John lewis have a range of hotel chocolat treats available to buy online including these fantastic advent calendars. Hotel Chocolat's advent calendars are perfect pre-Christmas gifts. These are wonderful gifts, packed with delightful pieces of choolates shaped in the most lovely christmas themes. A lovely gift for an adult before Christmas! The truffles one is for sharing and is perfect for couples celebrating their first Christmas together (or their 20th, or their 3rd etc....) and contains two truffles each day so they can have one each! A wonderful gift available to buy right now at John Lewis.

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Hotel Chocolat have now opened stores in Cheltenham, Trafford Centre and Salisbury and their London St. Paul's store opens tomorrow at midday!

If you don't want to bother with going to their shops though you can order online very easily at Hotel Chocolat online
They've got tons of delicious chocolate treats for halloween and Christmas! Go on treat yourself!
*Everything Selection - £20.00
* Signature Collection - £25.00
*Winter Cocktails Selection - £20.00
*Goody Bag of the Season - £15.00
*Dinner Party Platter - £28.50


And you can free gift worth £12.50 when you spend £60 or more (excluding delivery). Plus, spend over £100 & also receive a £10 gift voucher to use on your next purchase. Full terms & conditions on their site.

Some really great ideas for Christmas gifts from our favourite chocolate seller - hotel Chocolat!

Jolly Santa
  Milk Chocolate Jolly Santa
£6.00
40% milk chocolate and 150g!
A very cute santa! Perfect stocking filler for a child, or a grown up!

Cinnamon Rum Sultanas
  £7.50
Great treat! Juicy sultanas soaked in golden rum with a pinch of seasonal cinnamon then enrobed in creamy white chocolate. Does it count as one of your five a day?

Mulled Wine Cherries
  £7.50
A really delicious treat just for Christmas! Really Succulent cherries soaked in fortified wine spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, then enrobed in thick dark chocolate. Now doesn't that sound good! Treat yourself and a friend to some of these!

The Classic Christmas Luxe Selection
  The Sleekster Classic Christmas Luxe Selection
Delicious flavours including: cinnamon praline, truffles with whisky, mulled wine and champagne, super soft caramels, solid chocolate. Fantastic gift idea.
£28.00

Ultimate Milk Advent Calendar
  Ultimate Milk Chocolate Advent Calendar
£17.00
A brilliant advent calendar made with 40% and 50% milk chocolates.
A perfect start to each morning before Christmas!
175g.

Teens & Over Advent Calendar
  Teens & Over Advent Christmas Calendar
£12.00
three mesmerising Christmas games and chocolate! Brilliant advent calendar!

The Classic Christmas H-Box Selection
  £11.00
Really good mix of seasonal flavours in this lovely box of choccies - pralines, liquid caramels and creamy ganaches, cinnamon, almonds and clementine, warming mulled wine, whisky and rum, cranberries, gingerbread!

Children's Advent Calendar
  Children's Christmas Advent Calendar
£12.00
Really lovely calendary for advent - with milk chocolates in six different Christmassy shapes hidden behind each window!

The Dark Christmas Choc 4
  £4.25
Delicious box of chocs - perfect gift for friends. Contains chilli praline, warming mulled wine, toffee and clementine

The Dark Christmas Choc 8
  £6.50
Delicious chocolates like a bigger version of the four box.

Fruit & Nut Dark Wreath
  Fruit & Nut 70% Dark Chocolate Mini Wreath 95g
£6.00
Delicious dark chocolate studded with cranberries and jumbo golden raisins - 70% dark chocolate

Cookie & Caramel Crunch Mini Wreath
  Cookie & Caramel 40% Milk Chocolate Mini Wreath 95g
White chocolate and nibbly cocoa biscuits, set in a delicious 40% milk chocolate base.
£6.00

Yule Logs - Nutty
  Chocolate Yule Logs with Nuts
Have this instead of Christmas pudding maybe? It's a pure mellow chocolate and melting piedmont praline studded with hazelnuts and pistachios!

£8.00

Yule Logs - Chilli & Orange
  Chocolate Yule Logs with Chilli & Orange
£8.00
Think chocolate log with a new style! Made with delicious smooth gianduja praline, zesty orange, crunchy almonds and gently warming chilli, this will be amazing cut and sliced up and served to everyone at work or home! A really special treat.

Milk Truffle Tree
  Milk Chocolate Truffle Tree - 650g!
£22.00
Very lovely to look at and even better to taste! 40% milk chocolate with crunchy roasted almonds, hand cut caramel florentines and the colourful contrast of Christmassy cranberries. Decked out with ultimate baubles – super smooth gianduja truffles.
An excellent chocolate present!

Tiddly Dark Reindeer
  Tiddly Dark Chocolate Reindeer
£5.50
Made from 70% dark chocolate, these reindeer will be a real delight to nibble on!

Yule Logs - Fruity
  Chocolate Yule Logs with Fruit
£8.00
Amazing gift idea - gianduja praline and fruity flavour bursts of orange, cranberry and morello cherry pieces. To slice and share!

Christmas Party Kit
  £30.00
A really good idea - everything you need for a great Christmas celebration. Contains: Tiddly Reindeer in milk chocolate, Cookie Crunch Christmas Wreath, nibbly Mince Pie Marbles, 20cl bottle of prosecco.
Perfect Christmas gift for chocolate fans!

Sparkling Christmas Basket
  £18.00
Contains: Reindeer Slab in milk chocolate, Tiddly Santas in caramel chocolate, 20cl bottle of prosecco
Fantastic gift.

The Christmas Dark H-Box Selection
  £11.00
A great selection includes salted caramel, velvety praline and gianduja, mouth warming truffles with rum, mulled wine and champagne, liquid caramels, deep and dark solid chocolate

Two months until Christmas Day! Woohoo! Definitely time to start the shopping for presents now to make sure you get the best present possible for everyone on your list!

Christmas Table Crackers
  8 Chocolate Filled Christmas Crackers
£30.00
An amazing chocolate Christmas gift that you can use on Christmas day and enjoy! Each cracker contains – 3 Christmas chocolates, party hat and a Christmas joke to raise a few smiles, or groans… With 24 different chocolates to choose from, you can swap and share to your heart’s content – 40% milk, 70% dark, caramel, creamy white, dark with peppermint, zesty orange and more.

The Christmas Selection Without Alcohol
  The Sleekster Christmas Selection Without Alcohol
30 Chocolates without any alcohol in - includes delicious pralines with cinnamon, almonds and orange, fruity recipes with cranberries and raspberries, super soft caramels, solid chocolate
£20.00

Christmas Collection Bag
  Christmas Collection Gift Bag
£25.00
A very nice gift to give your best friends! A real collection of christmasy treats - including the Christmas Collection H-Box Without Alcohol, solid dark chocolate Chilli Penguins,and Gingerbread Puddles.

The Classic Christmas Choc 8
  . £6.50
Mouthwateringly good - cinnamon praline, velvety gianduja, fruity winter berries! Fantastic gift treat at the right price!

The Classic Christmas Selection
  The Sleekster Classic Christmas Selection
£20.00
A real festive selection of chocolates -pralines, liquid caramels and creamy ganaches, cinnamon, almonds and clementine, warming mulled wine, whisky and rum, cranberries, gingerbread - all designed to make your mouth water and you to enjoy!


The Dark Christmas Selection
  The Sleekster Dark Christmas Selection
£20.00
30 amazing dark chocolates including: salted caramel, velvety praline and gianduja, mouth warming truffles with rum, mulled wine and champagne, liquid caramels, deep and dark solid chocolate
A real stunning display of pretty and delicious chocolates!

Christmas Tree Decorations - White
  10 Christmas Tree Decorations - White Colour Pack
These are in exclusive Christmas designs, with a ribbon for hanging and premium chocolate inside for nibbling. Very nice gift! Make sure your tree is the tastiest tree!

£12.50

Cool Yule
  Cool Yule Giant Slab
£13.50
This is a really lovely Christmas gift! Almost too good to demolish but you will! With a chocolate wreath in the middle of some delicious chocolate you'll enjoy every bit of it!
500g.
Tiddly White Snowmen
  Tiddly White Chocolate Snowmen
5.00
Eight yummy white chocolate snowmen that you'll enjoy scoffing! A great gift idea.

Fruit & Nut Milk Wreath
  Fruit & Nut 50% Milk Chocolate Wreath 450g
18.00
Everyone is a fruit and nutcase!
Colourful bursts of succulent cranberries and jumbo golden raisins, contrasted with crunchy hazelnuts, pistachios and almonds – all in thick, melt-in-the-mouth 50% milk chocolate. Ready to slice and share.
20cm tall, 20cm wide, 2cm deep and 450g.

The Christmas Pamper Hamper
  . 75.00
Contains an amazing assortment - Sleekster Alcohol-Free Christmas Selection, Gingerbread Liquid Chocolat, Tiddly Reindeer in milk chocolate, Cookie Crunch Christmas Wreath, Dark & Fruity Yule Log, Saint Lucia Island Growers 50% Milk Chocolate, Purist Sushi Pack - Extreme Caramel, Milk Chocolate Super Boosters, Chilli Chocolate Chipotle Dip, Honey, Mustard & Cocoa Nib Dressing.
Fantastic mix of chocolate - perfect present for any chocoholic! A must have gift!

The Classic Christmas Double Layer Selection
  The Sleekster Classic Christmas Double Layer Selection
38.00
Hotel Chocolat make some of the most delicious chocolates in the world so I am confident in saying you'll love these - a mix of pralines, liquid caramels and creamy ganaches, cinnamon, almonds and clementine, warming mulled wine, whisky and rum, cranberries, gingerbread!

Best Dressed Reindeer - Dark
  Dark Chocolate Best Dressed Reindeer
£7.00
A very sophisticated chocolate reindeer! Solid 70% dark chocolate reindeer, wrapped up warm in a dark chocolate scarf.
150g

Dark Christmas Discovery Box
  . £50.00
This is a must for dark chocolate lovers. It contains all the delicious dark chocolates they could want for Christmas! Contains: Sleekster Dark Christmas Selection, Chilli Penguins in dark chocolate, Dark Fruit & Nut Christmas Wreath, Saint Lucia Island Growers 65% Dark Chocolate, Dark & Fruity Yule Log.

Nibbly Noel
  Nibbly Noel Giant Slab
£13.50
A very amusing santa bar! This is a delicious seasonal swirl of milk, dark and gingerbread chocolate blended with cookie pieces and finished off with a milk chocolate festive wreath.
500g.

The Christmas Bliss Hamper
  The Christmas Bliss Chocolate Hamper
£150.00
Contains:75cl prosecco, 75cl Chateau Chocolat red wine, Sleekster Classic Christmas Selection, Milk Chocolate Super Boosters, Chilli Chocolate Chipotle Dip, Honey, Mustard & Cocoa Nib Dressing, Cookie Crunch Christmas Wreath, Saint Lucia Island Growers 50% Milk Chocolate, Rabot Estate 70% Milk Chocolate, Chilli Penguins, Caramel Tiddly Santas, Chilli & Almond Yule Log, Dark Christmas H-box Selection, Chilli & Cocoa Glaze for fish & poultry, Seasoned Cocoa Glaze for meat.
This is biss in a box! A really huge chocolate gift that has some lovely drinks in it too! A perfect way of sending someone much love this Christmas!
A great family sharing gift!

Christmassy Red Pick-Me-Up
  Christmassy Red Pick-Me-Up Gift Bag
£10.00
Contains Gingerbread Tiddly Reindeer 100g Slab, 6 Liquid Caramel Chocolates, nibbly Chocolate Gemstones.
A very lovely chocolate gift and agreat price too!

Christmas Collection Bag Luxe
  Christmas Collection Gift Bag Luxe
£35.00
A bag of boxes - perfect for Christmas giving! Just hand it over and watch their faces light up as they pull out boxes of amazing chocolates! Contains Alcohol-Free Christmas Selection, solid milk chocolate Christmas Dinner shapes, dramatic Fruit & Nut Christmas Wreath in dark chocolate

Tiddly Caramel Santas
  Tiddly Caramel Chocolate Santas
£5.00
Eight cute chocolate santas - made in solid milk caramel chocolate, they're perfectly sized for little appetites or as an after dinner treat for kids and adults alike. Perfect for a little nibble on Christmas morning maybe or an after dinner snack!
8 chocolates

Chilli Penguins
  Chilli Chocolate Penguins
Deep, dark chocolate penguins warmed up with a smidge of chilli for a gentle wicked tingling sensation.
10 chocolates
£7.00

Christmas Goody Bag
  Christmas Chocolate Goody Bag
£15.00
A very lovely gift for your sister maybe? Contains some really great stuff like milk chocolate Reindeer Slab, Christmas Mess chocolates, mellow Salted Caramel Marbles, nibbly Chocolate Gemstones.

The Christmas Dinner
  . £7.00
More really fun chocolates for Christmas - this time it's turkeys and puddings cast in mellow milk chocolate and no leftovers guaranteed with this chocolate version of christmas dinner!
10 chocolates

A lovely mix of gifts from hotel chocolate this year - 2010 is going to be very chocolately if you buy your christmas presents from Hotel Chocolat!
Some nice treats with prices starting from about £5 too - making it great for all budgets! There's some dearer gifts too for when you want to be extravagant!

Best Dressed Snowman - White
  White Chocolate Best Dressed Snowman
£7.00
Mouthwateringly good - a solid white chocolate snowman, snappily dressed in a winter berry chocolate scarf. Very yummy looking and tasty! A lovely Christmas stocking filler present for kids!
150g

Little Caramel Angels
  . £7.00
Heavenly Christmas angels cast in classically creamy, mellow and smooth caramel milk chocolate.A really nice gift for any chocolate lover at Christmas time! Pack contains 10 chocolates

Best Dressed Santa - Milk
  Milk Chocolate Best Dressed Santa
£7.00
A lovely stocking filler gift - this solid 40% milk chocolate Santa Claus, has a berry flavoured chocolate scarf. It weighs 150g

Christmas Tree Decorations - Mixed
  10 Christmas Tree Decorations - Mixed Colour Pack
This season’s must-have accessory for the well-dressed tree – in exclusive Christmas designs, with a ribbon for hanging and premium chocolate inside for nibbling. A really great idea for making the tree more festive! It's recommended you don't start eating them until Christmas day though and each one you eat you can consider it helping to take the decorations down!
10 Decorations in the pack.
£12.50

Dasher The Reindeer
£6.00
My personal favourite of the solid Christmas pieces for Children. It's a work of art - Dasher the normal-nosed reindeer cast in silky smooth 40% milk chocolate.
He weighs a very chocolatey 150g

Tiddly Milk Reindeer
  Tiddly Milk Chocolate Reindeer
£5.00
40% milk chocolate – very lovely nibbles!
8 Chocolates in this pack.

Classic Christmas Discovery Box
  . £50.00
Mmm delicious selection of chocolates - Sleekster Classic Christmas Selection, Tiddly Reindeer in dark chocolate, Cookie Crunch Christmas Wreath, Saint Lucia Island Growers 50% Milk Chocolate, Dark & Fruity Yule Log.
This would make a fantastic chocolate gift for your family! They will adore these lovely chocolates. Perfect for any chocoholics!

Need some inspiration for Christmas Gifts? Then look no further! Hotel Chocolat have some amazing ideas for Christmas 2010! If you want to be giving the very best chocolate possible then have a look at the delights they have on offer here. Here are a few of our favourites!

Dark Truffle Tree
  Dark Chocolate Truffle Tree - 650g!
22.00
This is a simply super gift - a delight in dark chocolate - and it's lovely smooth 70% dark chocolate, with the colourful tang of cranberries, the crunch of festive almonds and the bite of honey florentine pieces. Decorated with melt-in-the-mouth, silky smooth gianduja praline truffles. How much more festive do you want?

The Ultimate Christmas Hamper
  The Ultimate Christmas Chocolate Hamper
£300.00
If you're looking for a serious gift to buy me - then this is it. I'd suggest you order me one straight away! A massive selection of amazing chocolate that will stun, amaze and be the seriously best present ever.
With some booze too to help Christmas go with a real swing! Massive load of chocolate and treats including : 75cl prosecco, 75cl Chateau Chocolat red wine, 75cl pink prosecco, 101 Chocolate Recipes book, Sleekster Classic Christmas Selection, Winter Cocktails Selection, Super Boosters in milk and dark chocolate, Chilli Chocolate Chipotle Dip, Honey, Mustard & Cocoa Nib Dressing, Cookie Crunch Christmas Wreath, Saint Lucia Island Growers 50% Milk Chocolate, Hacienda Iara 100%, Rabot Estate 70% Milk Chocolate, Chilli Penguins, Caramel Tiddly Santas, Chilli & Almond Yule Log, Dark Christmas H-box Selection, Cocoa Pasta, Chilli & Cocoa Glaze for fish & poultry, Seasoned Cocoa Glaze for meat, Gingerbread Liquid Chocolat, Chocolate Florentines, Cocoa Nib Balsamic Vinegar, Dark Chocolate for cooking, Chocolate Christmas Tree Decorations, Milk Chocolate Batons.

Rather Large Cracker
  Rather Large Christmas Cracker
35.00
If this doesn't set you off singing Jingle Bells then I don't know what will! Nothing more festive than a giant cracker packed with yummy choccies!
40 chocolates including smooth pralines and silky soft ganaches, luscious champagne truffles, dreamy caramels and it comes with 12 party hats too!

Truffles-to-Share Advent Calendar
  Luxury Truffles-to-Share Advent Calendar
Two luscious truffles behind each window make this advent calendar a lovely pre-Christmas gift for a couple! 22.00