5 best chocolate factory tours around the U.S.

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To the poster who said that Hershey, PA is a great destination, you are sadly mistaken. There is a small phony "factory tour", which is nothing more than a small ride through a fantasy land (which is actually 2 miles from the factory) that is nothing like touring the actual factory, which I did as a kid. I should know - I live 9 miles from the Hershey chocolate factory. All Hershey has going for it is a great hospital complex run by Penn State University, a great private school started by Milton S. Hershey, several non-chocolate museums (including two devoted to antique cars and buses) and an amusement park, which is operated by the same non-profit (that's a joke!) organization that operates the chocolate factory. That same trust closed the West Hershey plant, sending 1,500 jobs to a new factory in Monterrey, Mexico, and they also sent 1,500 Canadian jobs there as well, and cut another 250 jobs in Reading, PA.

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