Shakespeare Distillery: River Avon Gin Tasting Cruise

Shakespeare Distillery

Available from 30 April 2025 to 23 August 2025

Book now from £30.00

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Enjoy a delightful 60-minute cruise with a gin & tonic, on the picturesque River Avon!

Take in all the riverside sights, including the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Holy Trinity Church, Shakespeare’s burial place, while savouring a tutored tasting of craft gins produced by the award-winning Shakespeare Distillery. Finish off with a refreshing Gin & Tonic to toast your captain and crew.

The Shakespeare Distillery team is partnering with Avon Boating to offer Gin tasting cruises! These cruises will take place at 6pm (and 4:30pm) on selected weekend dates throughout the season.

The Shakespeare Distillery team will carry out a short talk on gin while providing a tasting of three of our spirits as the boat cruises upstream during the first half of the journey.

At the end of the tasting, enjoy a Gin & Tonic while relaxing and enjoying the remainder of the cruise, passing under the bridge and downstream, taking in the RSC and Holy Trinity Church, before returning to the Boathouse on Swan’s Nest Lane.

The experience:

  • Duration: Approx. 1 hour
  • Time: 6pm
  • Meeting point: Swans Nest Boathouse, Swans Nest, CV37 7LS
  • A Stratford Gin and Tonic to drink, in a souvenir tumbler glass for you to take home!
  • Guided tasting of 3 Shakespeare Distillery gin samples
  • 60 minute River Avon cruise
  • Designated drivers may take home a Stratford Gin miniature in place of the Gin & Tonic in the souvenir tumbler glass

This experience is for adults (aged 18+) only, they are unable to admit children.

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Swans Nest Boathouse

Swans Nest,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
CV37 7LS
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Meeting Point: Swans Nest Boathouse, Swans Nest, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 7LS

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Yes, the Shakespeare Distillery in Stratford-upon-Avon has on-site parking, which is free of charge

Yes, Shakespeare Distillery is wheelchair accessible. The main entrance has a ramp, and the floor inside is all on one level. There is also a disabled toilet and the option for a lower workstation in the Gin School room

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