hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so today's advent calendar unboxing
is the hotel chocolat the grand advent calendar i'm going to open up this calendar i'm going to
show you what's behind each door and i'll find out how much each item is what as well so first
of all it is quite a large calendar if i just put my hand here you can kind of see how large it is
it comes with these big kind of elasticated ribbons around it and on the back it also tells
you what's inside but i don't want to spoil the surprise so we're going to do it day by day and
here is what it looks like inside it kind of opens in like a book shape and then it's just got like
little cardboard doors that you can appeal open to reveal the contents so day number one is here
okay so isn't in the best shape it's um a chocolate wreath you can just see the little
i don't know it just looks a little bit squished and a little bit like it's got
melted a little bit in transit i would say um which is a bit of a shame i mean
we're currently in september and this has got to last till december so i don't know if i've just
got a bit of a dud one but yeah it's a solid milk chocolate with biscuits and florentines
day number two is up here
oh there's a message on the inside so here it says the countdown has begun will this wreath
make it to your door time for the yule log just don't go burning it on the half and it
is is a solid log made of dark chocolate with a hazelnut paste and day number three is up here
and it says he's dreaming of a white christmas is the snow settling where you are so this is
one of those kind of solid sort of chocolate bars that they do i think these retail like
three pound 90 or something like that maybe 395 but it says penguin snow dunder and it's a 50
milk chocolate sky caramel chocolate penguin and snow in creamy white chocolate with puffed
cereal i would love to know how they make these because they are pretty impressive um and it also
says emperor penguin dads inc incubate their eggs for more than two months even during snow storms
good thing ours has his hat on to keep him cozy then down here we've got day number four
okay so day number four it says tuck between the branches of your tree and it is a super cute
little cracker so you've got to love the way that they've really put the effort into making these
individual things this is not just one chocolate behind a door this is a little selection done
like a proper little treat it actually says reserved four on there so you could write
someone else's name on an even sort of gift it to them and then let's see what's inside
okay so funnily enough there is actually just one chocolate behind this door and this
is a pecan chocolate day number five we're just this little one up here and it says a
moment for yourself before the festive rush and this is a cara marvellous nano slab and just to
kind of give you the size difference that's like your normal sized slab and then there's the cara
marvelous slab so it is obviously quite a little bit smaller then day number six this little window
here and it says your christmas mess is getting in the festive spirit with a sprinkling of cranberry
so this is two little cinnamon bun chocolates nicely wrapped up together so you could even
share if you wanted to a number seven is this rather large one here at the bottom
okay so this one says santa claus is coming to town but he's upside down for some strange reason
and then inside we've got ho ho ho milk chocolate three individually wrapped tiddly santas and i
love that they are literally all individually wrapped so you could easily kind of share them
with someone else i'll just have like three really nice kind of chocolate treats throughout the day
very cute so day number eight is actually just next to day number seven which is quite unusual
usually in calendars that are like miles apart but that's fine so obviously this type of calendar is
not the type you can really reuse it's just a put it in the recycling job isn't it um
okay so i've got one of the kind of selector packs in here so this one says a little
something to warm you to your toes and then these are the mulled wine chocolates so they
are fortified wine served in milk chocolate warming full bodied and beautifully spiced
and like i said i think a pack of these retail like 3.95
who wants an orange in their stocking no peeling required and these are a pack of clementine
chocolate so it says citrusy clementine meats buttery caramel in 40 milk and this is a 63
gram pack and day number 10 is this kind of bottle shape one i wonder what's going to be in here
this one says pour a drop and put your feet up and it's the coco gin so this is a 50 cl
bottle of hotel chocolate's coco gin it retails at four pounds and it's also won a great taste award
for 2014. so then we've got day number 11 which is a little one just here
so i've got another nano slab and this one says something to leave out for sansa yeah i
don't think so um this is what day 11 yeah it's not gonna last until santa gets here
so this is the battle of the brownies nano slab so this i believe is like two different brownie
flavors together um it has arrived kind of split into which is a bit of a shame but there we go um
but it is again a little nano bar at 18 grams and again much smaller than your kind
of full-size slabs but a very cute little treat then we've got daniel 12 over here
so today we've got simple milk baubles too good for the tree so it is a simple
kind of milk chocolate bauble and then for day number 13 it says foraged flavors of the season
and it's a nano chocolate bar with hazelnuts and raisins in there and it's an 18 gram
weight on that one then we've got a big one for number 14.
oh okay so this is something to nibble while you write your christmas cards
so this is a treat these are salted caramel puddles they look amazing kind
of like buttons but really posh salted camera ones so these are 75 gram weight
it says our bite size puddles are the best way to appreciate the winning combination
of mellow caramel chocolate with a tinge of salt another big one here for day number 15.
what will you leave out for the reindeer and then today we've got the comet does caramel slab
so this is one of their like standard slab sizes and it says location lapland caramel chocolate sky
40 milk chocolate reindeer snow and creamy white chocolate with puffed cereal and it says rudolph
was never in the original reindeer lineup he joined the eight strong crew much later
his nose gave him away day number 16. so we've got some more puddles this is something to power
you through christmas shopping and these are 40 milk puddles definitely in that sort of giftable
style bag again our bite size puddles are the best way to appreciate our soft and comforting
40 milk chocolate and these are 115 grams in weight and there is plenty of chocolate there
to see you through a few days i'd say or maybe to share a number 17 is this big
square one here i'm quite intrigued to see what might be behind this
oh okay
so it says no need to break out the hat scarf and gloves to catch snowflakes on your tongue
it is a salted caramel snowflake i mean look at the detail on these they're almost
too good to eat aren't they and that is a 70 gram weight ah that looks really tasty
okay so for day number 18 it says abruta kickstart the final week and we have got
some tea a lot cacao infusion cacao breakfast tea bag i've actually seen this in store before but
i've never actually tried their chocolate tea and this is a sand tea with a cacao twist and
you get four tea bags in here and i know the tea bags individually retail at 75 pence per tea bag
so i'm excited to try them definitely something a bit different okay so for day
number 19 it says treats already disappearing from your tree how long will this one last
and it's another little cracker like this and this is another
pecan chocolate in a cracker then we're down here it's a little tiny door number 20.
it says two cinnamon buns to keep you out of the christmas cake
so you've got two little individual chocolates in there and it's the christmas mess chocolates day
number 21 all the way up here so for day number 21 we've got hot chocolate it says for snuggling
in front of a festive film now i have got the hotel chocolate velvetizer hot chocolate machine
it's amazing like where has it been all my life so this will definitely be going in there i already
buy um lots of the different hotels chocolate hot chocolates in fact i actually went in store
and said why don't you make a hotel chocolate hot chocolate calendar because i for one would
buy and they do loads of different flavors but last they do not i am however unboxing a hot
chocolate advent calendar rather soon i've ordered one from wittards so make sure you subscribe and
hit the notification bell if you want to see that so anyway this is a 55 gram sachet
which is actually bigger than the individual sachets you get so it will probably make a couple
of um hot chocolates with any look so day number 22 the tiny one although sometimes we get like
two chocolates behind a tiny door and only one in the big doors that have like the um
crackers and stuff which is interesting so anyway this one says follow our stars to
caramel supernovae with a pinch of salt and again they come kind of wrapped up together like that
day number 23 says have you ticked everything off your list and these are little jolly penguins they
are almost too cute to eat so these are molten caramel wrapped up in mellow milk
chocolate how good do they look no christmas day so the 24th here is gonna be our last little
window it says it's christmas eve presents are wrapped stockings are filled time to
treat yourself so on christmas eve we've got the salted caramel vodka liqueur and it's in a 50
cl bottle and it retails at four pounds in this size but that will be a nice
christmas eve drink so here is everything that came in the hotel chocolate 2020 the grand advent
calendar so this is the most expensive advent calendar that hotel chocolate do
it retails at 68 pounds as you can see it does contain quite a selection of different chocolate
and alcohol and hot chocolate and things so let me know in the comments underneath what you
think of this advent calendar i think it's very indulgent i think it would be a really lovely
treat especially for somebody who appreciates uh really good quality chocolate i don't think you
can go too wrong with hotel chocolate so let me know if you'll be picking up this calendar
and like i said after lots of advent calendar reveals and unboxings and there's lots more to
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next video goes up i'll put a link under the video as well if you do want to pick up this calendar
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