Hotel Chocolat's Bean to Bar Experience: A Chocolate Lover's Dream

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Project Chocolat

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Discover Hotel Chocolat’s Bean to Bar experience, indulge in cacao cuisine and cocktails, and find unique chocolate and cacao beauty products at Project Chocolat. A chocolate lover’s dream!

Duration: 1 hour

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Project Chocolat - Savor the flavor of cacao pulp straight from a freshly-cut pod, indulge in Rabot Estate chocolate exclusive to Saint Lucia, and gain insights from experts on the process of turning roasted cacao beans into a personalized chocolate bar. (experience approximately 1 hour)

What's Included

Chocolate Making

What's Not Included

Lunch is not included in the Bean to Bar experience, but can be purchased on arrival
Transportation from your destination in not included
Tree to Bar tour is not included in the Bean to Bar Experience

Additional Information

Explore Hotel Chocolat’s Bean to Bar experience, crafted for chocolate enthusiasts eager to gain delightful insider insights. Participants will savor fresh cacao pulp, delve into the history of cacao, sample Rabot Estate Chocolate, and learn to transform roasted cacao beans into a personalized chocolate bar.
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Location

Project Chocolat

Across the street from the starting point you will see Ladera Resort.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Devonlady007

Mar 15, 2025

Bean to Bar is a MUST - Bean to Bar is just a MUST for any visitor. A wonderful guided tour and full explanation of bean to bar, how the cacao tree is grown or grafted as needs be. You get to graft your own cacao tree (but don't expect updates on how it is doing LOL), wandering around the plantation - look out for the wildlife (the wasp is huge and like a sci fi animal!) and enjoy the variety of other plants there, but making your own chocolate bar is exhausting! However, the end result was delicious. Lunch was rather disappointing in the limitations however. I would have loved to have enjoyed the pizza and the crepes - but they were not offer within the lunch menu for the tour! Disappointing to say the least given the price of the tour - you need to review that HC! The staff are delightful, informative, and helpful throughout. you need to be aware that there are a LOT of steps down throughout the tour and then back up again for the chocolate making and for lunch - if you are not fully mobile they can be off putting.

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B8363goelizabethr

Mar 14, 2025

Not to be missed - Highly recommend this experience. Our guide, Nathan, was a delight to listen to with a witty but informative narrative. Grafting our own cacao tree was a unique experience. The tour could have been a bit longer. Making our own chocolate bar was hard work but worth the effort - end result delicious! Lunch was rather disappointing. Limiting our choices was not great - there were dishes I would have liked to try but they were not available as part of the deal - very disappointing. It was also not made clear when I pre-booked my place that I could arrive early to have my lunch BEFORE the tour, rather than taking it after, which made it practically dinner rather than lunch. I also found the explanation of the one way system very difficult to follow - the part where I expected to get out on to the top end of the road was chained off and I ended up driving out of the "in".

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Shenicquiaf

Feb 23, 2025

Bean to Bar Experience - We had an amazing time at the Chocolate making class. Tahjahne was our host, and he was the best. He took his time to explain the entire process and made it such a wonderful fun experience. They were very nice and understanding to accommodate us after a mishap with our arrival time. I highly recommend this tour, very informative and fun, you will love it.

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Tlchilds

Feb 18, 2025

Tree to bar experience Well Done - Nathan did an excellent job explaining the process bringing in experts for various steps. The Tours’s super informative. The chocolate making experience was fun and again very informative. Highly recommend!

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Kimbw6719ms

Feb 10, 2025

Chocolatey paradise - Very cool way to experience St Lucian history. Great history, neat making your own chocolate, nice lunch and shopping options!

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Rslunde

Jan 19, 2025

Fun experience in a beautiful location! - We did the experience as an excursion of the cruise we were on. The chocolate making was a fun activity, but did give a good arm work out! The instructor was friendly and gave lots of information about the chocolate making process. You spend about 45 mins making a 65% dark chocolate bar from grinding cocoa nibs with a hot pestle and mortar, before adding in cocoa butter and sugar. The lunch was included with the package we brought and it was at their food shack area, not the main restaurant. Although there was not too much choice, we got to choose a mains (chicken roti, beef burger and I'm sure there was a veggie option) and two sides (mac and cheese, plantain chips, sweet potato wedges and breadsticks). A drink was also included and a sundae to finish off!

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Elisabeth_h

Jan 5, 2025

Fun and different -... - Fun and different - recommend it to anyone of any age. Learning about the history of chocolate and making it was great experience!

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Luv2travelalways2018

Mar 13, 2025

Fun time - We learned a lot about the chocolate making process and enjoyed the experience. The staff was very friendly and knowledgeable. We also walked around the beautiful grounds and learned even more. We had a delicious lunch on site. This is a great rainy day activity!

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Q7008rycathyb

Mar 8, 2025

Underwhelmed - Honestly, underwhelmed. Very little gained and over priced for the hour. Felt “put on the tourist fast track conveyor belt”. First and last time

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Lucy

Mar 6, 2025

Over priced - Although we enjoyed the experience it wasn’t worth the money or the travelling we did from the north of St Lucia to get there. I would recommend if it was a third of the price. For the cost I expected to see something - an actual cocoa bean tree would have been nice and to see more of the process.

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