Hershey’s Chocolate World

Always a pleasant experience! I’ve been here a few times and my thoughts are always the same:. I’m a chocolate lover so this place is heaven. They have a great selection of various candies and chocolate. There are different packages for «Adventures» you can choose from (like the trolley ride) or you can just explore the shop yourself and do the free chocolate tour.
The chocolate tour is always fun. You get to ride on a «train» throughout the tour and get a free piece of chocolate at the end.
I tried the dark chocolate hot chocolate today. It was very sweet, but delicious. The frozen mocha is also tasty!
The merchandise is somewhat pricey, but that’s expected. You can find deals on certain chocolates and candies, which is nice. Also, they have flavors that you can’t find outside in retail stores so take advantage of those!

I’m always so impressed with Hershey and all they have to offer.
During any month of the year there are fun things to do with the kids here. (Chocolate Tastings, Make Your Own Chocolate Bar, and The Chocolate Tour… just to name a few)
Everytime I go everything is always clean, neat, and organized. The employee’s that work at Chocolate World are always so helpful and friendly.
The 4D show is wonderful, the kids will have a ball!

Went here on New Year’s Day with bf and boy was it crowded!
Brought the chocolate taste tour $ 10/​adult. The other tours such as make your own chocolate bar, sold out quickly.
The presenters were nice, but I say save your $ 10 and skip the chocolate taste tour. You essentially get free chocolates (milk chocolate, and dark chocolates) and vote on what they taste like. FYI, Hersey’s milk chocolate was made to taste like sharp cheddar!
Why the 4 stars? I did enjoy myself and was particularly happy with the free factory tour. You sit in roller coaster like pods, and endure an annoying yappy happy Willy Wonka like ride where there are singing cows. You see a snippets of how chocolate is manufactured, and packaged. You get a group picture taken at close to the end of the ride. Then as you try to fight vertigo, you exit and get a free kit kat bar as a treat! Who wouldn’t be excited for that? We went on the factory tour 2x in a row, with the parents!
Don’t buy anything in the large open store unless you want to be ripped off. Many of the candies and chocolates are available at a fraction of the cost in Target and Walmart.

The Chocolate World is what I like to call a delicious detour.
There’s plenty to take in, especially for all you newcomers. There’s a short tour ride that simulates how the chocolate is made, 4D experience, make your own candy bar «lab,» plenty of places to buy discount Hershey’s candy, and a full-​on food court.
Of special note is milkshake/​sundae spot. They make delicious concoctions from Hershey’s ice cream. Not Turkey Hill! I highly recommend the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Sundae. It’s amazing!
The discounts vary on the candy but you can get 72 full size Hershey chocolate bars for about $ 36. That’s a pretty good deal if you’re looking to stock up.
I like to pop in here on my way out of the park. Mostly, because this is stop number one on the high traffic days as everyone passes it from the parking lot. This results in an insane number of people in here early on in the day. An added bonus of my strategy is ending another great day at Hershey with a delicious sundae. Talk about sweet!
Keep in mind the only free «experience» to be had in here is the tour ride. This is a great place to stop in while you’re going to the park and/​or a concert. It just wouldn’t be the full «Hershey Experience» with Chocolate World! Come visit!

Great place for the kids! We visit several times a year! There is a free ride for the kids & at the end they get a chocolate sampling!
Visit the food court for an

This place is pretty cool but they lack customer service. It’s very big and you can make your own chocolate bar but get ready to wait hours to do it. They have the worlds largest candy store and anything related to Hershey is here… Yumm if you love chocolate .
They had a Hershey chocolate house to celebrate the holidays all made out of complete chocolate. It was actually very cool to see.
It’s a cool place but they need to hire more adult supervision and not so many local high school kids to run the store.

This is like Willy Wonka as it gets before you actually see Willy.
Huge parking lot, smells like chocolate, take photos outside before you enter and bathrooms on the left. Soon as you walk in your hit with chocolate and the Las Vegas of the chocolate world. They have a ton of different chocolates, clothes, drinks, items, swag, you name it.
They also have a few delis to grab a bite to eat, a milkshake spot, and a bakery, you can even make your own chocolate bar as well.
the best part? THE RIDE!!! This is a free attraction and it’s a constantly moving ride that you jump on and tells you the entire story of how chocolate is made and that song gets stuck in your head forever. HERSHEY’S MILK CHOCOLATE… lol
This is the spot to check out when visiting Hershey.

This location is crazy huge! Much much bigger than the New York location. It has everything from clothes, small gifts, memorabilia, and all the chocolate you could ask for. I had a lot of fun time going around looking at the different variation of the chocolates‘ that I grew up with (like huge reese cups and different flavors of hershey kisses). I really enjoyed the baking section with different selections of chocolate bars and chocolate chips for baking. I felt like such a kid again and bought the biggest size of twizzlers they had and a jar of reese’s peanut butter.
What I did not like about the location was the price for all the activities they had at the Chocolate World. I understand this is a tourist destination and they need to make money. But $ 15 to make your own chocolate bar that would probably cost $ 5 is ridiculous. At the end, I still wanted to do it but it requires a tour of the facility which I did not want to do (I didn’t have the time) and thus I was unable to do the one thing I was most excited for.
They do have a huge food court with regular food like sandwiches and pizzas and sweets/​ice cream bar. I decided to have a huge sundae with 3 scoops of ice cream, chocolate chips, hot fudge on top of a hot brownie (sans whip cream). It most definitely curbed my sweet cravings but wasn’t that great of a sundae.
Would I come here again? Nope. I feel everyone that comes here only comes for the novelty of it. The food was subpar and I probably wouldn’t have ordered the sundae if it wasn’t at Hersheys’ biggest chocolate world.

This was my first time here. I came with friends and we had a good time. I am not much of a chocolate lover but my friends are and they felt like they were in Heaven. The main chocolate tour is free but everything else, you have to pay. They have a trolley tour, a 4D tour, making your own chocolate bar tour and you have to buy tickets for all of those. There is a food court and a nice size gift shop area. They were selling chocolate everywhere.
Pros– Plenty of parking. The atmosphere is very inviting. Family friendly and children friendly. They had Santa taking pictures with the children. They had someone dressed in a jolly rancher suit and a Hershey bar outfit to also take pictures. They have a huge Christmas tree where you can take pictures. It was beautifully decorated.
Cons– No one to greet you and inform you of anything. You pretty much have to know ahead of time what you are going to do or figure it out while you are walking around aimlessly. Some of the chocolate they sold were over-​priced and you can find them cheaper elsewhere.
When coming here, do plan on spending some time. We came on a Sunday and there a few lines for the different tours. This place is okay if you have children and you are in the area.

Very touristy, but free admission to most areas. My family and I enjoyed it very much and I would recommend it as a must-​see if you’re in the area.
The tour offered many interesting historic facts, a free ride that provided a glimpse into the factory operations, and we even received a chocolate treat at the end.
The gift shop is enormous and the candy selection is the biggest that I have ever seen. We were able to buy some Hershey candy items that we haven’t seen in stores back home.
There’s a food court. Decent food selection (sandwiches, loaded baked potatoes, soup, salad, pizza, etc), but it’s pricey ($ 10.95 for a chicken tenders and fries, for example). They also have a bakery, milkshake stand, and a hot chocolate/​coffee stand. Something for everyone, for sure.
We didn’t get a chance to do the chocolate tasting, but we will be sure to catch it next time!
I also highly recommend that trolley tour around town. It starts and ends at Chocolate World and it’s an extra charge, but it was really fantastic!

Nice for a short visit if you’re in the area. Or if you have kids.
I took the free tour and the chocolate tasting experience — I enjoyed the free tour (10 – 15 minutes), although it’s very childish and not super informative.
The chocolate tasting experience took about 30 minutes. You taste 4 different chocolates and after each taste you vote for what kind of flavours you identified, and then the experts in the video tell which flavours they identified. This thing cost $ 10 per person. Pretty OK.
Try to avoid the sandwiches in the food court! They cost $ 10 and they’re really bad!!!

Taking a break from car show, we wandered into Hershey’s Chocolate World. This is so much fun — being a kid in a candy store takes whole new meaning!
First of all, even driving to their location, you whiff a smell of delicious chocolate everywhere. Street lamps are shaped as Hershey Kisses, with silver wrappings — so cute.
Chocolate World itself is a huuuuuuuge store with few tours and adventures.
Free ride will take you around the Singing Cows to see how chocolate is made. There is also ride on the trolley, but we did not make it due to time.
But! We got to make our own chocolate bar! It’s a short walk along conveyor line — everybody wearing aprons, head coverings and (lol) beard nets, you can pick your base and fillings, and watch your bar being made. In next room, there are interactive screens to design your own wrappings — oh, boy… we surely got stuck in that one, being designers ourselves…
So. Much. Fun!
At the end, your bar get stamped with your name and date, and your wrapper goes around gorgeous metal box. Nice memory to have!
The store itself is huge — and so tempting! There is a bakery with cupcakes, cakes and all other goodies, fresh fudge, all kinds of candy and merchandise. We walked out with huge bag of sweets that will last us a year, for sure!
This was fun — let’s do it again! :)

Checked in on 11÷1÷2015.
This won’t be the first visit to Chocolate world. I’ve been taking every visiting guest to Hershey, and some visits for self. Most of the experiences have been good. The rating is a combination of all the visits so far.
So why one star less?
It is for those times, when the crowd has been unmanageable and the parking lacking in good management. In one visit few months back (RV show was going on in Giant center), they were turning every car to a remote parking location saying that the nearby parking was full. Finally after parking far away, when we were walking to the facility through the regular lot, I could spot 4 – 5 empty parking spots.
If you go on a good day, it’s a good pass time place.

This place is awesome, we came here as a precursor to Hershey Park, considering the park opens up at 5 in October. My toddler loved it, I liked it, but i enjoyed seeing him have a great time going crazy over his favorite indulgence. The free factory tour is definitely for children with it’s sing song that unfortunately got stuck in my head. The chocolate tasting is not worth it. I found myself thinking that I could achieve this same thing by raiding my childs trick or treat bag. The staff is incredibly friendly, especially the kind gentleman who was giving out chocolate samples yesterday. We bought a giant Hershey Kiss, the giant Hershey bar and the ½ pound Recess cup to the point that I’m chocolated out.

Chocolate World was a goal for me and 2 of my children on this recent visit to PA. Hershey is not that far from Lancaster, PA so off we went!
The ride was about 30 minutes. As we got closer, we got more excited. We had tried to go to Chocolate World the previous day, but it was way too crowded due to the Old Car Show.
We got our parking ticket (free up to 3 hours), pulled into the lot and got a shady spot close to the entrance. The smell of chocolate hit me hard. YEAH!!! We walked in and immediately I had no idea what I wanted to do. There was so much to see and activities to pick from.
Once you walk in, you see the activities desk. This is where you can buy tickets to the 4D Chocolate Mystery, Trolley, Chocolate Tasting, Create Your Own Candy Bar, and of course, the Chocolate Tour!
My oldest took charge and said we were immediately getting on the tour. This is free. You climb the ramp and follow the line until you get to an area that has associates to help you get into a ride cart.
The tour ride is entertaining, funny, and informative. And you get to sit in wonderful a/​c! The singing cows are GREAT!!! The whole tour really does give you facts on how Hershey makes their candy. Toward the end of the tour, they even have a part that takes your pic in the ride cart. Just like another theme park…
There are people at the end of the ride to help you off (I did because of a recently sprained ankle), As you depart the ride to go onto the main floor, you are given a sample. We got a bag of chocolate covered pomegranates.
We walked the floor checking out all the different areas in Chocolate World. There is the Hershey Kiss area that had keychains, pillows, shirts, different flavors, cups. Then there was the general sales floor area that had all sorts of Hershey candy, hot chocolate, branded merchandise (ice cream scoopers, t-​shirts, stuffed animals, frames). It was merchandise overload. There were also food counters. The sweets and ice cream counters seemed to be big favorites with the other visitors there. The kids got a frozen hot chocolate that they thoroughly enjoyed. I was more into gift shopping and really wanted REAL food (like a burger from someplace). The checkout line was quick as they were brilliant enough to have 8 cashiers going.
As we were leaving, we took a picture with the Hershey Kiss near the entrance of the sales floor. People formed a line and took turns taking photos. I thought that was nice of people to do that.
I would totally come back to Hershey World because it was overall an impressive experience!

One of the places to visit going through Pennsylvania. One of the must visits in the town of Hershey. Lots of parking. Two hour free parking.
Some areas cost some money. Some are free. The history of Hershey museum is free. One can get a miniature candy on the way out the door.
Staff here are friendly, helpful and attentive. The store itself is clean. Lots of product offerings from apparel and housewares to candys and snacks. I visited the shop twice during my visit because of all the choices. If you buy candies you can buy some ice packs to help travel with chocolate that can melt in the humid Pennsylvania.
There is a bakery shop with popcorn, baked treats, and other various confections made with Hershey products. Too many to choose from. I did not give in to everything.
There is a make your own candy, trolley tour, theme park and 4D experience which costs some. I didn’t try any but I hear they are good.
Good: friendly service, free two hours of parking, plenty to see.
Bad: some items can be a little pricy.
I would come back.

Full Disclosure: We ONLY went to the store and did the factory tour, so perhaps if we had done more we would’ve enjoyed it more, but who knows.
The «factory tour» is severely lacking. We were expecting an actual factory tour (which may have been naïve on our parts), and this was simply a short ride with Chuck E Cheese-​esque cows singing at you about how chocolate is made. I’m sure it’s fun for kids though!
The rest of the store is pretty fun, there’s a ton of fun Hershey-​themed souvenirs to bring home, our favorites definitely being the oversized candy bars. However, we got chocolate milk at one of the little food stands inside thinking it would be the perfect place for it, and were a bit disappointed $ 3.00 later when we were handed a small lunchbox sized box of milk.
Overall, just sort of meh. If you’re in the area and haven’t seen it before I would check it out, but I’m not sure I would go more than once.