RUM DAYS · SHOPPING TOURS
The 10 best shopping tours you can book today, with what each pours, how long it runs and who it suits. Number one is top for a reason, so start there.
Taste aged Dominican rum, sugar cane, mamajuana, and pairings at Oliver and Oliver in Punta Cana, with hotel transfers included.
“It was well organized, picked us up on time. It was interesting to learn about different types of rums.”
Taste four premium Dominican rums, learn the solera method, and pair each pour with chocolate and cheese at Punta Cana’s Taino Gourmet.
“It was very informative about the rum and the company’s history. The tasting was very good and learned a lot about the different rums that we tried.”
Review of Punta Cana’s Don Lucas cigar, rum, coffee, and chocolate tour, with honest advice on value, pickup problems, tastings, and shopping.
“Not a good experience at all. Bought 4 pair of earrings and had I not looked the man only put one earring in each bag seems very shady.”
Review of Punta Cana’s $4 shopping tour with Don Lucas cigars, Dominican rum, cocoa, coffee, larimar, souvenirs, tastings, and practical tips.
“** NOT as advertised. During book we were told our experience would last 3 hours. Once we arrived at the location however, the driver told us we would only have 2 hours. And after only 1 hour the driver said they were leaving and if we Read more”
Shop Punta Cana’s rum, cigars, coffee, chocolate, larimar, and souvenirs in one cultural stop with pickup and tastings.
“A clean and well-maintained store, great selection of cigars, Dominican drinks and other stuff. It was great to be able to purchase everything under one roof. The associates were very friendly and helpful. Cool cigar coffee and chocolate stores along with Dominican Trinckets”
Review of Punta Cana’s Bella Mare shopping tour, with cigars, chocolate, rum, coffee, souvenirs, transport, pricing, and booking tips.
“We were never shown a tour or how cigars are made...it was basically being shown the display of cigars and then haggling over prices and then we were taken to a souvenir shop with no prices and were overcharged on everything, essentially because we’re American and where we were staying. I would normally never say that, but it was clear he thought we had brought all kinds of money to spend and increased all prices on cigars and souvenirs. I paid $150 for souvenirs that are probably worth $30. It was in a very sketchy part of town also, which didn’t help. I just paid the money so we could…”
Review of Punta Cana’s $5 Dominican shopping tour with rum, cigar, chocolate, coffee, jewelry, crafts, tastings, and hotel pickup.
“Would greatly recommend this activity to anyone. Would definitely come again when I visit back. Good tour guide, rum was good, chocolate was amazing, cigar was so smooth. And their gift shop is on the cheaper side so my wife got so many souvenirs”
Review of Little Havana’s 75-minute family shops tour, with cigar rolling, guayaberas, cafecito, pastry, classic cars, murals, and rum.
“It was a great tour. Learned a lot about the history and the family. Our guide was great. There was a lot of fun.”
Explore northern Mauritius on a private day tour with Port Louis, Pamplemousses Garden, local lunch, and rum tasting at Château Labourdonnais.
Explore Castries, Morne Fortune, local markets, rum tasting, Rodney Bay, and Marigot Bay on a four-hour St. Lucia tour.
Pick an island, a still house or a bar stool.
