Sometimes reviews just write themselves as an experience unfolds. This was one of those times.

We planned a fun weekend with our girls at Hersheypark and decided to make reservations at The Chocolatier with two specific dishes in mind… the Appetizer Sampler and the Fun-Due.

When we arrived we were seated rather quickly (we had a 9:15pm reservation) and the atmosphere was nice. It’s a nice setting with unique touches, such as a few rounded/circular booths that seem to imitate balloons. Unfortunately we did not get seated there, but our table was comfortable enough.

Our waitress came in a reasonable amount of time and took our drink order. Both of our daughters tried the mock-tails… with the cotton candy fizz being the most interesting by far! After she brought out drinks, we ordered. We told her we wanted to start with the sampler, then one daughter orders the kids pasta and my husband and I ordered the club sandwich to share. And then we waited… and waited… we could see them building appetizer samplers at the counter (obviously one of the most popular dishes there), but none of them came to our table. Finally our ENTREES came out. Still no sampler. We tried to find out waitress to ask but we couldn’t find her. We didn’t want to start on our meal because we were for try the sampler and were worried we’d be full. Finally our waitress came over and told us she didn’t know why our sampler was taking so long that she had thought one of the several that came out was ours but they told her no. I explained to her that we were in a tough situation now because our meal was getting cold while we waited for our sampler and we didn’t want to eat out meal first and waste the sampler. She just kept explaining how she didn’t know what eas going on. And not once did she offer to try to make it right. Finally a full 10 minutes after our entrees came out, we got our sampler.

And boy what a letdown! $38.75 for pretty much nothing. The mozzarella sticks were good and the chicken tenders and pretzels were okay. The corn dip was just weird (in taste and texture) and the corn chips came out plated with the honey mustard as the dipping sauce… which she explained to us was actually for the chicken tenders… Huh?!

We picked our way through it… feeling duped and disappointed (but hey it’s a learning experience). The suddenly she brings us our check. I just looked at her confused and said “well we wanted to order dessert” to which she replied “oh I thought you asked for your check, it just have been another table.”

So we ordered the Fun-Due and that, at least was yummy. The items for dipping were plentiful and the dipping chocolate was plentiful. My only critique would be that they out a layer of melted marshmallow on top of the chocolate so you have to dig to get to the actual chocolate. We just ended up spooning all of ours out.

So overall we left mostly unsatisfied and bummed that we had paid a decent sum for an underwhelming meal and experience. I wouldn’t really recommend wasting your time … you can get better food for a better price inside the park. But if you simply just try it, I would recommend that you SKIP the smaller and just try the entrees. The club sandwich was actually a decent size and pretty good. But the Fun-due is worth going. And even worth the price for how much you get. It would easily feed 4 adults. Which isn’t bad for $21.