Thirty dollars for a guided two hours, with admission already inside it.
1,600 trees producing around 150 pounds of cacao a week, on land the guide's grandfather planted.
Eight, ten, one and three — the only published timetable among these farms.
The tasting runs well past chocolate and keeps going.
Stated on the listing, and unusual on farmland anywhere.
Cacao, at the scale a family can actually work. The plantation runs to 1,600 trees and turns out roughly 150 pounds a week, and the tour walks you through the whole of that: the flower on the trunk, the pod split open, the beans in their white pulp, the fermentation, the drying, and the stone grinder that turns powder into paste.
What lifts it above a demonstration is the tasting, which is unusually generous. Chocolate at several stages, tropical fruit picked as you go, spices, coffee and rum at the end. Fruit is handed over more or less continuously as you walk.
At thirty dollars it is the cheapest guided anything in La Fortuna, and the fixed timetable makes it the easiest to slot around a waterfall or a volcano trail. It is the obvious first booking for anybody working out what best chocolate and coffee tour in La Fortuna involves.
You want cacao rather than coffee, you are watching the budget, or you need a fixed start time to build a day around. It suits families with small children, solo travellers and anybody with a spare two hours.
You want the coffee half done properly, or you have no way of getting to the farm. In that case take the North Fields morning, which covers all three crops and includes a lift from your hotel.
The farm is on an unnamed road off Route 142, in La Fortuna, and the operator's own directions are simply that it is well signed and findable in a map app. There is no pickup, so drive or take a taxi across town, which takes about ten minutes.
Yes, in the tasting, alongside chocolate, fruit, spices and rum. The walk itself is about cacao. If coffee is the reason you are going, the comparison here sets out which farms lead with it.
You pick one of four: eight, ten, one or three. It is the only farm here with a published daily timetable, which makes it the easiest to plan around.
A taxi across La Fortuna takes about ten minutes and costs a few dollars. The farm is signposted off Route 142 and both drivers and map apps know it.
It is the lowest fare captured across every farm tour listed here, and admission is already inside it. What you give up against the pricier options is the coffee half and the transport.
Yes. Infant seats are available, the surfaces take strollers and the whole thing runs two hours. More on visiting with children.
Around 150 pounds of cacao a week from 1,600 trees, and it sells its own chocolate at the end of the tour. The five farms, compared.
Then take the North Fields morning instead. It covers coffee, cacao and sugar cane in two and a half hours and includes hotel pickup, for sixteen dollars more.
A really good tour of the plantation, learning about the fruit and the cacao. We tasted pineapple, mango, sugar cane, raw cacao and chocolate. The guide's own grandfather started the farm. Wear something light, because it gets hot and humid among the trees.
Rixt · July 2026 · couple
La Fortuna chocolate tour · Don Olivo cacao farm
Plenty of eating and plenty of knowledge. Brian is funny and informative, and the tour goes right round the farm showing every process with fruit handed over constantly. Coffee, hot chocolate and rum at the end.
Kafi · August 2026 · friends
La Fortuna chocolate tour · Don Olivo cacao farm
A small farm tour, personal and enjoyable throughout. Brian was very informative and we tasted a great deal, including fruit, coffee and cacao beans. You will not get a more hands-on visit than this one.
Christy · June 2026 · family
La Fortuna chocolate tour · Don Olivo cacao farm
If this one is not yours, the other two featured mornings are North Fields, a two-and-a-half-hour coffee, cacao and cane morning with hotel pickup and a guided sloth trail followed by a farm tasting, in one three-hour booking.
All of them, with prices and hours side by side, are on La Fortuna Coffee Tours.