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About this activity

Your tour starts with hotel pickup in Negril by comfortable coach for the 50-mile (80-km) drive southeast to the parish of St Elizabeth, where the Black River — one of Jamaica’s longest — flows toward the Caribbean Sea.

Upon arrival, hop aboard a pontoon boat with your local guide for your 1-hour journey along the slow-moving river, bordered on both sides by trees, bushes and other vegetation that create a lush, tropical setting. Watch for native birds like herons and egrets, and as you cruise past the mangrove marshes, keep an eye out for the river’s most notorious inhabitants — crocodiles!

After your boat ride, enjoy a traditional Jamaican lunch of chicken, fish or pork before making the 30-minute drive north to YS Falls. When you arrive at the 120-foot (37-meter) waterfall, where water from the YS River pours down seven tiers of cliffs, use the changing rooms to put on your swimsuit, and then you’re free to enjoy the falls however you wish. Take a dip in the cool waters, walk along the river pathway or just relax on the riverbank and enjoy the scene.

Finally, return to your coach for the 25-minute drive to your last destination, Appleton Estate, one of Jamaica’s oldest distilleries, which has been producing high-quality rum for more than 250 years. Tour the property to see Appleton's copper pot stills, which give the rum a distinctive flavor, and get a look at the oak barrels, where some of the premium rums age for up to 30 years. You’ll also learn about Appleton’s prestigious history and fermentation process, during which water naturally filtered by limestone is combined with sugar cane molasses and a special yeast culture, which results in its much-lauded flavor.

Once you’ve discovered how and where Appleton rum is made, enjoy a tasting! Try different types of Jamaican rums and rum liqueurs, and then head back to Negril, where your tour ends with hotel drop-off.

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Included

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Air-conditioned vehicle
Lunch
Tasting fees at Appleton Estate
Entry/Admission - Black River
Entry/Admission - YS Falls
Entry/Admission - The Joy Spence Appleton Estate Rum Experience

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Gratuities

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Confirmation will be received at time of booking
PLEASE NOTE: The Appleton Rum Estate is currently undergoing renovations and is closed for all tours. The estate is scheduled to reopen in October 2017.
Vegetarian lunch option available with at least 48 hours notice
Minimum numbers apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there is not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund

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Tourism

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Cultural

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nbollin

5 | 2017-09-02

Awesome time!

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KATHRINE W

4 | 2017-02-06

It was a fun trip with a very knowledgeable guide. We were nervous about being picked up because we weren't able to call within 24 hours, but they were there without any problems.

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Katherine W

5 | 2016-10-04

This tour was great! Lots of crocodiles in the black river, the YS falls was neat, although strange - you basically get a guide that takes you around the falls and takes all sorts of pictures of you on your own camera. I wasn't expecting a bikini photoshoot that day but some of the pictures were actually really nice and I'm glad we did it! You couldn't really maneuver the falls without the guides' help/ I think this is better than Dunn's falls because your group gets their own guide, where at Dunn's falls you have to hold hands with a bunch of strangers! Appleton estate was great - a tour of the grounds and factory and then a rum tasting - they basically left us in a room with a bunch of bottles of rum and there was no limit to the number of tastings you could have! The tour also included lunch and all-you-can-drink rum punch at Appleton's, it was delicious! All in all it was a great day and I would do it again!

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Chris B

5 | 2016-08-02

This was a really great tour, but expect it to take up the whole day. We left the hotel at 8:30 am. After about an hour and a half ride, we arrived at the black river. This tour was really fun. The guide was very knowledgeable and did a great job getting the crocs to come out and swim to the boat. He even reached over and fed one and grabbed her leg. see pics The Appleton Rum Factory tour was very informative. The lunch was delicious and the chicken was not spicy at all. At the end they provided all you want samples of 9 different varieties of their rum, which everyone seemed to really enjoy. It was about a 2 and a half hour drive back to the hotel, so I would say it was about 10 1/2 hours total, but well worth it.

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Shane C

4 | 2016-07-12

Great our, friendly tour guide and bus driver. I left my phone on the bus after being dropped off at our hotel and this was returned to me the next morning when I met the driver at reception. The crocodiles are great to see and the trip up the river is very relaxing. The Y.S Falls are amazing and very different to the Dunn's Fall which we visited the week previous. My girlfriend and I felt that more time at the falls, maybe 90 mins instead of the given 60 would be a good change. Time spent changing before and after getting wet takes time out of this already short time here at such a beautiful place. The Appleton rum tour was shorter than expected but still great to see and sample their large variety of rums after the tour. The price was far less than what our rep quoted is also, we wish we'd tried booking through trip advisor from the start.

Black River, YS Falls and Appleton Rum Estate Day Trip from Negril

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