Hotel Chocolat - worth the price?
andersonsonson
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What do you think about Hotel Chocolat stuff?
I think the presentation is brilliant but can only eat a small amount of it as it tastes too rich
I think the presentation is brilliant but can only eat a small amount of it as it tastes too rich
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Well worth it, fabulous chocolate and i find I only eat a small amount because it is so tasty.
Or sometimes its hard to resist, like the Squirrel's Stash they release in the Autumn.
My husband loves chocolate way more than I do and he is a member. He gets 4 boxes a year of dark chocs and just a couple of chocolates a day satisfies him - they are incredibly rich! (and lovely).
Well worth the money.
Its why I had to cancel the chocolate tasting club deliveries. I was getting through them too quickly. Anyway, totally worth it.
The ginger ones they do are always really nice. I've only ever had one choc from there that I've not liked (aside from ones with nuts as I don't like nuts) and that was this weird white chocolate one with cucumber and lime. It wasn't horrible it was just very weird!
That does sound weird - I'd quite like to try it though!
I managed to get a box of chocolates off them that cost negative money due to a special offer teamed with Topcashback. Worth looking if they still do it.
If you're with O2 they're always offering freebies on the priority app. I got some reindeer chocolates the other day and they're giving you 10% off right now too.
This!!!
I only heard of it last week when my friend went in there . Crazy prices but my friend gave me some of his slab of chocolate and it was melt in your mouth fantastic .
After Mum died in 2009 I stayed with them, but stopped the monthly boxes due to being diagnosed with a health condition so couldn't eat rich chocs any more. Every Xmas and for friends birthdays and other occasions I would order, and Xmas orders around £200.
The bigger the company got the more impersonal the service became. In 2012 I made a big Xmas order, well over £200, and the 1st week Jan 2013 a series of fraudulent transactions were made on my debit card, totalling over £100, for perfumes and makeup. I only spotted it because I check my balance every few days, and that day a scheduled DD had failed and my account was overdrawn, which has only happened once in 21 years.
Working in parternership with my bank, I contacted the companies I had made transactions with over the Xmas period and traced the fraud to Hotel Chocolat. I had thought it was them initially because it was the only company I had given my card details to over the phone, and I had spoken to a young lady in their call centre. Even though I had been reasonably sure it was them I still thoroughly checked with the other retailers.
I contacted Hotel Chocolat and told them of my suspicions, but they were very stand offish and couldn't wait to close the call and be rid of me. I was very unhappy as I had been a good customer for many years and my Mum before me. Between us we have spent thousands of pounds there.
So as far as I am concerned I will never order from them again. 2013 & 14 I have ordered all my chocs from Chococo and the recipients have said the Chococo chocs are much nicer. One friend who had been receiving Hotel Chocolat chocs for some years said that the Chococo ones were 'the best chocs I have ever had'.