11 Jun 2023
Highly recommend!
It was a lovely, personalized experience. We were the only family there and prefer this to larger, more touristy-type of group tours. It was about 2 hours long. It really gave us and my children a sense of a typical Costa-Rican family home and business which is what we wanted.
This is a multi-generational family-owned farm and the owners take great pride in teaching others about the origins of the cacao tree and chocolate. Very informative and interactive. They are so nice and pleasant to talk with. The waking tour (several steps down- not for those with significant mobility issues) is simple but thoughtful. It allows you to appreciate all the foundational raw ingredients- from the cacao to the spices that we used to season the chocolate and the sugar cane juice which we pressed ourselves. So good! Very interactive with plenty of opportunities to keep the attention our kids who appreciated helping with the process of making our own chocolate. The chocolate and the coffee at the end of the tour are amazing. Some of the best coffee we’ve ever had. We did not do the waterfall but I wish we had- it was hot and would have been nice to cool off, but silly us we had just been to waterfalls the day before and skipped it. It’s probably worth it to take a dip and cool off.
We loved our time with Ronald and his family and would love to come back next time we are in La Fortuna, even if just to visit and enjoy a cup of coffee again.