When you think Hershey, you typically think “kid stuff” — a slab of chocolate nestled between two marshmallow-y grahams, a surprise Kiss hidden inside a Valentine’s Day card, a chocolate reward for a job well done. But at the luxurious Chocolate Spa in Hershey, Pennsylvania, you’ll find treats that are a little more grown up.
Located within the Hotel Hershey, the Chocolate Spa offers a full range of traditional body treatments, including hydrotherapy, massage, body wraps, facials, manicures, pedicures and hot-stone therapy. While visiting “The Sweetest Place on Earth,” you and your girlfriends deserve to indulge in the spa’s mouthwatering signature treatments, including the whipped cocoa bath, chocolate sugar scrub and chocolate fondue wrap.
The spa was designed in the spirit of Milton and Catherine Hershey’s High Point Mansion, with opulent stained-glass windows, marble landings and pecan paneling. Upon checking in, you’ll be escorted to your locker and provided a thick cotton robe and spa sandals. Between treatments, you can relax in either the “quiet” or “silent” rooms. There, you can partake of complimentary teas, hot chocolate and chocolate-chip muffins. Settle back into a leather club chair in front of the fireplace, or on the patio overlooking the formal gardens.
There’s much more to do at the four-diamond resort, thanks to a $67 million expansion that added a multi-pool complex, the acclaimed restaurant Harvest and seven boutique shops. Hershey Gardens is located across the street, while Hersheypark and Chocolate World are just down the hill.
You don’t need to be a chocoholic to appreciate the Hershey bar you receive at check-in, or the cocoa scrub toiletries in your room. And the memories will remain long after the scent of chocolate dissipates from your skin.