Partagás Cigar Factory Tours — Attraction in Pueblo Nuevo

February 2025. To visit a cigar factory in Cuba, you need to buy tickets in advance from a major hotel concierge desk. There are four factories in Havana. The process of buying tickets is quite complicated and you need to provide passport and travel details. The price per head was $10 For the partagas Factory. The factory is open Monday to Friday 9 am to 1 pm. We turned up to the factory at 11am and joined a guided tour of approximately 10 people, the tour took approximately 30 minutes. At the end of the tour we went to the neighbouring factory which was the H Upman Factory to look at the cigar shop. This partagas factory is the temporary location for partagas, as the main factory has been undergoing renovation for the last decade.

Our tour guide was a lady called Amanda who was highly knowledgeable and spoke excellent English. She explained to us all facets of the cigar production line process. She explained the rollers joined between the ages of 18 to 35, and it was a lifetime career for them. Paid approx 10K CUP pcm, their working hours are 6 am to 5 pm, however, they each have a specific quota to roll per day between 80 and 120 cigars, and when done they can leave. Each roller has a grade between one and nine, with nine being the highest skilled worker. The shorter cigars are easier to roll and are so given to the less skilled rollers, the longer more complex cigars being given to the skilled workers. Each worker owns the cigar for the whole duration of its production line from rolling to final presentation. Once the cigar is rolled the cigars go to a quality testing team where they are either accepted or rejected. The rejection rate is approximately 10 to 15%. They are then banded. Each roller gets six reject cigars a day to take away with them. At the partagas Factory they produce 10 of the 29 Habanos brands. Including Cohiba, partagas and H upman. The tobacco for the cigars comes from one small region on the island of Havana. The cigar comprises of five leaf types; wrapper and fillers. Each cigar brand has its tobacco blend chosen by the master blender, and the blend is unique to that brand and is what gives the brand its profile flavours. The rollers are then handed the correct leaves and given instructions on what to...

You can take a short tour here of Partagas cigar factory.

Note: You can't buy a ticket for the tour at the factory itself, but need to get that from a Cubanacan agency. The nearest is located in the Plaza Carlos III mall a few blocks west on Av. Salvador Allende. The tiny Cubanacan office is all the way at the top of the mall in a corner (see attached photo). The ticket didn't seem to be for a specific time, and when we arrived we could join the next available tour. They operate in the morning until about 13:00.

The tour is short and simple and available in at least English and Spanish. They explain the basics about how tobacco is selected for cigars and how cigars are made. Then you go upstairs to the factory floors and see the workers make the different kinds of cigars, where the guide explained a bit more about the different types and levels of craft. Afterwards the guide also showed a cigar shop around the corner. As an important part of Cuba's history, I found it very interesting. The tours were quite cheap at 240...

This factory makes Tobaccos, one of the biggest industry of Cuba, and proceed on the procedure after delivered from farmers of leaves. We can learn and watch all procedure to make Tobacco. it's so rarely and amazing.

There is no ticket control or counter. So before we would be here, we had to bought a prepaid ticket in order to enter and see around the factory. The ticket maybe sells at most big Hotels through tour agencies travel or company offices.

Staffs proceed on different procedures at individual floors and rooms. cf) pull out the stem - delivery upper floor - shaping toward Tobacco. In the end of tour, we can buy Tobaccos in local price. All spending tour time is less than 30 minutes.

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