"Becoming sad place to go - expensive parking, broken hand dryers in toilets, lost its magic."
"The paths (if you can call them that) around the park are in need of serious care."
"Only problem is that the playground gate is left open. Please beware."
"It advertised a sculpture trail which we followed with the map provided but looks like all of them have been removed or stolen and couldn't find any."
"Paths not very well signposted, making it difficult to follow your selected track."
"There is nothing in the playground that is accessible to play on for a wheelchair user which is a shame."
"This beautiful country park is sadly now completely neglected."
Cafe and Food
Pros:
"Friendly attentive staff with freshly cooked food."
"The cafe serves nice food and drink."
"Good food and reasonably priced, £4.50 for a pasta pot and gorgeous cheese burgers."
"The food was made with really good ingredients and made fresh."
"Café is very warm and welcoming, it offers a really comprehensive menu and very reasonably priced."
"Nice to eat in beautiful surroundings !! Lovely restaurant to have a quiet meal with friendly faces and excellent service."
"Great cafe with lovely choice of snacks and drinks."
Cons:
"We queued up for ages for an indifferent cup of coffee from an outdoor serving hatch."
"The cafe gets really busy really quickly."
"The cafe was sadly closed by the time we finished the walk so will have to re-visit to check it out."
"Nice place, cafe was a bit wanting in terms of attention and the staff could do with some training to improve throughput."
"The cafe is very good but gets extremely busy during school holidays."
"Cafe has a great choice of drinks and food to takeaway or eat in."
"Very untidy. Parking machine not working and the only alternative was to pay at a very busy cafe."
Parking and Accessibility
Pros:
"Now that the parking pay system is updated, it's a lot better."
"Easy parking at a reasonable price."
"Plenty of parking space and a water refill station and a dog bowl and poop baggies available."
"Free entry and reasonable parking."
"Parking nice and easy."
"There is also plenty of parking spaces but can get very busy at peak times."
"Car park is pay as you leave unless you have a disability card then you can register and park for free."
Cons:
"Woods are beautiful but parking charges are unreasonable and signage not clear."
"2 weeks later got hit with a hefty parking fine."
"Arrived to find both parking machines out of use."
"Ruthless form of car park monitoring."
"Lost one star because of the recent car park charges, used to be free."
"Beware the parking!! No signs in car park and only one is by visitors centre which you are likely to miss on a rainy day if only visiting the cafe."
"Appalling parking charges for something that used to be free!!"
Family and Children Activities
Pros:
"The Gruffalo trail was lovely for both adults and kids! Gives everyone something to look out for!"
"Great for kids, we followed the gruffalo trail round and they enjoyed finding each character."
"The Gruffalo Trail is great and easy to follow, but very popular and for that reason can get very muddy."
"Wonderful place, the Gruffalo trail is an excellent incentive to get the children out of the playground for a walk."
"If your children love the Gruffalo, there is the gruffalo trail which will keep them and you occupied for a while."
"Lovely park with plenty of trails, at the moment they have a Gruffalo trail for children."
"The kids loved finding the signs to lead to the next gruffalo characters."
Cons:
"Also the play park can be very dangerous when wet but no consideration for little ones plus the gaps between the ladders are far too wide."
"Don't bother going in a motorhome as they expect you to park up on the road opposite the car park and charge £5 for the privilege."
"Outdoor play area for children which is fenced in."
"The deer walk is the only one of any real length, but they seem to forget to put sign posts in at a couple of critical junctions."
"There is nothing in the playground that is accessible to play on for a wheelchair user which is a shame."
"The only sign of investment is the Gruffalo trail for the kids, which is fine but the children are going to be covered in mud trying to get there!"
"Only gripe was one lady didn't have her 3 dogs on leads which made my son uneasy."
Facilities and Cleanliness
Pros:
"There is a small shop, raising funds for Herefordshire Nature Trust, and toilets."
"Clean toilets with hand sanitizer."
"Clean toilets, facility to refill doggy water bottles."
"There are washing facilities, for feet and dogs."
"Good parking with a Visitor Centre, providing toilets and a shop."
"Rest room available."
"Toilets are available but the block of toilets are closed and replaced with portaloos."
Cons:
"Becoming sad place to go - expensive parking, broken hand dryers in toilets, lost its magic."
"The toilet facilities close at 4pm when there were a good number of visitors especially children and people with disabilities at Queens wood."
"Parking spy system disgusting out to catch people, especially disabled people displaying their mobility badge."
"Watch out for the parking eye that clocks you in and out of the car park."
"Herefordshire Wildlife Trust should be ashamed at their overaggressive parking policy."
"The parking charges are high, but the real kick in the teeth is they outsource the parking to a private company who installed ANPR cameras which automatically issue you £100 for any reason they can."
"I've now just had to pay a £45 fine as my appeal was automatically rejected."