Don Olivo Chocolate Tour
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La Fortuna, Costa Rica
- 2 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Spend a delicious 2 hours learning all about the best type of chocolate in the world, along with coffee, tropical fruit, spices, rum, and sugar cane- all products of Costa Rica, on this tour. Explore the farm holding 1600 cacao trees, where they produce 150 pounds of cacao every week. The best part: sampling the chocolate and the rest of the delicious produce!
- Entry/ Admission to La Fortuna de San Carlos
- Open daily at 8:00am, 10:00am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm
- Guided tour to walk you through the history and tastings
- Easy to find location: Don Olivo Chocolate Tour, Unnamed Rd, Provincia de Alajuela, La Fortuna, 21007, Costa Rica
What's Included
- Coffee and/or TeaCHOCOLATE, FRUITS, SPICES, COFEE
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Don Olivo Chocolate TourUnnamed Rd, Provincia de Alajuela, La Fortuna, 21007, Costa Rica
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End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
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Don Olivo Chocolate Tour
2 hours • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
This was an amazing tour! We got to try a bunch of local fruit (delicious), sugar can, coffee and chocolate. Our guide was incredible. We learned so much. My 8 year-old daughter stayed engaged the whole time. I would 100% recommend this tour!
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Dan and Joseph have been amazing! They were so sweet and informative. We tired all types of fruit and coffee and hot chocolate!
The experience was great, we took a tour through cacao farm and saw alot of other fruits and also got to try these fruits during the tour!
Amazing tour filled with lots of eating and knowledge. Brian is amazing, so funny and informative. The tour takes you round the farm, showing every process with constant fruit being served! Also get coffee, hot chocolate and rum at the end! Highly recommend!
What a great experience! Shout out to Brian who was funny, informative and included everyone in the experience. My daughter and I joined over an hour late due to an unexpected trip to urgent care, but Brian made sure we had as close to the full experience as possible. He skipped his 10min coffee break between tours and gave us a mini tour complete with the tastings we missed! He insisted saying “you came all the way from USA for this and we will do a speed round tour”. What a special opportunity to learn from this family farm.
Such a fun and DELICIOUS activity!!! It was raining the entire time of our tour which added to the experience!! Super fun!
Thoroughly enjoyed this informative experience. This isn’t a big commercial thing- it’s family owned. Our tour guide showed us the tools his father and grandfather used to harvest the cacao beans for generations. I highly recommend! A few things that aren’t in the booking info-
1. You don’t need any special shoe, but I’d recommend sneakers. I wore flip flops and got a few little bug bites walking through the property. Not a must, but I wished I’d worn closed toe.
2. They give TONS of fruit samples that were absolutely delicious, in addition to a chocolate banana at the start. Unexpected treat!
Highly recommend Don Olivo- kind family and informative tour!
The chocolate tour was one of our favorite activities. It was very insightful, our tour guide was amazing, and we loved learning about the chocolate-making process. The fresh fruit and chocolate tastings were absolutely delicious.
A really great tour of the plantation, where we learned all about growing fruits, and cocoa. We got to taste pineapple, mango, sugar cane, raw cocoa, and chocolate. The guide was very knowledgeable, his grandfather started the plantation. Well worth doing, we really enjoyed it. Be sure to wear something airy and light, as it gets hot and humid amidst all the trees and plants.
We had an awesome time with this tour. The guide was very knowledgeable and funny. They gave us so many fruits, chocolates and coffee. We all had a great time!
Educational and fun excursion. They provided lots of fruit / snacks throughout. Kids ranging from 18-11 were engaged throughout.
Very nice experience. Guide was very friendly and informative.
Last but not least lovely chocolates and coffee
An informative and fun tour of a small cacao farm. Highly recommend over larger farm tours. Our guide, Josue, shared every aspect of his family’s farming experience.
This was a small farm tour that was so personal and enjoyable. Brian our guide was very informative. We tasted so many different things including delicious fruits, coffee, and cocoa beans. You won't get a more personal hands on tour.
Phenomenal tour with Daniel for our family of 5 (13, 11, 6). We did the 8 am tour, and there were only 7 of us total in the group. We ate so much fruit, chocolate and had delicious coffee. We were so full after! And we learned so much about the growing and harvesting processes at the farm. Our family agrees that we could do this tour every single day. It was perfect!
I can not say enough good things about this tour. I was a
bit apprehensive because this tour was much cheaper than the others in the area. I could not have been more wrong. Brian was amazing! He was so informative about each step in the process of creating chocolate and coffee. He was kind an answered all questions with a smile. I was pleasantly surprised with all of the delicious fruits provided. There was also info provided about how the fruit grows in costa rica. I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
Great tour ! Very local and authentic with lots of interesting information and so much fruits and goodies.
The guide was really passionate and funny. The fruit was great and touring the whole farm was fun. Was up there for a great relaxing activity.
Our kids insisted on this tour and I am glad we did it. It was totally worth the time spent and the price. They offered multiple fruits and snacks to taste - chocolate covered frozen banana, sugarcane, soursop, fresh banana, home made rum, papaya, mango, cacao fruits. We ground coffee and cocoa beans, they made hot cocoa and coffee out of it, served them to us. They also gave us handmade chocolates. Plus, lot of historical information shared on coffee and cacao.
Really enjoyed the tour. It’s a relatively small property that besides cocoa has some coffee and several fruit plants. The guide did a good job of keeping everyone interested and engaged. We were served fruits, coffee and chocolate
This is a fantastic and a very informative experience everyone should consider while in La Fortuna, Costa Rica. The farm is family owned and the people that worked there are very passionate and knowledgeable with what they do.
Must do while in La Fortuna. Our guide Brian is knowledgeable and personable. He kept the group entertained and well fed with tasty local fruits throughout the tour. The pacing is good and keeps everyone involved. Duration is appropriate and great for when you don't want a 4 hour or longer activity.
Brian also helped get me an Uber back to my hotel as I didn't have reception, even though it was his lunch time. He's good people.
Would recommend!
This was a ton of fun! Our guide was a great storyteller and we learned a lot from him. We got to sample a variety of fruits. My favorite was trying the fruit of a cocoa bean, it was really bizarre but deliciously sweet and refreshing. There was also a moment at the end where the whole group sat at tables and chatted over coffee and hot cocoa, which was lovely. The chocolate cubes were delicious and we bought a container of it from the gift shop.
It’s mostly shaded under the many fruit trees, but there are definitely stops where you’ll be in the sun. Wear sunscreen and expect bugs!
I was not excited about this tour, but it was fantastic and I’m so glad we did it! We had so many samples of fruit that were all delicious, sugar cane and rum! The chocolate and coffee were great!! The tour was very interesting and the tour guide shared a lot if interesting facts.
The chocolate tour was such an amazing and unique experience. It took place in a family backyard, which made everything feel very homemade, welcoming, and authentic. Everyone was incredibly friendly and made us feel right at home from the moment we arrived.
Our tour guide, Bryan, was spectacular. He was knowledgeable, engaging, and made the entire experience fun and memorable. We were able to sample many of the fruits grown there and got the full chocolate-making experience — from picking the cacao bean to enjoying a delicious hot cup of chocolate and fresh chocolate bites.
I highly recommend this experience to everyone. You won’t regret it!
We had an amazing time on the chocolate farm tour! The experience was a perfect mix of fun, learning, and delicious tasting. We got to sample fresh local fruits including pineapple, mango, banana, and papaya, and also saw coffee plants along the way.
The highlight was learning the entire chocolate-making process step by step — from cacao bean to finished chocolate. We even learned fascinating facts about leaf-cutter ants, which the kids loved.
Our guide, Dan, was funny, insightful, and extremely informative. He kept everyone engaged throughout the tour, especially our 9-year-old, who had a blast and stayed interested the whole time. Ending the tour with local coffee and hot chocolate was the perfect touch.
Definitely worth the money, and we would highly recommend it to others visiting the area!
The experience was incredible. Brian, the guide, had amazing knowledge of both chocolate and coffee. His passion was evident, and thanks to him, I learned so much. I highly recommend this tour.
Absolutely loved this experience. It was about a two hour two which included so much fresh fruit, chocolate and coffee. It's a family run business and doesn't feel commercialized like the rest of the chocolate and coffee tours in La Fortuna. Most importantly their chocolate was amazing!!
Honestly didn't know what to expect from a "chocolate tour" — figured it was just an excuse to eat samples and call it educational. I was not wrong, but I was also completely wrong, if that makes sense.
The farm has been growing cacao criollo for nearly 100 years. Our guide walked us through the whole process; from cracking open cacao pods (which looks nothing like what you'd expect, by the way) to grinding, fermenting, and eventually tasting. At every single step there was something to try, which my group took very seriously.
What really made this tour was the guide had a great sense of humor. He clearly loves what he does and has been doing it a long time. The knowledge runs deep, but he keeps it accessible and never makes you feel like you're sitting in a lecture.
Beyond the chocolate, the farm itself is gorgeous. There are over 37 kinds of tropical fruit growing on the property and we got to try several of them, plus sugar cane, banana, mangoes, pineapples, rum — it kept going.
If you're in the area, just go. It's two hours, it's delicious, and you'll leave knowing way more about where chocolate actually comes from than you ever expected to.
The owners are very passionate about farming and we learnt a lot . Tried the delicious fruits grown on their farm and they make the absolute best chocolate squares . This tour is highly recommended!
Great combination of discovering nature in the farm, tasting different fruits, cacao, and coffee, and learning about the process of cacao production. We enjoyed it very much.
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