Ansell Garden Centre Reviews Summary

Category: Garden center

Address: Holloway Ln, Harmondsworth, West Drayton UB7 0AE, United Kingdom

Phone: +442088976075

Rating: 4.7
based on 208 reviews.

Cafe and Food

Pros:

  • "Perfect Eggs Benedict and wonderful choice of cakes."
  • "Really nice cafe with awesome service / great tram and really helpful staff."
  • "Café really nice, slightly pricey, not a greasy spoon sort of cafe, if that's what you're looking for."
  • "The cafe is absolutely lovely, and if you love seafood, there is a seafood hut in the car park that sells amazing food!"
  • "Food in the cafe which is always spotlessly clean, is always great and reasonably priced."
  • "Cyntia's cafe inside does the most delicious hot or cold food and cakes."
  • "The resident cafe does a mean brunch / tea and cake to boot."

Cons:

  • "Not a nice place to eat when you got 30 Romanian car wash gang members making loads of noise and staring at Ur Mrs whilst I try eat."
  • "Cafe main meals served cold."
  • "The cakes I don't recommend."
  • "Orange juice out 3 glasses 2 watered down 1 was pure juice prices are like restaurant but service to be desired served on cold plates hot will not go again."
  • "We were shown to a table then told they were too busy to serve us and to come back later, how rude."
  • "This was simply the worst food I have ever eaten."
  • "The service a little slow here currently."

Staff and Service

Pros:

  • "The friendly helpful staff are more than happy to share their knowledge of plants, trees and shrubbery."
  • "Friendly staff always going above and beyond to help their customers."
  • "Staff as friendly and helpful as ever."
  • "The staff are knowledgeable and friendly once you find one."
  • "Everyone working there are very helpful n give you professional advice."
  • "Every member of staff I spoke to or I heard others speaking too were so polite and knowledgeable."
  • "The staff are very friendly and helpful and their prices are very reasonable."

Cons:

  • "Horrendous experience at Ansell Garden Center... Employee become very rude and raise his voice."
  • "Not a good customer service, staff were unfriendly i was followed and watched by a old indian man in plain cloths for abit."
  • "I felt very rushed at the till."
  • "Avoid at all cost the owners are aggressive and in your face and constantly abusive towards staff."
  • "Found the staff to be rude and very unhelpful."
  • "The staff couldn't give help or advice (too busy directing shoppers who wouldn’t/couldn’t follow the rules or guidelines)."
  • "Staff at garden centre were very disrespectful and rather threatening, demanding to see items repeatedly after already being shown they were purchased somewhere else."

Facilities and Environment

Pros:

  • "Wheelchair access throughout and an on site car wash too."
  • "Fantastic Xmas display as always every year to suit every budget."
  • "It's a lovely garden centre with lots of variety."
  • "It's a great garden centre - plenty of parking, and a nice selection of all the usual things you'd expect in a garden centre."
  • "The new Ansells is quite something BIG with a wide variety of goods, plants and everything else you would expect to find in a good garden centre."
  • "Large car park and easy to find."
  • "An excellent garden centre with fabulous choice of products."

Cons:

  • "Work in progress after the fire, lots of hazards, luckily I'm quick on my feet but could of easily had me over if I'd not moved so fast, think a risk assessment should be done."
  • "What happened to this once nice garden centre? Main building looks like it's demolished and all the stock are withering or been there for ages outdoors."
  • "Also tend to keep their Christmas items on display going on to March...."
  • "Was quite squashed so had to be very careful with my little daughter.. afraid she would bump into something."
  • "The road in is bumpy but labelled as ok for cars, we went in via beach buggy, better suited to the road but cars do go down and there is a car park which is free."
  • "Shop area smaller than expected."
  • "They don't have a huge selection of things that need to be kept inside."

Products and Prices

Pros:

  • "Really good prices on glazed plant pots and plants."
  • "I just wondered to see their collection which is much cheaper than many other garden centers in my area."
  • "Very high quality stock at good prices."
  • "Great selection of plants and bulbs, garden accessories."
  • "All well priced too."
  • "The product I bought was half the price of a large retail chain, much closer to home."
  • "Great selection of plants at very competitive prices."

Cons:

  • "I was sold a plant for £69 of beautiful flowers and root maggot eggs were kept hidden under a lining mat on it."
  • "Lot of things quite highly/over priced."
  • "Items overpriced, i.e., a small glass of jam 6.00! B&Q is a much better choice, more helpful staff there and reasonable prices."
  • "Only issues I found are with the solar bulbs that I bought from this place are not working."
  • "Not a nice place to eat when you got 30 Romanian car wash gang members making loads of noise and staring at Ur Mrs whilst I try eat."
  • "The down side is the staff seem to be Watching you like a hawk following you etc and can't seem to be trusted."
  • "A bunch of miserable faces."

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