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Among the world’s 50 best cacao producers

Taste Hawaiian chocolate where the cacao grows.

Orchard tours and craft chocolate tastings, fifteen minutes from Hilo.

5 out of 5 stars

5.0 from 229 Google reviews

Cacao of Excellence, 50 Best 2025
A guide talking with a tour group among the cacao rows

Orchard Tour & Craft Chocolate Tasting Package

About 3.5 hours · Usually Mon, Wed & Fri at 10 am · Ages 7+

An engaging, collegiate-level seminar on everything cacao that adapts to your questions, led by our team of industry professionals. It includes our full Craft Chocolate Tasting, so you experience the “bean to bar” process from start to finish.

From $105

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Guests laughing around the bar in the open-air tasting room
Hilo’s Best Rainy Day Activity

Craft Chocolate Tasting

Hilo’s best rainy-day activity

About 1.5 hours · Most weekdays at 12, 2:30 or 2:45 pm · Ages 4+

For guests who are truly here for the chocolate: an unlimited sampling of over ten award-winning, single-origin bars from cacao farms across Hawaiʻi, in our open-air tasting room with views down to the ocean on clear days.

From $50

per person

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Rated 5.0 on Google · 229 reviews

What guests say

“Besides being able to witness a live erupting volcano (thank you, Mother Nature and Kīlauea), this was hands-down our favorite thing we did while visiting the Big Island.”
Sondi T. · Google review
“Consider this a 10-star review—5 from each person in my party! This tour was worth every penny and then some!”
Pamela E. · Google review
“This is a MUST VISIT for any chocolate lover - we learned so much… it was like a full college course on the history, agriculture, and process of making chocolate in one day.”
Samantha R. · Google review
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Why visit

Top 50

Top 50

cacao producers in the world, Cacao of Excellence 2025

10+

10+

award-winning, single-origin Hawaiian chocolate bars at every tasting, with unlimited samples

15 min

15 min

from downtown Hilo, in the Honoliʻi valley

Rain or shine, the open-air tasting room looks out over the orchard. It’s why Hilo calls us its best rainy-day activity.

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The Water Project

Catch the rain before it stops.

We’re raising $50,000 for a permanent water system for the orchard before a record El Niño winter.

See the Water Project

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Tours & tastings near Hilo

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