- Although cheesy, I LOVE the tour. It's a thousand times better than LwtL (hmm... veggies vs. CHOCOLATE? No contest.) and there's free chocolate. The best part: You can go on as your first ride, your last ride, and any combination in between BECAUSE IT'S FREE!!!!!! The cows will find their way into your hearts and the ending is GREAT! They used to have the lame LwtL "picture ending", but the ante was upped with new giant screens. Go just for that.
-The Really Big 3-D Show (you pay extra: it's worth it!) starts out with a pre-show of the history of Hershey, serving as an introduction to a 3-hour lecture on the history of chocolate. The show is soon interrupted by a big city manager who's blinded by money and misses the true meaning of chocolate (yes; it's a cheese as it sounds). What follows is a musical-adventure-drama-action romp that'll stay with you! Really, it's SOOO fun.
Chocolate Tour and The Really BIG 3D Show (not to mention the trolly tour and the gigantic store) are only accessible from outside the park, so you can make a day out of this and another one of Hershey's many attractions, like the Hershey Gardens and The Hershey Museum. I heard they also had golfing and other stuff on property.
The park is nice. It has a very well done interactive dark ride based on the timeless battle between chocolate and peanut butter (The battle ground? An extreme sports competition, of course!) as well as several fantastic coasters (I think 11. My fav.? Try Thunder N' Lightning, the dueling wooden coaster.) There's also a GIANT waterpark section included in the park, so bring your bathing suit (the best ride here's the Roller Soaker, an INTERACTIVE roller coaster in which you get drenched with gallons of [warm!] water from fountains, waterfalls, and nefarious park-goers that squirt you with water guns and dreaded water bombs. You can fight back with the water gallon in your hanging cart, dropping the load at the push of a button!).
Conceivably, you could do the whole place in 2-3 days considering you'll go in the Chocolate Tour a gagillion times (this includes the gardens and the museum). Have LOTS of fun and remember to send me a Kiss! (ha.ha.very funny.)