Elsham Hall Gardens and Country Park Reviews Summary

Grounds and Gardens

Pros:

• "Elsham Hall is a lovely, peaceful place to stroll around a while away a few hours."
• "The grounds are beautiful. A great mix of landscaped aesthetic gardens and natural wildlife habitat."
• "What a gem this place is! Beautifully kept gardens with peacocks freely walking through."
• "The gardens are very well kept even tho it's autumn."
• "The gardens were well looked after and although we went early in the year the spring flowers looked lovely and lots of other plants/shrubs were bursting into life."
• "The lakeside walk and the gardens are beautiful."
• "The gardens and the whole place is so peaceful and beautiful and I enjoy seeing the changes over the seasons."

Cons:

• "the gardens were full of weeds and most of the flowers were unkempt."
• "The grounds are very run down and in need of much TLC."
• "the gardens appear neglected somewhat with many weeds."
• "The walled garden was more of a walled weed patch."
• "It is looking a bit tired in places with many weeds in the flower beds."
• "I was really disappointed with Elsham Hall Gardens as I was led to believe that the walled garden had an abundance of flowers but all I could see was weeds."
• "The flower gardens are nowhere near as well stocked as they used to be, now mainly being hedgerows and wild grasses and some of the areas are closed off and no longer accessible."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "The price was very reasonable (£17.75 for 2 adults & a child) and you can stay as long as you want."
• "Very reasonably priced with discounts for NHS blue light card and also special needs customers."
• "A good day out not too far to travel."
• "Admission very reasonably and although I only had a coffee and raspberry scone nothing was overpriced."
• "Fantastic place, very well kept, entrance price is very reasonable as there is plenty to walk around and to do."

Cons:

• "Went on a dull day, however we were quite dissappointed, we paid £23 entry for four."
• "Took the children for an outing, cost us £27 for 2 adults and 3 children, I think this was very overpriced for what was there."
• "What a waste of money, even with the Gardener's World 2 for 1 discount."
• "Cost is a little bit steep considering how small the area you pay for actually is."
• "at £5.75, we thought this was poor value for money and had seen everything there was to see, within about an hour!"
• "£5.75 entrance for not much except a couple of hours walk round."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "The ironmongers, pottery staff and the staff within the areas were most friendly and welcoming."
• "Had a wonderful afternoon celebrating a friend's 50th birthday. Was very impressed with the tearoom food and such friendly caring staff."
• "The staff were so friendly, polite and helpful."
• "The staff were all very friendly & lovely."
• "Staff really friendly and helpful."
• "The staff was very helpful and friendly."
• "Staff are always polite and appear to enjoy working there."

Cons:

• "Service at the cafe was very slow, over half and hour for two coffees."
• "The tearoom refused to cater to my simple dietary needs causing us great inconvenience."
• "On this day the young lad on the desk clearly couldn't be arsed/didn't want to be there... Not the often the case, usually very chatty and welcoming."
• "The staff were rather rude and stuck up and we were told to wait outside for our 2 pieces of cake that literally took seconds for them to put into a tray for us."

Facilities and Amenities

Pros:

• "Toilets lovely and clean."
• "Feeding the fish is a smashing experience.. They're huge!"
• "Great adventure playground for children."
• "You must feed the carp fish!"
• "There's plenty to keep children entertained, they can feed the fish & ducks, pet the animals & there's a large play area."
• "Very well facilitated with toilets."
• "Well maintained with place to picnic, adventure playground for kids and a small lake."

Cons:

• "Shame some of the cages in the aviary were empty. We only saw budgies."
• "The court paving was badly broken concrete with dangerously raised drain cover."
• "many of the former aviaries are unoccupied and dilapidated."
• "Theres plenty of sitting dotted around but wheelchair access is restricted on some of the foot paths."
• "The toilets were at poor hygiene standards, no soap in the dispenser and no sanitiser station."
• "The carp lake is mostly difficult to view because it is surrounded by high weeds and the fish are barely visible because there is so much weed in the water."
• "The whole place could use a bit of TLC. There’s barely any animals anymore and a lot of the enclosures are now empty and abandoned."

Food and Dining Experience

Pros:

• "A group of us went on Saturday and had Afternoon Tea it was lovely great value for the money plenty to eat and they gave us a box to take what we hadn't eaten home."
• "The cafe staff, were excellent, they ran out of soya milk and gave us a herbal tea complimentary which was very good to do."
• "We had nice drinks in the inner courtyard where there is plenty of seating and space for kids to run about, was very tempted with the home made cakes too as looked delicious!"
• "The cream tea was filling and scrumptious."
• "The cafe has a great selection of food and drinks, the scones especially are delicious!"
• "The restaurant does great food, i had afternoon tea."
• "The cafe is lovely with a huge array of cakes."