Top 5 Best Chocolate Destinations

September 20, 2011

If you’re like pretty much any girl on the planet, then you must have a major sweet tooth (and not just when you’re PMSing). House of Travel has sacrificed days at the gym to find you the most luxurious and decadent ways to experience chocolate. Attention chocoholics: you are about to experience an even more intense craving for chocolate than usual. Come out of hiding and tell us what you think because we believe we have found the perfect locations for you! Ever dreamt of being in a room surrounded by chocolate? Or have wanted to take classes to learn how to make your very own chocolate creations? We know the Top 5 Best Chocolate Destinations for you!

#5 Hotel Sacher Vienna – Vienna, Austria
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Rich chocolate talk alert! The Hotel Sacher is home to the creator of the Sachertorte. This dark-chocolate-and-apricot-jam-piece-of-heaven was first baked by a young apprentice, appropriately named Franz Sacher. Sacher (the man, not the torte) was asked by the Prince to make a delicious dessert for all of His Heiness’ guests. The original recipe has been kept a secret by this family-run hotel for years, which means you don’t have to make it, you just have to eat it. So if you love this dessert, what could be better than the original? Hotel Sacher Vienna is not only home of the greatest torte ever, but the Hotel also offers six restaurants and bars that have menus to tempt you with a variety of chocolaty treats and even spa treatments using your favorite dessert.

#4 The Hotel Chocolat – Saint Lucia, West Indies
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As if St. Lucia isn’t fabulous enough (duh, it was on The Bachelor, Season Whatever), it’s the home of Hotel Chocolat. Since 1745 (yes, that means it is very old), the site of Hotel Chocolat has been cultivating cocoa groves. Thank chocolate! The owners of Hotel Chocolat decided to turn a cocoa estate into a hotel that is intimate, exclusive and has a dash of chocolate hedonism (genius!). This hotel has beautiful modern touches and amenities in every room with an island feel to it. They also offer spa options using the cocoa bean and cocoa products to help you relax and foster wellness – that’s right, ladies, chocolate is healthy… Hotel Chocolat’s Cocoa Juventae Spa’s biggest selling treatment is a 45-minute full body cocoa massage, which means someone is rubbing cocoa extracted directly from the plant all over your body (stop fantasizing it’s real!). In this awesome chocolate location you can also learn to harvest the groves around the Hotel and create your own chocolate during one of the Hotel’s “Tree to Bar” days.

#3 The Hotel Hershey – Hershey Park, Pennsylvania
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Known as “the sweetest place on Earth” it’s no doubt that The Hotel Hershey would make it on our Top 5 list. Chocolate Spa, here we come! This spa offers, you guessed it, Hershey chocolate-infused treatments and inspires innovative treatments like the Whipped Cocoa Bath, Chocolate Bean Polish (like the nail not the sausage), and the Chocolate Fondue Wrap. Leave it to Hershey to make chocolate good for your skin! With more than 10 different chocolate spa treatments, you will emerge as a Hershey Kiss…not really. As an official hotel of Hershey Park, the Park is extremely close to the Hotel, which means you can stay with your chocolate and play with it too!

#2 Etruscan Chocohotel – Perugia, Italy
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The Etruscan Chocohotel, located in Perugia, Italy, has the perfect amount of chocolate for your sweet tooth…unlimited amounts. The Hotel’s main restaurant has – you guessed it – chocolate infused into many dishes, whether it be an entree or dessert. Fully equipped with a chocostore, you have homemade hot chocolates, fudges and pralines at your disposal. Bath products include cocoa-scented shampoo, cocoa slim lotion (ironic?), cocoa bronze accelerator and more! The Hotel is inexpensive and the calories are just a small price to pay. They have a Choco-Sweet Suite which is where you can pass out after you come down off your sugar high. Along with the Suite, all the chocolate you can eat (and whatever fits in your bags), along with all of the Hotel’s cocoa- infused products are complimentary from the chocolate gods above.

#1 Chocolate Boutique Hotel – Dorset, United Kingdom
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This small but modern hotel may initially look like a house from the outside but you’ll be quite surprised by the inside! There are 13 rooms, each decorated to resemble a particular chocolate (are you more of a Truffle Suite person or a White Chocolate Guestroom person?). This hotel is the perfect place for a romantic vacation or a girls’ trip. Ladies – you can take a workshop in Chocolate Shoes (chocolate is the only thing that could make shoes even better). Spend some time creating your own shoe style out of chocolate; just don’t try to wear your shoes in warm weather. Another Chocolate Delight workshop includes Belgian truffle making. Under the Hotel’s expert guidance, you will learn how to mix, pipe, cut, shape, coat and decorate fabulous truffles…that you will then devour. The only thing better than chocolate is being able to have it whenever you want!

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The Bellagio Hotel – Las Vegas, Nevada
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Home to Jean-Philippe Patisserie, the Bellagio Hotel was just on the tail of our Top 5 Best Chocolate Destinations. This pastry and chocolate shop has the Guinness World Record for the largest chocolate fountain in the world. This modern and beautifully designed fountain has a mixture of white, milk and dark chocolate flowing through it Willy Wonka style sans Oompa Loompa. Along with the chocolate fountain comes Jean Philippe’s chocolate store, where the famous Chef has custom-designed cakes and desserts on display. A treat for your eye as well as for your taste buds.

The Langham Hotel Boston – Boston, Massachusetts
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Chocolate for the elite? This beautiful and luxurious 5-star hotel houses Café Fleuri and its infamous Chocolate Bar. Those who are lucky enough to snag a table on a Saturday from June to September…between 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.…. will enjoy everything from Whoopie Pies to Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding. You kind of have to know a guy. If you are one of the select few who get to dine at the Chocolate Bar, think about all the events you could host – you can have bridal showers, baby showers, luncheons – you get the idea. The Chocolate Bar at the Langham Boston is quiet intimate, surrounding you with a girl’s best friend. Chocolate!

Need a glass of milk to wash down all this chocolate or just information at how to stay at one of our Top 5 Chocolate Destinations? Call us today at 305.931.3002. Wish your favorite chocolate destination was on our list? Let us know!

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M Schulz

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