Long week was long...
Aug. 28th, 2012 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shinelumiereLast week was a looooong week. I watched my niece and nephew all week, cause school hadn't started, and camp was over, but their parents both still had to work.
On Thursday we went to Hershey Park and Chocolate World! I haven't really been for a good 7 years or so. Its your typical theme park, just themed around Hershey. We didn't go into the zoo this time, but that was ok, it'd have meant extra walking, since they don't have benches through the zoo.
In Chocolate World we took the free tour of how they make their chocolate, which we go through every time, and likely always will. They've changed some of the bits since the last time I was there, since I don't recall the singing cows. We also got tickets to go make our own custom hershey bars.
The ticket to go make your own bar is $14.95. I get that this is for the over all experience, as well as your bar that you get to take home, but for almost $15, I'd like to see more options for inclusions and better control of the flow of people and the process. I was also dissapointed to find that though they let you pick the type of chocolate your bar base is made of, the chocolate that runs through the enrober part of the process is milk chocolate only. For the amount of people that I saw go through ahead of and after our group, not to mention our own group ( 8 mine, moms, dads, and all 5 of the grandkids/nieces/nephews) they could afford to reconfigure their little set up in there to have seperate lines for eachtype of chocolate to have its own enrober, as well as including more inclusions.
You get the candy bar, in a box, in a tin, with an outer sleeve that you design the front panel of. You also get a little bag to carry it out in. and just in case you didn't put your name on the front like I did, it tags you on the one side with a "created by" tag.
There's also a clear plastic insert that holds the bar in place when its packed away in the tin.
My ticket. You can't get into the create your own candy bar area without one, you scan this at each station along the way to help the system keep track of your bar, so that it makes sure you get what you put in your bar.
When it gets to the station to be boxed, the machine pops out a box and a lazer etches your name and other info on the box, to make it possible to match your bar with your tin and outer sleeve.
You can kinda see the shape of some of the inclusions in my bar. I picked Almonds and Raspberry bits.
You can see here where I've had a bite, how I picked a dark chocolate base, but the enrober only has milk chocolate. I'd have rather had dark chocolate all around, but I'll live with the dark/milk combo
We have pictures of that, and us in our "oompa loompa get ups, but I have to get hold of moms camera for those.
Now to ignore the call of my candy bar XD. I may nitpick what I see as flaws in the set up of their "create your own candy bar" experience, but come on, its Hershey chocolate, it's hard to make that not call you to eat it.
On Thursday we went to Hershey Park and Chocolate World! I haven't really been for a good 7 years or so. Its your typical theme park, just themed around Hershey. We didn't go into the zoo this time, but that was ok, it'd have meant extra walking, since they don't have benches through the zoo.
In Chocolate World we took the free tour of how they make their chocolate, which we go through every time, and likely always will. They've changed some of the bits since the last time I was there, since I don't recall the singing cows. We also got tickets to go make our own custom hershey bars.
The ticket to go make your own bar is $14.95. I get that this is for the over all experience, as well as your bar that you get to take home, but for almost $15, I'd like to see more options for inclusions and better control of the flow of people and the process. I was also dissapointed to find that though they let you pick the type of chocolate your bar base is made of, the chocolate that runs through the enrober part of the process is milk chocolate only. For the amount of people that I saw go through ahead of and after our group, not to mention our own group ( 8 mine, moms, dads, and all 5 of the grandkids/nieces/nephews) they could afford to reconfigure their little set up in there to have seperate lines for eachtype of chocolate to have its own enrober, as well as including more inclusions.
You get the candy bar, in a box, in a tin, with an outer sleeve that you design the front panel of. You also get a little bag to carry it out in. and just in case you didn't put your name on the front like I did, it tags you on the one side with a "created by" tag.
There's also a clear plastic insert that holds the bar in place when its packed away in the tin.
My ticket. You can't get into the create your own candy bar area without one, you scan this at each station along the way to help the system keep track of your bar, so that it makes sure you get what you put in your bar.
When it gets to the station to be boxed, the machine pops out a box and a lazer etches your name and other info on the box, to make it possible to match your bar with your tin and outer sleeve.
You can kinda see the shape of some of the inclusions in my bar. I picked Almonds and Raspberry bits.
You can see here where I've had a bite, how I picked a dark chocolate base, but the enrober only has milk chocolate. I'd have rather had dark chocolate all around, but I'll live with the dark/milk combo
We have pictures of that, and us in our "oompa loompa get ups, but I have to get hold of moms camera for those.
Now to ignore the call of my candy bar XD. I may nitpick what I see as flaws in the set up of their "create your own candy bar" experience, but come on, its Hershey chocolate, it's hard to make that not call you to eat it.
