Pittville Park Reviews Summary

Park Maintenance and Aesthetics

Pros:

• "Such a beautiful park! Well maintained, especially given the size, plenty of space."
• "Grounds and lakes are always well maintained."
• "The park is well signposted, with many information boards; and the park and grounds are well maintained."
• "Beautifully kept lawns and trees leading to the lake."
• "Beautiful park and gardens. It's well maintained and free of litter."
• "This park is very well looked after, clean, tidy, safe park and a jewel in Cheltenham's cap."
• "Good group of volunteers that keep it extra tidy."

Cons:

• "Parts of it are getting very muddy in winter lockdown with weather and people trying to social distance but I don't think much can be done about this."
• "The only let down was the smell coming from the toilets."
• "Extremely muddy on the tarmac paths - slip hazards galore- not impressed this time."

Play Areas and Activities

Pros:

• "The playground has plenty of different activities for kids of all ages. Two zip wires, a shipwreck, two big tube slides, climbing frames and rope ladders."
• "Pittville Park is wonderful for children and walkers. It has a huge playground with climbing frames, slides, trampolines and all the usual apparatus you'd expect."
• "Wonderful play amenities, happy and friendly atmosphere and a superb kiosk that is reasonably priced."
• "The children's play area is awesome with its own water feature, sand pit and all the usual climbing frames, swings and roundabouts, a Café and toilets."
• "It has everything a child would want - play areas for different age groups, paddle boats, an adventure trail, swans and ducks to feed, ice creams & refreshments, a few small animals, a large green to play in, room to walk around the lake, rowing boats, a sand and water play area, a skate park, tennis courts, and now a zip line."
• "The play area is HUGE! There is literally so much choice for the children; from slides to sand pits, water play to ziplines!"
• "The kids play area went through major renovations last year and it's been excellent."

Cons:

• "Only thing at the moment is they've dug up part of the climbing area for bigger kids but doesn't affect the rest of the park."
• "Equipment worn already and very painful gravel for toddlers to fall on near the little ice cream hut."
• "Good place but play area not thought out. Water play next to the sand pit was a fail."
• "Always always overcrowded. Very important to watch your children at all times."

Wildlife and Natural Beauty

Pros:

• "Wonderful spacious park with good paths for walking, running and buggy. Beautiful lake with ducks and you can hire boats."
• "There is plenty of wildlife Ducks, Swans and Cygnet's and other water birds."
• "A family of swans are always about, and a lot of friendly squirrels are always running around."
• "There are always other birds (on the lake, and in the reeds and trees), that bird watchers can enjoy."
• "There is also a large pond with benches to enjoy the wildlife."
• "A beautiful park with a lake to walk round, sports facilities, play parks and lots of green space."
• "Beautiful park with great range of things to do from a boating lake to a recently renovated play park."

Cons:

• "Very sad to see the state of the aviary and animal enclosures at this park."
• "Minus two stars because the aviary is so sad, there's no flora or enrichment for any of the birds."
• "The aviary would be quite good if the birds weren't being constantly tormented by unsupervised children."
• "I must admit, I feel a little bad for the birds and other animals locked in the cages with no supervision or protection."

Facilities and Amenities

Pros:

• "Lovely cafes serving good cake and coffee."
• "The old pump house is a magnificent building with a café and outside seating."
• "Central cafe could meet any needs for soft drinks snack foods and ice cream."
• "Free parking by Pittville Pump Room."
• "Great place to take children of all ages, and to learn to ride bikes, row boats, play golf and tennis with plenty of play equipment too."
• "They serve ice cream there and are inclusive of everyone with vegan ice cream and cones and gluten free cones."
• "Drinks and snacks are sold from the park cafe and the boating lake cafe."

Cons:

• "This place is just weird. You can see and hear traffic pretty much all of the time, it's very small."
• "The boathouse does nice ice creams (don’t forget to remortgage first)."
• "The park is an amazing facility, however with the current situation it is a place to be avoided."
• "Though started overcrowded and little uncomfortable for some reasons."
• "Parking and access is a bit problematic near the park."
• "Boating lake and 3 places to get refreshments but needs more public toilets."
• "Toilets could do with deep clean."

Parking and Accessibility

Pros:

• "A lovely park with the added bonus of free parking."
• "Parking nearby was free and convenient with plenty of spaces available."
• "Free parking behind the pump rooms has gone unfortunately 😕 but plenty of free on-road parking still in place."
• "Lots of free parking around the park, and it's only a 20 minute walk into the town centre."
• "Free parking up to 4 hours on streets around the park."
• "Plus, there's 4 hours free parking on all the roads around the park."
• "Usually easy to get parked nearby too."

Cons:

• "Parking can be difficult at peak-times as the pay to stay car park is quite small while the free parking around the park is limited."
• "Parking is available for 4 hours free along Pittville making this an excellent option to bring family and friends to enjoy the outdoors within the city."
• "Pittville park is wonderful but... It has a tiny car park which has led to a lot of on street parking swiftly followed by a lot of yellow lines."
• "Can be hard to find a parking spot at busy times but free parking on nearby streets."
• "No car park, so we used one that was an easy walk."
• "Just wish they had Gates near where the Evesham road side of road parking, as I try to get as close to park as can't walk far."