Private Tour
Bowral: Honey Farm Tour Including Morning Tea and Guided Tasting
Overview
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1 hour
Mobile ticket
This is a delightful and engaging insight into bees, beekeeping and honey! Our honey Farm is on the grounds of a beautiful national trust property. You'll get to wear a veil, see the hives and then enjoy delightful morning tea on the Terrace looking at across the lake and rolling hills.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Not recommended for anyone with an allergy to bees
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Love honey? Fascinated by bees & their lifecycle? Join us for a one-hour tour of our beautiful Honey Farm on the grounds of a historic National Trust mansion in Bowral, followed by a guided honey tasting and morning tea. We start with a tour alongside the hives: wearing a head veil, you'll be able to safely observe the activities of the bees & hear about their remarkable lifecycle. The talk continues with a demonstration showing an (empty!) Flow Hive and the workings a modern hive. You'll hear about the remarkable lives of these at-risk pollinators and gain an understanding of their behaviours. We then move to our beautiful terrace looking out across the dam and rolling hills for a guided honey tasting where you will taste 6x different floral source honeys, each with it's own distinctive appearance, aroma, viscosity, mouth texture and taste. All of this complemented by a morning tea of fresh sourdough & leaf tea or plunger coffee. This is a great activity for family groups, and visitors to the Southern Highlands. Our apiary is on the grounds of Retford Park, a beautiful historic property a 5x minute drive from Bowral main street. We also have honey available after the visit.
Sample Menu
starter
Sourdough
Freshly baked sourdough the to complement the high quality leaf tea and freshly ground plunger coffee.
What‘s Included
Morning tea.
Tour of Honey Farm
Honey Tasting.
Beekeeping veil.
Options
Honey Farm Tour. Morning Tea. Guided Tasting
Reviews
6 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Amazing experience
Eliza S,Apr 7, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Highly recommend. The honey farm tour was very informative, along with the chance to taste some delicious honey spreads as part of morning tea. The honey harvesting experience was an added bonus—a unique experience for all age groups. You get to take a close look at the honeycombs and then scrape and crush them to extract unfiltered raw honey. It’s very hands-on and worth the money. Plus, you get a free bottle of harvested honey to take home.
Yummy honey, good times, good value!
denycen2026,Mar 28, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Had such a good time, good weather, yummy honey, great tour by Phil!! Small group and crowd (i think roughly 20), and we got to ask questions, look at the bees, roam around the farm. my fav part was definitely the honey tasting! ive never tasted such yummy honey and the flavours are so special! Eat all you want too so it was just so so so yummy! i bought heaps of honey and it wasn't even expensive compared to store bought. I wish they had an online store so i could buy more again!!! very worth the ticket price!
Honey and bee tour
oliviarD4373JN,Mar 7, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Fabulous tour. Hamish was so funny and engaging. We learnt so much about bees and had lots of good laughs. The tasting was great! We all bought some honey to take home. Grateful for a wonderful experience.
Wonderful family experience
Etobicoke4,Dec 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The honey farm tour was an amazing experience! We gained so much amazing knowledge about the bees and the host was so well informed and also managed to insert humour! 🐝
A sweet experience, buzzing with information.
davidbQ5714KY,Oct 5, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00A brilliant sharing of knowledge, imparted in a light, yet insightful manner. Questions were welcomed and answered well. A delicious sampling of 6 honeys with bread, tea and coffee.
Education on bees
Ghkgz,Jul 5, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Was interesting to learn about bees. Host was very good. Nice honey selection located in great surroundings. Rug up if you go in July if you are from out of the area.
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