Taste of the Tropics Tour Sarina Sugar Shed: A Journey Through Queensland's Sweet History

Experience the sweet history of Queensland’s sugar cane industry on a guided tour of Sarina Sugar Shed. Taste award-winning liqueurs, sauces, and more!

Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Sarina Sugar Shed - This is a one-hour fully guided tour. The tour starts with a welcome and introduction, followed by a short walk outdoors, past our sugar cane patch and historic machinery.

Your guide will take you on a brief historic journey into the pioneering days of the sugar cane farmers in the Mackay region. Then it is back indoors, into our mill and distillery area, where your guide will take you through the process of extracting juice from fresh sugar cane.

The tour finishes with tastings of our rum and fruit liqueur products, our chutneys, relishes and sauces, our non-alcoholic ginger beer, and our freshly-spun fairy floss.

What's Included
  • Local guide
What's Not Included
  • Transportation to/from attractions
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Sarina Sugar Shed showcases the rich heritage of the sugar cane industry in the Mackay region. Your fully guided one-hour tour will take you on an interactive, educational and tasty journey of the Queensland sugar industry from paddock to plate. Taste award-winning liqueurs made in our on-site boutique distillery, as well as our gourmet range of sauces, chutney and relishes. Tastings also include our freshly-spun fairy floss and our own brewed non alcoholic ginger beer.

Location
Sarina Sugar Shed
Railway Square
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Johno
Aug 18, 2024
Highly recommended, informative & enjoyable - Excellent guide, Becky. Very informative, personable & good humoured. Managed to answer 99% of the garage of questions from the small group. The tour had a good balance of visual, audio & culinary formats, as well as inside & outside settings. Highly recommended.
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Pf3284
Aug 14, 2024
One of the best tours we have ever done. Julie, our guide was delightful and very informative, as were all the staff. - We are so pleased we did this tour as we learnt so much about growing sugar cane and the production of sugar as we know it. We also had taste tests of beautiful relishes and sauces, jars of which were purchased. The ginger beer and alcohol also produced there were also very nice. Highly recommend a visit or maybe even 2.
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Sue
Aug 9, 2024
Absolutely fantastic - Where do I start! I’ll start with the coffee and cake. Best chocolate brownie I have ever had in my life, anywhere. Then I’ll go to the friendly, happy staff, in every area of the establishment. So nice to feel welcome by everyone. Then I’ll go to the excellent selection in the gift shop. So much to choose from. clean and tidy too. The price of the tour, the food, and the gifts were very reasonable. When you’re travelling on the road you like to spend money in each town, so it was nice to be able to have great experiences at affordable prices. Then I’ll finish off with the tour. Ange was our tour guide. So knowledge, bright, bubbly, and funny. She absolutely made the experience even better. She had my attention from start to finish. Very interesting and enjoyable. Would absolutely recommend stopping in here to anyone and everyone. I’ll definitely be back. Thank you for a great experience
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Debbiepn5343vc
Aug 2, 2024
Amazing - We did the Sarina Sugar Shed Tour, it was very interesting, Bev who took us was fabulous, knew her stuff and was entertaining and helpful. It was absolutely worth going. All the staff are knowledgeable and friendly and very helpful. The lady in the shop was amazing. We came away with yummy treats and sampled their food whilst there. Would highly recommend.
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Lobethal
Jul 19, 2024
What a great experience. - Excellent information on history, growing sugar cane and processing. All the taste testing was a bonus. Also excellent coffee and lunches.
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85maritab
Jul 17, 2024
Special and enjoyable experience! - Fun, informative experience! Great value! Friendly staff. Variety of products to taste, and purchase. We did the combined tour. Tour length was acceptable. Thank you.
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Mranne1067
Jul 16, 2024
Family loved this tour - We’re from Mackay and have been to the Sugar Shed before on a number of occasions. So when my family came up for a visit over the weekend, we just had to show them the Sugar Shed. We drove down on Sunday 14th and did the first tour of the day. This tour is always informative, and there’s always something new to discover. My family loved the experience, especially the taste testing afterwards, and the gift shop. The tour guide was friendly, knew her stuff, and was entertaining. Will definately be back to support this local business again!!!
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Pauline
Jul 16, 2024
Sarina is worth the visit - The tour conducted by Carla was very informative and well worth the time. We highly recommend the tour. The food served in the cafe is also very flavoursome. Overall, all the staff very friendly.
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Sherina
Jul 10, 2024
Definitely worth a stop! - Our guide was Adelle, and even though she didn't sing for us (LOL), she was entertaining, enthusiastic and knowledgeable. The tour was interactive and the kids loved the samples at the end! We loved the onion relish, ginger beer and fudge. After the tour, we stayed and enjoyed lunch in the Cafe.
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Victoriamd5124wf
Jun 20, 2024
Fantastic family afternoon out. - We had Betty conduct our tour and she was absolutely fantastic with both of our children. She answered all our sons questions! We really enjoyed the tastings and the fairy floss at the end was a big hit. Thank you Betty!
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