Hershey's Chocolate World - The Trolley Tour

When looking at optional experiences at Hershey's Chocolate World, one of your options is to head over to the Trolley Works. We selected the Chocolate and History Trolley:

http://www.hersheys.com/chocolateworld/Trolley-Works

This was our guide. He did three things for us. The first was letting us know about the area and its history.

We saw farmland (this was a big dairy area, because you need milk for milk chocolate).

We saw some glimpses of the factories and industrial sites.

And we saw historic homes. Milton Hershey was a big believer in community building, so that included facilitating comfortable homes for factory employees but also some very generous housing deals for his executives.

Hershey includes education and recreation. There was one stop that I am going to treat separately, but for now I still need to say two things about our guide.

He did not just give us history, but also jokes with the history. It may have been fairly corny humor - maybe better than the Disneyland Jungle Cruise, but somewhat similar - but it still contributed to the enjoyment of the tour and in no way subtracted from what we learned.

He also gave us candy.

There was so much candy. It all related. We got caramel when he was telling us about Hershey's early work there, and how he used milk in the caramel first. There were different kinds of kisses. There were Reese's Peanut Butter Cups when he told us how H.B. Reese was inspired and supported by Milton Hershey, and how his sons eventually sold the business to Hershey.

Then at the end, we each got a full-size chocolate bar.

I remember ages ago someone talking about how after you took the Hershey Factory tour they gave you a kiss, and that didn't seem like that big a deal. No, if you take the ride, you get a bigger candy than that, and you can do it for free, as many times as you want. If you take the trolley tour, you get lots of candy, including multiple kisses. I took a survey, and only I took it, but they gave all three of us full-size candy bars.

They do sell candy at Chocolate World, but they give out a lot of candy too.

How can you not like them?