Welsh Wildlife Centre Reviews Summary

Accessibility

Pros:

• "Recommended if you're in the area and wheelchair friendly too!!"
• "You can push a pushchair or wheelchair round the main path, it is paved."
• "The cafe, gift shop and toilets are fully accessible via a lift."
• "Lovely place to visit, toddler friendly walks with amazing views."
• "Good pathway safe for a wheelchair user."
• "Very accessible, lovely visitor centre and peaceful walk through the reedbeds."
• "Great variety of walks, some child friendly, in interesting habitats."

Cons:

• "Unfortunately there where only signs at one end to say it was shut, due to dangerous neglected board walk!!"
• "The actual raised walkways look like some are in need of repair as are some of the footpaths."
• "Unfortunately one circular walk closed as needs renewing."
• "Enjoyed the visit. We had a disabled person with us and used the lift to get to the café, sadly by the time we got to leave the lift was out of order."
• "The cafe was so tight to navigate that getting a pram through it was a nightmare."
• "Building is not particularly stroller friendly as lift needed and baby changing rooms are only on middle floor."
• "Unfortunately view points along the way not usable for a wheelchair user, not enough space to manoeuvre and the view ports only usable by those able to stand."

Facilities

Pros:

• "Great atmosphere and a warm welcome. Regular events such as folk night, quiz night etc."
• "Large free car park."
• "Thoroughly enjoyed our first visit, fantastic visitor centre, good size picnic area, wonderful outdoor play area."
• "Beautiful nature reserve with loads of well maintained walkways, paths and viewing hides to enjoy the surroundings."
• "The cafe does amazing home cooked meals and cakes and caters for various diets."
• "Children's play area, small but quirky gift shop. Lift access if you need it."
• "This centre is a little gem with excellent facilities."

Cons:

• "Beautiful place, unfortunately the longer walk has been out of commission for around a year now which is a shame."
• "CAFE LOOKED NICE and had outdoor seating but was shut by the time we got back."
• "Very disappointed in the Glasshouse cafe."
• "We went to the cafe which was filthy."
• "Awful signage - routes are clearly marked on a map at entrance but there are no signs to the hides that are easy to spot or follow."
• "Very disappointed with the centre, have been many many times but today I was very disappointed, absolutely everywhere overgrown."
• "The whole place needs money spending on it unfortunately, its starting to look really shabby which is a great shame."

Wildlife and Nature

Pros:

• "We saw a heron standing and posing for us."
• "Great space to walk. Cycle. Bird watch."
• "Love the trails especially the bird hides with the variety of views what a route and the amazing water buffalo."
• "Fantastic array of wildlife to be seen here including ospreys, otters, kingfishers, newts, grass snakes, herons and all sorts of others."
• "Amazing such a beautiful walk and seeing wildlife up and close, king Fisher, geese, water buffaloes and an otter, plus much more."
• "Great place. Was happy to se kingfishers, curlews, herons, moorhens, water buffalos."
• "However seeing a kingfisher was the highlight of the walk along with a variety of seabirds and woodland birds."

Cons:

• "Perhaps not a good place for young children, especially if adults monopolise the hides."
• "All hit and miss as to whether you will see any wildlife."
• "It's a nice walk, parent tip, when selling it to kids, don't mention wildlife, we didn't see any."
• "Underwhelming, and probably underfunded, wetland location can't mask that there really aren't that many birds to look at."
• "Quite disappointed with the quality and lack of signage on the walks also the hides otter and heron were very poor."
• "Unfortunately view points along the way not usable for a wheelchair user."
• "It's a shame as I had high hopes for this visit with the long entrance road it just seemed disappointing 😞"

Cafe and Food

Pros:

• "Really good food at decent prices and lots of choice of drinks both alcoholic and non-alcoholic."
• "The food is delicious, all home cooked and very reasonable."
• "Top floor cafe of glass/wood building has nice outdoor area, and serves local produce, with varied menu."
• "The Glasshouse cafe has a variety of cakes coffee and a lunch menu."
• "A good range of tasty homade dishes at reasonable prices."
• "The cafe did lovely coffee, cakes and ice creams."
• "Lovely place to walk around. We had lunch in the cafe and were really surprised by the quality of the food we had — really good, freshly made."

Cons:

• "Coffee in cafe was awful so marked down on that."
• "Cafe food looks good and interesting but the coffee is a bit weak and has no taste whatsoever!!"
• "When we arrived (10:45) we were told they didn't do food."
• "Went to the Cafe (questionable hygiene) with two starving and tired children and were told that food is only served in a 2 hour window."
• "The only down side is the cafe, we had lunch there but queued up for almost 40mins to be served."
• "The only letdown of the experience is the restaurant, where there's generally a long wait for anything to eat or drink."
• "Had a cuppa and some lunch. The spicy bean burger was good, you get lots of different salads etc but it comes in a small pizza box."