About: This coffee tour is located in a hotel and takes you on a hike around their plantation, explaining everything you would want to know about how coffee is grown, harvested and processed. The coffee tour includes entrance to their large animal farm. The hotel also has hot springs, which they offer a visitor’s pass…
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Aquiares Estate Coffee
About: Located in the town of Aquiares in a small valley near Turrialba, this coffee plantation offers several tours including a standard coffee tour where you learn all about coffee and how it is grown, harvested and processed. There is also a full day coffee tour, which goes a lot more in depth and you…
Downtown Alajuela Food Tours
Options for food tours in Downtown Alajuela:
Trapiche Hermanos Arias
About: This sugar cane farm offers cultural experiences, rather than official tours, on certain days of the week where they grind the sugar cane and process it into various products. The experience is free, but they offer their products for sale. It is a very typical Costa Rican culture that you don’t want to miss….
Tio Jose Coffee Tour
About: This small, family-run coffee plantation offers a tour that explains in-depth how their coffee is grown and processed. It is informative and interactive, and you will get to try their coffee and other products as part of their tour. In addition they farm cacao, sugar cane, tumeric, and bananas which you will also learn…
Organic Strawberry Tour Costa Rica
About: While Costa Rica is known for their coffee tour and even chocolate tours, strawberry tours are much less common, which makes this experience even more valuable. This area of Costa Rica is known for its strawberries and you will not be disappointed to visit this local organic strawberry farm and learn all about how…
Hacienda Alsacia
About: This is a solid, informative and interactive coffee tour where you will get the same information about how coffee is grown and produced in Costa Rica as any other coffee tour in the country. However, it is ultimately run by a large corporation, Starbucks, and therefore does not have the same charm as the…
Espiritu Santo Coffee Tour
About: This coffee tour is the Goldilocks of all coffee tours. It is located right in town, albeit a small town, so it is neither too rural or remote nor too close to the big city. It is not too small-scale nor too large-scale, but rather run by a co-op of several families. It is…
El Toledo Coffee Tour
About: This small family-run coffee farm offers an informative and interactive tour explaining the entire coffee-making process. They also have been experimenting making wine from the fruit of the coffee plant and offer wine tastings. Province: Alajuela Starting from: Downtown Alajuela Time to reach from starting location: 49 minutes Time needed for activity: 1.5 hours…
Doka Estate Coffee Tour
About: This coffee tour and plantation is well-organized, as they are a large business that has been operating for years. Where it may lack in the charm some other smaller, family-run coffee tours have, they offer an organized and reliable tour as well as other services, such as lunch and/or transportation for an additional fee….