Allison Scates

Review of Coca-Cola

Since living in Atlanta, I had always wanted to vi...

Since living in Atlanta, I had always wanted to visit this museum even though I don't like Coke, but more so to taste the coke products from around the world. So this past weekend my boyfriend and I visited World of Coca-Cola and it was an okay experience.

When you first arrive, you go through security and enter their lobby where they give you a free small can of coke. You can choose from about 4 different types. Then you have to wait to go to the next room where a tour guide gives you a brief history lesson on Coke and he talked for about 7 minutes. Asking everyone in the group where they are from and encouraging everyone to take pictures because we wouldn't revisit that room. Then he says that we will watch a 6-minute film on Coke.

When I heard this, I was intrigued. So then we proceed to go to a screening room and to my disappointment, this "film" was a 6 minute long Coke commercial. I was like, how dare they call this a "film." It was a six minute, shaky camera coke commercial of people enjoying coke.

Then after we finished viewing the "film" we exit the theater and begin our self-guided tour through the museum. The first place we went was the vault room, which was interesting. You read about how coke was created and how other companies tried to copy the idea. Then, you enter a room that you can't exit out of until you pass this video game. So everyone is huddled in a room and a tour guide explains that we have to play this game to exit the room. So everyone in the room is just waiting for people in the group to finish the game so we can leave, which was annoying. After the game is over, I'm thinking, okay, we can leave now, but no, I was wrong.

We then are all crowded into another small room with screens all over the walls and the tour guide explains that we are going to watch another promo about Coke. I was like, Oh God, not another Coke commercial. Then, after the ad, the woman explains how the secret formula to Coke is locked in a vault in that room. Then after all of that, we can exit. That part of the tour was a little claustrophobic and annoying for me.

Anyways, on the first floor there are two other rooms, one were you can see the bottling process and the other is a history of the advertising of Coke and you also learn of the other products that Coke produces.

The second floor is where you can learn about how Coke has impacted people. There's a section where you can read letters that people wrote to Coke about how it has impacted their lives. In this room, you also learn how people protested Coke when they briefly changed their formula.

I thought that was kinda silly, because it's just a soft drink. But the best part of the tour was being able to taste the different coke brands throughout the world. You can taste products from Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe and North America. I thought 90% of the drinks were gross. The only continent for me that had the best flavors were Africa, the rest tasted terrible.

To exit, you have to go through the gift shop where you can buy Coke products and merchandise. So in all, it was just an okay experience.