Fuzziwig’s Candy Factory

TERRIBLE customer service! My husband and I stopped in for candy where I waited for about 5 min standing at the chocolate section. There were two employees standing right in front of me (they saw me and I was in plain sight) chatting and neither one asked what I would like or offered to assist me. When my husband came up to the register to pay he had to tell them I would like to buy something. Completely unacceptable. Although the candy is good we will be taking our business elsewhere in the future and shopping in stores where excellent customer service is the standard.

Very good candy store with lots of options, plus Dip n’ Dots and regular ice cream, something for everyone! The employee that helped us while we were there was very friendly and helpful. We had an issue with a product and it was quickly taken care of without any hesitation.

You gotta love a place where you can still get a Zagnut and a Clark’s Bar. Cashier was very friendly, funny and helpful. She even did some up selling.
«did you want a turtle with that today?»
«Yes… Yes I would»
$ 38 for a heavy bag of Oreo fudge, chocolate covered Twinkie, dark chocolate, caramel pretzel clusters and God knows what else. They got ice cream, too.
Isn’t it a lot cheaper at Cosco or Walmart? Yes… Yes it is.

This place is great! Minus one star because this place could easily be anyone’s tipping point for developing claustrophobia! It’s tiny 4ft pathway around the store is ALWAYS PACKED with loitering tourist families toting the ski gear of their 10 children who are all crashing like ogres through the store in their ski boots. Not fun! But the selection is fabulous. They literally have everything from fudge to nostalgia candy to Japanese soda pop. They also have a selection of toys and stuffed animals in the back. It’s pretty much heaven for any candy loving kid, or adult for that matter.

Fun store with every kind of candy imaginable! Reasonably priced too :) It sounds crazy, but you have to try the chocolate covered gummy bears!!!

If you are a kid in Vail, or even just a kid at heart, you’ll end up at Fuzzywigs. It reminded me of something out of Harry Potter. We made it an after dinner tradition to walk by and pick up something sweet. The night air and sparkling lights gave the walk and air of fun. Inside, the place is crammed full of different sweets, from the exotic to the traditional. They even had some Harry Potter candies to complete the illusion.
Recommended.

Awesome candy store. I’m all veggies and plain yogurt at home but on vacation I indulged in hand-​dipped chocolate pretzels, truffles, Nerds a load of other vintage candy items that brought me back to my childhood (and probably up to the next pants size). Just a neat place to walk around overall, even if you aren’t super into sweets.

So they have these Gummy rubber candy snakes here. They make my friend take his thoughts into a XXX world where he fantasizes of wrapping said gummy worm around his member and having his wife chew it off.

The one thing that really made me like this place is how much candy they had that isn’t really sold anymore. Candy that I remember eating when I was growing up and that I haven’t seen in many years. I got some ice cream, which was alright, nothing special. The freshly-​made chocolates were pretty good. But, the candy from the 1980s and earlier is what I loved!

Obviously I would be the first person to review a new candy store in Vail that is totally marketed towards children — located where the Laughing Monkey used to be (or, as I like to call it, the weirdest clothing store ever to stay in business for 15 years) — Fuzziwig’s is a welcome addition to the village.
In contrast to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Fuzziwig’s is DIY — a nightmare for parents whose children will then proceed to fill entire bags with vast amounts of candy they cannot consume, but like the best holiday ever for a neurotic glutton with a sweet tooth like me!
They must be doing something right though, and I say this for several reasons:
1) My cousin who is crazy allergic to peanuts was so enraptured by the 20 colors of M & Ms he could mix together that he filled a bag with a lovely coral, orange mixture EVEN THOUGH HE COULD NOT EAT THEM. He just wanted to look at them.
2) In Steamboat (I think?), they ran Rocky Mountain out of business in 1 year. While RMCF has been in Vail since 1983, Fuzziwig’s was packed each time I went in there.
3) Selection is chocolate heavy, but also with a lot of Jelly Bellies, ice cream, and gummy candies for those who are crazy and do not like the ambrosial nectar of the gods.
It’s $ 10.99/lb for most of the candy and they have some banging truffles, creative caramel apples, caramels, fudges, and pretzels that are $ 19.99/lb. In addition, they have some «old time» candy and toys over which every Latin American child in the vicinity of the store seems to go wild for unclear reasons.
Critiques — 1) they need to put labels on everything — everything kind of starts to look the same when it’s coated in chocolate, yogurt, etc. 2) For as much stock as they have, the store is really cramped — hard to navigate unless you’re pushy.
Overall, not a bad place to ruin any diet.