Lovely gardens with many different palms. Parking easy and we enjoyed the visit to the rum factory, house and rum tasting. Go early as we enjoyed a pretty peaceful visit. Lots to purchase in the shop. The rum with cream is delicious!

This place is just amazing. It is a botanical garden, a museum, a historical landmark, a playground for kids, a very rich rhum shop...you will surely find something to do and something to love about it. Do not rush, dedicate at least half day to visit everything, it really worth the experience. And buy a bottle of old rhum...you might find the same at the airport at least 20% more expensive...

Clement House is an impressive place. Surrounded by acres of sugar and banana plants, Clement House welcomes visitors to first walk along paths through beautiful parklike grounds before coming to the old rum distillery and warehouses for storing rum barrels. Visitors mainly walk around the outside of the old building/distillery viewing pieces of the old equipment used in grinding the sugar cane. It no longer is a functioning distillery - at this location anyway. I liked one display area that had a small section of a sugar cane train that once carried the cane from the field to the distillery. A bed of sugar cane plants was good for close up viewing of the cane, but there was no cane tasting. There are bilingual info signs with brief information about what one is looking at. We didn't have audio sets for the audio information at these stops. We took 30 minutes for this walk, but I would have liked more time to walk through the extended parklike grounds to view the plants and various pieces of sculpture placed throughout. From these outer buildings, the pathway leads to the plantation house. Visitors view a sitting room and a dining room set with good china and glasses on a beautifully polished long dining table. The tropical flower arrangements were lovely to see in the house. The hallway had family photos of the original owner and of Bush's and Mitterrand's meeting at the house. The house visit takes about 5 minutes The visit ends in the very clean and modern rum tasting room and gift shop where bottles of the rum that we tasted could be purchased (12E to 22E). We had 2 strong rum tastings (finger size) in stemware and 1 tasting of a rum and fruit mixture. The rum tasting takes about 10 minutes. I thought the entrance fee (10E) was reasonable. Washrooms are plentiful and clean. There is no food available for purchase, but one can enjoy one's own picnic at picnic tables in the "park". Paths are paved and often have colorful showy tropical foliage plants alongside. Parking is plentiful. The drive from Fort de France across the island to this attraction is 30 minutes and the paved roads are well maintained. We visited this attraction on a cruise ship excursion so our time was limited to just over an hour visit. If you want to see harvested sugar cane being shredded, crushed and boiled, this is not the place.