Charnwood Forest Alpacas Reviews Summary

Category: Farm

Address: Ashby Rd, Boundary, Swadlincote DE11 7BA, United Kingdom

Phone: +441283552854

Rating: 4.7
based on 303 reviews.

Guide Experience

Pros:

  • "The group leader, Tatum, was amazing on the walk talking us through everything."
  • "Olivia was our leader: she was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable."
  • "Our guide was Tatum who was great and even had some good alpaca puns to tell you."
  • "Great guide Molly, really knew her stuff!"
  • "Our guide Sophie was very welcoming and had some great facts about Alpacas!"
  • "Becky was our guide she was very knowledgeable and friendly."
  • "Our guide Olivia was so knowledgeable and enthusiastic and made our walk really interesting."

Cons:

  • "The staff were inflexible, unhelpful and had no autonomy to help us."
  • "I’m sure this is a really fun and unique day out, unfortunately that’s somewhat ruined by the rude, disrespectful and confrontational staff that throughly destroy the experience."
  • "The girl at reception has about as much personality and customer service skill as a stuffed alpaca."
  • "Totally unhelpful. Unresponsive/ non existent customer service & money grabbing."
  • "Very disappointed however that there is no provisions for disabled people... most buildings involve a step to enter them."
  • "Unfortunately there was no experience for us. One of our two bookings had not gone through and we had to leave with two disappointed children."
  • "Booked a horse riding experience with these clowns, my wife sadly had covid and was unable to breath so couldn't attend, tried to phone them 5 times but they never bothered to answer the phone."

Alpaca Walk

Pros:

  • "Would I go again? Most definitely: an enjoyable, well-organised and led experience, recommended to all."
  • "We had such a great time we instantly rebooked for the baby Alpaca experience in a couple of weeks and will take the kids too."
  • "We did a 90 minute walk, and honestly I thought it would be quite enjoyable but I mostly did it for the younger ones in our group. However I had a genuinely surprising amount of fun!"
  • "We had the most brilliant walk with the Alpacas on Saturday."
  • "The Alpaca walk itself was brilliant, we really enjoyed the experience."
  • "Absolutely fantastic 90 minutes walking the Alpacas."
  • "Came to do the Alpaca walk with my partner and it was one of the best things I’ve done."

Cons:

  • "There were no signs about buying food for the Alpacas when we checked into the office."
  • "Firstly wasn't well signposted when we got into the carpark of where to go but got there."
  • "The Carpark wasn't really sign-posted very well."
  • "There was an electric part of the fence which wasn't well signposted warning you and my daughter got a little shock but she was fine."
  • "Only bit to improve is the signage to the entrance as it's the right before the car wash. Sat nav takes you the back of the farm."
  • "Signage for the sign wasn't great, you will definitely drive past it first time!"
  • "Drove over an hour to get there only to be told by a very unhelpful woman that we wouldn't be allowed in because we were 10 minutes late."

Cafe and Food

Pros:

  • "The cafe is lovely with window to view the alpacas while there - excellent quality afternoon tea."
  • "Afternoon tea was delicious and the rest of the menu looked nice as well."
  • "And to top it off a nice spot of afternoon tea at the chilli Bean."
  • "The sparkling afternoon tea was really yummy and they cater for various allergen and food preferences."
  • "The afternoon tea was very delicious too and a very selection of sweet and savory was given."
  • "After our walk we were shown to the cafe where we were served the most delicious afternoon tea."
  • "The food from the cafe is great and the afternoon tea was so different in a good way."

Cons:

  • "We had tea for 2 but was a bit disappointed with what you get for 2 people, nonetheless it was nice."
  • "We had Alabama chocolate fudge cake with tea but I would recommend you to go for any other cake, maybe coffee and walnut as ours didn't taste great."
  • "Instant coffee was served. Yuk!!!"
  • "The food they was not nice, they had a vegan pizza that had hardly any toppings on, didn't taste nice and was very expensive."
  • "Everything was stale and the sandwiches were nearly empty."
  • "The only negative is the price of the cafe..£8.10 for a small scone with jam/cream..a pot of tea and small hot choc...very over priced."
  • "They only had set meals, for breakfast it was a full breakfast (fancy) and they didn’t do anything simple like a sausage butty."

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