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: 24 hours
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…
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,…

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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Natashaemily
Oct 19, 2024
Highly Recommend! - Jess was amazing! Such an informative and fun tour guide. Thoroughly enjoyed our experience at the Sarina Sugar Shed :)
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Camper32045192204
Oct 7, 2024
Taste of the Tropics Tour Experience - A really fun experience, our tour guide was super friendly and engaging and the tour itself was very informative. I found it fascinating to learn about the details of how sugar is processed in an understandable way, and the taste-testing made it all the more interesting and memorable. Very accommodating as well, there's a section of the tour that's in the sun, but the Sugar Shack provides umbrellas and water to help. Nice selection of snacks in the shop from locals and brands around QLD. It would be cool to have more of a variety of physical souvenir options, but that doesn't take away from the overall experience. All in all I highly recommend the tour and would definitely go again!
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Amandadmurphy
Sep 24, 2024
Sugar shed tour - A great tour and tasting session that suited our group of adults and teenagers. As locals even we learnt a lot and enjoyed hearing about sugar industry in Mackay! Great range of relishes, sauces, lollies and liquors!
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O6352izkellieb
Sep 16, 2024
Fantastic - Did both tours, very informative and great tour guides. Highly recommend! Also cafe was yummy and very reasonable pricing. Make sure to stop off at gift shop so many yummy goodies!
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Sarahpt2710uw
Sep 10, 2024
Fantastic Tour - One of the best tours we have done, our tour gide was fantastic, informative and interatcted with the kids. The tast testing was a wonderful bonus :)
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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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Twall707
Aug 31, 2024
Sarina sugar Shed Experience - We obviously misunderstood what we had purchased, expecting a tour of the sugar refinery. We had an expectation that we would actually see the refinery in operation. We were told to turn off our phones to prevent possible ignition issues with volatile flammable product. We probably moved some 30 metres from an outdoor display of rusted obsolete machinery to an indoor display of working models of some of the process line. This was interphased with some tastings of the cane as it went through the refining process.Then followed a tasting of refined product with purchasing opportunities. The time was around 1 hour. I have watched videos for free at refineries that were more informative. Disappointing. Twall
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From $20
up to 10 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).