Gower Heritage Centre Reviews Summary

Category: Heritage museum

Address: Parkmill, Gower, SA3 2EH, United Kingdom

Rating: 4.4
based on 228 reviews.

Value

Pros:

  • "£15 for a family of four including parking. Excellent value & lots to see."
  • "It's £4 to park all day, but this is included if you buy tickets for the heritage centre and for us this was just £9, so great value for money."
  • "Good value for money considering you get to see Santa too and the adult was included in that price."
  • "Genuinely brilliant value for money especially for a family day out. Excellent exhibits, well thought out play areas."
  • "The admission was free with the price of parking (£4). Definitely worth a visit!"
  • "Parking was only £4 for the day, which gave you entry to the heritage centre and enabled us to head over to three cliffs beach for the day."
  • "Excellent value too with lots of crafts, excellent bakery and generally loads going on."

Cons:

  • "I thought the entrance fee was rather expensive."
  • "The watermill is expensive to get into and there's also a parking fee as well."
  • "Very over priced for what it is is all ill say there's not much to do really was disappointed and you have to pay extra for the craft workshop face painting and pottery."
  • "Being asked on 6 September to pay full price to see a few rabbits, 3 ducks and 2 Guinea pigs is beyond a joke."
  • "Really good to visit for history I could have stayed there all day, however we have a two year old who wasn't so interested as you would guess. Not cheap if you're a family of four as 2 year olds also have to pay."
  • "Family of 4 £25 but that is to start craft, duck race, pumpkin carving all priced separately."
  • "Not really worth the money. The place is very tired, and little care taken to ensure site is presentable."

Attractions & Activities

Pros:

  • "This little gem of history looks small but opens up to a wonderful collection including a fantastic water wheel powered mill, historical rooms and large cafe."
  • "A very good day had ‘artisan bread making’ at Gower Heritage centre.... authentic setting, informative teacher on history of flour making, the mill etc."
  • "Fabulous place with loads of things to see and do for the kids: real blacksmith demonstration, punch and judy, chickens, goats, sheep, geese, treasure hunt (find the objects), great cafe, bar, lots of mocked-up traditional spaces (dairy, post office), working water wheel and mechanism for mill (saw, milling stone etc.), traditional weaving and making demonstration."
  • "They have lots of different activities on selected weekends and holidays such as beach fun day, pirate week, medieval week and the blue grass festival."
  • "Great place for people of all ages, really interesting tour explaining the history of the buildings as well as the gower in general."
  • "What an incredible place, great friendly, helpful staff, it goes on and on with displays, history, various shops and industry."
  • "Fantastic hidden little gem, so much to see and do."

Cons:

  • "The fish pool had clearly not seen any fish for months, most cages had only empty crates in, most items/attractions were closed / empty."
  • "Good time there but needs work on it and thinking about disappointed in a few things ...no animals of such ..the egg incubation room wasn't working ...the pond full of weed."
  • "On a bank holiday Monday the only attractions offered were the puppet show, storytime and face painting, all run by the same poor woman! No pottery or blacksmith which was a bit disappointing."
  • "Love this place but things were closed and no animals at all. We paid before being told which was unfortunate."
  • "Not worth it in the slightest, really needs updating and some money spending on it."
  • "Just a rather poor tourist trap."
  • "Too much going on, and not in a good way. Exhibits seem random, poorly organized and maintained."

Staff & Service

Pros:

  • "Such lovely food, thanks so much to the chef! Big portions, extra sauces that were delicious."
  • "The staff were helpful, the exhibits were interesting and informative."
  • "All the staff were awesome."
  • "The staff was polite and happy to help."
  • "The parking attendant who helped us was so friendly and a fountain of knowledge, giving us so many tips on walking routes, places to eat etc."
  • "Friendly staff and Father Christmas and his elf were so patient and took time and had genuine interest in my children's requests."
  • "The staff are lovely and willing to help."

Cons:

  • "No staff anywhere to be seen, except the gift shop and the cafe."
  • "Tired and in a poor state of repair, no staff anywhere to be seen, except the gift shop and the cafe."
  • "And staff couldn't organise the amount of little one with the activities. 2 stars is a push regarding kids liked it."
  • "The tearoom is closed at the moment (Aug21) which was disappointing."
  • "Coffee shop expensive and food mediocre."
  • "Tepid soup and a pastie that was still cold in the middle. If you're going to microwave your food learn how to use the microwave!"
  • "Nice place for day out but food was well overpriced and worst quality, so bring picnic with you."

Animal Welfare

Pros:

  • "Next to this, there is a wonderful mini farm with animals in such as chickens, goats, sheep, and fish. They all look very well cared for and are mostly roaming free!"
  • "A great place to visit with the kids, especially on a rainy day. There are various farm animals, chickens, ducks, goats etc."
  • "Lots of animals to see including friendly goats who like to be petted."
  • "Very child friendly - they loved the animals especially the ducks and ducklings."
  • "We absolutely love this place, it's a little gem. So much information and lots of things to look at."
  • "Fabulous place with loads of things to see and do for the kids: real blacksmith demonstration, punch and judy, chickens, goats, sheep, geese, treasure hunt (find the objects), great cafe, bar, lots of mocked-up traditional spaces (dairy, post office), working water wheel and mechanism for mill (saw, milling stone etc.), traditional weaving and making demonstration."
  • "Absolutely fantastic a real proper place. Feed the animals and some really informative information and history the kids loved it."

Cons:

  • "Really sad looking animals (a couple of goats they exploit for cheese, loads of ducks and chicks)."
  • "Caged in tiny enclosures, looking as depressed as I felt seeing them."
  • "Some pretty sad looking animals right at the back, brightened by some cute ducklings."
  • "A lot of the animals were not in their homes (we believe that Covid has had an impact)."
  • "Strange, tired, tatty, weird.... 'This way to goats and sheep' er.....no goats, no sheep just some very bored looking rabbits in a smallish cage."
  • "Unfortunately, only saw ducks today. No other animals. Which is a shame."
  • "Being asked on 6 September to pay full price to see a few rabbits, 3 ducks and 2 Guinea pigs is beyond a joke."

Facilities & Maintenance

Pros:

  • "Also the fact you can park there, pay for entry then use the carpark to walk to the three cliffs bay is ideal!!!"
  • "Parking spaces are available... free."
  • "You can either pre-book parking (check their site) or pay at the visitor center."
  • "Car parking is free and entry reasonably priced."
  • "Good parking for £4 all day. Smallish carpark, but great facilities with toilets and a choice of a lovely rustic bakery where they serve hot drinks as well."
  • "We recently visited Three Cliffs Bay last week, and picked this site as base for parking, picnic area and most importantly, a clean (or as clean as you’ll get) toilet facility."
  • "Amazing place to camp overnight in your vehicle/campervan for £12. Toilets open all night and shower tokens £1."

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