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Come take a tour of the history and production of candy at one of the most unique candy stores you’ve ever seen. With a live tour guide and video presentations, you’ll be introduced to the history of candy and learn how a favorite candy is made and packaged. You’ll view a room full of candy decorations and sample a variety of candies. The 45 minute immersive tour starts and ends in our store, where you’ll have the opportunity to shop for candy and over 50 flavors or gourmet popcorn with a special tour discount.

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• 235 North Jog Road
• 33413, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

• Wed, May 1 -
• Thu, May 2 $13
• Fri, May 3 $13
• Sat, May 4 $13
• Sun, May 5 -
• Mon, May 6 $13
• Tue, May 7 $13
• Wed, May 8 -
• Thu, May 9 $13
• Fri, May 10 $13
• Sat, May 11 -
• Sun, May 12 -
• Mon, May 13 $13
• Tue, May 14 $13
• Wed, May 15 -
• Activity duration is 45 minutes 45m 45m

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• What's included What's included A six room tour of the history of candy
• What's included What's included Discount on store purchases
• What's included What's included Samples of candy and other sweets

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• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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“ They also have a very expansive popcorn selection as well, from sweet to salty. ” in 2 reviews

“ Ken was awesome he not only was very passionate about candy but we learned a ton of information in the tour. ” in 5 reviews

“ The man who runs the store (or at least did while we were there) was so incredibly kind and helpful . ” in 2 reviews

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235 N Jog Rd

West Palm Beach, FL 33413

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If you're in search of candy by color, kosher candy, candy buffet candy, nostalgic candy, retro candy, or even popcorn, then the Bulk Candy Store is the right place for you! We have the best selection of candy and popcorn, as well as award winning customer service. We have all your old time candy favorites, like Razzles, Mary Janes, Necco Waffers, Smarties and much more! Need a specific candy color for your next event? We have a rainbow of choices for you! Looking for Kosher Candy? We have one of the largest selections online. Plus we are certified by the OK! Family movie night coming up? Or looking for a way to spice up your party? Come check out our insane selection of flavored popcorn, featuring 60+ flavors! …

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Hi. Tours are $12.9 for adults and $8.95 for kids. Toddlers are free. The tour is approx 45-55 minutes and includes lots of information and candy samples. It is appropriate for all ages.

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Visited this place with my friends for my birthday after finding it on Atlas Obscura. We did the tour and it was well worth the money! Our tour guide Ken was very knowledgeable and funny! Learned a lot of interesting things on the tour. The store is also very cool. Lots of neat and delicious candies and chocolate sweets are offered here and a lot of which you can't find anywhere else in person. They also have a very expansive popcorn selection as well, from sweet to salty. Great to buy for yourself or as gifts for friends and family! I highly recommend this place! :) I'll be back

May 23, 2021

Thanks for the great review..it was fun having you in for your birthday. Come and visit us again!

There's so much candy in Bulk Candy Store that you'll be convinced that you're in candy heaven when you first enter the store. From gourmet chocolates to party favors to kid favorites, there is an enormous variety of sugar-based treats to choose from. All items are neatly arranged and the visual appeal is a knock-out! The staff is helpful and friendly. I've thrown 2 baby showers for my daughter in the last 2 years. Bulk Candy has been my source of pink colored candies for the table settings and goody bags for the showers. If you are picking up candy for a special occasion, check the availability of specialty items before you shop. Bulk Candy was out of 'It's a girl' Hershey Kisses for my daughter's shower about 2 weeks beforehand, however the owner had stickers for sale that I could attach to the bottoms of the candy. Family and friends loved the treats to take home that we put together, especially the Hershey Kisses!

Went to buy a birthday gift who has sweet tooth and loved it. I don't think there is something you cannot find in this place. They have plenty of options: gummies, cookies, chocolates, lollipops etc etc Great place if you're hosting a party and you need to get candies. Highly recommended

Visited today thinking it would be a unique family friendly activity that appealed to the entire family. It certainly did! It was educational and tasty too! Tour guide, Ken, was engaging and entertaining. They are limiting the 45 minute tours to 5 people. Masks are required

Store is great and has the best variety and collection of candy I have ever seen. Me and my girlfriend had a great time during the candy history tour they offer inside the store as well. Ken is also very funny and has a great personality and was very informational. I will definitely come here again for some more egg shaped gummies lol.

They were part of the fair that had come to New Jersey over the summer. I wanted to have something sweet and no one had any candy on them, so while walking around we saw this and omg we were in heaven. The only thing was that i only had my debit card on me and the minimum was over $8.00, i had to run back in and pick other items out.

Pretty good selection of candy coded by color. The entire store smells amazing! On my first trip there I thought the cashier was friendly. Prices weren't much of a discount than anywhere else tho. Also they don't do returns or exchanges after your payment. Which is annoying. I purchased $70 worth of candy but my sister got the pic of the candy I selected and said the jelly beans weren't the right color. So I walked back in to the store less than 60 seconds after I paid for my purchases and was told they don't do exchanges or refunds. The cashier was nice about it but now I have a $24 bag of jelly beans that my sister will not display at her mermaid themed party. Hopefully I can give them away to someone

Hi my name is Leila. I am ten years old and I loved going to this store! When I went on the tour I loved it.The tour guides name was ken and he was so nice and funny. He took us through the history of candy and the decorations in the tour rooms were so cool. I took lots of pictures and I learned how they made gummy's and now every time I eat gummys I remember how it is made. They give out free candy at the end of the tour. They have a lot of candy and amazing popcorn with lots of flavors and really nice workers.

As a walk in customer the place is great. It's a warehouse of candy. Candy specialty popcorn made in house is equal to a drug addiction. I've had cookies and cream , red velvet, birthday cake, coconut, s'mores and anyone leaving a bad review due to customer service is a dingus. Mix and match for $8 a lb is always fun. Some rare candy like English candy. Loved it and I'll be stopping by when ever I'm in the area. So many people on yelp are miserable weasels. My one issue is their web site is not well maintained. They have a better selection in person and many of the items they say out of stock online I know for a fact they have. Missing a few flavors of amazing popcorn online also. But I don't blame them. They have an insane inventory. It's a warehouse but just full of candy. Like seriously a candy warehouse. And their version of war heads called Nuclear waste is pretty dank. Best nice helpful lady I see there. Kinda seems like she may own the place but she's gone out of her way to find me a handful of this or that from their back stock room which can't be worth her time but the customer service is primo geemoe. And don't let Them start giving you samples of popcorn. Just pick a couple flavors and don't try em till u leave cusse I go full crackhead and end up buying everything.

DO NOT SHOP HERE!!! I placed an order with this company there was a glitch with their online system and the shipping address defaulted back to the billing address. I notified their questions department of this glitch via email and it was confirmed via email by Marva that my order will be shipped to the correct shipping address. Long story short they sent my order to the wrong address anyways and refused to assist me in getting my items expedited to the correct address, in fact they denied the emails were even exchanged. I STILL have not received a refund and now have to contact my bank to reverse the charges. BEWARE THIS COMPANY HAS POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE AND DOES NOT HAVE THE CUSTOMERS BEST INTEREST AT HEART!! My daughter ended up not having her candy bar at her party...and this company offered no apology or assistance DO NOT SHOP HERE!!

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Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

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A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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• The Bus Tour offers unlimited 360° panoramic views of main sights of Moscow.
• Access to audio-guide in 10 different languages which enables to know about Moscow’s history and traditions.
• The three-bus tour routes and 40+ stops around Moscow completes the trip. Draw an itinerary to explore the city on your own.
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The City Sightseeing at Moscow begins at Bolotnaya Square with Hop-on-Hop-off bus service. The bus operates on the Red, Green and Orange lines. If you have limited time in Moscow, start your trip on the Redline and get yourself acquainted with the city’s 16 best attractions. The green line, however, covers 26 amazing spots so if you are staying for an extended period catch the green line.

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• Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
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• Zaryadye Park
• Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
• VDNKh Metro Station
• Cosmonauts Alley
• Ostankino Television Tower
• Red Route: Schedule: 10:00 - 18:00 , Loop: 60 Minutes , Frequency: 15 Minutes
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