dyer4789

Yes,

At LA Cetto they served cheese and bread with the olive oil that they make. There was one fellow cruiser who said they took this cruise only so they could come back here to buy olive oil to bring home. A friend of my wife had given her money to buy jugs of the olive oil back too so we bought that there as well as wine.

At Casa de Dona Lupe's, they serve pizza. It's a flat bread style. They also served wine smoothie that my wife really liked but I didn't. Inside they do sell sandwiches and pizza if you don't like the one that is free (they served us a veggie pizza and I'm more of a pepperoni guy). They bake the bread for their sandwiches there and my wife bought a loaf of bread fresh out of the oven although we had a hard time trying to explain what we wanted to buy because they didn't speak english and I haven't used my spanish for 10+ years. They also sold spices and candy, but, they did serve pizza that was free and there was snacks you could buy. They also had cheese with the wine for free. You could obviously buy whatever other food you wanted.

I thought it was a great excursion for sure. They gave us each a bottle of free wine also. If you buy the wines at the wineries they were about 7 dollars a bottle. The olive oil was also about 7 dollars a bottle.

One note, this was our first trip to Mexico. The lady there said you were allowed to bring back 3 bottles of wine per person without paying duties. That is not true, we found out later that you can bring 1L of wine back per person without paying duties. You can bring as much as you want back but you are supposed to pay. We brought back 5 wine bottles and all they did was inspect it to make sure it wasn't Tequila and said we didn't have to pay. The duties are left to the discretion of the agent and for wine it's not very much even if you had to pay. But it was just something we didn't know about and we were thinking it would be expensive to bring back extra wine so we almost just left our free wine's on the boat, but then we decided to see what would happen.

We just went this past weekend, it was on a Carnival cruise but it was the same excursion, going to LA Cetto and then the other less commercial winery.

There was some walking at LA Cetto, you see the fermentation tanks, their wine cellar, and then the little area where they have their parties. Then you go to the tasting.

At the other winery you go directly to taste and you can sit the whole time.

It was a really good excursion, I was really pleased with it.