Cadbury World

Yes, I'd figured I'd better upload the Cadbury pictures first before I forgot all about it and never got around doing it. Truth be told, blogspot isnt the best tool to use to upload pictures. Aiks, excuses, excuses...

Anyway, to continue with the story, we made our way to Birmingham train station for our much anticipated Cadbury World trip.

Tickets cost about £2 each for return, and the train ride is about 10 mins. Train runs every half and hour and after grabbing a quick breakfast in the station (McDonald lah, what else?), we hop into the train and promptly arrived at Bournville Station 10 mins later.

Apparently, Bournville is where one of the first Cadbury factory is. To cut a long story short, the bosses were very nice and caring, so they decided to develop the area where the factory is to provided a better working/home environment for its employees. Hence, Bournville used to be full of families of Cadbury workers with church, schools and hospital built around it.

(Another) truth be told, when I mentioned that we were making a trip to Cadbury World to my colleagues, they werent very enthusiatic about. One was because they werent really chocolate fans, and second, it was a tourisy place that they considered expensive. Hey, we're chocolate fans and we're tourist!

The factory is about 20 minutes way from the station, and all you need to do is to follow the signs to point you the way to the factory. It wasnt easy, as we tend to get too excited and follow every Cadbury signs (to its warehouse lah, office lah, staff lodge lah) instead of CadburyWorld signs. What to do, excited mah...

It was a sunny day, good for pictures, bad for the puteri lilin. A friend told us that Bournville is just full of 'chocolate smell', so we were taking deep breathe in but no chocolate smell yet. How disappointing.

Getting nearer, getting there...

And yes! Chocolate smell!

CadburyWorld, here we come!

And finally we're here. Lucky for us, we choose one of the earlier time. There were specific times and bookings is required in advance because apparently the CadburyWorld can only take in so many people at one time.
Tah-Dah! Our tickets cost about £9 each, and initial cost is about £13, but because we came by train, we got a 30% discount or something.

First section of the factory is a maze of exhibition about how chocolate originate in its form and how it was a luxury item, blah blah blah...

This is the entrance of the Time Tunnel and also the sneak preview of the factory. Unfortunately, no pictures allowed though. Scared we curi the recipe??? It wasnt the full blown factory activities though, just one pathetic machine showing how chocolates is wrapped in their plastic wrapping which subsequently are distributed to the visitors. Yes, chocolates are distributed free of charge throughout the trip.

Then we were ushered to a time tunnel where it was a kiddy rides with small Cadbury Choco-man in CadburyWorld. Kinda earrie really... Snap! A quick picture before the ride starts.

There were quite a number of pictures taken, but I guess this picture will give you an idea what its like. Kids stuff lah...

We were given an opportunity to 'play' with chocolates though. Just writing names in chocolates, no big deal, and this one CANNOT EAT cause its scoped up again for use of the rest of the day.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is where we discovered the Cadbury Chocolate Fondue set. Once we knew it exist, we went straight to the shop to get one. Cost about £13 each.

Have I mentioned about the free chocolates? They also let you have a taste of melted chocolate too. You could have it with peanuts lah, popcorn lah, mashmallow lah, up to you lah.

Super thick chocolate that actually makes me feel so guilty...

Each one got one. Makes us wanna buy the fondue set even more. Hmm, come to think of it, it must be a conspiracy!

Rows and rows of chocolates. As per previous post, we bought loads of chocolates. It comes close to £30, and considered not a lot, but we couldnt have gotten more simply because our bags ran out of space.

Sick and tired of chocolate yet?

One thing that was disappointing was that a huge chuck of the trip there were a no photography rule and there werent that many things to take picture of in the first place. Hence, we couldnt take pictures to reflect what the trip is like. But, despite the lack of pictures, we did enjoy ourselves. You should have seen our human chocolate mould! Too bad they didnt make a replica of it! *wink*

And yeap, that was the end of the trip. We spend about 3 hours there, 1 hour being in the chocolate shop. I would recommend this place for family with kids cause there were plenty of activities for the kids, though i'm sure many parents cringed at the fact of what sugars does to kids.

Ok lah, CadburyWorld is no Disneyland. But it was a nice place to go for a short trip to somewhere that we both have a strong passion for :)