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Join a wonderfully entertaining hands-on craft cocktail class at Bar 1, the oldest brick building in Key West. The class will be held just a short walk from the pier in the Key West Cooking School complex, an ideal venue for learning to mix drinks like a professional bartender. Everything you need will be right there at your fingertips. During this interactive experience, you will make specially curated cocktails while learning about their origins and the spirits they contain. Embrace the spirit of the rum runners of Key West history while creating unique beverages. After making the island-influenced cocktails from scratch and drinking them at your leisure, you will be given the recipes so you can easily re-create the drinks at home. You will also be served a charcuterie board that perfectly complement the cocktails.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Learn to mix cocktails from scratch in a hands-on class in a historical building.
• Enjoy the cocktails after you make them, along with a charcuterie board.
• Hear about the fascinating origins of the drinks and their ingredients.
• Re-create the drinks at home and relive your Key West visit!

HELPFUL HINTS

• Dress in weather-appropriate clothing.
• Wear flat comfortable walking shoes.

OVERVIEW

Watch highly skilled chefs prepare dishes that reflect Key West’s most prevalent cuisines and enjoy the delicious creations for lunch. The venue for this culinary immersion will be the Key West Cooking School, a 1950s-style kitchen equipped with turquoise appliances and decorated with retro wallpaper. While enjoying this old Key West ambiance, you will observe the chefs making signature dishes that Bahamian, Cuban and Caribbean cuisines have inspired. You will be given the recipes for each dish so you can easily follow along and later prepare the meals yourself at home. Although the exact menu will depend on the season and which local ingredients are freshest, you can expect a bountiful meal of time-honored dishes that are Key West favorites. To enhance the experience, the chefs will tell entertaining stories about everything from Aunt Sally – who supposedly invented key lime pie – to how the early islanders harvested sea salt to preserve their food.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Watch chefs prepare classic Key West dishes in a 1950s-style demonstration kitchen, you may even be called on to help prepare one of the dishes
• Use the recipe card for each dish to follow along and prepare the dishes yourself at home.
• Dine on the freshly made dishes for lunch.
• Hear entertaining stories about Key West’s cuisine, which other cuisines have influenced.

HELPFUL HINTS

• Dress in weather-appropriate clothing.
• Wear flat comfortable walking shoes.

There is so much to do and see on the island paradise of Key West, and you can see it all on this one tour combining the World-Famous Conch Tour Train, Key West Aquarium and the Shipwreck Treasures Museum. The World-Famous Conch Tour Train has been the favorite way to explore since 1958! All aboard our themed train vehicles for a fun-filled tour conducted by our expert train engineers who will share the history, legends and landmarks of the Southernmost City in the Continental United States. Be seduced by the tropical plants, sultry aromas of tropical flowers, and the stately homes of ships’ captains as you wind through the streets of the Historic District. Hear the stories of famous residents like President Truman, renowned author Ernest Hemingway, and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tennessee Williams, and like them, fall in love with this island paradise.

Following your exclusive, 1-hour tour of the island, step into the first tourist attraction on the island, the Key West Aquarium. Located in Key West’s famous Mallory Square, the Key West Aquarium is one of the island’s most popular attractions for people of all ages. Home to alligators, jellyfish, sharks and many other marine animals, guests can enjoy interactive conservation talks as well as animal feedings. Guests also have the unique opportunity to meet live sharks and stingrays. The Key West Aquarium allows you to get up close and personal with some of the most fascinating creatures in the Florida Keys!

Wreck Ashore! With these words, enter the world of 1856 Key West. The era of the wreckers. At the Key West Shipwreck Treasures Museum, you will step back in time as you discover Key West’s unique maritime heritage and how it became the richest city in the United States. Located in Mallory Square, the Key West Shipwreck Treasures Museum combines actors, films and the actual artifacts from the 1985 rediscovery of the wrecked vessel Isaac Allerton, which sank in 1856 on the treacherous Florida Keys reef. You will be invited to climb the 65′ lookout tower to relive the search for wrecks on the reef.

Get up-close and personal with Key West’s underwater residents. The aquarium is Key West’s first attraction built in 1935 to promote tourism to the island during the Great Depression. Today it is home to hundreds of different species including rays, sharks, fish and turtles and even a touch tank where children of all ages are encouraged to enjoy a hands-on experience with the Keys’ sea life. At the Atlantic Shores exhibit, you’ll come face-to-face with a Florida Keys near shore environment filled with tropical and game fish, sea turtles and spiny lobster. Then you’re off to the Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory. Witness hundreds of free-flying butterflies and exotic colorful birds from around the world that inhabit this glass-enclosed, climate-controlled conservatory. Relax and enjoy a magical, one-of-a-kind experience as you walk among the most beautiful creatures in nature and stroll against a backdrop of lush flowers, trees, orchids and cascading waterfalls. To set the stage before you enter their world, spend time in our leaning center where you can view a 15-minute award-winning film that describes the anatomy, physiology and life cycle of the butterfly.

Relax and be transported through time on the Old Town Trolley. This one and a half-hour (without hopping off) tour covers over 100 points of interest as you weave through the narrow streets of Old Town. Key West has one of the largest historic districts in the U.S. filled with tropical plants, flowers and charming wooden cottages, houses and mansions. On the tour you’ll pass through the historic seaport, by the Southernmost Point and Duval Street, and unearth the stories of its unique heritage. You’ll be transported from the golden age of settlement through the exciting days of the railroad, and discover island life through the years of the Great Depression. You’ll quickly see why Key West has been home to writers and poets, musicians and artists, and visitors. Your tour will conclude at Mallory Square, filled with great shops and attractions including the Key West Aquarium and Key West Shipwreck Treasures Museum.

Relax and enjoy yourself on this ride through centuries of Key West history. You will be met at the pier and escorted about 250 yards over flat paved surface to board a private tour on the world-famous Conch Tour Train, a themed multi-car street tram that takes you back to the days when fiercely protective Native Americans left their enemies' bones to bleach in the tropical wilderness. The island's original name was Bone Key. Explore what is now a lush, tropical and densely populated island, and discover the charm and grace of one of America's unique architectural treasures. You will get to know characters such as John James Audubon, Ernest Hemingway, and Harry S Truman and, like them, be captivated by the magic of Key West. As the tour meanders through the Old Town with its blend of tropical plants and flowers, you will pass by the historic seaport, the southernmost point of the continental USA, the cigar makers' shot-gun houses, wreckers' mansions and unique churches-all part of the island's multicultural heritage.

Find out about Key West's unique role in the Civil War, and about Henry Flagler's dream and how it came true. From bold Spanish explorers to the great cigar barons and sponge magnates, people from all walks of life have made Key West their home. Delve into the history of the golden age of settlement through the exciting days of the railroad, the Great Depression, World War II, the Kennedy era and the Cuban Missile Crisis to the present. This 1-hour excursion will conclude in Mallory Square where you can browse the numerous shops before heading back to the ship at your leisure. Voted the number 1 tour in the state of Florida, the Conch Tour Train is a must do for your visit to Key West!