Whitehall Garden Centre Reviews Summary

Category: Garden center

Address: The Nursery, Norton Ln, Whitchurch, Bristol BS14 0BT, United Kingdom

Phone: +441275832296

Rating: 4.3
based on 198 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "Staff all very friendly and genuinely seemed happy in their work which is pretty rare these days!"
  • "The member of staff we spoke with was very helpful and checking out was easy and the whole shop felt covid safe."
  • "Staff helpful and informative."
  • "Staff are very knowledgeable."
  • "Staff were all very friendly and helpful."
  • "All the staff from manager to cafe ladies were extremely helpful, enthusiastic, happy etc."
  • "The staff were delightful, many thanks for the service!"

Cons:

  • "Been here loads of times, but visit this week was a tad disappointing."
  • "Signs wrong, got charged £25 more than I should have been on 3 of the 5 items I purchased."
  • "The rudest I've encountered was when I was paying and the 2 tellers didn't pause their conversation to greet, serve or thank me at all."
  • "Customer service seems to come last at this place."
  • "The tills are a joke 2 of most unfriendly people you could ever hope to meet."
  • "Completely ruined my shopping trip if he can treat other staff like this I hate to see how he treats customers."
  • "Very disappointed with the Santa Experience!"

Pricing

Pros:

  • "Whitehall has the best christmas displays we have seen and a good range of tree's and decorations at reasonable prices."
  • "Always the best place to buy garden plants. Very competitive prices."
  • "Fantastic local garden centre. Not overpriced like many."
  • "I've filled my garden with plants from Whitehall, they're good value and good quality."
  • "The plants are all so healthy and reasonably priced."

Cons:

  • "The cafe stopped serving breakfast from 11.00 am and stopped serving lunch from 2.30pm."
  • "Very overpriced 7.99 for a Christmas ball ball security staff everywhere spoiling the Christmas theme."
  • "The prices are a bit steep."
  • "The prices are a bit too high for pensioners, and low income people."
  • "A nice place to visit to get ideas and inspiration but I personally found the prices were very high."
  • "The costs were a bit high, and then asking another £2.99 to take my daughter in was excessive."
  • "Extremely expensive. 2 beer battered fish n chips and cheese & tomato quiche with chips. All delivered on cold plates."

Facilities

Pros:

  • "Free parking with plenty of places is available."
  • "Quite a big car park, with additional parking also."
  • "There is always plenty of parking."
  • "Lovely location Now a overflow car park is in place there is plenty of spaces."
  • "Plenty of parking including disabled near entrance."
  • "Wheelchair access, dog friendly(on lead)."

Cons:

  • "Poor website only gives you Chippenham/Wiltshire as a collection option but I'm in Keynsham."
  • "Note - it gets busy and can take a bit of time to park."
  • "We spent 30 minutes driving around the car park looking for somewhere to stop."
  • "Parking at busy times means you need to use the over flow car park (a field)."
  • "The uneven corrugated concrete floor is appalling."
  • "Not enough practical trolleys especially on the busy day's and the flooring is a nightmare when you have a trolley full of delicate plants."

Product Range

Pros:

  • "Flowers and shrubs with a friendly gardener on tap to answer all your questions."
  • "A wide variety of plants - the roses looked exceptional."
  • "Outside the plant collection was bursting with all sorts of great condition plants, shrubs and trees."
  • "Very well laid out with well looked after plants, a wide range of garden furniture and many other items."
  • "A wide variety of plants and money saving deals always to be had."
  • "Lots to choose from - and not just plants, but garden furniture, gifts, garden aggregates and compost etc."
  • "Plenty of healthy looking plants and a good range of all sorts of garden bits and bobs - furniture, pots etc."

Cons:

  • "Came here with what I thought would be a very simple task... Upon enquiring with a staff member where we might find garden furniture we were told 'No garden furniture until after Christmas'."
  • "Fairy and Dragon Grotto? What a load of rubbish! £4 per person to walk through a huge advert for items you can buy in the gift shop."
  • "When we spoke to the head gardener at your store he agreed that they were not satisfactory but tried to imply that we did not know what we were doing."
  • "We bought the pictured roses from you last year only to find that they failed to flower."
  • "Christmas displays for kids are not essential."
  • "Search feature on website is rubbish type in 'top soil' and end up with seeds for rose bushes, plant pots and various tools."
  • "DONT BUY THESE. Bought 3 Christmas illuminated different size baubles that hang from thick rope."

Food and Beverage

Pros:

  • "The cafe/restaurant still have great food and good coffee."
  • "The coffee and cake was lovely and I also really appreciated the detail of the lovely substantial gorgeous plates that the cakes we had were served on."
  • "Nice selection of gluten free cakes in the cafe."
  • "Stopped off randomly for breakfast and found this little gem! Fantastically tasty, fresh and well presented array of foods."
  • "Good cafe with selection of snacks or hot meals and delicious cakes, plenty of seating inside and out."
  • "First time trying out the very popular restaurant. The cake was delicious!"
  • "Restaurant excellent value. Piping hot food, served quickly."

Cons:

  • "Just arrived here cafe still not open looks very poor gone downhill used to be a lovely centre."
  • "Only let down for me and my mum was the weakness of the coffee."
  • "Please don’t use the cafe if you want a good cup of coffee; we visited today and asked for lattes which took an inordinate time to arrive and the coffee was quite awful."
  • "Restaurant was OK but we went on a Friday and they had sold out of fish and chips at 12.30pm."
  • "The cafe is filthy carpet tables seats all thick with grease and muck."
  • "Very disappointed with the restaurant. Ordered a sweet potato and tomato soup which was tasteless and watery."
  • "Can honestly say the most awful sandwich I have ever had.......better from Asda, the coleslaw was disgusting."

Christmas Experience

Pros:

  • "It's definitely a place to go at Christmas!"
  • "Whitehall has the best christmas displays we have seen and a good range of tree's and decorations at reasonable prices."
  • "Phenomenal christmas displays, you can really see how much effort they put in."
  • "The Santa trip was even better."
  • "The best selection of Christmas decorations I've seen in a long time, and they were nice quality ones."
  • "Winter/Christmas is always special showing live dear & abundance Christmas scenes & decorations."
  • "The displays were beautiful as they are every year around Christmas time and 'Santa' was very friendly and welcoming to my daughter."

Cons:

  • "It wasn't as done up this year as previously done, with large sections dedicated to purely one colour scheme, which is usual, but this year there wasn't the variety in my opinion."
  • "Very overpriced 7.99 for a Christmas ball ball security staff everywhere spoiling the Christmas theme."
  • "It is losing a little of its charm by enclosing so much of it."
  • "The Santa grotto which is overpriced."
  • "The toys from Santa were very very poor quality. Kids are both upset."
  • "Very disappointed with the Santa Experience!"
  • "CHRISTMAS display was very good."

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