4,308 american oak barrels. This tour through the history of rum in the Canary Islands takes 45 minutes and consists of 5 stages: Origin of Arehucas; visit to the cellar where the ageing process is carried out; learning about the rum processing and visit to the mill and the fermentation and distillation rooms. Visit to the bottling plant and tasting of some of our wide variety of rums and liqueurs. At the end of the visit, you can purchase the Destilerias Arehucas products.
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Jan Borowiec
1 contribution
Extraordinary attraction in Arucas (Gran Canaria)
Mar 2021
We (group of 4 persons from Poland) visited this very interesting place on 10th March 2021. We have got a relevant information about historic background of the factory, and detailed description of rum production. Our guide, Miss Alicja Michalik (who speaks flently English, Polish and Spanish) has made presentation in very professional way and in the same time her friendly attitude has contributed significantly to making the visit at Arehucas Rum Distillery a great pleasure for us all.
We highly recommend visiting this place for every tourist. If you got a chance to be guided by Miss Michalik you surely appreciate it.
Written March 11, 2021
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Arehucas R
Dear JanneBoro, Thank you very much for taking the time to post your opinion on Tripadvisor and for your great valuation. We are more than pleased to read that you enjoyed and found highly recommandble our Destilery Tour and the tasting of our wide range of rums and liquors. We are very happy that you point out the professionalism and friendliness of our colleague Alijca. We hope to see you back soon. Best regards,
Written July 9, 2021
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KLP444
Huddersfield, UK82 contributions
Worth every penny
Jun 2023 • Solo
From start to end I could not recommend enough. Out tour guide Evelien was incredible and then some. She and her team make it all worth while and for just 6€ you cannot go wrong: I would also highly recommend trying the Captain Kidd for the extra 7€ even if you don’t plan to buy - definitely worth trying once. Great experience and would come back again.
Written June 21, 2023
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Arehucas R
Dear KLP444, thank you very much for visiting us, for the excellent rating on Tripadvisor and for the high recommendation. We are specially pleased that you highlight the professionalism of our colleague Evelien and our team, which made it possible for your visit to our distillery to reach such high levels of satisfaction. We try to achieve excellence in the treatment of those who visit us and nothing fills us with more satisfaction than expressions of gratitude and enthusiasm such as yours. We hope to see you back soon. We are already working on noveltys for your next visit. Best regards,
Written June 22, 2023
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Sandancer77
Wemyss Bay, UK2,021 contributions
Excellent!!!!!
Jan 2020 • Couples
The tour costs only 4.80€ per person which is fantastic value!! We were a very small group and the guide spoke in Spanish and English just for us. She was very pleasant and knowledgable. Couldn’t have asked for anyone better! After an interesting tour of the premises, we could start the tasting. As we were the only English, we got a tasting table to ourselves. The rums were explained then we could help ourselves to tasting them all! Such good value!! Trying all those rums made it much easier to choose what we wanted to buy in the shop afterwards. The prices in there were very good value. Much cheaper than even the value supermarket. Highly recommended tour!!!
Written January 24, 2020
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Arehucas R
Dear Sandancer77, thank you very much for visiting us, for sharing your comments on this portal and specially for your high recommendation. It fulfills us with satisfaction and joy that you had such fun with our distillery tour and the subsequent tasting of our wide variety of rums. We really hope to see you back soon. Best regards,
Written February 4, 2020
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Yorkshire_452
East Midlands, UK56 contributions
Come by bus!
Jul 2023 • Family
Interesting tour, mix of a guide taking you around plus a video. Be aware the distillery does not operate on a Monday so you don't actually see it in action if you visit then. Tasting at the end is excellent with the chance to sample 4 rums or liquers and they are good sized measures. We were a group of three and shared the samples so between us we tasted 12 and we had good taste of each. Shop at the end is better value than duty free at the airport, the rum we paid €32 for was around €48 at the airport. Well worth the €6 entry fee, but probably wise to arrive by bus if you want to sample the rum! Arucas worth a walk around too.
Written July 12, 2023
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Arehucas R
Dear Yorkshire_452, thank you very much for visiting us, for the excellent rating on Tripadvisor and for the high recommendation. We are specially pleased that you highlight the tasting of our wide variety of liqueurs and rums, including our range of premium rums, aged with care in our centenary cellar. We hope to see you back soon. Best regards,
Written October 18, 2023
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Lukas_PRG
Prague, Czech Republic133 contributions
Amazing value for money
Mar 2021
For EUR 4, you get a guided tour in English (about 30 mins) and a tasting of 4 products at the end. Incredible value for money. The facilities are nothing special - you've been to one distillery, you've seen them all. The products are surprisingly good, I bought the 18y rum to take with me.
Written March 16, 2021
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Arehucas R
Dear Lukas_PRG, We are pleased to read that you enjoyed our Distillery Tour and the tastings of our rums and liquors. Thank you very much for posting your excellent valuation on Tripadvisor. We would be delighted if you would visit us again soon and remain With best regards,
Written July 9, 2021
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Headabove
Norwich, UK336 contributions
Bryan the brand ambassador for Arehucas
May 2023
Came across the distillery whilst visiting Arucas last May. We managed (just) to get the last tour of the day (closes at 6pm) and in english as well! Our guide - the enthusiastic and entertaining Bryan Moreno was excellent and a great person to explain the history, tradition and passion of this distiller of rine rum. After an interesting and enlightening tour, the tasting - we had a total of eight very different and contrasting styles of rum. So much more to this than a simple musty but fine rum that has been consumed for hundreds of years. This company is innovative, but remember, the vast majority of rum produced here is consumed on the island (80%!!!) probably due to all those drinking visitors, not that there is a problem with over-consumption by those greedy locals! Make the visit when in Gran Canaria. I think it's a must. And if you happen to have Bryan as your guide, you'll definitely have a wonderful experience! Unmissable!!
Written June 1, 2023
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Arehucas R
Dear Headabove, Thank you very much for visiting us, for the excellent evaluation, your words of praise and the strong recommendation. It fills us with pride that you enjoyed the guided tour to our century old distillery and with satisfaction that you highlight the experstise and professionalism of our colleague Bryan. We hope to see you back soon. We are allready working on innovations to further enrich the Arehucas Experience. Best regards,
Written June 16, 2023
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Sara
2 contributions
Rum tasting for tourists but not for Rumlovers/-neards
Oct 2022 • Family
I had the opportunity to visit the Distillery Arehucas in Gran Canaria which operates in the 3rd generation. Rum is produced from fresh sugar can juice and kept for 36h fermentation until it goes into a colum still to be distilled.
I took the visitor tour for EUR 6.-/person, which was done by a friendly and supportive employee. Unfortunately, the tour itself is more made for a hugh amount of people to get through as quickly as possible and at the end you can try a variety of Spirits. But again, after the first taste a Manager was running to us in a hurry as she required the room/Bar for the next group.
Trying the Captain Kidd & Single Cask 2002 rum was additionally charged with another EUR 7.- /sample. Unfortunately, it was not possible to try a Cask Strengh Rum. Overall it was ok for normal tourists, but not for Rumlovers or Rumneards. In general, the Rum was very sweet. Our guide informed us that all the Rums aged more than 7 years or more have no added sugar🧐 and that gave me a strange feeling when I tasted the 12 and 18 years Rum🤔.
Written October 11, 2022
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Arehucas R
Dear Travelgirl5333, thank you very much for your valuation and for visiting our centenary distillery. We love rumlovers and therefore we are very sorry that your visit to our distillery did not meet your expectations. We are trying to find out what happened in your case so that it does not happen again. We would be glad if you would visit us again and give us a second chance to try to change your mind. Best regards,
Written October 14, 2022
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lena202015
Antwerp, Belgium67 contributions
Interesting tour - definitely worth the effort and time
Aug 2020 • Friends
Was an interesting visit.
Our guide, Martin, was very knowledgeable and willingly answered our numerous questions.
The whole process from harvesting the sugar cane to the final bottling was explained in detail.
Well worth a visit and the tasting was a very nice end of the tour.
Written August 26, 2020
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Arehucas R
Dear Iena202015, thank you very much for visiting us and for posting your comments on this portal. We appreciate especially dad you highlight the professionalism of our colleague Martín. We hope to see you back soon. Best regards,
Written November 4, 2020
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Mirko88
4 contributions
Beautiful experience. And thanks to Paola
Apr 2022
The visit lasts about an hour. Paola - the young, very kind and knowledgeable guide who explained the history of Arehucas rum to us - made the whole experience wonderful.
During the visit, the process by which rum is produced is explained. All the rum production steps are shown, from start to finish, quickly but accurately. Finally there is the tasting where you can try almost all types of Arehucas rum. Visit + tasting for only 5 euros!
Thanks Arehucas, thanks Paola!
Written April 5, 2022
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Arehucas R
Dear Mirko V, thank you very much for visiting us, for the excellent evaluation and the strong recommendation. It fills us with satisfaction that you enjoyed the guided tour with our colleague Paola and the tasting of our rums and liqueurs. We hope to see you back soon. Best regards,
Written May 4, 2022
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Debby T
East Grinstead, UK5 contributions
Excellent tour
Jun 2023 • Couples
Our guide Andrea was so knowledgeable it made the whole tour really interesting and surprising. I was expecting it to be the usual touristy thing to do but this was truly an amazing tour.

Their ethos of recycle reuse and no waste is a standard all manufacturers should use.

The tasting at the end was brilliant we even paid the extra 7 euros to taste the 20 year old rum. It was amazing!

I highly recommend this tour to anyone even if you don't like rum. The history, process and ethics is well worth the 6 euro entry fee.

Thank you once again Andrea Lopez
Written June 28, 2023
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Arehucas R
Dear Debby T, Thank you very much for visiting us, for the excellent evaluation, your words of praise and the strong recommendation. I t fills us with pride that you enjoyed the guided tour to our century old distillery and with satisfaction that you highlight the experstise and professionalism of our colleague Andrea and our sustainability policy. We are allready working on innovations to further enrich the Arehucas Experience. We hope to see you back soon. Best regards,
Written July 5, 2023
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