Lockhart Tea Museum — Attraction in Kerala

Well, I found the guided tour to be just a selling technique to make you finally buy their products at higher prices quoting that they don’t sell it here in India and is only exported. Also @₹250/- per person ticket price, it’s quite high, correct pricing could’ve been around ₹100, I felt. The tour doesn’t allow such a great experience/information.

What was worst was the guide. He said some blatant ignorant things and that too with too much of over confidence .

For example….

He quoted macha tea is always a pre mixed green tea which comes with milk, sugar and even at times chocolate with it. He doesn’t know well about macha, he should probably learn a bit more and then speak.

He said that all tea sold in tea bags are basically the wastages from the tea making process. Again, his idea is of the very inferior ones at low values. He could’ve mentioned it as “many” or “most” commonly sold, at best. Either his command over the English language was not good or complete over confidence without knowledge, he spoke in very commanding note some wrong informations.

So, overall a passable thing to do-...

Very cool tea factory. Short tour available with tea tasting at end. 100% recommend.

We were taken here by a tour guide, the entrance few was 250 per person (too expensive imo), and we had a 20/30 minute tour of the factory in a small group of 4. The factory at the time was operational and we were allowed to view and photograph all aspects of the process from dehydrating/ grinding/ drying/ and sorting (despite the signs that said no photography). The tour ended in the store (as all tours will in India), and we could taste 8 blends of tea. Cost of a bag was approx. 300.

Overall good experience,...

You learn a lot about tea processing here, the entry fee is a bit steep, however the staffs try their best to answer your questions. The staffs generally exhibit the tea to sale it successfully. The price of Tea is pretty high here, and wasn't much convinced by their sales pitch. There is only a spoonful of tea tasting there. The factory has been purchased by...