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Caribbean Escapes for Chocolate Lovers

Tropical trips that incorporate cacao plantations and chocolate factories with lodges and villas.

    By Emily Kaiser Thelin

Grenada

Stay at Laluna’s luxe beachfront villas. Visit Grenada Chocolate Company’s solar-electric-powered factory, which produces organic bars from locally grown beans (grenadachocolate.com).

Belize

At Cotton Tree Lodge, guests harvest cacao pods, make their own chocolate and learn about fair-trade issues from members of the Toledo Cacao Grower’s Association

St. Lucia

Book a rustic cottage at Fond Doux Estate’s cacao plantation in Sofrière. Tour Rabot Estate, where U.K.–based Hotel Chocolat grows beans for its Purist line (hotelchocolat.com).

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Published February 2009

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