Center Stage with Experience Kissimmee: Chocolate Kingdom

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  • Chocolate Kingdom also offers hands-on, chocolate-making activities and classes.
    Chocolate Kingdom also offers hands-on, chocolate-making activities and classes.
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Hoping to do something extra sweet this holiday season?

Visit Chocolate Kingdom, the Factory Adventure Tour, for an interactive journey that uncovers how chocolate transforms from a bean into a creamy, dreamy chocolate bar.

The kingdom is open for tours. Personal chocolate tour guides join with a handsome prince and his dragon sidekick to take guests through a cacao tree greenhouse, a one-of-a-kind chocolate museum, and much more. Tours are $16.95 for

Tours are $16.95 for adults and $12.95 for children (ages 4-12). Guests can choose to customize their own chocolate bar – nearly half pound – at the end of the tour for an additional $7 each.

Chocolate Kingdom also offers private parties with hands-on, chocolate-making activities and classes, in a 1,300-square-foot room that can host up to 15 children with physical distancing.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chocolate Kingdom has implemented many other new safety measures. Facemasks are required for all staff and guests, and the facility is operating at 50 percent capacity.

During the guided tours and chocolate-making classes, guests must adhere to 6-foot physical distancing. Sanitizing stations are located throughout the retail store.

Chocolate Kingdom has limited operating hours at this time. The facility is open Tuesday-Sunday, from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tours begin at noon and run every hour, on the hour, until 4 p.m. Chocolate Kingdom is located at 9901 Hawaiian Court in Orlando.

For more information about Chocolate Kingdom, visit chocolatekingdom.com.

This column is submitted by Experience Kissimmee, the official tourism authority for Osceola County. Get inspired at experiencekissimmee.com.