This tour is quite dull. It only took about 10 minutes, and no photos are allowed. If it was a free tour, it would be fine, but I'm not sure it's worth paying for. We saw the tea factory at the Heritance Tea Factory hotel- it was free, and much better.

Pedro Tea Factory is a reasonably small facility, but located on their Lovers Leap tea estate, just minutes from Nuwara Eliya township, so reasonably easy to visit. The factory tour takes about 20 minutes and costs 500 LKR per person. Most of the machinery in the factory was sitting idle, but our guide said that the processing was done at night due to the different humidity and drying qualities. A number of reviewers have said how informative their tour was, but that wasn't the case with ours. Our tour guide was quite unengaged. The tour felt rushed, she parroted a few facts quickly and quietly in each room of the factory, and was very difficult to hear or understand. I don't think anyone on our tour came away with much more knowledge on tea production than they went in with. You weren't permitted to take photos in rooms with grading equipment. The reception area of the tours was modern, with a balcony overlooking a small tea planting. There were a few women plucking leaves below the balcony, but they appeared to be doing it primarily as a photo opportunity for tour participants. There is also a walking track to Lovers Leap Waterfall from the factory site.

As we already did a tea factory tour at another site on the way to Nuwara Eliya, we decided to only do the Tea plucking for 2k Rupees on the Pedro Estate. We actually hoped for some explanation or that they would weigh the leaves we picked afterwards, but it was really just handing out the cappy-held baskets (which smelled like old sweat btw) and nothing more. The field next to the site is nice to take some pictures, but we really had hoped for more than just this.

Don’t go on Saturday. There’s nobody working. The tour is done in 10 minutes (does not include the fields, just the factory) and the price is not worthy (at least at the weekend). I have visited other tea factories for free and you just pay for what you buy. Here we were charged 500LKR per person for practically nothing. A waste of money and time during the weekend.