The tour takes you on a journey through the world of chocolate.
Find out where cocoa grows, who discovered it and how it has been enjoyed at different times. When we say "100% chocolate", we mean it.
During the tour, you will be able to taste a real cocoa bean, the most important ingredients and the intermediary chocolate products from the various production stages as well as a number of fine chocolates.
Directions (from IBD Hotel)
Travel time is about 100 minutes
... including some potential waiting time for the trains you will take and the time locally in Cologne.
- If you're on the ground floor where the hotel’s reception is take the stairs or elevator up to first floor, the conference level
- On the first floor of Maritim Hotel - with IBD meeting room, organisation office, board game room, etc. - head for the large hall
- At the end of that hall between the two bars (Galeriebar and Morley’s Bar) is the exit to the elevated footpath towards Düsseldorf Airport – go for it
- After taking the footbridge follow the signs for "Departures" and once entering the airport building turn right
- Follow the signs to SkyTrain and "Flughafen Bahnhof/Airport station"
- Take elevators or escalators up to the SkyTrain station
The SkyTrain is free of charge, runs every 5 minutes and takes 7 minutes to the final stop "Flughafen Bahnhof/Airport station" - Get off and head for the railway station "Düsseldorf Flughafen"
- Take the regional train RE1 or RE5 to Cologne central station "Köln Hauptbahnhof"
Note that the aforementioned regional trains pass through the Düsseldorf central station "Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof"
Directions (from Köln Hauptbahnhof)
Travel time is some 30 minutes
- Leave Cologne central station using the exit to "Breslauer Platz" (on the side opposite of platform 1)
If you're in front of the central station on the side of the Cologne Cathedral you want to pass through the central station to the other side - Take bus 132 towards "Frankenstraße" and get off at "Schokoladenmuseum" (2 stops)
Or bus 133 towards "Zollstock Südfriedhof" and get off at "Schokoladenmuseum" (2 stops) - Facing the river Rhine use the traffic lights to cross the street "Holzmarkt"
- Cross the bridge "Drehbrücke" slightly to your right onto the island
- The "Schokolademuseum" will be right in front of you.
Hint: You want to visit several events in Cologne so that you have to spend a bit over an hour to get to Cologne only once.
See
Directions and Times for general information on directions.
directions from the bus station to the event
