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Type: Factory Tours
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Visit the Butlers Chocolate Experience – the ultimate chocolate discovery tour in Ireland. Based in the home of Ireland’s favourite chocolates, a......
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Visit the Butlers Chocolate Experience – the ultimate chocolate discovery tour in Ireland. Based in the home of Ireland’s favourite chocolates, a visit here is a must for chocolate lovers of all ages. Butlers Chocolate Movie: Travel through time in the world of chocolate in our cinema. Discover how the Aztecs created the first known chocolate and find out how the taste for chocolate developed all over the world. Hear about the history of Butlers and unearth some interesting facts about our origins and where we are today. Chocolate Museum: Explore this treasure trove full of chocolate and Butlers memorabilia. Enjoy a rainforest experience, see artefacts from the Aztecs and follow the journey of chocolate and Butlers to the present day. Chocolate Gallery: See for yourself our factory in operation from the Chocolate Gallery, enjoying a bird’s eye view of our chocolates being created from start to finish by our chocolatiers. This part of the experience is both fascinating and educational.Experience Room: The ultimate part of the tour where participants get the chance to dress like a chocolatier and try their hand at decorating their own chocolate novelty, which they then bring home. Enjoy demonstrations of how chocolates are enrobed and shells are filled and decorated. Butlers Chocolate Experience Opening Times:Butlers Chocolate Experience is open from Monday to Saturday (subject to availability) for guided tours only. Tours must be booked in advance.Group tours, school tours and birthday parties also must be booked in advance.Butlers Chocolate Experience Tickets and Family AdmissionThe Ultimate Chocolate Experience: €12.50 per person. This includes: Chocolate Movie, Chocolate Museum, Chocolate Gallery and a visit to the Chocolate Experience RoomFamily Price €45 - (2 adults and 2 children under 12, each additional child is €10)The World of Chocolate: €10 per person. This includes: Chocolate Movie, Chocolate Museum, Chocolate Gallery and a hot beverage in our Butlers Chocolate Café at the endFacilities:Butlers Chocolate Café onsite offering a range of beverages, confectionery, sweet treats and savoury breakfast and lunch optionsPlenty of parking onsiteDisabled AccessBaby changing faculties Directions to Butlers Chocolate Experience In DublinButlers Chocolate Experience is located in Clonshaugh Business Park, Oscar Traynor Road, Dublin 17 - just five minutes from the junction of M1 and M50. M50/M1 Interchange (Northbound on the M50) When approaching the end of the M50 towards the start of the M1, take the left lane signposted for the City Centre. Once on the exit keep left as you will be taking the exit just before the Port Tunnel for Coolock. At the roundabout take the 1st exit onto Oscar Traynor Road. Continue for approximately 1km until you come to the fourth set of traffic lights, you will see the entrance to Clonshaugh Business Park on your left hand side. Butlers Chocolates is the 4th turn on your left once you enter the estate and is the first building on your right.
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A tour of a chocolate factory - you'd think what a great thing to do with the kids during mid term or other school hols - don't think it would really appeal to kids, sure the free chocolate would but not necessarily the history of chocolate or how they layer their chocolates - but for adults a great thing to...
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who doesnt like chocolate enjoy a trip into the world of chocolate
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You will have chocolate every day in Ireland. At least you should.
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This is a great way to spend two hours - is perfect for children and adults alike!
After a sit down film and q&a session about the history of chocolate and where dark, milk and white chocolate comes from you walk along a glazed balcony overlooking the actual production line for Butlers Chocolates - this is the only place in...
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I would like to congratulate Ross, our chocolate tour guide, who made this chocolate experience a funny yet informative one. I had asked him to speak slowly as i had to translate for members of my family who flew in from France and didn't speak english, and Ross glady obliged, making sure they understood everything. We started by a short...
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