Longacres Garden Centre Bybrook Barn Reviews Summary

Variety of Products

Pros:

• "Large garden centre with a good range of indoor and outdoor items."
• "A decent garden centre with plenty of plants to choose from, lots of seasonal gifts, a shoe shop, a small supermarket."
• "Great variety of everything! plants, homewear, food, and pet supplies."
• "Good variety of plants, equipment, produce and all garden and bird related produce."
• "Love this garden centre it is brilliant. So much variety."
• "The store is immaculate and beautifully presented and it is huge, so much stuff to wander around and look at."
• "Good garden centre with everything you could wish for - cafe, plants, hardware, groceries, shoe-shop, clothing, hobby/crafts."
• "This garden centre is particularly good for pond plants and equipment."

Cons:

• "Not as busy today as previous visits. Good range of products with other businesses within the building."
• "It has become a bit of an expensive shopping centre more than a true garden centre."
• "Went to the cafe and there was a nice selection of gluten free options. The aquarium shop was also very good."
• "It's the first time I've asked staff for advice. She was clearly very busy and I disturbed her work but she stopped it and answered all my novice questions."
• "Whent here as I keep tropical fish, ooooo dear had a look round at the fish quite a few dead fish in tanks being snacked on by tank mates."
• "For some reason I haven't visited before - what a find! Loved the craft section, but also a good selection of gifts."
• "This is a lovely place to visit on a normal day, it has everything under 1 roof."
• "This a real garden centre. So many have become glorified supermarkets. The range and quality of plants and other horticultural goods is quite wide."

Café and Food Quality

Pros:

• "The staff are so lovely, as is the food! We had two really decent cups of coffee and a bowl of golden, crispy chips."
• "I went with 2 other people for lunch at Longacres. 3 cooked meals all ready in just over 5 minutes and the quality of the food and the helpfulness of the staff as always was amazing."
• "Good store for pets, aquarium goods and provisions. Good restaurant serving a variety of hot foods and drinks."
• "Also a good choice of well produced dishes in the cafe at reasonable prices."
• "It has a very good restaurant for a bite to eat and drink, from sandwiches to jacket potatoes."
• "We had an enjoyable wander around the various departments within the store and then had some very tasty refreshments at the cafe there."
• "Fantastic brilliant experience lots and lots of Xmas decorations and they even have an upstairs as well also with Xmas decorations this time it's lights and displays for Xmas."
• "Great selection of plants during the season, has a good tropical fish shop inside, great this time of year if your into Christmas Dec's."

Cons:

• "Restaurants has been disappointing last few visits. Staff think they are too busy to give you great customer service and make no effort to go that extra mile."
• "Dog friendly store, dogs are allowed in the outside restaurant seating areas good restaurant serving a variety of hot foods (quite generous portions) and drinks."
• "Lovely clean centre magical at Christmas, however the breakfast at the cafe is extortionate, £1.30 for toast as an extra item is ridiculous."
• "Lovely big garden centre. Their Christmas stock is large and varied. The cafe is nice and clean and my lasagne was lovely."
• "Lovely Garden centre. Lots of things to choose from. Wide range of items, pet shop, aquatics, plants & flowers, arts and crafts, gardening, food, footwear and clothing etc."
• "If i could give no stars i would. Over the weekend we visited longacres in Ashford Kent for Breakfast...What a major mistake that was."
• "Very well appointed garden centre. A vast variety of gift ideas. Has pet / shoes / clothes / food / outdoor furniture and loads more items. I would highly recommend a visit..Also has a cafe."
• "Lovely place to visit with the family. Wide range of gardening items and plants. Friendly and helpful staff on hand. Has a Tropical fish section and outside hot tub shop."