The Real Life Charlie & The Chocolate FActory!
We’ve finally achieved our childhood dream. You’ve all had it, gazing up at the TV watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and just wishing that you could go and live in a real life chocolate factory. So we did! We traded in our golden ticket, hopped on a plane and found ourselves at the door of the Lindt Chocolate Factory in Switzerland. And oh my gosh - you guys… it was a chocolatey haven of goodness!
Come and share in the magic with us below:
The Lindt Chocolate Factory is in Zurich - and it is truly where all your chocolatey dreams come true. It’s a fantastical, magical palace - a real life version of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory! Or the closest thing on earth to it. It was everything we’ve dreamed of and more!
Obviously to get the full experience we had to do the audio guided tour - this told us a little bit about the history of chocolate and some other interesting facts. It led us through this wonderful chocolatey themed forest - and we were so excited as this has been on our bucket list for SO FLIPPING LONG!
Now we’re not without our quirks and we just love old food packaging, it’s fascinating. It was great to see all the displays and we absolutely loved it.
But now for our real favourite bit… the Unlimited Chocolate Fountain!
You get a little spoon and you get to try as much as you want. It had everything, dark, milk and white chocolate and oh my gosh it was so good; like molten sweet nectar! Also, at these places it can feel so restrictive but we loved that nobody was watching or telling us that we’d had enough. You could just keep going up for more - heaven right!
To make it feel even more like Willy Wonka’s they had these massive tubes and you just had to stick you hand under it and it would pop out a fun different shaped chocolate. It was kinda like a game as they had different sections and you had to guess what flavour was what… so so cool how it just shot out of there! Honestly, dreams coming true!
We then moved on, and there was this wall where you could move and control the stars. It might have been for kids but we didn’t care… we were having way too much fun! I just couldn’t get enough - it kept getting better and better.
There was then a space where you could take some photos in a giant Lindt Ball. But, behind the giant lindt balls were tiny Lindt balls and you just got to try all of the different flavours! What a treat.
This whole experience only cost £12 which if we’re being honest is almost the cost of a box of Lindt in the supermarket!
We cannot recommend this place enough - if you’re ever in Zurich you HAVE to go.
If you’ve been to a chocolate themed place as fantastical as this, why not post it down in the comments so we can go and relive our dreams all over again.