Immerse yourself in a unique Tree to Bar chocolate experience from chocolatier and cacao grower Hotel Chocolat at Rabot Estate, Saint Lucia.
Plunge into the rainforest for a tour of the cacao groves and learn how to graft a tree before tasting cacao pulp from a freshly-cut pod and-crafting your very own chocolate bar. (Experience approx. 2.5 hours)
Discover our 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.
Party under the stars every Saturday evening at Project Chocolat with the best local DJs! Open 6pm-12am.
Posted By : claire_r
Every element was just fantastic- the friendly knowledgeable guide, the stunning location and facilities, the food at lunch and the chocolate making. Experience of a lifetime!
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Posted On : 2024-05-14 08:14:30 
Posted By : James W
Fantastic experience in stunning surroundings. Resort is nestled in the rainforest. See the chocolate growing process and make your own. Tremendous fun and a pleasure to witness the contribution this fantastic project makes to the island community and environment.
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Posted On : 2024-05-11 14:34:20 
Posted By : D8862ZEstephanief
We booked the tree to bar tour in the afternoon. The location was easy to find and drive to yourself as it's well signed on the main highway out of Soufriere. When you enter you are directed to the office where you have to show your ticket. Since I didn't have any data, I had done a screenshot at our hotel and was glad I had this. The tour started at 13.00 with lunch at the end around 15.00 so make sure you have got some snacks with you if you are used to an earlier lunchtime. Our guide was Taj and he was very good, knowledgeable and funny. We were lucky in that there was only one other couple on our tour so it almost felt private. The estate tour lasted around 1 hour and was really just a gentle walk with the chance to try some fruits and flowers along the way. After this, you get a little break with a cocoa tea in the shade whilst they prepare the chocolate making area. Making your own chocolate bar was good fun and definitely easier if you can stand up as it involves a lot of pounding of cocoa nibs with a pestle and mortar. After we had poured the chocolate into the mould, it was time for lunch. We were a bit late in the day so the eating area was quite deserted which was great for us. Food includes a main and two sides which you can choose from the different stalls. I would recommend the quinoa salad side with the ginger and mint dressing, absolutely delicious. The burger was great too- looked like a small portion but turned out to be quite hefty. You can take as long as you want for lunch. When you are ready, you just pick up your cooled bars and leave. Overall, we were there for 3 hours and had a great time. The only reason for the 4 stars was the late serving of lunch. I had assumed that the afternoon tour starts with lunch and was quite hungry when we arrived. It's also in my opinion quite expensive but it's St. Lucia and on the tourist track so fair play to them.
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Posted On : 2024-05-04 09:56:29
Posted By : Sophie_S
We booked this as part of our honeymoon holiday and it was fabulous from start to finish. Knowledgeable, friendly staff and we felt truly looked after throughout with lunch, refreshments and even peppermint towels after our rainforest walk. The estate is also just beautiful. Highly recommend this tour
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Posted On : 2024-04-27 21:10:40
Posted By : 705baileyh
I would highly recommend this tour. Jiggy was a really knowledgeable and funny tour guide, talking us through the life of a cocoa tree from a seed, letting us name a sapling and walking us through their reserve. We got to see cocoa pods, sample cool chocolate drinks which were a welcome relief after the walk and then make our own bars which was really fun. Included in the ticket was the most delicious lunch which included refreshing fruit mocktails and coco infused delicacies. Really tasty!
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Posted On : 2024-04-25 11:09:07
Posted By : Jennifer_C
Seeing where chocolate comes form and then making it yourself gives you a whole new view of chocolate!
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Posted On : 2024-04-24 08:32:05
Posted By : londonc513
We booked via Viator for one adult and a child. It was a mum and daughter day-out. The first part of the tour involved going into the cocoa field and the greenhouse - it was interesting and the guide was funny, with a dry sense of humour. After the field tour, you climbed a series of steps (this part may not be suitable if you have health or breathing problems) to the bar area where they served tiny shots of cold cocoa (about half a shot glass). The chocolate didn't blend well with the milk, so it was a bit lumpy. It was also a miserly portion. Then we headed to the table to pound the beans into chocolate. The lady doing this section was knowledgeable, with a nice dry sense of humour. I have an autistic 11 year-old, so she needed help here. I couldn't get the chance to help her as the staff chose this time to interrupt me as they couldn't find my booking. I had to leave my daughter, call my husband to drive down with my phone in order to get a confirmation. In the end, they still could not find it and began making sarcastic remarks and rolling their eyes - "she said she booked but her name not here." All the while, I missed the balance of the session and my daughter was left alone and it was lunch-time. They would not let her eat. She had to sit and wait downstairs without food while everyone around her ate. So I paid again, only for my daughter to be told that they made meals depending on the numbers of bookings, so she would have to wait a good while. She finally got to eat when everyone else was finished. (The food portions are TINY, the burger is the size of a golf-ball). And GUESS WHAT? When I returned to London, there were two bookings - all paid for on my card. I called Project Chocolat, and they knew the extra payment was there - but they never contacted me. It was an unenjoyable day. I won't recommend it with children or teenagers. Fond Doux does a better experience and the staff may be better.
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Posted On : 2024-04-22 10:28:46
Posted By : Paolo_P
Nice overview of the process.
I would have expected some more detail about the fermentation and the “real” way of making chocolate.
Nice experience of making you own bar.
Prices in the shop way above any reasonable level. I have not seen anyone buying anything
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Posted On : 2024-04-21 13:20:16
Posted By : UKVISIT
We enjoyed the tour although it was a bit unorganized but wasn't surprised as the hotel was the same way. Nice grounds. I wish and hoped we could make flavored chocolate
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Posted On : 2024-04-21 01:46:14
Posted By : John_H
Bean to Bar Tour - Great concept and making the choc bar was good fun but… tour group was far to big (about 30 people) the rainforest walk to plantation was all of 100m to see just a couple of cacao trees with no option to see harvest, drying, processing etc. I really wanted to see the full process!
For a site that pushed its eco credentials v disappointed to see single use plastics (spoons in making choc, dressing pots etc), air con blasting in loos with doors open, not much green energy present (why not solar on all shed roofs). Experience was really saved by our guide (Veronique) who injected her passion and personality otherwise felt it was really not great value and could (should?) have been so much more
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Posted On : 2024-04-10 17:06:14
