The Hotel Hershey

When it comes to product placement, it doesn’t get more scrumptious than this. Willy Wonka, eat your heart out. Just one aspect of the Hershey, Pennsylvania experience, The Hotel Hershey pairs adult pastimes such as golf and spa treatments (chocolate themed) with the Cocoa Kids Club, a daily supervised program featuring tennis, basketball, swimming and arts and crafts (for an hourly fee). For guests thirteen to seventeen years of age, Club Adventure sessions include hiking and woodland exploration, team-building activities, skating and scavenger hunts. Nearby Hershey Park boasts ten different roller coasters and entertainment from bands such as the Candy Rappers. And the hands-on, interactive Hershey’s Chocolate World will tempt sweet tooths of all ages with an inside look at chocolate making: take a simulated ride through the Hershey’s factory, help out at the Hershey’s Kisses manufacturing line and devour your free sample at the end of the tour. Surprisingly — and pleasantly — the hotel itself avoids kitsch; Spanish in style, it was built in the 1930s (though it has been renovated and expanded) and is a member of Historic Hotels of America.