My family of four attended the candy tour while camping at the Lion Safari campground. We have teen girls. We found the tour informative, but kind of drawn out with 6 rooms that were filled with cheesy props. It felt like they were reaching a little to slow move us in order to justify the roughly $50 we spent. Ken was our guide. We found him to be entertaining with corny humor and enthusiastic. They play a video on making gummy worms and show the packaging process which I liked. At the end of the tour are some samples, sprees, smarties, kisses, jelly beans.
The location is a candy store with retail prices you would expect to pay at a store in the mall. I standard candy bar was $1.69. The bulk part of the store was related to being able to buy some candies like m&m’s in a large bag in one color. Prices wise it wasn’t a bulk candy deal but not a tourist trap. Good place if you have an event like a wedding you’re decorating for. Hot tamales make a nice decoration.
We probably expected to see some unique candy making, but Ken did tell us to produce candy would be a big operation. They do have a nice popcorn counter with a large variety of flavors. With the tour you get a small discount on purchases.
Overall it was entertaining. I’m not sure it was worth the $50 we paid. Younger kids would struggle to stay interested. My kids gave it - it was ok. Staff was great.