Queens Park Reviews Summary

Park Grounds and Maintenance

Pros:

• "Great place to take the kids. Paths and grounds are always looked after by the staff and grounds people."
• "Beautiful park we visit regularly as we live locally."
• "The park is beautiful in all seasons and has its own car park."
• "Nice Park had a fair bit of improvement over the last few years, and been tidied up a lot."
• "They have added more outdoor exercise equipment as well as more items in the children’s play park including more accessible items like swings."
• "The grounds themselves are beautiful, especially in the sunshine."
• "The park is very clean and tidy."

Cons:

• "The park needs to plant new trees and replant poor areas to keep the improvements going."
• "Toilets in the new pavilion at the centre of the park need some serious work to bring them up to a decent standard of cleanliness."
• "The new bridge's across the lake are horrible."
• "Car park is a poorly maintained with a lot of potholes and very muddy during wet weather."
• "Terrible looked after park, nearly everywhere was covered in duck poo, no where to have a picnic or play ball without getting covered."
• "The park's beauty is let down by the mismanagement by the local council."
• "The main grass area, with a big patch of over grown grass and weeds!"

Cafe and Amenities

Pros:

• "There is a cafe which sells reasonably priced food with plenty of indoor and outdoor seating, plus toilets."
• "A wonderful park to walk round a beautiful lake the gardens are amazing a large cafe which is very dog friendly & good value for money."
• "Excellent cafe and staff very helpful and it was great that dogs were allowed in."
• "A great cafe with plenty of indoor and outdoor seating plus dog friendly and have toilet facilities."
• "The cafe is great you can get all of the normal things and the staff are lovely."
• "The cafe is excellent with both indoor and outdoor seating a great range of food."
• "A fantastic cafe too."

Cons:

• "Park is lovely but went for coffee at cafe and service terrible."
• "The cafe is also not as nice as it used to be, with everything being rather overpriced."
• "Was a bit disappointed in the toilets at the café. They were ok but I did expect a higher standard of cleanliness at this time with the virus being on the increase again."
• "The play area isn't as nice as it used to be."
• "If the cafe is going to be semi-open at least put some staff in there."
• "Cafe was a complete let down for me."
• "Rude THIS CAFE IS A RIP OFF, DONT BUY FROM THEM."

Accessibility and Family-Friendliness

Pros:

• "Beautiful park, very accessible for my wheelchair."
• "As well as the vast grounds, there is play area (although this does get very busy), a boating lake which you can hire pedal boats, a mini golf area."
• "Love this Park. Great play equipment, outdoor gym. Feel very safe here so walk around on my own often."
• "A lovely Victorian park complete with boating lake (with boat rental). A sprawling children's play area, outdoor gym and a good cafe."
• "Fantastic Park to have a wander around, lots of lovely paths a boating lake and children's play."
• "Big and beautiful park for walk or play outside games."
• "A beautiful example of a Victorian municipal park."