"The craft shop is my favourite but currently reduced stock to encourage social distancing."
"Excellent delicatessen with good bread and olives."
"The antiques centre is fantastic and mainly reasonably priced."
"Decor shop always has interesting and different items."
"The wood shop had some great stuff and very reasonable prices, I bought a hand made cheeseboard for £35."
"The house plant shop is great and has some really special containers for flower arrangements."
"The main store had an incredible range of products from delicious jams, sauces, myriad gins, vodkas ales, cider through to kitchen equipment, furniture and furnishings."
Cons:
"It is now massively overpriced."
"Was disappointed tbh. Nice but expensive home store and a restaurant we didn't visit because of huge queue."
"But frighteningly expensive shops."
"Overpriced tourist trap."
"It is quite an expensive place to shop."
"We found them a bit expensive, and there were fewer shops than I expected for the size of place."
"Very sparse and expensive."
Food and Dining
Pros:
"Great place to visit especially during an event such as the food festival."
"The food emporium expensive bit full of tempting high end products."
"The quality of the food and service was outstanding."
"Food in the River View restaurant very good, and as the name implies you are afforded a view over the River and beyond."
"The restaurant which still has some of the best food (particularly seafood) I've ever tasted."
"The chilli chicken pizza was the best I have ever tasted."
"Great food outlets with plenty of choice and good value for money."
Cons:
"Only bad news is the cafe on the first floor is now a ladies boutique. Therefore no coffee..."
"Limited food available at the café - lots of wasted packaging."
"Don’t bother with the sandwiches though as they are overpriced, under filled and generally a bit rubbish."
"The food is abysmal- £5 for a cold, dry cheese scone with ‘chutney’ that’s actually runny salsa."
"The food outlet next to the river lacked... roll was terrible, wine was advertised but not available."
"We went to the cafe (MALT?) for something to eat but it was rammed and really hot inside."
"Places to eat and drink are limited."
Events and Entertainment
Pros:
"From free concerts if you're lucky enough to be there when they happen."
"Presents unique concerts as well."
"Great music events, river boat trips - near fabulous Aldeburgh... What's not to like!?!"
"First time going to the concert hall for a while, so pleased to go back to see the Coop Juniors Christmas Show. Superb, clean and comfortable facilities and superb, friendly staff team."
"One of my favourite places in the world. The venue is acoustically very good and it attracts the very best of musicians."
"Visited the Maltings for one the free outdoor summer concerts."
"A truly wonderful venue for musical events."
Cons:
"Oh dear so many changes there and they have taken away all the attraction of the place."
"Not what we expected😥 We thought there would be a lot of small boutique shops with local traders."
"Concert hall is beautiful but please change those awful uncomfortable chairs."
"The rest of Snapes Malting doesn’t have much to offer. Although could be different if there was a concert on."
"Feels like this place is focused on bringing in an obvious older clientele and not particularly playing to a broader demographic."
"Not as many shops as I thought and what there is are small and, well, not that interesting."
"Strange place that didn't seem to add up to the sum of its parts."
Facilities and Services
Pros:
"Hats off too to the parking stewards."
"The young staff were doing an amazing job keeping it all clean, tidy and presentable."
"Free parking which is a bonus these days."
"Parking is free."
"Caters for food allergies. Caters for wheelchair users."
"The staff were so friendly and helpful."
"Plenty of car parking."
Cons:
"Parking was confusing and the beer, coffee, ice cream kiosk was a rip off."
"Not very welcoming to families, one small trinket shop was lovely - restaurants and the few other shops we could locate were unfriendly."
"The prices were extortionate and my family could not believe it ... 4 pound for a tiny chocolate bar."
"Not the place to go for disabled visitors."
"Only issue was with wheelchair accessibility. Very difficult to get around site, particularly to reach the pizza tent at the back."
"Parking is a problem as is eating."
"Terrible service here today, no evidence tables were being cleaned outside prior to people sitting down."