Sample Swiss chocolates and other sweet specialties while you learn about the city of Zurich on a 2-hour group chocolate tour accompanied by a local guide. Visit the famous Coffee House Sprüngli to sample Luxenbourgerli, taste pralinés from a local artisan and enjoy unrivaled Champagne truffles by the creators of the original recipe. Your walking tour will take place in a small-group of no more than 15 people and visit famous sights, such as Lindenhof, Grossmünster Church, Paradeplatz and the Old Town.
Posted By : Travel60099359356
The tour is not worth booking. Our tour guide Anastasia (?) was very unorganised, spoke too softly, and lacked leadership for quite a big group of people. About half of the people left the tour early even though they’d already paid.
The guide was personable but when we were in the chocolate shops choosing a chocolate each it was a shambles and it seemed that the staff at the chocolatiers weren’t expecting big groups which the guide did not manage well. We spent about a third of the tour just waiting around and not being guided.
There also wasn’t much information about the history of chocolate which seems like this would be the main point of the tour.
Our guide did do the tour on a day when quite a lot was happening in Zurich so it may have been different on a different day or with a different guide.
Just do the free tour and go and buy 3 chocolates from the shops for less than £27.
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Posted On : 2024-06-30 11:10:48 
Posted By : Kenneth_R
What a great tour guide. Annelize on the Zürich, 11am, 22 June was amazing. Explained so much, and we had 4 stops and lots of different chocolate tasting. She was very considerate of everyones needs, despite the fact we had pouring rain. Tour highly recommended especially if it’s with Annelize.
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Posted On : 2024-06-22 07:23:26 
Posted By : Culture41028015804
Peter was great and funny, he has a good sense of humor and lead us to not only chocolate stores but also historical places.
Would join a trip of his again.
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Posted On : 2024-06-16 11:07:05
Posted By : Vicki_H
Don’t waste your time or money! The group was too big, and the guide could not speak up for everyone to hear. There was basically no chocolate. We only went into one chocolate shop. This was a walking tour while tasting a chocolate bar that she pulled out of her backpack. The bar was passed around for everyone’s dirty hands to touch and break off a piece. The store we were promised a tasting didn’t accommodate us, and after being told to go back and try, the store said there was no such agreement. What a waste of a few hours.
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Posted On : 2024-06-09 01:28:17
Posted By : sarahjB239OV
This tour is somewhat misnamed. It’s a tour of Altstadt with three stops for tastings - at Sprüngli for Luxumbergerli, Teuscher for champagne truffles, and Läderach for various flavors of tempered chocolate (what you’d think of as Swiss chocolates). So it’s not all chocolate plus you wander all over the place going up and down hills and stairs. That could be mentioned in the description. It was irritating to walk up to Lindenhof (a lookout) only to be told ok we’re going now with no time for pictures… from a lookout! The guide did tell interesting stories, but the group was large and she wasn’t good about projecting her voice or facing everyone so we could all hear. One thing that bothered us was that at Sprüngli, each person picked our two flavors they wanted, then everything was put into one large box, then the guide distributed them in a city square, with everyone putting their dirty hands in the box and touching whatever, including the person who had just sneezed into her hands. For some reason, Annalise obtained one glove at Läderach to distribute pieces, but her other hand touched them anyway and after a few pieces, she was letting people stick their own hands in. On a positive note, Annalise was extremely conscious of nut and other allergies and made considerable effort to ensure each person had something they could safely eat at each stop. This tour should have focused more on chocolate. We passed at least two other chocolate shops that were not even mentioned! The truth is, you could do this on your own; Läderach gives samples anyway, and you could buy your own samples at all of the stops and then some for the price of this tour. A suggestion: you could end the tour with a list of other chocolate shops to visit.
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Posted On : 2024-06-03 07:16:13
Posted By : Scott_R
Our tour guide was very knowledgeable on both chocolate and many of the sites around old town Zürich.
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Posted On : 2024-05-19 04:05:54
Posted By : Laurel_C
We really loved the combo of the chocolate tour with seeing the sights of Old Town Zürich. Annelise was a lovely host. The only thing that could make it even better would be spending a little more time walking around the picturesque buildings. Perfect way to spend our layover!
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Posted On : 2024-03-31 15:04:01
Posted By : Foodandcycling
This was a fun and informative tour. It is a history tour with a focus on chocolate. It does involve about 4 different chocolate shops. Our guide also gave us restaurant recommendations, which was nice.
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Posted On : 2024-03-03 12:47:30
Posted By : O5857ICmollyg
Lovely chocolate however the tour guide Esther did actually keep some of the chocolate for herself that was left over and I wouldn't say that it was worth the value.
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Posted On : 2024-02-06 04:28:23
Posted By : Paul_T
This was a great walking tour. Our guide was very knowledgeable and we tried some amazing chocolate. Great way to spend 2 hours!
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Posted On : 2024-01-27 08:01:56
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