Antigua Coffee Tours

Antigua ATV Coffee Tour

Ride your own ATV out of Antigua on cobbles and farm track, then spend an hour and a half at Finca La Azotea following coffee from seed to cup. A local guide, every fee and tax, and the cup you drink at the finca are all covered in the fare. The ride finishes twenty minutes up at Cerro de la Cruz, where the whole grid of the town sits below you with Volcán de Agua behind it. You need a valid driving licence, there is no hotel pickup, and lunch is not included.

1. Meet at the office on 6a Avenida Norte
2. Take your own ATV out of Antigua
3. Ninety minutes at Finca La Azotea
4. The coffee process, seed to cup
5. A cup of the finca's own coffee
6. Twenty minutes at Cerro de la Cruz
7. Ride back to the meeting point

From $53 per person

Coffee and Gastronomic Bike Tour in Antigua

Cycle out of Antigua on a bike that comes with your fare and spend two hours on trails winding between the coffee plants at Finca La Azotea. Ten minutes further on, the handicrafts market at San Felipe de Jesús fills another ninety with wood carving and Guatemalan cooking kept to recipes centuries old. Snacks, bottled water, the coffee and every fee are covered, and the ride ends with a cold beer back at the office. Bring long trousers for the mosquitoes; the group caps at nine and two travellers are needed for it to run.

1. Meet at the office two blocks off Parque Central
2. Cycle out to Finca La Azotea
3. Two hours on the trails between the coffee plants
4. Ten minutes on to San Felipe de Jesús
5. Ninety minutes at the handicrafts market
6. Guatemalan cooking and its traditions
7. Ride back for a cold beer at the office

From $38 per person

Antigua Coffee Tour by Local Producers

Growers from the co-operative walk you through their own plots at the foot of Volcán de Agua, an hour among trees they planted themselves. Round-trip rides from Antigua, the coffee and a champurrada — the traditional Guatemalan cookie it is drunk with — are all in the price. The cup at the end is served in a producer's home rather than a tasting room, which is what makes this a visit rather than a demonstration. Four hours from the shuttle point at Ermita de Santa Lucía, capped at ten, with lunch excluded.

1. Meet at Ermita de Santa Lucía, Antigua
2. Ride out to the growers' village
3. An hour in the fields below Volcán de Agua
4. Growing and production, explained by the grower
5. Coffee sipped in a producer's home
6. Champurradas with the tasting
7. Back to Ermita de Santa Lucía

From $45 per person

Coffee Tour Adventure Antigua Guatemala

Make your own way out to San Pedro Las Huertas and a local grower takes it from there, starting in the village park at two stone washing basins still in daily use. The colonial church gets a proper reading before you head to the plot for growing, harvesting, roasting and a tasting at source. Two to three hours, capped at twenty, and the whole point is a small grower rather than an estate. Private transport and lunch are excluded, so budget for the ride out to the village.

From $45 per person

Experience: Organic Coffee, Avocados, Honey & More!

Coffee is only part of what this small organic farm south of Antigua grows — avocados, honey and the corn for the tortillas are in the ground beside it. Ninety minutes walking the plantation covers the plants, the pulp removal machine you get to test yourself, and a tasting of the farm's own coffee and honey. It leaves at half past nine from Casa del Jade, one block off the plaza, and runs two to three hours with a maximum of ten travellers. Guacamole is made from the farm's own avocados in harvest season only.

From $69 per person

Coffee & Macadamia Fincas Tour

Door-to-door pickup from any Antigua hotel, a private air-conditioned minivan and a professional guide to yourselves for four hours. Two hours at Finca La Azotea covers the coffee, the Casa Kojom music collection on the same grounds and a cup from the estate's own production. An hour at the Valhalla station then adds macadamia, since the same shade and altitude that suit one crop suit the other. Booking takes a minimum of four travellers and caps at eight, and admission to both estates is excluded, so you pay it at each gate.

From $60 per person

Admission to both estates is excluded — you pay at each gate.

Coffee Farm Experience

Pickup from your Antigua hotel, twenty-five minutes out to Ciudad Vieja, and an hour and three quarters on a working smallholding with the family who run it. You learn how the plants are fed and tended, why Guatemala is divided into eight coffee regions, and what a day of fieldwork actually involves. Transport, an experienced guide and the tasting are all inside the fare. Pounds of coffee and any extra food or drink are not, so carry cash if you want beans to take home.

From $55 per person

Coffee Tour in Antigua Guatemala

Nine in the morning is collection from your lodging, and by half past you are in the fields on the Rivera family farm outside Ciudad Vieja. Two hours covers planting, cutting and processing, the varieties that suit this altitude, and the eight regions that make up Guatemalan coffee. The group is capped at ten and the guide works in English or Spanish. Entrance, transport and the tasting are all included, and you are back in Antigua by half past twelve with your afternoon intact.

From $69 per person

Coffee Tour in Sacatepéquez with Tasting

Spend three hours with a coffee grower in Ciudad Vieja, in the department this coffee is named after, on the plants he feeds and tends through the year. Transportation, entrance to the plantation, the guide and the tasting all sit inside the fare, and pickup is from any point within Antigua. You learn to make your ideal cup and drink coffee produced entirely by growers from the area. This fare is non-refundable and cannot be amended, so settle your date before you book.

From $60 per person

Non-refundable — this fare cannot be changed.

Antigua Coffee farm and Chocolate Tour

Two family businesses in one morning: a coffee farm on the slopes of Volcán de Agua, then an artisanal chocolate shop back in town. You harvest cherries, roast and grind your own beans in the traditional way, and leave with a bag of coffee and a bar you chose the flavour of. Three and a half hours from the fountain in Antigua's central park, with a live guide working in English or Spanish. The guide's tip is the only thing not covered, and every stage of both crafts is done by hand rather than watched.

From $82 per person

Sip n' Cycle Coffee and Mountain Bike Tour

Intermediate mountain biking through the countryside outside Antigua, then a co-operative member shows you the farm and takes you into the family home to flame-roast the beans and grind them by hand. Lunch with the family follows, cooked in the kitchen you have just been standing in. Bikes, helmets and all the equipment come with the fare, along with bottled water and the coffee itself. Four to five hours from a nine o'clock start on 7a Calle Poniente, capped at fifteen, with gratuities left to you.

From $122 per person