Maui Chocolate Tours: Our Top 5

1.Maui Ku’ia Estate Guided Cacao Farm Tour and Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1,103 reviews · 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.) · from $99Our pick

At Ku’ia Estate, your guide takes you from the Lahaina factory to a 20-acre cacao farm in the West Maui foothills. Learn how pods are grown and harvested, then sample nine chocolates in a treehouse. Guides such as Mandy, Steph, Brandy, and Shawn are known for lively, detailed explanations.

“Informative tour on farming cacao trees on Maui and the making of chocolate. Chocolate tasting included. Our tour guide, Steph was very knowledgeable.”

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2.Waterfall, Rainforest, Chocolate Tour & Historical Sites

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 171 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $147

Meet your private guide in Haiku for an easy rainforest walk through Kings Gardens. See a waterfall and ancient water tunnel, learn about cacao, taste several chocolates, and take part in a chocolate-making demonstration. Guides include Jojo, Ryan, T, Jiva, Ti, and Steven.

“My husband and I enjoyed listening to Ryan's stories. He was very knowledgeable and also kept us laughing with his sense of humor. Very beautiful trail. Loved the waterfall and learning about cacao vs cocoa.”

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3.Maui Ku’ia Estate Guided Cacao Farm Tour & Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 137 reviews · 1h 30m · from $99

Spend 90 minutes touring Maui Ku’ia Estate’s private cacao farm and chocolate factory. Ride 10 minutes from Lahaina to the 20-acre grove, learn how cacao is grown and harvested, then taste nine award-winning chocolates with a cocoa drink in a scenic treehouse.

“Excellent tour! Fascinating history, it's really only just getting started. Tours are a new thing they are doing, and so every tourist who comes through and sees their magnificent farm and operation contributes to the growth of the business and their conservation minded mission.”

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4.Lahaina Maui Ku’ia Estate Chocolate Factory Experience

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 116 reviews · 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.) · from $130

At Maui Ku'ia Estate Chocolate in Lahaina, Gunnar, the owner and CEO, leads a small-group, bean-to-bar factory tour. You’ll see cacao become chocolate, taste unusual stages including cacao-fruit sorbet, then sample finished bars in an open-air pavilion. Wine and spirits pairings cost extra.

“Interesting experience about the chocolate, especially the dark chocolate. Informative and fun watching the chocolate machine operates.”

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5.Waterfall, #1 On The Road to Hana, With Chocolate tour Historical

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 88 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $139

Spend about two hours at The Kings Gardens Maui, walking a wet, uneven rainforest trail to a waterfall, learning about Hawaiian plants and royal artifacts, then making and tasting chocolate from locally grown cacao. Guides such as Jiva, T, JoJo, Ryan, and Naki lead the small groups.

“Learning about all of the different vegetation, the 500 year old dinosaur fern, and sampling Ruby chocolate for the first time.”

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