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Hotels near Takamaka Rum Distillery: (0.02 mi) Chez Coco (0.15 mi) Devon Residence (0.21 mi) East Horizon Self-Catering Apartments (0.28 mi) Julie's Holiday Home (0.31 mi) Castaway Fishing Lodge View all hotels near Takamaka Rum Distillery on Tripadvisor

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Restaurants near Takamaka Rum Distillery: (0.67 mi) Maison Marengo (0.77 mi) Greenhouse Restaurant (1.44 mi) Kafe Kreol (0.69 mi) B.o.b Takeout (4.17 mi) Windsong Beach Restaurant View all restaurants near Takamaka Rum Distillery on Tripadvisor

Takamaka Rum Distillery - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (with Photos)

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10:30 AM - 4:30 PM

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10:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Wednesday

10:30 AM - 4:30 PM

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10:30 AM - 4:30 PM

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10:30 AM - 4:30 PM

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We are delighted to welcome you to La Plaine St. André. Discover everything you need to know about our multiple award-winning ‘Takamaka’ Rums. Experience the Plantation life with a guided tour of our distillery, historical property and garden followed by a rum tasting, then take your time to relax with a wonderful cocktail or join us for a delicious meal at the no 1 Restaurant, La Grande Maison, in Seychelles.

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Corne778

Fourways, South Africa70 contributions

Snapshot into history

Nov 2021 • Couples

This is a must for anyone traveling to the Seychelles, if you drink or not. So much effort has been put into the restoration of the building and preserving the history. SCR100 pp to do the rum tasting, this currently includes a free distillery tour around the premises with Retha. She also took us through the herb/spice garden and introduced us to Taka and Maka, the tortoises on site 🐢. You will taste 5 rums afterwards. The souvenir shop offers everything you never thought you needed, including cool flip-flops, beach bags and of course rum. 😁 Restaurant is currently closed.

Written November 17, 2021

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Brigitte

Cheers! Thank you so much for your visit and taking the time to leave us such a great review.

Written November 28, 2021

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Alina C

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Well, if you must pay a visit at the distillery...

Mar 2022

The visit is indeed free, there are complimentary guided tours at 11am,1pm and 3pm and they include a tasting as well. But when asked if you want to take the tasting that costs 125 SCR, say NO and when you walk in, DON'T take the bracelet . The guided tour includes the same tasting but if you have the bracelet they make you pay for it as if you took the extra rum tasting besides the complimentary one. It's not a matter of the price as 125 SCR is not much but I didn't at all appreciate the way they make us feel when they charged us just because we had a bracelet and didn't charge other tourists who also had the same tasting - just because they didn't have a bracelet. It's simply not fair, they are poorly organized, unprofessional and besides the owner and is arrogant and the cashier speaks to you as if that's the last place on earth where she wants to be.
Takamaka is a cheap rum with a very strong marketing campaign (rum made from melasa and from a press machine is by default cheap) but hey, you're only visiting the distillery once right?
Btw, Takamaka at the duty free in the airport in the 1L bottle has the same price as the 0,7l bottle you find at the distillery or at the supermarkets.

Written April 6, 2022

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Brigitte

Dear Alina, We are really sorry that you didn’t have a great experience. We totally take on board that not everyone always has a band for the tasting but there are no free tastings. The tour is complimentary. However – sometimes people in pre-arranged pre-paid groups don’t have the wrist bands and if people join late we do always ask them to pay afterwards. I was sad to see the comment around our rum – we work really hard to produce both molasses aswell as locally grown Seychelles Cane Rum. We also have 40,000L of Tropically Aged rum and we do use some innovative techniques like Cavitation. Absolutely - purchasing at the airport almost always offers a discount as it is tax free. Finally – we apologize if any of our staff came across badly – we love welcoming visitors to La Plaine St Andre and will continue to work hard to try and ensure everyone has an amazing time. Hope you enjoyed your trip overall, Many thanks Takamaka Team

Written April 25, 2022

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Mats J

22 contributions

Quite interesting

Dec 2019 • Family

Nice interesting tour and rum tasting, it would be great to see more of the real process though. Takamaka is expanding and the possibility’s for a even better tour is probably better.
Expect no discount prices, the rum was cheaper at the airport and the same price as in other stores. Nice merchandise!

Written January 2, 2020

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Marc

Doha, Qatar4 contributions

Takamaka Rum Distillery… Excellent Tour and even better tasting. Loved it.

Dec 2021 • Couples

Beautiful tour of the Distillery and the garden around it. I loved the history behind Takamaka Distillery and the best above all is the tasting itself. They have a wonderful and truly special series of Rum all made with love. My favorite was the pineapple rum, light and amazing with cocktails. They have a nice outdoor bar that serve very refreshing signature cocktails with a beautiful garden setup. The tour was right on time, so informative and I would strongly recommend it to anyone who visit Seychelles.

Written December 23, 2021

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Brigitte

Cheers and thank you for taking the time to leave such a fantastic review. We are thrilled to read that you enjoyed the tour and tasting.

Written December 24, 2021

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Matej B

62 contributions

Highly recommended!

Nov 2023 • Couples

A very positive experience. The tour of the estate, with an explanation of all the rum distillation processes, was excellent and interesting.

The rum tasting is something that is an added value to the whole tour. The price is reasonable and the guided tasting is extremely interesting and entertaining.

Unfortunately, we did not know beforehand that Friday evenings are reserved for partying with rumba music and good drinks. Otherwise, we would have happily spent Friday evening there.

A few hours after the tour we were still enjoying the estate, drinking the best and very affordable cocktails with TAKAMAKA rum! Highly recommended!

Written November 27, 2023

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Simone

Flint, UK1 contribution

Worth a visit!

Aug 2023 • Couples

We had a lovely time at the distillery, we had planned to spend a few hours there including taking part in the free tour which was very good with friendly and knowledgeable staff, the rum tasting which was well priced at 150 rupees for two, have some lunch and a drink. We spent time wandering the grounds, meeting Taka and Maka as well as buying some rum in the shop. The food was very tasty from the food truck and the cocktails were delicious too - all very well priced compared to other places/restaurants on the island.

Written August 17, 2023

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Areeba C

Thank you for your feedback :)

Written August 19, 2023

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apollo12

Macclesfield, UK705 contributions

Beautiful gardens and lovely rum

Sep 2022 • Couples

Friendly staff who knew their products and were able to advise on certain rums. At times, during the tastings, the spiel sounded a little robotic and didn't deviate from the practised speech. If you wanted to try a couple of different rums you had to pay extra at the bar. Thankfully I was not charged as I was buying on behalf of someone else.
The bar sells custom made cocktails that are fresh and lovely and the gardens are a joy to walk round. We did not do the tour due to the heat.

Written September 8, 2022

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Brigitte

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to leave us a review. We are also so happy to hear back from our visitors and are happy to read that you enjoyed the overall experience.

Written September 9, 2022

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Lynda S

Bangkok, Thailand5 contributions

Rum tasting in Paradise

Nov 2022

Although the museum and grounds were interesting and very beautiful, by far the best part of the visit was the tour, led by Radika. That lady was terrific and could persuade Eskimos to buy snow! So informative and funny, she's a brilliant asset to the distillery.

The rum, naturally, was excellent and I especially enjoyed the coconut and pineapple varieties.....separately and mixed together.

I would recommend everyone visiting Seychelles to go.....and maybe go again.

Thank you Takamaka

Written November 17, 2022

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Brigitte

Thank you so much for your visit and taking the time to leave us such wonderful feedback about your experience. We are thrilled to read that you both enjoyed the tour, our amazing tour guide Radika and of course our rum. The team works very hard to provide the very best experience to our guests, so receiving comments like these is simply amazing. Thank you!

Written November 22, 2022

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Amy C

Hambledon, UK27 contributions

Fun, touristy morning out

Nov 2023 • Couples

A fun place to go and spend a few hours. The tour was a good hour long and interesting, although we got eaten alive by mosquitos walking through the gardens so perhaps put some insect repellent on! We chose not to taste all the rums as we had done the 11am tour so was a bit early. The tour was free but I believe you had to pay for a tasting. We chose to sit in the garden and have a cocktail each instead which was tasty and reasonably priced. There is a food truck which looked to be serving basic food - although we didn’t try it. The shop was also fab - much moved on from when we visited a few years ago with lots of fun ‘Takamaka’ memorabilia you can purchase to take home.

Written November 9, 2023

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Areeba C

Thank you for your feedback :)

Written November 13, 2023

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Max R

Düsseldorf, Germany9 contributions

Historic rum distillery with authentic tour

Dec 2021 • Couples

The host/tour guide/owner is a funny, knowledgeable and warm person with many detailed insights to the business, Seychelles and of course distilling Rum. Apart from the distillery and rum tasting we also enjoyed the little tour through the herbs garden and saying hi to Taka & Maka. Two giant land turtles teenagers living on the property. Wishing the company all the best to increase their business in a crazy competitive market!! Worth a visit and hopefully she will be there to give you a tour. Tours start at 11am 1pm and 3pm. Rum tasting is 125 rupees.

Written December 22, 2021

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Brigitte

Thank you for your kind words and great review. We really appreciate all the positive feedback and are so glad that you enjoyed the overall experience.

Written December 24, 2021

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