In A Nutshell: -The Chocolate Museum in Granada is a cool place to stop by especially if you love all things chocolate. -We stopped here as part of the Natives Way day trip from Costa Rica. -You are very entertained by the host who works here, be prepared to do some dancing :) -You can purchase chocolate teas, lotions, candy, etc... -They accept USD or credit card. -There is a bathroom here just in case you needed to use it. Overall, this is worth a stop to check out!

Free quick tour is useless, guide isn't quite knowledgeable. Seems just memories the script. The chocolate is very poor quality. I could sense sugar pieces under my teeth.

I visited the Chocolate Museum simply for a chocolate fix, although there are multiple activities one may sign up to do if you wish to actively participate in the process of making chocolate yourself. I stopped in on a weekday late morning. There was no waiting to be seated to order drinks or desserts. I ordered a Willy Wonka bowl for $8 that was much larger than I expected.. fruit on bottom; banana, watermelon, and pineapple with chocolate brownie and ice cream on top drizzled with chocolate. Whoa, it was a lot! The chocolate was delicious, which was mostly all I was interested in eating along with some banana for variety. We also sampled the chocolate martini (yum) and a chocolate crepe. The crepe was non-traditional and a bit crunchy. The chocolate itself was very good, but it was not the crepe fix we were looking for. Altogether, I think it's a fun adventure where you will find the chocolate fix you crave and possibly learn a thing or two if you sign up for the full experience.

Loved this experience. We had a free 20 minute tour (tip based). It was quick, informative and interesting, fun, followed by genuinely delicious tastings of chocolate based alcoholic drinks, chocolate tea, brownie, and lotions. We all left with multiple purchases.

We had a wonderful experience recently the tour was great and very informative. Our guide spoke very good English and we had a taste of many chocolate items. We ended up purchasing many items from the store. A very nice way to spend an hour or so. Don't forget to try their brownie. They are delicious.

I have been to many cacao/ chocolate museums around the world. I certainly have to see that although not the best one I have been it was still a fun experience. We took what the called the “express tour” which was 45 min were we ended up making our own bars of chocolate 🍫. The staff were nice, even tough some seemed a bit tired and ready to go home. I would still recommend it to anyone visiting Granada specially with younger familiy members. 👍🏼

DO NOT MISS IT. This place is so AWESOME. You can have a mini-tour, a choco-making workshop, you can chill here and have some choco-based food. Our mini-tour was amazing, the tour guide speaks English, she's funny, knowledgable, creative, and friendly. It was her first time guiding, and she did a GREAT JOB! The history, the culture, the ways of making a great chocolate, you will experience it here. You should try their CACAO TEA, chocolate rum, and CACAO beans. Price worthy and Amazing staff!!!

The museum tour was cute. Pretty quick and basic, but it was informative and the guide was fun. The guide is also the salesperson for the gift shop. They offer the tour for free, and ask you to buy stuff. Sounds reasonable, right? Except that all the cacao and chocolate we bought was the worst cacao and chocolate I have ever tasted. Literally, the worst. All of it was burnt. It's the first time I've tasted burnt cacao and chocolate like this. It's not a good taste, there is no desire to eat any of it. And it wasn't isolated to one item - we bought 4 different items, all of it the same. You can definitely get better cacao/chocolate elsewhere, don't buy it from this gimmicky shop.

I’ve been on a couple of chocolate tours in and out of Nicaragua. I wouldn’t say this was the best, or most interesting one, but it was still enjoyable. The best part was obviously sampling some of the things they had in the grift shop. We absolutely loved their chocolate tea, and their brownies were so good! We also visit them to go swimming in their pool on hot days. The pool was absolutely filthy, so as a guest I’m not sure how the hotel is. But the chocolate tour was okay. I don’t think I would pay to do it again though.

Wonderful place. Starting from building, that is huge, full of art end emotions. Great and fun chocolate tour, especially for learning chocolate basics. Tasteful liquors they made.

Thank you Brando for an amazing workshop! You were a fun and knowledgeable teacher. We had a great time learning about cacao (and tasting it afterwards 😋)!

Let me start with how beautiful and amazing this place was! Antonio, our tour guide and one of the talented chocolate makers, showed us every step of the chocolate making process. From learning when the plants are ready to harvest to getting a feel for the work those before us had to put in to make things out of them, it was an experience I recommend to everyone who visits granada. There is so much to do and see, but this place was an absolute masterpiece. Also, they have samples!!! My family, 2 kids, my spouse and I, and his parents really enjoyed all Antonio and the chocolate museum had to offer. I do believe we will be coming back in the future, if only for the chance to say hello again and enjoy their delightful rum. They also had tea, brownies, and different amounts of chocolate in each of the sweets, so you are sure to find something you like. 10/10!

Really disappointed in this place. Had a free 10 mins tour was which was not that great (ok at best) and certainly not amazing. I had a much better tour in Belize and there I was able to taste the chocolate at each stage (raw purple Coco seed, smell fermentation of bean, roasted bean and then the final product). I guess I didn't do the full tour but even the free short one wasn't amazing. Then I bought a couple of bars which you can't taste before you buy (for some reason I assumed they were good) and they weren't. It feels a bit of a scam for the tourists. The chocolate is quite gritty and I can certainly buy better chocolate in the UK for a fraction of the $5 price. What a disappointment as I was hoping to gift some of these as presents and I spent quite a bit of money here. I feel like I have been ripped off. I would strongly urge people to check out other places in the area. Maybe tour is ok but don't buy the bars of chocolates.

My partner and I had a wonderful time at Choco Museo. The tour is fun, entertaining and interesting. Our class teacher was great, enthusiastic and very friendly. We really enjoyed making our own chocolate bars ! We definitely recommend this place for adults and for kids!

Absolutely amazing! Really loved how they walked us through the whole process. My husband and I got to try a little of each of their products and honestly we walked home with quite a few things. Antonio was our Choco King and it wouldn't have been as amazing without him.

We took the mini tour. It was fun with kids. You get to sample at the end. Nice artwork around the grounds from various Latin nations (walk around as they have 3 courtyards!). Chocolate is great. Took some tea home with us and some treats to go. Tea was quite nice. Good place to spend an hour.

The Chocolate museum is a must see if you find yourself in Grenada. The story they tell, from Cacao plant to our plate is incredible, delving into the history and modern day production of Chocolate. There is a guided tour in English or Spanish, and the staff there are cooking chocolate delicacies to be tried by customers. Amazing presentation and great sampling options as well.

Our family did the "Beans to Bar" tour yesterday. The ChocoMuseo team was amazing. Antonio walked us through the chocolate making process, and was absolutely phenomenal. We made our own chocolate bars and hot chocolate 🤤. He was informative, engaged and very funny. I highly recommend the ChocoMuseo to everyone. Young and old alike.

Antonio was the best Guide. He did a very good Job and explained everything with so much love. The tour is free but of cause they are happy about a tip. Must do!

Lots of Nicaraguan products related to chocolate. The cacao is actually grown in the north of the country, so this is more of a touristy shop. You can try a lot of different things during the free tour. It's a bit cheesy but there are a few facts sprinkled in with the jokes and free tastings. A fun way to spend 30 minutes while exploring Granada.

The experience at the chocolate museum was lovely. Antonio was our guide and he was very engaging and enthusiastic throughout the tour which lasted about 2 hours. We were able to make our own hot chocolate, as well as chocolate bars, all while learning about the history of chocolate and learning techniques on how to make it. Overall, it was a really fun experience and glad to say I checked it off my Nicaragua bucket list. 10/10 recommend to visit if you’re a chocolate lover or want to learn about the history. P.S. milk chocolate is not actually chocolate😭

Nice experience, they offer you a free guide which explains the whole story about chocolate. You do have to sign and mimic a couple of things which make you feel a little bit awkward. Prices are pretty high for all the chocolate related products but the taste is fabulous though.

Holy smokes! That was an experience we'll never forget. Mr. Chocolate had more energy than anyone I've ever met.

Good coffee, chocolate and nicatella

Highly recommend the tasters. It's free with a tip at the end if you enjoy. You learn a lot while getting to sample chocolate rum, brownies, tequila and much more

We were limited for time so could only do the short 'free (tip-based) tour' and it was EXCELLENT. So informative, interesting and fun. We have a fair level of Spanish so opted to have the tour in Spanish. Our guide, Yesareli, spoke so clearly for us which meant we were able to understand everything. She made it great fun with lots of hands on interaction. We tasted/tried a whole range of stuff at the end; chocolate drinks, nibs, body creams etc. We really enjoyed this 20 minute experience and would highly recommend.

We did the chocolate workshop which was very fun and informative. The staff is fun and super friendly, and you get to make your own delicious drinking chocolate and a chocolate bar. Would definitely recommend.

We had a short tour. The guide Kenny Wonca is such a fascinating, interesting, engaging person. Really made the experience phenomenal!

A wonderful experience covering the history and production aspects of cacao, from tree to table. Friendly staff and tasty samples, with fun interactive elements and a great gift shop.

(Translated by Google) Here, besides being beautiful, you have a great experience with chocolate and its different ways of enjoying it. (Original) Aquí además de ser bonito se vive una gran experiencia con el chocolate y sus diferentes formas de disfrutarlo.

A must if you visit Granada. Take the tour and make a chocolate drink from scratch. So much fun. Love the store and cafe.

(Translated by Google) Nice place (Original) Bonito lugar

(Translated by Google) Rich products a little high but worth it (Original) Ricos productos un poco elevado el presio pero vale la pena

This was our second visit and it was great again. We chose the one hour tour with chocolate bar making. The staff is super friendly and the kids love all the hands on experiences. Both times they have "recommended" we pay for an adult when the kids make a chocolate bar, but the adult doesn't really participate or get a chocolate bar. Expect to wait 45 after for your chocolate bar to set/freeze.

(Translated by Google) Very pretty (Original) Muy bonito

The workshop itself was great but unfortunately they mistakenly gave away the bars we made to the wrong people so when we tried to pick up our bars the next day, there was nothing left for us. I am very disappointed because we paid $25 EACH for this workshop with the intention to take home the chocolate we customized for ourselves. They did not even offer to compensate us with any bars from the gift shop! Accidents happen but at least compensate your customers! This turned a great experience into a sour one :(

Not great.

(Translated by Google) Excellent staff and many things made with very good chocolate (Original) El personal excelente y muchas cosas hechas a base de chocolate muy buenas

We had a wonderful experience recently the tour was great and very informative. Our guide spoke very good English and we had a taste of many chocolate items. We ended up purchasing many items from the store. A very nice way to spend an hour or so.

Our chocolate was truly non eatable (on top of being expensive), it had melted in the shop we assume and then re-solidified, the taste and texture were completely gone. We had amazing chocolate in Central America but this place did not have it.

(Translated by Google) Excellent experience (Original) Excelente experiencia

Original place with natural flavor Ask for Amin to have the cacao life presentation, he will make it more interesting :)

(Translated by Google) Excellent attention (Original) Excelente atención

(Translated by Google) very good everything (Original) muy bien todo

(Translated by Google) This place is the dream of every child and adult fan of chocolate, here enjoy the unique flavors of Nicaragua in terms of chocolate, the staff are very friendly and attentive to my doubts and questions, thank you very much for your attention. (Original) Este lugar es el sueño de todo niño y adulto fanático del chocolate, acá disfrute de los sabores únicos de Nicaragua en cuanto a chocolate, el personal muy amable y atento a mis dudas y preguntas, muchas gracias por la atención.

(Translated by Google) Very nice, rich and beautiful the part of the museum (the back with picsina not so much) but if they like your appearance they will not offer you a tour of the museum they will only tell you to get to know and if you want to buy something at the end, welcome (Original) Muy bonito rico y bonito la parte del museo ( la parte de atrás con picsina no tanto) pero si les gusta tu apariencia no te ofrecerán tour por el museo solo te dirán entren conozcan y si quieren cómprar algo al final bienvenido sea

We went to the museum enthousistic about the 1-2h workshop and eager to make our own chocolate, but the experience ended in disappointment. Once we started, we were first given a guided tour about the chocolate making process and a tasting of the products they had on sale, continuously and slightly obnoxiously reminded that all the testers were purchasable. After 1,5h we actually started the workshop. Despite the website mentioning we would be able to choose between dark, milk, and white chocolate, they only had 70% and 100% dark. This wouldn’t have been a problem if they’d mentioned it prior, but it was a bummer to hear it at such a late stage. Besides, the flavour options were basic (5 or so total) and the peanut jar was full of ants so unuseable and not hygenic AT ALL. The resulting bars were also disappointing. The chocolate is grainy and nothing special - also too dark for our taste. One redeeming factor was our guide Sylvia who was very friendly and enthousiastic during the whole tour. However, given the entire experience (mainly the key factor of chocolate making that severely disappointed) we don’t think it’s worth the $25 price point.

It was worth every penny. Nicaragua has its own vibe, more natural feel to a new culture, its people and the chocolate tour was wonderful there. The tour guide was very energetic and fun. Love him or not but he won't be forgotten, I can guarantee this. Loved Granada city too. Very colorful and authentic. Recommend it to anyone!

I loved this place! The coffee is tasty and the chocolate was Great!

The pool is as nasty as it gets with bugs and a green film and when we payed for a swim but would never even think of swimming in the pool after we saw it they charged me one hundred cordes for the wristband. I would never recommend any one go there ever and Mitch the owner who passed away a few years ago would be ashamed!!!

I went here a few years ago, and my experience was absolutely amazing. The guy that was teaching my family and I to make chocolate was so upbeat, energetic, and kinda sexy lol. Here, in the store, was the first time I got “borracho” as they say.

I highly recommend the chocolate workshop. Being able to work with the cocoa beans and learn about all the work that goes into making chocolate really helps give a new appreciation for it. Their store also has a lot of cool products ranging from ceramics to other edible treats and even health products made with cacao.

Great experience. Kenny Wonka was the best

Loved that place. A true gem of culture and chill in a very hot Granada afternoon.

(Translated by Google) Excellent traro (Original) Excelente traro

Amazing staff and the mini free tour is the best!!

Appears like and old cowboy schene/structure. Building very Old.

(Translated by Google) A good place to know how chocolate is created, there are advice, sale of products, merchandise and crafts (Original) Un buen lugar para saber cómo se crea el chocolate, hay asesorías, venta de productos, mercancías y artesanías

(Translated by Google) It was tuanis (Original) Estuvo tuanis

(Translated by Google) Super recommended excellent service (Original) Super recomendado excelente servicio

(Translated by Google) Very cute, highly recommended (Original) Muy lindo, altamente recomendado

(Translated by Google) Very nice nice site and a lot of culture and history (Original) Muy lindo agradable sitio y mucha cultura e historia

(Translated by Google) Excellent place, a pleasant experience in which we can know the process of making chocolate and taste delicious and creative dishes, recommended (Original) Excelente lugar, una agradable experiencia en la que podemos conocer el proceso de la elaboración del chocolate y probar deliciosos y creativos platos, recomendado

(Translated by Google) ds a very important place for us (Original) ds un lugar muy importante para nosotros

(Translated by Google) Good service (Original) God service

(Translated by Google) The minitour is very cool; They give to try a few things on it. If you then go around there are many posters with interesting information, a beautiful courtyard and art. 😁 (Original) Le ponen mucha onda al minitour; dan para probar unas cuantas cosas en él. Si luego dan una vuelta hay muchos carteles con información interesante, un patio hermoso y arte. 😁

This was a really great experience with Willy Wonka! The tour and products are amazing! I would highly suggest this to anyone in the area.

(Translated by Google) The best place to taste good chocolate (Original) El mejor lugar para degustar un buen chocolate

The building this museum is in is stunning

(Translated by Google) Good atmosphere a bit deteriorated and dirty (Original) Buen ambiente un poco deteriorado y sucio

(Translated by Google) A very great and interesting mini tour, with information about the origins of the cocoa bean and the chocolate. Highly recommended!! (Original) Eine sehr tolle und interessante Minitour, mit Informationen zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Kakao Bohne und der Schokolade. Sehr empfehlenswert!!

In this museum they make a unique presentation .... All the historical tour of chocolate (Cocoa) in 25 minutes. If you go to Granada you can not stop going to this museum, which also has a breakfast everything you could eat, and access to an area with a pool and a nice bar. The Chocolate Mancion ...! I recommend the city tour with Pachamama Travel that includes this place and other wonderful places. (Omar is a nice tour guide )...!

(Translated by Google) The young is the private tur great, humble, cheerful (Original) El joven queda el tur privado genial , humilde , alegre

(Translated by Google) A beautiful place (Original) Un lugar bellísimo

Poor quality procedures resulting in poor quality chocolate

Great!! Got the free tour as missed the paid tour. Our guide was great Angie I think her name was. Loads of free samples and we got a hot chocolate after.

This place is a joke!!!!We took a free tour and signed up for a chocolate making workshop for the next day which by the way is $25 per person and that is a lot of money for an average Nicaraguan. The website described that the workshop would last 2 hours and we would make our own chocolate bars from scratch. My husband and I were the only people in the workshop and it lasted approximately 45 mins. During that time we roasted and ground cacao beans which took most of the time, the person explained the exactly same things as were explained to us in a free tour, we made ourselves the hot cocoa drinks after which we were asked if we wanted 100% cacao bar or 70% (did not even give an option of a milk chocolate which we should have had according to the description on the website), we chose 70% and they just poored the already made chocolate into a mould for us. There was no tempering of a chocolate or anything in between. They simply skipped that very important step and when I asked why they said that their boss did not want to invest money into that machine even though for chocolate tempering they only need a marble board, a thermometer, 2 spatulas and some skills. So in their museum they describe on posters how important the chocolate tempering is as thats what makes the chocolate nice and smooth and all the right things but they don't do any of that!!!!As a result the chocolate comes out lumpy and crystalic so save yourselves $5 and buy a swiss chocolate bar for the same money from a store. I tried a few different brands and it seems Nicaraguans only know how to grow cocoa but not how to make it into a proper chocolate bar. No wonder most of their cocoa is being exported to other countries that actually know how to use it better and it's not Nicaragua that's famous for their chocolate!Additionally we ordered a hot chocolate drink from their bar and they simply poured some milk with a tiny amount of cocoa that the resulting drink did not resemble anything like what their typical hot cocoa should be and what we make in the workshop (with cinnamon and etc).Shame on you for being a choco museum and not being able to make your national cocoa drink properly!!!

The guide there made a funny tour through the museum and shop. So it was different from all the cacao tours at a farm. And it's for free.

My husband and I did a 20 minute tour of ChocoMuseo. The guide was super friendly and engaging young man who spoke English fluently. He provided and overview of the history of chocolate around the world and in Nicaragua and taught us how they make it at their facility. There is a component of the tour at the end where you get to roll the chocolate and do a chant and dance—I thought it was fun. My husband thought it was silly. At the end, we got to sample their rums made with chocolate, a chocolate brownie, chocolate tea, and coco butter. It’s a fun activity.

Lots of fun with the presenter

The staff are wonderful. Chocolate rum was very tasy. My only complaint is that the actual chocolate bars taste old and grainy. Get a brownie instead, so good!

The service here is amazing, very friendly and engaging. The tour and samples mixed in with the cultural history of cacao was great. Everything was very clean, and it was nice to be able to walk around and appreciate the art and nature throughout the building.

Very informative! They explained how they made some of the other products too. This is so worth visiting

Pretty fun, the tour is free but the store and class are a bit expensive. But definitely something you need to do