Hands on chocolate making class. From bean to bar, Puerto Viejo
- 2h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
This isn't a chocolate demonstration — you make the chocolate yourself. Begin beside living cacao trees, then work through the bean-to-bar process yourself: roasting, cracking, winnowing, grinding, refining, tempering and moulding locally grown Caribbean cacao. You'll taste cacao at different stages, learn how fruit becomes chocolate, and leave with a bar you've made yourself. The class takes place inside our working bean-to-bar chocolate house in downtown Puerto Viejo.You can learn more about Cacao Huasi on our website.
Inclusions
What's included
- 10% off food at Cacao Huasi after your class
- Guests are invited to try cacao and chocolate in the class. We always hope to have fresh cacao fruit to try (when in season), we also try fermented dried and roasted beans and of course chocolate!
- Guests enjoy our legendary hot chocolate drink. Water will also be available.
What's not
- not included, we meet at Cacao Huasi our beachside location in Puerto Viejo
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
4.8
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Ratings come from 99 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
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55⭐️ Chocolate Making Class
The Hands On Chocolate Making Class was phenomenal! We learned so much, it was very hands on, and the chocolate was amazing.
5Chocolate is fascinating!!!
Owner/teacher has incredible knowledge of the cacao history in Puerto Viejo. The class was hands on bringing us through the cacao pod process to making our own chocolate bars. I highly recommend this class! Such fun!
5Great
It was very nice with a lot of heart in it. She love her plants a we make a great chocolate. The coffee with Kakao was excellent
5BEST CLASS EVER
SO much better than I could’ve EVER imagined! A wonderful hands on experience of how chocolate is and should be made! SO much passion flowing through the knowledgeable teacher! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!
5Enthusiastic delivery of...
Enthusiastic delivery of information, pleasant host, quality chocolate process and lots to taste :) Definitely recommend the experience Only feedback is if the host could project louder, was a bit soft spoken
5Cacao Tour
We had a really nice and educational time, and were able to experience how chocolate was made from the seed to the bar!
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- We are Cacao Huasi, in downtown Puerto Viejo. You can find us on google maps as Cacao Huasi. We are on the beach, avenida 73, very close to the bus stop.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 18 travellers
- Operated by
- Talamanca Chocolate
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
How it compares in Limón
- Its from-price is 52% below the median of the 182 experiences we list in Limón.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 11 of 182.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Limón
Limón is Costa Rica's main Caribbean port, an Afro-Caribbean city on a humid coast and the gateway to Tortuguero's canals and the Cahuita reef.
Puerto Limón is Costa Rica's principal Caribbean port, a cargo harbour and provincial capital where the coast curves beneath green hills and rain clouds. Many of its people descend from Jamaican and other West Indian workers who came in the nineteenth century to build the railway to San José, and their English-influenced Creole, music and cooking shape the city. Parque Vargas, a palm-shaded park, runs along the seafront.
Top-ranked sights in Limón: Tortuguero Canals.
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