COFFEE TOURS · FROM FARM TO CAFE
From the cherry on the hill to the cup in your hand.
Andean fincas in Colombia, volcano haciendas in Costa Rica, marble coffee houses in Vienna, phin-filter classes in Hoi An. Reviews of the coffee tours, tastings and roastery visits worth booking, wherever the bean is grown, roasted or ritualised.
Three ways to chase a coffee
The farm, the coffee house, the roastery.
A coffee trip can mean three very different days. Standing in the rows where it grows, settling into a century-old coffee house, or following a single bean across a roaster's drum. Start with the one that sounds like your kind of morning.
Costa Rica
At the source
On the volcanic slopes around San José, coffee grows in the shade between the rows and the whole journey from cherry to cup happens on one hillside. A hacienda tour walks you through the picking, the washing and the sun-drying patios, then sits you down to cup what those mineral soils produce. This is coffee where it is actually grown.
- 1 Hacienda Doka Coffee Experience Tour
- 2 Poás Volcano and Coffee Tour with Tasting and La Paz Falls
- 3 Poas Volcano waterfalls and coffee tour from from San Jose
Austria
In the coffee house
Vienna turned drinking coffee into an institution, and its Kaffeehäuser are listed by UNESCO for it. A guided round moves from one marble-and-bentwood room to the next, a melange and a newspaper at each, a slice of Sachertorte where it was invented, and the stories of the regulars who treated these tables as a second home.
- 1 Vienna for Food Lovers: Cafés, Markets & Austrian Cuisine
- 2 Vienna Coffee, Cake & Pastries Tour with Local Stories
- 3 Vienna: Guided Foodie Walking Tour with Tastings and Coffee
USA
On the roastery crawl
Seattle is where American coffee grew up, and Capitol Hill is its proving ground. A walking crawl moves micro-roaster to micro-roaster, watching the drum roasters turn, talking origin and roast level with the people pulling the shots, and tasting the difference a few degrees makes. The modern cup, traced back to the bean.
- 1 Seattle Coffee Tour: Capitol Hill Cafes, Tastings & Local Stories
- 2 Seattle Coffee Crawl-Small Group Tour
- 3 Coffee Crawl & VIP Morning in Pike Place Market
If you only book one
The coffee tour more travellers rave about than any other.
Out of every coffee tour, tasting and brew class on the site, this is the one people come home telling everyone they know to book.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Coffee Tours Right Now
Colombian finca days, Costa Rican volcano haciendas, Viennese coffee houses, Hoi An brew classes. The bookings travellers are happiest they made.
Start with a destination
The best coffee tours, place by place.
Medellín for the Andean fincas, Vienna for the coffee houses, San José for the volcano haciendas, Seattle for the roastery crawl. Pick where you are headed and we will show you the coffee tours worth booking there.
Which kind of coffee day
Three ways to spend a morning with coffee.
Pick how close to the bean you want to get. Each of these is a coffee world the site covers deeply, with a different kind of day waiting at the end of it.
Medellín & the Coffee Triangle
Ride the cable car up to the source.
Above Medellín the hills are stitched with smallholder fincas, and the easiest way in is the cable car that floats you over the rooftops to the green slopes beyond. A farm visit walks you through picking the ripe cherries, the wet mill and the drying beds, and finishes with a cup brewed from the very lot you just watched come off the tree.
See the best Medellín coffee tours →Salento & Cocora Valley
Where the wax palms meet the coffee rows.
Salento is the postcard heart of Colombia’s coffee triangle: candy-coloured streets, a Jeep Willys ride out to the fincas, and the towering wax palms of the Cocora Valley on the horizon. A farm tour here walks you through the harvest by hand, then pours a tasting flight that shows what altitude and shade do to a single varietal.
See the best Salento coffee tours →Vienna
Order a melange and stay all afternoon.
The Viennese coffee house is a listed cultural treasure for a reason: marble tables, bentwood chairs, a waiter in a tux, and the unspoken right to nurse one cup over a newspaper for hours. A guided round takes you into the grand old rooms, pairs each melange with the cake it was made for, and tells you which writers and composers called each one home.
See the best Vienna coffee tours →Punta Cana
Mud, a cave swim, then coffee off the farm.
The Dominican coffee stop comes with a side of adrenaline. A buggy or 4x4 bounces you through the cane and the jungle to a working finca, where you crush cane, taste cacao straight from the pod and sip the local brew, usually with a cenote swim thrown in. It is the most fun way on the site to find out where a cup comes from.
- 1 4×4 Dominican Adventure with Chocolate and Coffee Tasting
- 2 4×4 ATV Experience, Water Cave, Chocolate and Coffee Tasting
- 3 Buggy Adventure Tour with Chocolate and Coffee in Punta Cana
How close to the source
How near the bean do you want to get?
A melange under the chandeliers in Vienna. A morning walking the rows on a Costa Rican hacienda. A hands-on phin class in Hoi An. Pick the one that sounds like your kind of coffee morning.
Stay in the cup
Vienna, a table by the window.No early start, no muddy boots. A guided round of the old Kaffeehäuser, a melange under the chandeliers, a slice of Sachertorte and the stories of the writers who lived at these marble tables. Coffee as a city ritual, taken sitting down.
Walk the farm
Costa Rica, between the rows.A morning on a volcano-slope hacienda outside San José: into the shade trees with a picker, through the wet mill and the drying patios, then a cupping of what those hills produce. You leave knowing how the cup gets made.
Brew it yourself
Hoi An, hands on the phin.The full ritual, start to finish. Grind, pack and pour through the little metal phin, learn the egg-coffee trick and the condensed-milk pour, taste as you go and leave with the recipes. The cup you make is the one you came for.
Hoi An
Make the cup with your own hands.
Vietnam drinks coffee its own way, and Hoi An is where you learn it. In a hands-on class you grind the dark roast, pack the little metal phin, and watch it drip into sweetened condensed milk; the bravest go on to whisk a Hanoi-style egg coffee until it is half custard. You taste at every step and walk out with the recipes, so the ritual comes home in your bag.
See all 2 Hoi An coffee tours →By destination
Pick where your coffee comes from.
Medellín for the Andean fincas. Vienna for the coffee houses. San José for the volcano haciendas. Seattle for the roasteries. Hoi An for the brew classes. Punta Cana for the jungle farm runs.
More destinations
More places to chase a great cup.
Pereira for the coffee-triangle fincas, Portland for the indie roasters, Nairobi for the Kenyan estates, Sarajevo for the slow džezva ritual. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
Three places, three coffee days
Pick a place, plan the day around the cup.
A finca morning in Pereira, a coffee-house afternoon in Vienna, a roastery crawl in Seattle. Three places, three very different ways to spend a day with coffee.
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