Phillip Island Chocolate Factory: Best tour attractions
The Phillip Island Chocolate Factory in Newhaven, Victoria, offers tours that include chocolate-making demonstrations and lots of child-friendly interactivity.
The Phillip Island Chocolate Factory in Newhaven, Victoria, shows off a different side to Phillip Island. For most visitors on day trips from Melbourne, Phillip Island is all about the wildlife. Specifically, the Penguin Parade on the Summerland Peninsula.
Other things to do on Phillip Island include taking a Phillip Island whale-watching cruise, visiting the Koala Conservation Reserve or walking at Cape Woolamai.
But Phillip Island also has an indulgent side, as you’ll experience at the Rusty Water Brewery or Purple Hen Winery. You can top off that beer-tasting and wine-tasting with some chocolate-tasting, too.
Book tickets for the Phillip Island Chocolate Factory here.
5 Phillip Island experiences to book before arriving
- The legendary Penguin Parade – watch dozens of little penguins waddle home from the sea.
- Seal-watching cruise – visit Australia’s largest fur seal colony.
- Phillip Island helicopter tour – fly above the beaches and dramatic sea cliffs.
- Whale-watching cruise – with dolphins, seals and rare sea birds on the way.
- Phillip Island Chocolate Factory tour – with more than a touch of Willy Wonka.
Phillip Island Chocolate Factory tours
The Phillip Island Chocolate Factory is one of several smaller chocolate-makers in Australia that provide a much-needed counterbalance to the country’s dreadful mass market chocolate.
You can visit the factory in Newhaven purely to taste the chocolates, but there’s much more to it than that. The Phillip Island Chocolate Factory attempts to be a bona fide tourist attraction, too.
Phillip Island Chocolate Factory tours
Inside is Panny’s Amazing World of Chocolate. This is a self-guided tour with a series of experiences related to the story of chocolate. It covers the history of chocolate from being a cherished drink in Mesoamerica, and demonstrates how chocolate is made.
There are plenty of games to play, levers to pull and buttons to push. The highlight, however, is arguably the device where you make your own chocolate invention that travels along a conveyor belt. At the end, it’s delivered to you and you can eat it.
Chocolate-making demonstrations
Also involved in the experience are chocolate making-demonstrations and collections of vintage advertising posters.
There are some fun gimmicks, too. These include a pastiche of Michaelangelo’s David made out of chocolate. There’s also a little model village made of chocolate and ‘the world’s largest chocolate waterfall’.
Tickets cost $17 for adults and $12 for children. Book here.
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