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| - I went here with a couple friends and all of our kids for a tour one morning. I had tried to arrange it to go months before, for my step daughter's birthday but they only do the tours on weekdays so we couldn't coordinate it during the school year. The other option would have been to arrange a "group tour" for $10/person which you can do if you have a party of 10 or more. Then, you can set it up according to your schedule.
The reason I was SO annoyed when we made the 40 minute drive from the east valley for this tour, was that there was an ENTIRE SCHOOL BUS of children doing the daily 10am tour with us. Our kids couldn't see and they weren't able to pay attention at all. But, we paid our $10 per kid and they each got to make a (really cute and exceptionally delicious) chocolate Christmas tree. It just seems to me that the GIANT group of people could have scheduled their own private tour and let us get our $10 worth during the daily 10am tour.
Some positives:
**You get to see the candy production in action when they let you walk through (not to be a downer again, but a lot of this was lost on our kids, since we were at the END of the enormous group of people. By the time she finished explaining what was happening, we still had 40 people in front of us to see what she was talking about ).
**The free samples were TO DIE FOR. I don't even LIKE candy and I literally stole candy from my baby (well, she's 3, but still...). The caramel they handed out was so warm and delicious that I was actually tempted to buy them.
**You can mix and match and buy the candy by the pound.
**Even though I don't like candy, and especially not sugar free candy, my mom (who is a diabetic) insists they have the best sugar free candy she's ever had, and always makes me buy it when I can get my hands on it.
I think we'll go back here again sometime. My girls had a ball decorating the chocolate trees. However, I'll probably call ahead to make sure there aren't any large groups scheduled to be there at the same time as us.
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