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Calling all chocoholics and history fans!!! This tour is a MUST. It was a fun and interactive tour which went through different themed rooms as it told the story of the founding of Cailler chocolates. At the beginning of the tour they give you a speaker for the audio-portion of the tour which is specific to the language of your choice. They limit the size of each group so it doesn't feel crowded. The story was animated, literally, like props and special effects, very fun. The history part of the tour let you taste what a cocoa bean tastes like, along with other chocolate-related ingredients. They have an area that lets you see the machine that separates out the individual candies. And at the very end of the tour they have a tasting room which allows you to limitlessly taste the different chocolates they offer - scrumptious! The tour was about 20-30 minutes total (depending on how long you stick around the tasting room!) and was worth the ticket price. Great tour! Fun for adults and kids alike! Also, note that the workshops need to be reserved way ahead of time. I tried booking a chocolate making workshop for our trip about a month ahead of time and it was already booked out!
Great chocolate factory tour and interesting for kids. It gives an excellent overview of the chocolate origin in Europe and Swiss. But the tour was very short. The way the explanation was done was cool. They also had a small factory design setting in place. The stop where they made the chocolate cast was impressive. The chocolate samples at the end of the tour were delicious, and all you can eat buffet. Also, you get a chance to taste almonds and hazelnuts. Outdoor play station and milk the cow statue are great for kids. The cafe had great hot chocolate and crossaints/pizza etc.. Great for one time visit.
Definitely a very cool attraction. If you're in the area I would highly suggest coming here. Now the chocolate factory has been bought out by Nestlé, and it's now modernized as well. The traditional way of making chocolate is no longer. The tour is quite commercialized and cater to tourists. But it's definitely fun for children. Lots of families on the tour. After the tour you can go to the gift shop they also have a café there where you can try their hot chocolate made from the chocolate from the factory. The hot chocolate was definitely very expensive almost 7 dollars but it was one of the best hot chocolate ever had in my life. There's also a zillion different variety of chocolates that you can bring home a souvenirs. We definitely load it up. A good time for the family and children.
Loved our visit here. Buy tickets online. Email confirmation only provide purchase confirmation, tickets need to be generated either by creating an account, or visiting the group info booth near the entrance to redeem your tickets. Good history tour with some machine explaining how chocolates are made and packaged at the end. Loved the sampling too, definitely gave us a chocolate high and chocolate crash afterwards ;)
The Cailler factory offers a short but enjoyable tour of their chocolate making process. The tour is a little pricey for what you get at 16 francs, but it's still fun. You'll be greeted by staff, given an audio guide which comes in many languages, and then sent into some immersive rooms. You'll get to learn about the history of chocolate agriculture and distribution, then the history of Swiss chocolates, and finally get to sample Cailler chocolates. There is a major chocolate gift shop in the front as well. Make not of the train times as this is a small station. Also note the tickets online are timed, but you can purchase them in person as well. So just check ahead before arriving.
This is such a great tour! Now we arrived around 9:50am for our 10am tour. Parking is super easy because they have a large parking lot less than a block away from the factory. Your tour will begin with an audio experience where you will go into 8 different rooms that will have different events take place. Each room will provide you history of the cocoa beans, nestle, cailler, and so much more. Once you finish all 8 rooms you'll enter into an very awesome area that will show you the full process they use to make one chocolate bar. Of course every tour finishes with sampling an assortment of delicious chocolates. Highly recommend visiting it! Bonus tip for this place, if you are open to a short easy hike, directly behind this factory is a trailhead. This trail is super easy and provides incredible views. Highly recommend walking or driving over to that trailhead after your tour.
I took this tour on the history of chocolate (Cailler). If you are in Fribourg, Switzerland is a must. Is a guided walking tour starting from the origins of the cacao (meso America) moving through history into Spain, Switzerland, and finalizing with Nestle and reaching USA. Is a 20 minute tour and VERY informative with nice visuals. During the tour you can eat all the chocolate you want (I put pics of the two I loved the most). After the tour you go to their shop where you can buy your chocolate, etc. I will be in Geneva in two days for a three-hour walking chocolate tasting tour!
Magnificent experience at Callier! We loved learning about the history of chocolates and Callier! We enjoyed tasting the different chocolates and learning about the sources of chocolates! Most importantly, we love that the chocolates are made from cows milk located in the region. The dark hot chocolate from the cafe is a must and superb! Thank you to the knowledgeable Marie-Francis for teaching us how to make chocolates! Also, a big thank you to sweet Essia for helping us select the best chocolates, hot chocolate, and transportation. You made this a unique experience Essia, and we can't wait to be back!
La Maison Cailler was one of the stops they brought us to along the Golden Pass Chocolate Train route. You get a tour with some animatronics, which tells you a lot about the history of Cailler and how it came about. Along the way, you also get to sample a lot of chocolate. Their chocolate was a little too sweet for me, but that could have also been because I had quite a few samples. The tour ends of course in their chocolate shop, where you'll find chocolates of many different varieties. When I went, they had a promotion where you buy 6 chooclate bars and you get 1 free. It's great for souvenirs and it won't break the bank. I'm not sure how much tickets are if you purchase them separately, but I would say it's worth a visit if you're near Broc, but don't go out of your way to do so. Fun fact - Cailler is owned by Nestlé.
CHOCOLATE heaven! Go grab your tickets when you arrive because they tend to sell out at their factory. While you're waiting for your scheduled time, go buy some chocolate or grab some drinks and snacks at their cafe. The cost of the tour is 10CHF and it's like walking through 'It's a Small World' at Disneyland'. The tour is cheesy, but cute! It takes you through the history of chocolate and how the fame of Chocolate came to Switzerland. If you're a 8 year old kid, you would absolutely LOVE this tour. As an adult, you might not enjoy it as much as a kid would, but you'll still get a good laugh out of this. I would have prefer a tour that is more about the process of Cailler Chocolate instead of their history. There's no audio for the process, but you can read some of the information towards the end of the tour if you have the patience for it. As you finish your tour, it's time to taste the chocolate and A LOT of it! My tip to you is to bring some water or better yet, milk, if you can. You will be overdosing on chocolate goodies! I ended eating half of everything, so I can make it to the end of the line...I know, it's a shame.....I WASTED CHOCOLATE!!! La Maison Cailler is as good as it gets! It produces one of the best Chocolate in the world! Tourists tend to come in by the dozens, but this is a must stop if you're a fan of chocolate. Plus, the cost of each bar is cheaper than the grocery store and airport AND it's next to the town, GRUYERE. Love it!
I love chocolate and every time my boyfriend comes back from Switzerland he comes back with stacks of them usually from Cailler. Cailler was bought by Nestle so you see a couple Nestle bars, but for the most part they stick to the Cailler chocolates that most Swiss know and love. What makes the chocolate special? They use condensed milk in their chocolates so it's creamy sweet. So back to going to La Maison Cailler. We heard from my boyfriend's friends that there was a tour for the factory that's near Gruyeres, so we said why not back it a dual trip. The price of the tour wasn't too much (10 CHF for each adult). We found out after going to pay for our tickets that we could've gotten in for free if we bought a big box of chocolates which we generally buy anyways. GRRRR...and the people at the front would not let us retroactively adjust. Sad. So for some reason it was packed when we came. It was so crowded and busy and we had to wait about an hour before we got into the tour. We spent a good amount of time just sitting in a theater where special Cailler movies and advertisements were playing from all the different countries and years. The tour is held in many different languages so be wary when you get you ticket. Some languages are more popular than others so they can fill up quickly and you'll have to wait for later times. The tour was actually not what I expected and was only 7 minutes long. I was expecting more of the Jelly Belly or Hershey chocolate factory tour where you get to actually see the production line. Apparently just this past year they created this Maison to house a story like tour which takes you to different rooms where a sound recording talks about the store of chocolate and Cailler. Think Disneyland dark suite rides but without the actual "ride" part. At the end of the story, you get to go to a room where you can smell the different cacao beans and smell different nuts they use in their chocolates. Then they show you how mini branches are made and at the end you get a small packaged sample of it! They take all these to the local markets to sell. At the VERY end of the tour you get to sample a wide variety of the Cailler chocolates. They're smart. They put the cheap ones in the beginning so that you get so filled up that by the end you can't sample the more expensive ones. SMART Cailler. Also you can't take any of the chocolates home unless you're sneaky enough to hide them. We got scolded as we tried to take some home as we couldn't ingest that much chocolate. 5 pieces of sweet chocolate is already too much. They had about 15-20 different kinds. Overall the tour is worth it if you can smuggle the chocolates out at the end. Otherwise, it might be a little too juvenile for the adults. If you really only care about the sampling at the end, see if you can ask to be placed in the next earliest spot in the tour regardless of the language. I'm not sure if you can as the person was helping us misled us to believe that it didn't matter if we sat through the French tour or the English tour...The next French tour was in 30 min rather than the English one that we did eventually take which was an hour later. There's also a store there where we were lucky enough to get all the 50% discounts due to the Christmas stock they were getting rid of. The cafe is also in the same floor space. I'm sure the drinks would've been delicious but we didn't get any. They served Movenpick ice cream as well. Definitely gimmicky, but still a good thing to go to at least once.
The self-guided tour was engaging, immersive, and impressive. The best part is the tasting room where you can have unlimited samples of their chocolates. Bring some napkins so you can wipe off melted chocolates from your hands. The quality is exactly what you'd expect from Switzerland -- smooth, rich, and dangerously easy to overindulge. You also get to see parts of the actual production line, which is fascinating if you enjoy seeing how things are made. It's clean, efficient, and gives you a new appreciation for what goes into each bar. The gift shop is well-stocked (yes, we bought way too much), and prices are actually reasonable considering the quality. Great place to pick up souvenirs that people will genuinely be excited about. read more
This was one of the highlights in the Switzerland trip. Callier has a dedicated train to the factory where they started in 1819. Yes, not a typo, 1819! It's definitely worth seeing the facotry, but the self guided tour was not interesting. They provided a token at customer service for storing your bigger bags/jackets in locker. The samples were abundant and very generous. Fun to spend 2 hours there. By the time we finished the tour, we were full and couldn't eat lunch. Go when you got the Swiss pass. read more
Great tour of a classic Swiss chocolate factory. The tour was actually quite interesting and educational. They let you try so make different types of chocolates that you are filled with yummy goodness. I've never eaten so much chocolate in my life and it was worth every bite! Everyone of friendly and bilingual. Very family friendly and worth a visit. read more
Calling all chocoholics and history fans!!! This tour is a MUST. It was a fun and interactive tour which went through different themed rooms as it told the story of the founding of Cailler chocolates. At the beginning of the tour they give you a speaker for the audio-portion of the tour which is specific to the language of your choice. They limit the size of each group so it doesn't feel crowded. The story was animated, literally, like props and special effects, very fun. The history part of the tour let you taste what a cocoa bean tastes like, along with other chocolate-related ingredients. They have an area that lets you see the machine that separates out the individual candies. And at the very end of the tour they have a tasting room which allows you to limitlessly taste the different chocolates they offer - scrumptious! The tour was about 20-30 minutes total (depending on how long you stick around the tasting room!) and was worth the ticket price. Great tour! Fun for adults and kids alike! Also, note that the workshops need to be reserved way ahead of time. I tried booking a chocolate making workshop for our trip about a month ahead of time and it was already booked out! read more
Great chocolate factory tour and interesting for kids. It gives an excellent overview of the chocolate origin in Europe and Swiss. But the tour was very short. The way the explanation was done was cool. They also had a small factory design setting in place. The stop where they made the chocolate cast was impressive. The chocolate samples at the end of the tour were delicious, and all you can eat buffet. Also, you get a chance to taste almonds and hazelnuts. Outdoor play station and milk the cow statue are great for kids. The cafe had great hot chocolate and crossaints/pizza etc.. Great for one time visit. read more
Definitely a very cool attraction. If you're in the area I would highly suggest coming here. Now the chocolate factory has been bought out by Nestlé, and it's now modernized as well. The traditional way of making chocolate is no longer. The tour is quite commercialized and cater to tourists. But it's definitely fun for children. Lots of families on the tour. After the tour you can go to the gift shop they also have a café there where you can try their hot chocolate made from the chocolate from the factory. The hot chocolate was definitely very expensive almost 7 dollars but it was one of the best hot chocolate ever had in my life. There's also a zillion different variety of chocolates that you can bring home a souvenirs. We definitely load it up. A good time for the family and children. read more
4 years ago
Loved our visit here. Buy tickets online. Email confirmation only provide purchase confirmation, tickets need to be generated either by creating an account, or visiting the group info booth near the entrance to redeem your tickets. Good history tour with some machine explaining how chocolates are made and packaged at the end. Loved the sampling too, definitely gave us a chocolate high and chocolate crash afterwards ;) read more
1 year ago
Good experience. Lot of chocolate tasting. It has a good history of how it started. The chocolates are also affordable read more
3 years ago
The Cailler factory offers a short but enjoyable tour of their chocolate making process. The tour is a little pricey for what you get at 16 francs, but it's still fun. You'll be greeted by staff, given an audio guide which comes in many languages, and then sent into some immersive rooms. You'll get to learn about the history of chocolate agriculture and distribution, then the history of Swiss chocolates, and finally get to sample Cailler chocolates. There is a major chocolate gift shop in the front as well. Make not of the train times as this is a small station. Also note the tickets online are timed, but you can purchase them in person as well. So just check ahead before arriving. read more
This is such a great tour! Now we arrived around 9:50am for our 10am tour. Parking is super easy because they have a large parking lot less than a block away from the factory. Your tour will begin with an audio experience where you will go into 8 different rooms that will have different events take place. Each room will provide you history of the cocoa beans, nestle, cailler, and so much more. Once you finish all 8 rooms you'll enter into an very awesome area that will show you the full process they use to make one chocolate bar. Of course every tour finishes with sampling an assortment of delicious chocolates. Highly recommend visiting it! Bonus tip for this place, if you are open to a short easy hike, directly behind this factory is a trailhead. This trail is super easy and provides incredible views. Highly recommend walking or driving over to that trailhead after your tour. read more
7 years ago
I took this tour on the history of chocolate (Cailler). If you are in Fribourg, Switzerland is a must. Is a guided walking tour starting from the origins of the cacao (meso America) moving through history into Spain, Switzerland, and finalizing with Nestle and reaching USA. Is a 20 minute tour and VERY informative with nice visuals. During the tour you can eat all the chocolate you want (I put pics of the two I loved the most). After the tour you go to their shop where you can buy your chocolate, etc. I will be in Geneva in two days for a three-hour walking chocolate tasting tour! read more
3 years ago
Magnificent experience at Callier! We loved learning about the history of chocolates and Callier! We enjoyed tasting the different chocolates and learning about the sources of chocolates! Most importantly, we love that the chocolates are made from cows milk located in the region. The dark hot chocolate from the cafe is a must and superb! Thank you to the knowledgeable Marie-Francis for teaching us how to make chocolates! Also, a big thank you to sweet Essia for helping us select the best chocolates, hot chocolate, and transportation. You made this a unique experience Essia, and we can't wait to be back! read more
4 years ago
8 years ago
La Maison Cailler was one of the stops they brought us to along the Golden Pass Chocolate Train route. You get a tour with some animatronics, which tells you a lot about the history of Cailler and how it came about. Along the way, you also get to sample a lot of chocolate. Their chocolate was a little too sweet for me, but that could have also been because I had quite a few samples. The tour ends of course in their chocolate shop, where you'll find chocolates of many different varieties. When I went, they had a promotion where you buy 6 chooclate bars and you get 1 free. It's great for souvenirs and it won't break the bank. I'm not sure how much tickets are if you purchase them separately, but I would say it's worth a visit if you're near Broc, but don't go out of your way to do so. Fun fact - Cailler is owned by Nestlé. read more
7 years ago
8 years ago
CHOCOLATE heaven! Go grab your tickets when you arrive because they tend to sell out at their factory. While you're waiting for your scheduled time, go buy some chocolate or grab some drinks and snacks at their cafe. The cost of the tour is 10CHF and it's like walking through 'It's a Small World' at Disneyland'. The tour is cheesy, but cute! It takes you through the history of chocolate and how the fame of Chocolate came to Switzerland. If you're a 8 year old kid, you would absolutely LOVE this tour. As an adult, you might not enjoy it as much as a kid would, but you'll still get a good laugh out of this. I would have prefer a tour that is more about the process of Cailler Chocolate instead of their history. There's no audio for the process, but you can read some of the information towards the end of the tour if you have the patience for it. As you finish your tour, it's time to taste the chocolate and A LOT of it! My tip to you is to bring some water or better yet, milk, if you can. You will be overdosing on chocolate goodies! I ended eating half of everything, so I can make it to the end of the line...I know, it's a shame.....I WASTED CHOCOLATE!!! La Maison Cailler is as good as it gets! It produces one of the best Chocolate in the world! Tourists tend to come in by the dozens, but this is a must stop if you're a fan of chocolate. Plus, the cost of each bar is cheaper than the grocery store and airport AND it's next to the town, GRUYERE. Love it! read more
15 years ago
I love chocolate and every time my boyfriend comes back from Switzerland he comes back with stacks of them usually from Cailler. Cailler was bought by Nestle so you see a couple Nestle bars, but for the most part they stick to the Cailler chocolates that most Swiss know and love. What makes the chocolate special? They use condensed milk in their chocolates so it's creamy sweet. So back to going to La Maison Cailler. We heard from my boyfriend's friends that there was a tour for the factory that's near Gruyeres, so we said why not back it a dual trip. The price of the tour wasn't too much (10 CHF for each adult). We found out after going to pay for our tickets that we could've gotten in for free if we bought a big box of chocolates which we generally buy anyways. GRRRR...and the people at the front would not let us retroactively adjust. Sad. So for some reason it was packed when we came. It was so crowded and busy and we had to wait about an hour before we got into the tour. We spent a good amount of time just sitting in a theater where special Cailler movies and advertisements were playing from all the different countries and years. The tour is held in many different languages so be wary when you get you ticket. Some languages are more popular than others so they can fill up quickly and you'll have to wait for later times. The tour was actually not what I expected and was only 7 minutes long. I was expecting more of the Jelly Belly or Hershey chocolate factory tour where you get to actually see the production line. Apparently just this past year they created this Maison to house a story like tour which takes you to different rooms where a sound recording talks about the store of chocolate and Cailler. Think Disneyland dark suite rides but without the actual "ride" part. At the end of the story, you get to go to a room where you can smell the different cacao beans and smell different nuts they use in their chocolates. Then they show you how mini branches are made and at the end you get a small packaged sample of it! They take all these to the local markets to sell. At the VERY end of the tour you get to sample a wide variety of the Cailler chocolates. They're smart. They put the cheap ones in the beginning so that you get so filled up that by the end you can't sample the more expensive ones. SMART Cailler. Also you can't take any of the chocolates home unless you're sneaky enough to hide them. We got scolded as we tried to take some home as we couldn't ingest that much chocolate. 5 pieces of sweet chocolate is already too much. They had about 15-20 different kinds. Overall the tour is worth it if you can smuggle the chocolates out at the end. Otherwise, it might be a little too juvenile for the adults. If you really only care about the sampling at the end, see if you can ask to be placed in the next earliest spot in the tour regardless of the language. I'm not sure if you can as the person was helping us misled us to believe that it didn't matter if we sat through the French tour or the English tour...The next French tour was in 30 min rather than the English one that we did eventually take which was an hour later. There's also a store there where we were lucky enough to get all the 50% discounts due to the Christmas stock they were getting rid of. The cafe is also in the same floor space. I'm sure the drinks would've been delicious but we didn't get any. They served Movenpick ice cream as well. Definitely gimmicky, but still a good thing to go to at least once. read more
9 years ago
It's pretty cool to visit a chocolate factory in Switzerlan. Especially when you LOVE chocolate. We were clearly not alone in the excitement, as the place was packed! You purchase your ticket outside, then get into a queue to take the factory tour. While you wait, you can hang out outside, or shop around in the gift shop. I love doing tours, as I always find them interesting, no matter what the subject matter. I happen to find this tour only mediocre. It was just a little too cheesy for me. At the end of the tour there were self guided audio options and you were able to see the live chocolate factory elements. This was the best part for me. And of course, tasting the Cailler chocolate! I enjoyed my visit to the factory, and to be honest, the train ride to and from Cailler was just gorgeous. A lovely trip out to Broc! read more
7 years ago
This tour was better than I expected. The tour was a fun attraction and I learned a lot about how chocolate was originated and how it's made. Kids would like it. My favorite part was being a chocolate taster. The robot that picks up the chocolate is super cool too- I admired how fast it was. The tour is the perfect amount of time. At the end you can spend as much or as little time as you want listening to recordings about how the Callier chocolate is made. It was fun and I left with a bag of chocolate souvenirs from the gift shop. read more
13 years ago
11 years ago
The 5 rating is for the chocolate making class. This is what made the visit extra special. The class entailed steps to make your own 2 chocolate bars, it was geared for all ages. Silvano Nobs and Sam Yi Loh were teaching the class and they had passion and patience and made it genuinely a fun experience. Booking the class online ahead of time saves you the long lines to the tour and guarantees you a spot. read more
I always look forward when out of town guests come to visit, because I have a good excuse to take them to the tiny town of Broc to visit the Callier chocolate factory. If you are visiting Switzerland, a guest cannot go without having tasted what I think is one of the best Swiss chocolates. This is not a Lindt or a Toblerone that you can get anywhere. Even though Nestle owns Callier, I have never seen it sold outside Switzerland. On my last visit, my friends and I went early, and after stepping off the train we followed our noses to the factory, I had never been before and been able to smell the scent of chocolate in the air that strongly. When you enter the building you can shop in the store, grab a bite to eat in the cafe, or enjoy one of the several chocolate drinks they have to choose from. Be warned, the chocolate drinks are like liquid chocolate bars, they are VERY rich. My friend and I tried to share one and the two of us together could only drink 50% of one. Also, you can go on a tour. I happen to like the tour. It reminds me of a Disneyland ride. An informative animated journey through the history of Callier, and chocolate making. The tour takes you from one room to the next, you get to also see a few machines at work pumping out the chocolate goodness, and then you reach the end of the rainbow with the great big cauldron full of chocolate samples awaiting you. You can see the kids eyes each time grow wide, and I always hear someone ask how much can I have? The answer? As much as you can eat! I have NEVER been somewhere that allows you to try as many as you want. I have become wise though, and walk all the way to the end, were the Ambassador line can be found, which is my favorite, unfortunately which is also the most expensive. The tours are offered throughout the day, and in many different languages. I have never had any issues, and the lines are always fast. You can shop while you wait for your group number to appear on the board. The people have always been friendly as well. The factory also offers cooking classes you can register for, and a fantastic playground outside to get rid of all the extra energy one might have from the sugar rush resulting from the excess of chocolate samples. read more
13 years ago
LOVED this place. I was taking guests to Gruyere and it is a short ride away, a must if visiting the area. Follow the Nestle signs and you arrive at the visitors parking lot, the entrance is a short walk away. The cost is 10 francs for adults to get it, a bargain. The tour gives you the history of Cailler, the merger with Nestle, some chocolate making history and a walk through the factory where you see some chocolate being made, conveyor belts, etc. The smell, as you can imagine, is utterly divine and gets stronger throughout...maybe it was my imagination!! The tour ended in the tasting room which appropriately had no chairs, otherwise I would have sat in front of my favorite section and ate all day long. For a chocolate lover like me, this was nirvana. Cailler chocolates are so good and I truly believe I tasted one of everything there. The gift shop and coffee shop are next and don't forget to walk a short few meters out the door and around the corner to the Nestle outlet where you can save big on Neslte products, yes chocolate too!! In addition you can book a class at the factory where you can put your cooking skills to work with chocolate! read more
10 years ago
I think it's a cute little tour for kids but it's really not worth it. The tour is quick and focuses on the history of Callier himself rather than their chocolate. Samples at then end were nothing special read more
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