Hemingway Experience: Key West Historical Walking Tour

Join The Hemingway Experience in Key West for a 4-hour guided tour with Cuban cuisine, boozy beverages, and exclusive stories about Ernest Hemingway.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum - Enjoy a guided tour through Ernest Hemingway’s home where he wrote literary works such as “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” wander the lush gardens, pet his six-toed cats, and see the writers desk where it all happened.
  • Kaya Island Eats - Enjoy a full cuban meal of roast pork, rice, beans, and plantains…
What's Included
  • Ticketed entry into Hemingway’s Home and Museum
  • Sip homemade sangria, rum punch, and Papa Doble (3 cocktails total)
  • Lunch
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Private transportation
Additional Information

The Hemingway Experience celebrates Key West’s most infamous author, Ernest “Papa” Hemingway, with a historical walking adventure retracing his steps on a “Bucket List” tour of Old Town. Our 4-hour guided experience stops at (6) locations, helping tell Hemingway’s story in Key West & Cuba.
Each ticket includes guided entrance into his famed Key West…

Location
The Hemingway Home and Museum
Whitehead Street
Please meet your guide in front of museum entrance.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Janet
Oct 16, 2024
Hemingway food Walk - Excellent walking/food tour…lots of history and great food and drinks. The guide ..Rachel…was full of information and very personable
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Lisalwood59
Oct 8, 2024
Best Hemingway tour and food crawl - Rose was a fantastic guide and we had such a good time on this tour. Highly recommend this tour, this tour company, and Rose. Despite the sketchy weather, we had a great time.
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Geoffreyg342
Jun 20, 2024
Great exposure to the real Key West - Our Guide Kelia was very knowledgeable and friendly. Her personal experience with the people and businesses in Key West gave us the local expert's perspective, instead of just tourists. Manager also helped accommodate some of our challenges that made the full experience enjoyable. Meeting local chefs and family members in the Rodriguez Cigar Factory made the tour the best experience! Highly recommend this experience!
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344krisf
May 8, 2024
Great tour! - In March, we visited Key West to visit my son and we thoroughly enjoyed the Hemingway Experience. It was a nice mix of history and food - what's not to love?! Rose was a fantastic guide who really knows the history and the vibe of the area.
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Michellecu4683dy
May 2, 2024
Great experience, worth the price - Amazing tour with fabulous food and drinks, so many wonderful stops worth the price. Keila was a pleasure, very personable.
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Joan_d
May 18, 2024
Don’t waste your money - We had high hopes for this tour it was very disappointing. Positives: our guide was personable and knowledgeable. He did the best he could within the parameters he had to work with. The Cuban food and Key Lime pie were great Negatives: This is touted as “Hemingway Experience” the only authentic experience is the museum. Once we entered the grounds to the museum we the were handed off to a tour guide of the museum. (This was a wonderful tour highly recommend) Our time in the Hemingway museum was limited to about 50 minutes due to time restraints by our Viator tour. We were unable walk around the grounds or view Hemingway's studio (which is a historical gem) because it would take too long. (We went back on our own to spend the time it deserves). The next 3 ”experiences” were supposed to provide a glimpse of Hemingway’s time in Cuba. That’s a big stretch of the imagination. The Cuban restaurant was very good and filling. Next stop First Flight where we were served tacos with our beverage. Few in our group could eat them after just finishing an ample lunch! The cigar factory was disappointing. We stood around 2 people rolling cigars. Our guide explained what they were doing however there was no interaction between the artisans and our group. It was very disappointing we didn’t hear from them personally to tell us about their work and stories of this family business. Sloppy Joe’s was a walk-by on the way to Key Lime Pie. The distillery was not prepared for us. They had another group scheduled to arrive and didn’t know what to do with us. We did not have a tour of the distillery and no one from the establishment spoke with us. Our guide pulled some tables and chairs together for us got our drinks and gave us some history and background. Bottom line you could do this tour on your own for far less money and the receive more information from the establishment’s tour guides.
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From $185
up to 7 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).