Cadbury World

Last weekend we booked a half term treat for the kids to take them up to Alton Towers for 2 days staying in the Enchanted Village over night. To break up the journey I had Friday off of work with a plan to visit Cadbury's World on our way up to the North and then stop over in an AirB&B close to Alton Towers ready for Saturday morning. Clearly it was a bad idea going on the Friday of half term as the 2-3 hour journey to Cadbury World took well over 5 hours primarily due to the good old M25 car park!!!

Luckily we made it to Cadbury World about 10 minutes before our allocated time slot and pretty much walked straight in. None of us had ever been before so we didn't really know what to expect or what it was about, but essentially it is exactly what is written on the tin and all about chocolate! From the moment we walked through the door we was given bags of Cadbury's chocolate and then we pretty much didn't sop eating it until we left. By the end of the day I had certainly had enough chocolate to keep me going all weekend.

It was quite nice going close to Halloween as they had lots of Halloween decorations up and a Freddo Halloween quiz show which Holly enjoyed a lot (a bit too babyish for the boys!). As if we didn't have enough chocolate during our visit, we still ended up spending an absolute fortune on yet more chocolate in the souvenir shop!

Anyway here are some piccies from the start of our long weekend away.

We arrived at Cadbury World with about 10 mins spare after diabolical traffic.

Loved the Cadbury monster truck taxi parked outside.

Holly and Tina with the Cadbury bunny.

At the start of the trail and learning about where cocoa originated from.

Notice Holly not letting go of the bag of chocolate!

Some interative screens to learn all about the history of chocolate.

The replica of old London in the Midlands.

Some very old chocolate bar and Easter egg moulds.

Holly with a selection of some more modern chocolate bar moulds.

The 3 kiddies learning how to temper chocolate.

Then learning the fine art of writing your name in chocolate.

Holly was writing hers in bubble writing.

Learning the fine art of chocolate decorating.

Joshua's mess - safe to say he won't be a professional cake decorator when he is older.

I left my Shark signature (before Josh decides to ruin that as well).

After making a mess of his area, Joshua started to colour in the shark that I drew.

Holly's finished master piece.

First ever visit to Cadbury World for all 3 of them.

Tina, Holly and Josh shared one car for the little indoor ride.

Me and B rode in a separate car.

Again a bit childish for the boys but Holly's enjoyed it.

Next up we got to pick and mix our own little chocolate recipe.

The boys sampling their delights with melted chocolate, marshmallow, cookies, fudge, Oreo etc.etc.

Holly's little pot of chocolate goo.

This section of Cadbury World gave you some history on some of the classic Cadbury adverts from years gone by. I loved the Phil Collins drum playing Gorilla which they had a life size animated version of.

One of the old Cadbury adverts you might remember.

And another, the Cadbury surfer dude.

Holly running around on some interactive floor lighting.

And then waiting around for Tina to finish buying half of the souvenir shop. Note Holly has yet another Teddy to her collection and Josh picks the biggest bar of chocolate ever!

Bearing in mind that we had already pre-ordered Joshua this birthday bar of chocolate anyway!

Outside the boys were being very mature and smashing in to each other in little radio controlled cars.

Boys will be boys, but it kept them entertained whilst Holly was in the play area.

After about a 30 min drive we then arrived at our AirBnB and headed out for a Dominos Pizza to add calories to all the chocolate.

Me and wifey.

Family souvenir pic at Cadbury World.