Butlers Chocolate Experience
| County: | Co. Dublin |
| Tel: | 01-6710599 |
| Fax: | 01-6710480 |
| Email: | experience@butlers.ie |
Visit the Butlers Chocolate Experience - the ultimate chocolate discovery tour! Based in the home of Butlers Chocolates, Ireland's favourite luxury chocolatier, a visit here is a must for chocolate lovers of all ages!
Travel through time in the world of chocolate in our cinema, wander around our chocolate museum and explore a treasure trove full of chocolate and Butlers Memorabilia, get a bird's eye view of our chocolates being created in our working chocolate factory and become a chocolatier in our experience room.
Try your hand at decorating – you can even bring your own decorated chocolate home! Finish up with a visit to Butlers Chocolate Café for a delicious chocolate treat!!
General Information
| Address: | Clonshaugh Business Park, Dublin 17 |
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| Telephone; | 01-6710599 |
| Fax: | 01-6710480 |
| Email: | experience@butlers.ie |
| Website: | www.butlerschocolates.com/chocolateexperience |
| Location: | Clonshaugh Business Park, Dublin 17 |
| Season: | All year round |
| Open Times: | Mon-Sat Onsite Butlers Chocolate Café open 8.00-17.30 Advance booking required for all visits |
| Tours: | Tours usually run at 10am, 12pm and 2.30pm (times subject to change) Duration: 1.5 hrs, max 50pax |
| Booking Contact: | Clare Malone |
| Manager: | Joanna Lawlor |
| Average Visit Length: | 1.5 - 2 hours |
| Audio Visual: | Chocolate Movie. 7 mins duration, seating capacity 53 |
| Exhibition: | Treasure trove of chocolate and Butlers memorabilia. Enjoy a rainforest experience, see Aztec artefacts & follow the journey of chocolate and Butlers. |
| Restaurant: | Wide range of beverages, confectionary and savoury breakfast and lunch options |
| Picnic Area: | Yes |
| Shop: | Yes |
| Information Guide: | English |
| Coach Parking: | Yes |
| Group Booking Necessary: | Yes |
| Car Parking: | Yes |
| Disabled Access/Parking: | Butlers Chocolate experience is fully accessible |
| Other: | www.facebook.com/butlerschocolate |
School Tours / Birthday Parties
Butlers Chocolate Experience is the ideal place for a school tour or to host a birthday party. It is both educational and fun for children and sure to be something they will remember and cherish.
Groups & School Tours
Butlers Chocolate Experience can cater for groups of up to 50 people. This makes it an ideal venue for school tours/summer projects and club days out. Coach parking is available. Butlers Chocolate Experience is fully accessible.
Birthday Parties
Butlers Chocolate Experience is a great location for birthday parties. Just bring your own cake and we'll organise the rest! In fact, we'll organise the cake too if you want. While the kids are having fun in the Chocolate Experience, parents can enjoy a coffee and catch up in Butlers Chocolate Café
Group tours and birthday parties need to be booked in advance, please contact us for further details.
Entrance Fees
The Ultimate Chocolate Experience: €12.50
This includes: Chocolate Movie; Chocolate Museum; Chocolate Gallery and a visit to the Chocolate Experience Room.
Family (2 Adults + 2 Children U12): €45
Family (2 Adults + 3 Children U12): €55
Family (2 Adults + 4 Children U12): €65
World of Chocolate: €10.00
This includes: Chocolate Movie, Chocolate Museum, Chocolate Gallery and a hot beverage at the end.
The Ultimate Chocolate Experience
Chocolate Movie: Travel through time in the world of chocolate in our cinema. Discover how the Mayans created the first known chocolate and find out how the taste for chocolate developed all over the world.
Hear about the history of Butlers and unearth some interesting facts about our origins and where we are today.
Chocolate Museum: Explore this treasure trove full of chocolate and Butlers memorabilia. Enjoy a rainforest experience, see artefacts from the Aztecs and follow the journey of chocolate and Butlers to the present day.
Chocolate Gallery: See for yourself our factory in operation from the Chocolate Gallery. Here, you will enjoy a bird's eye view of our chocolates being created from start to finish by our chocolatiers. Enjoy the delicious chocolate aroma in the gallery. This part of the experience is both fascinating and educational, for young and old alike. Production takes place Monday to Friday.
Experience Room: The ultimate part of the tour. Here, you get the opportunity to dress like a chocolatier and try your hand at decorating your own chocolate novelty, which you can then bring home. Enjoy demonstrations up close with the master chocolatier - see how hollow and moulded chocolate shells are filled and decorated.
At all points of the tour there is plenty of chocolate sampling. If that isn't enough, finish your trip to Butlers Chocolate Experience with a delicious hot chocolate or coffee or even lunch at our Butlers Chocolate Café.
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