Taste of the Tropics Tour
Overview
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1 hour
Mobile ticket
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.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
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
Transportation to/from attractions
Gratuities
Options
Sugar Shed Tour
Daily Sugar Shed Tour: Available 9.30am, 11am, 12.30pm and 2pm. . Please check-in at least 15 minutes prior to departure. Tours leave on time.
Reviews
285 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Great value & amazing facility
pamj742,Apr 16, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Amazing tour. I took my grandsons - aged 6 & 8 - and they loved it. Well worth the trip.
Great tour
deleezec,Apr 7, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Really great little tour, we are local but still learnt a lot. Products delicious!
Fantastic tour and tasting experience
annew848,Apr 6, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Fantastic sugar shed tour. Jessie was a fabulous host. Very knowledgeable and brilliant with guest of all ages (and those with additional needs). Excellent info about the cane and the process within the shed. The tasting experience is wonderful- as are all of the products. You can taste all the sauces/ condiments they make plus their ginger beer and Limecello, Coconut rum, Turkish delight rum, Butterscotch schnapps, coffee rum and the rum liqueur. To finish it all off you can watch fairy floss I made and get to try some. The cafe is great too! Perfect day out!
Best distillery tour l!
S8289XXbarbaraf,Mar 31, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The staff and our tour guide Carla were amazing. Loved everything about this tour. Very friendly and helpful. They went out of their way to make our visit from the USA be a fun one!
Great informativ tour
Travel24578074090,Dec 28, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I expected to see the factory, but the tour was very informativ and especially the mix of information and tastning and seeing small clips og how the production is. All in all a great tour. And the people is so nice
Absolute brilliant
Rebecca B,Oct 31, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Such a brilliant experience. Our tour guide - Millie - was very knowledgeable and so much fun. Had us all laughing so hard we forgot how hot and sweaty it was. Highly recommended
Well worth a visit.
shellshubby1995,Oct 29, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had been staying locally and decided to give this place a visit. It was a good decision as our guided tour by Nikki was really detailed and informative. The tasting session at the end of all the produce they make was really nice. This is well worth the entry fee and well worth visiting.
Well worth the money!
Jane K,Oct 10, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Today we had a wonderful tour with Des, who was witty, knowledgeable, and with a great ability to gain quick rapport with the whole group! We walked away from the tour with so much more appreciation for what needs to happen to our sugar cane before we find it as sugar on the supermarket shelf! This was a great tour,with tastings as well, and we came away pleasantly surprised - with a fairy floss- at how much we enjoyed it!
Amazing value for money
cathypP6916DE,Oct 4, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Carla gave us a great morning!amazing value for money, rip-roaring tour through the history of sugar cane farming & australian industry. Highly reccomend espec 4 families
Sugar shed tour, Sarina.
Scenic07130307615,Sep 29, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Great tour with Jess. Tasting was varied, awesome flavours. With the visit. Full explanation of the process of cane growing to sugar refining.
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