Project Chocolat Tree to Bar Tour at Hotel Chocolat Saint Lucia
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St Lucia
- 2 to 3 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Prebook this chocolate-making experience at St. Lucia’s Hotel Chocolat and enjoy a unique experience you won’t soon forget. First, tour the cacao groves in the rainforest before learning how to make your own chocolate bar from scratch during a guided session. Plus, to make the day a stress-free one, lunch is also included at Hotel Chocolat, too.
- Tour the cacao groves and learn about cacao cultivation
- Craft your own chocolate from bean to bar
- Delight your senses with cacao meals and desserts
- Overlooks a St. Lucia UNESCO World Heritage Site
What's Included
- From Tree to Bar Cacao Tour
- Chocolate making experience
- Lunch
- Transportation
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Project ChocolatUnnamed Road Malgretoute, St Lucia
Across the street from the starting point you will see Ladere Resort.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
Start this Soufriere chocolate tour at Project Chocolat in St. Lucia. This is a perfect experience for foodies or chocolate lovers. Once you check in, it’s off for a walk in the rain forest. In the forest, tour the cocoa groves and learn about how the cocoa is harvested for your guide. Taste cocoa from a pod before making a chocolate bar yourself with help.
Afterward, it’s time to enjoy the provided lunch that comes with this experience. Take in the forest views as you eat a market-style lunch.
End your chocolate tour at the onsite shop, where you can purchase food and alcoholic beverages (own expense) to take home with you.
Afterward, it’s time to enjoy the provided lunch that comes with this experience. Take in the forest views as you eat a market-style lunch.
End your chocolate tour at the onsite shop, where you can purchase food and alcoholic beverages (own expense) to take home with you.
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Project Chocolat
2 hours 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- 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
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 50 travelers
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You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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This was SUCH a cool experience! It was our favorite thing we did while visiting St. Lucia. There was so much to learn and see about how cacao grows. The included lunch was really tasty, you choose a main, two sides, a dessert and a beverage. Making our own chocolate bars was such a unique experience too!
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Travelers praise the knowledgeable guides for their engaging explanations of cacao cultivation and chocolate production, which enrich the educational value. The hands-on chocolate-making activities stand out as both enjoyable and informative, allowing travelers to taste raw ingredients and craft their own bars. Food and beverage offerings, including creative cacao-infused dishes with vegan and dairy-free options, receive consistent positive feedback. Overall, the experience is described as interactive and rewarding.
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Tahj was a wonderful tour guide. Clearly very knowledgeable about the crafting of chocolate. He was very patient with our group when it came to making the chocolate. The tour started off with a step-by-step, interactive guide with how the cacao tree grows, followed by a tour through the forest where we picked cacao pods and tasted the seed, followed by the making of our chocolate. If you like dark chocolate, this is definitely the place for you. Highly recommend, lunch was also great too.
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!
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.
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.
Great customer service from everyone on property. The tour was great, guide was very knowledgeable and friendly. Chocolate making was fun, lunch was tasty. Loved the sustainable practices on this property.
This was a real insight into Chocolate from tree to bar, the combination of seeing the trees and pods through to creating your own bar was really enjoyable. It does take some effort to create your own bar but well worth it.
If you love chocolate or even if you just like it then this is a must do.
Such a cool and unique experience! I loved seeing how the cacao beans grow and learning about the process of making chocolate. The guides were great and the tour was very well run. Pounding the chocolate is definitely an arm workout! After the workshop you get to enjoy a lovely lunch in a beautiful setting. Agree with reviews that said to wear good shoes for walking in the jungle, as well as bug spray etc. A must do in Saint Lucia !
Absolutely fantastic, a must do in St Lucia. Wear trainers and there is a bit of walking around the estate.
This a nice excursion to Hotel Chocolat where you visit the site and take a tour and learn the process of how chocolate is made! You get to walk thru the site and observe how the plants are grown and observe plants in the fields. Also included is lunch and you get to make your own chocolate! Recommended for chocolate lovers!
Lovely experience, great to hear the cooperation between Hotel Chocolat and local farmers. Really enjoyed both the rainforest walk and the chocolate making (even if it did require a lot of pounding!)
This was a great experience to walk through the process of growing cocoa trees and actually MAKING chocolate. Our guide (John) was very informative and friendly. The explanatory and rainforest garden portions were lovely and the actual chocolate making is INTENSE—your arms will get a workout! While it was fun to have the experience of making your own, you really appreciate the difference in refining chocolate that comes with machines—our homemade bars were fun but… our hand-ground texture left a lot to be desired! The food combinations with cacao were nice, although it hadn’t been clear to me that the included lunch is either consumed BEFORE the tour (some people arrived quite early for lunch apparently) or afterwards… Bear this in mind if you are combining activities! It was also not clearly explained what the included lunch actually included… we had to ask in the food court area, and there are many options there that are NOT included/are an extra cost.
The cocktails are nice and we had a fun time with the bartender but they are very much on the sweet side and are an extra $15 USD per cocktail. For my gin-loving palate, I didn’t really taste much cacao in the gin to warrant taking a bottle home.
The tour was a good length so as not to spend too much time in the heat. The grafting demonstration was great and we even got to taste the cacao beans straight from the tree. Lunch was great from street food style vans with cacao worked into most menu options. The cacao mac and cheese and the cacao pulled pork burger were excellent! Staff were lovely and knowledgable. It didn’t feel too touristy or commercialised which was refreshing to see!
Response from Host, Jul 2026
Thank you for your wonderful feedback! We’re delighted that you enjoyed discovering the cacao journey, tasting cacao fresh from the tree, and experiencing our market-style cacao cuisine. We appreciate your kind words about our team and are thrilled that your visit felt authentic, engaging, and memorable. We hope to welcome you back to Rabot Estate again soon!
The experience was unforgettable. Absolutely fantastic from start to finish. Our guide, Tahj, was very knowledgeable and patient. The tour is so informative learning about how chocolate was discovered to how its used all around the world today. This tour is a MUST DO while visiting St Lucia!
Response from Host, Jul 2026
Thank you so much for your fantastic review! We are thrilled to hear that your chocolate-making experience was unforgettable and that you enjoyed every moment from start to finish.
We’ll be sure to share your kind words with Tahj. We are delighted that you enjoyed learning about the fascinating journey of chocolate.
Thank you for making our experience a must-do recommendation for visitors to Saint Lucia. We look forward to welcoming you back to Rabot Estate.
The tour was nice & interesting to learn about graphing. Making chocolate is literally an arm workout. The lunch included was so delicious!
Response from Host, Apr 2026
Thank you for sharing your experience! We’re thrilled you enjoyed the Project Chocolat Tree-to-Bar Tour at Hotel Chocolat Saint Lucia and found it both interesting and fun.
We’re also glad that you enjoyed the included lunch—it’s wonderful to hear that it was delicious! We hope to welcome you back for more chocolate-filled adventures soon.
I really think that you need to add physical requirements of this trip. Steep hills. Many steps. Walking in wooded areas. I was not aware of these conditions and would have worn proper shoes. Two men had a lot of difficulty and missed parts of the trip. The tour and the guide were wonderful. Very knowledgeable. Loved making chocolate bar. The lunch options were good and delicious.
Response from Host, Apr 2026
Thank you for sharing your feedback! We’re glad you enjoyed the Project Chocolat Tree-to-Bar Tour, but we also appreciate your note about the physical demands of the experience.
The tour does involve walking on steep hills, steps, and wooded paths, so proper footwear and a moderate level of mobility are recommended to fully enjoy the activity. We’ll be sure to highlight this more clearly for future guests to help everyone prepare. Your insight helps us make the experience safer and more enjoyable for all.
Great afternoon learning about growing and making chocolate. Beautiful farm and knowledgeable staff. My only suggestion os please make it more clear that lunch is served BEFORE the start time. Food was great!
Response from Host, Apr 2026
Thank you for your feedback! We’re thrilled you enjoyed learning about caca cultivation and making your own bar at Project Chocolat, and that you loved the lunch. We appreciate your suggestion about clarifying the timing of the meal—this will help future guests plan their visit even better. We’re glad you had a great afternoon with us!
Beautiful rainforest and plantation setting, flowers and crops all around. Well organised with knowledgeable guide , great activity content with chocolate bar making and really great quality meal
Interesting information given about chocolate bean farming and a quick walk through beautiful grounds. Making our own chocolate was fun and very well organised with great staff.
Very interesting experience touring the cacao plantation and learning about how the pods grow. Actually making chocolate from the cacao nibs was a unique and fun opportunity!
We really thoroughly enjoyed the tree to bar tour, John was a great guide, both informative and fun!
This was SUCH a cool experience! It was our favorite thing we did while visiting St. Lucia. There was so much to learn and see about how cacao grows. The included lunch was really tasty, you choose a main, two sides, a dessert and a beverage. Making our own chocolate bars was such a unique experience too!
The tour was informative and the chocolate was worth the effort! An interesting, fun, and delicious day!
What a wonderful morning we got to spend walking through their cocao plantation, checking out the different cocao pods and coffee plants, touring the cocao bean growing area, drying areas and so many cocao flavors of alcohol and non-alcoholic drinks along with cocao insprired food options. Making the chocolate bars definitely added to the experience of eating dark chocolate and will always be memorable afterwards.
Beautiful guided tour of cocoa and chocolate production. Starts with mild hike through growing area, transitions to actual making of a chocolate bar (highlight) and finish with lunch.
As with most of St Lucia there are a LOT of steps so wear comfy shoes.
They supply water and umbrellas as needed
The chocolate making uses a mortar and pestle to grind the nibs before adding the cocoa butter and optional sugar. Then a 25 minute chill while eating lunch and voila!
Lunch has wide variety of veggie/vegan options along with fish chicken and meat. Go dairy free dessert for delicious almond bars (ask the server)
Only negative is they could provide the umbrellas at check in so as to not get drenched in sudden downpour at starting point
Taj was awesome. Well worth booking this excursion. The chocolate making at the end was a perfect way to end it.
This was a great experience. Toured the grounds where the cocoa is grown and learned about how they’re grown. During the tour you get to taste the cocoa fruit before it becomes chocolate. During the tail end of the tour you get to make your own. Great experience!
Neat experience! Staff very kind. We missed our booked reservation and when I realized I called and they allowed us to come the following day at no additional cost. I was very grateful
If you like chocolate this is not an experience to be missed. The history of chocolate making is very interesting and the tour of the plantations vegitation and plant life is fascinating. The finale is making your own bar of chocolate. It is. Hard work but worth the effort. Our tour started with lunch which was excellent. Good food and refreshments. Wonderful knowledgeable staff.
Really interesting, engaging & fun. Excellent lunch. Tour guide & all staff were excellent. Well presented activity
This was such an amazing experience. Being able to walk the grounds and learn how chocolate is made, then being able to make my own chocolate bar was indescribable. The tour guide was extremely knowledgeable and personable. We were able to try the cacao seeds and even taste flowers in the groves. The lunch provided was tasty also. I would definitely recommend.
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