Project Chocolat Tree to Bar Tour at Hotel Chocolat Saint Lucia
Description
Immerse yourself in a unique Tree to Bar chocolate experience from chocolatier and sustainable cacao grower, Hotel Chocolat, at their Rabot Estate in Saint Lucia - lunch included. Plunge into the rainforest for a tour of the cacao groves and learn about sustainable cacao-growing. Find out how to graft a cacao tree before tasting cacao pulp from a freshly-cut pod. Then, sample chocolate made on the Rabot Estate and unique to Saint Lucia while crafting your own chocolate bar. (Experience approx. 2.5 hours) Discover the famous cacao-cuisine and The Cacao Bar - all enjoyed overlooking a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lunch is included in the Tree to Bar tour price - you can arrive early and eat before or linger after and take in the rainforest views as you indulge in the market-style food. Finish your Tree to Bar experience by treating yourself (or loved ones back home) to more chocolate and our cacao beauty & alcohol ranges, available to browse and purchase on our retail floor.
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Tree to Bar Experience: Immerse yourself in our unique, multisensory tree to bar chocolate experience at Rabot Estate. Here, you can find out about how cacao grows. Plunge into the rainforest for a tour of the cacao groves, and learn how to graft a tree before hand-crafting your very own chocolate bar. Finish your experience with cacao cuisine, served street-food style - including the Cacao Burger, Cacao Beer-Battered Fish & Chips and fresh local produce. Try our famous soft-serve Ice Cream of the Gods and our cacao infused cocktails.
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Important Information
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Experiences are not suitable for children under 8 years old
- We are Covid Certified
- You must arrive for your experience with good time, ensuring you are not late
Reviews(578)
We loved the tour, the guide (Wednesday July 29th). The whole experience of seeing the Cacao trees, the grafting of the plant, and the narrative that helps us learn how to make chocolate. IT's AMAZING. They wrapped our chocolate bars to take with us.
Brilliant experience. Not cheap but it felt worth it; we loved the tour and explanation of the process of making chocolate and Project Chocolate’s work with the local community and move to organic processes. The chocolate making was so fun and the included lunch afterwards was delicious. We were there three hours and each took away the bar of chocolate that we’d made. Our guide Nathan was lovely, interesting and fun. He also showed us a recent video he’d taken of tarantula, my son loved it!
A brilliant tour of the plantation and how a chocolate bar is made from a seed to what we eat. Our guide Nathan was very friendly, funny and knowledgeable. The rainforest tour was brilliant despite the rain and all the fruit and lovely colours were amazing. When yiu get back to the estate you make your own chocolate bar - be prepared for a workout !! 💪 Lunch was lovely especially the white chocolate mash and the cacao mac n cheese. A really lovely way to spend a morning - and the chocolate is a very tasty bonus. Highly recommend.
Really nice experience from “Tree to Bar” in exploring the lovely plantation and being guided by the very knowledgeable John. Chocolate bar making was fun (if a bit tiring!) and the meal was delicious!
Learning about the whole process of making chocolate was fascinating. Then getting to make your own chocolate from nibs was awesome. If you are a fan of chocolate would highly recommend this tour
Our tour guide Yonik was great! He’s very knowledgeable feel free to ask any questions he will gladly answer. He treated us to coconuts and mangos on our trip! We had a great time!
This was an incredible tour. They provided lunch and let us make our own chocolate bar. Would 100% do it again!
Getting to “hotel” was expensive. It cost $220 plus a tip. The first part of the experience was interesting. We learned about the growing and harvesting of the cacao tree. We walked into the rain forest. From there we climbed many steps to where we learned how to make the chocolate. There should be a warning about the climb particularly in the higher altitude. We than learned how to use a pestle to crush the beans. It was a lot of work. We than added the other ingredients. There was a woman helping us. We spent over 20 minutes using the tool. While the chocolate was cooling, we had lunch. The menu included chicken, sweet potato fries, and plantains. The food was average. Unfortunately the chocolate tasted awful. It was too bitter. My granddaughters bought the milk chocolate in the store and did not like it. I would not recommend this tour.
The Hotel Chocolat chocolate-making experience was absolutely wonderful from start to finish. Our tour guide, John, was fantastic and truly made the day special. He was engaging, knowledgeable, and kept the entire session fun and interesting. Learning how to craft our own chocolate from scratch was an incredible experience, and John guided us through each step perfectly. If you are looking for a unique, memorable, and delicious activity, this tour is highly recommended!
This is the best excursion we went on, very informative and a real insight into where chocolate came from and how it used to be made.
