ben & jerry's ice cream factory

这趟旅程本身一般。没学到什么东西。我们的导游说话声音不大,几乎听不见她说什么。我觉得4美元的费用花的不值。我通常不是个爱抱怨旅行团这个那个的人,但这次我真觉得不怎么样。基本上你就是花了4美元给自己买了张旅行邮票。给大家点小贴士:如果你的手机下载了4维码,建议你去 Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Factory,用这个优惠券去那里免费吃冰淇淋,我丈夫就去了。

我知道这听起来可能很疯狂,但是我没有参加观光团,也没有试吃冰淇淋,但我依然玩得很开心。工厂本上就在一坐小山上,拥有无敌的视野。当我参观的时候,天气很冷,风也很大,所以完全不想吃冰淇淋。不过我四处逛了逛,拍了很多花园的照片,非常愉快的体验。

去年我带着孩子从FL到VT,老公那边的亲戚就住在南VT,我们一起过了一个周末。他们知道Ben & Jerry's冰淇淋工厂就在VT,因此我们决定去沃特伯里(Waterbury)看看。我们避开众多游人,参加了个旅游团。由于工厂没有运行,因此没什么可参观的,但是最后免费品尝的环节非常棒。我们在礼品店和庭院待了整整一个小时,我们感觉很满足,但是没有特别惊艳。上周我和老公在VT拜访亲戚的时候参加了另外一个团,我们决定在美国窥叶节(leaf-peeping)的时候开车游玩整个州。当时偶然开车经过这里,因此决定停下来尝尝这儿的冰淇淋。当时是周一,人特别多——买冰淇淋的人排到店门外,大概有100多人呢。源于对冰淇淋的热爱我们还是排队等了。不过在拍了些漂亮橘子和红槭树的照片后还是离开了。如果你没有来过的话,还是很值得的,非常有趣,尤其是孩子会特别喜欢这里鲜艳的色彩和参观后的品尝冰淇淋环节。

参观工厂本来是可以很有趣的。我去过丰田、百威等工厂,所有一切都是免费的,而且在工厂例至少有30分钟的参观时间。这次花了24元,就看了一个关于这个公司历史的电影,又花了5分钟参观了一下生产线。结束时的品酒时间是最好的一部分,但也就只尝了1/20勺。如果你一定要去,最好提前问问他们是否处于生产期。他们周末不开生产线,有时候整周都会关着。

我们此次参观之行非常愉快,我们去的那天游客不多,还能赶上后面的行程。等候的时候,我们拍了很多照片,比如把头靠在冰淇淋盖子上,或者站在个一个冰淇淋硬纸盒上摆造型,非常有趣。行程从一段影片开始,是关于这儿的历史,然后到了另一个可以俯瞰生产线的房间。看着冰淇淋的制作过程感觉非常奇妙。我们的导游一直在跟我们讲笑话,非常好玩,大家也都很活泼。他讲解了生产线的每个部分,回答了我们的问题。然后我们就去了样品室,免费品尝各种冰淇淋了,实在是非常美味。参观的时候一定要四处多看看,我们就错过了质检室,据说非常有趣,即便是样品室也有很多可看的东西,别顾着吃。礼品店有很多美味的冰淇淋。如果你是 Ben&Jerry's的粉丝,那就不要错过后面山坡上的冰淇淋口味墓场,可以看到很多已经消失的口味,而且那儿的视野也不错。绝对值得一来,不过一定要赶早,避免高峰时期的人潮。要注意行程有很多爬楼梯的部分,如果你需要的话,也可以坐电梯。来之前一定要清楚行程的组成,有幽默的笑话,有工厂的信息,有美味的冰淇淋样品等等,尽管行程很短,但是你一定会乐在其中的。

The tour is worth it if you're in the area and love ice cream. It is very reasonably priced and you receive a nice size sample at the end of the tour. There's a short movie to watch and then you go to an observation deck to see the factory. Machines work during the week days, from my understanding. This time we were lucky enough to be there on a Monday and got to see the machines at work. I would stand there and watch all day. The tour is about 30 minutes total.

On a recent trip through Vermont we spent a couple of hours in Waterbury, where we visited Ben & Jerry's and Green Mountain Coffee. We anticipated Ben & Jerry's being a fun stop and were eager to learn about Vermont's famous ice cream company. However, our visit was a complete waste of time. Rather than taking advantage of their popularity to educate people about their ice cream, Ben & Jerry's has created a massive gimmick and decided to take advantage of tourists instead! The guided tour lasted around half an hour, beginning with a short and incredibly cheesy video. The guide doesn't actually take you into the factory, but instead allows you to observe from a window while giving rudimentary explanations of what is happening. These explanations are punctuated by a never-ending series of terrible jokes and puns, which not only distract from the tour but also are as irritating as nails scratching a chalkboard. The tour ends with an ice cream tasting (aka chance to be a guinea pig). The ice cream samples are of a new flavor that is currently being "tested," and tourists are of course asked for their feedback. If you're not a little kid, there's no reason to visit Ben & Jerry's and spend your time on this gimmicky tour.

Very interesting bit of history about how B&J's came into being. I've been on the tour twice and what a difference an animated funny tour guide makes. Really elevated the experience.The ice cream - so decadent and so good. Kids will love the samples and the pit stop at the end.Gotta go here!

We stopped for a short visit (about an hour). We took the tour which was reasonably priced and included a free scoop of the featured ice cream. The lines to buy a scoop of ice cream we really long, so we skipped it. The ice cream grave yard was fun to visit briefly. The staff are very friendly.

This is the original ice cream factory where it all began for the Ben and Jerry ice cream brand. Surrounded by grazing cows on open land, I guess its the milk to make their famous rich ice cream. The factory tour is well worth the visit!

What a huge let down! We paid $4 each and, as our 2 kids are over 12 and are therefore classed as adults, we paid $16. We hung around for 15 minutes for the tour to start (there is nowhere to wait other than the gift shop. Nice try but we weren't about to pay the ridiculous prices for B&J's branded tat) and then were greeted by the tour guide who obviously thought he was far funnier than he actually was. We filed up some stairs and watched a ridiculous film that could have been made by a bunch of preschool kids. Next we were herded into a corridor where we could see some machines into which empty tubs went in and full ones came out. Whoop dee doo! You can't see the place where they actually make the ice cream because that's secret apparently. Then you go back downstairs to a little room and get a tiny thimble of whatever ice cream they have on at the time (there's no choice so if it's not one you like, tough). Then it's back out to.... The gift shop again. Won't be going back and I would strongly urge anyone thinking of going to drive a few miles up the road and go to the Cold Hollow Cider Mill instead. Wonder what the Hagen Daz factory is like, I've gone right off Ben &Jerry's all of a sudden!

Best trip ever. I had so much fun. I highly recommend visiting the Ben and Jerry's factory in Waterbury, Vermont

As we eat Ben & Jerry's at home when we have Domino's pizza delivered as our desert we thought this is a place we have to visit to see how it is made? How wrong was we, we paid the tour price which is not cheap and wait about in the gift shop to be called by the guide? Another good marketing ploy by B&J's if you are with children as they will want the merchandise offered on sale which is aimed at kids and big kids. The guide finally called us for the tour and then told us first we will be shown a short film of the history of B&J's and how it begun. It was noted that the children in our party got bored quickly as this is not produced with keeping children occupied in mind? When the film finally finished the guide reappears and announces we are now going into the factory and to protect the secrets of the B&J's ice cream no pictures or video is possible? So as there is no mention of this as you buy your tickets you are all carrying camera's & camcorders that could have been left in the car! Then the disappointment becomes clear as the guide takes you upstairs to a viewing platform area looking into the factory area below through glass windows and tells you the white soap suds all over the floor and being sprayed into the machines is nothing to do with the making of B&J's the production staff have finished making a flavour of ice cream and you are now seeing the 4 hour washing down and cleaning out process before a new flavour production can begin? So in our minds we have been changed the same amount of dollars to watch the wash down as the other tours are charged to witness ice cream being made! No Ben & Jerry or should I now say Proctor & Gamble as like so much in this world now they bought out the company and kept the name? If you are washing down and not making ice cream either give customers a choice by telling them or charge a lower tour fee we feel is the fairer option! After leaving the viewing area you are shown back down to an area they call the tasting room again all you see is a girl sitting in front of different tubs of B&J's through another window, but you are given a very small portion of the ice cream she is testing to eat free, before you are shown back out into of course the gift shop. We did enjoy the free outside and graveyard areas we visited and of course there is a B&J's ice cream shop outside so you can purchase your favorite B&J's before you leave. If the management don't read this and change how they deal with these wash down tours when no ice cream is being produced and if after reading this you ask the question and are not told if it is in a washing down time I wouldn't bother unless you have plenty of dollars to waste!The car park and everything else if you don't buy ice cream is free so you make your own mind up about the tour?Thank you for reading this John & Sue Webb Eastbourne UK.

I hate to be a big giant party pooper raining on everyone's ice cream parade but this was just oooooook at best. I forget how much the "tour" is but anything other than free isn't worth it. The tour consisted of nothing. A man comes out greets everyone very nicely, takes the group upstairs to view the factory line, and then hand out a sample of whatever their daily flavor is and that's all....the end. I don't know what I was expecting but to call this a tour is misleading. It's a history of the company and a free sample. The factory itself is really pretty and duh the ice cream is delish, but it's not a MUST see thing. The tour is very blabby so if you're with small kids I don't think they'll care much about the history of ice cream.

Of course we all know the Ice Cream! It was nice, even on a cold day. The factory is the original I believe. I learned the history behind the start of Ben & Jerry's. We sampled some tasty ice-cream as well. Highly recommend.