National Trust - Colby Woodland Garden Reviews Summary

Tea Room & Cafe

Pros:

• "The Bothy tea room on site. FABULOUS!! They do gluten free bread and all their cakes were gluten free too!!!"
• "Cafe offered good range of sandwiches and staff were friendly, ice creams were the highlight."
• "The tea room had amazing cakes and the coffee was good too."
• "The independently run cafe is perhaps the best I've ever visited at a National Trust property, with so many cakes to die for!"
• "Excellent tea room, fabulous cakes, Cornish sticky apple and almond cake - unbelievable!!! Yum!!!."
• "The cafe serves gorgous food."
• "Tea rooms have delicious food and cakes."

Cons:

• "Lovely site but disappointed with very expensive cafe and limited choice of food choice and staff treated customers like a conveyor belt (pay here, go there, no not there, into a waiting area)."
• "Cafe is a looked a little pricey but we didn't get chance to sample the wares."
• "The cafe is nice although a little expensive but the food was tasty."
• "Good shop, good cafe, but rather an expensive entry fee."
• "Quite expensive in the cafe so we walked down to Amroth."
• "Although it states dog friendly you are not allowed into the shop/reception where you pay or show your membership cards!"
• "Dogs not allowed in walled garden so we didn't see it. Four stars only because of dining experience (didn't have one, although a good choice). Huge queue, one in, one out (but better safe than sorry!)."

Gardens & Walks

Pros:

• "An exceptional garden with a walk to the sea."
• "Really beautiful place to walk around especially if you have dogs."
• "Beautiful national trust gardens and surroundings."
• "Most amazing wildlife / trees like you have never seen them, flowers of a different kind."
• "What a beautiful place! Summer or Winter, Spring or Autumn, there is always something new to delight in."
• "Fantastic spot, beautiful scenery, plenty of parking and lots of walks."
• "Wonderful estate with a lovely walled garden, and a beautiful meadow."

Cons:

• "The gardens are beautiful but very difficult to access using a wheelchair."
• "Not really much to see one good walk around the valley not really dog friendly."
• "THE ONLY STRESSFULL PART WAS THE NARROW COUNTRY LANES TO AMROTH WHICH WAS VERY SCARY!"
• "Couldn't go in the walled gardens because we have a dog so disappointed with that."
• "Thought there could have been better signage of the main route to follow around the woods and mention of the many carvings in the grounds not shown on visitor map."
• "The gardens aren't really wheelchair accessible."
• "Perfectly pleasant walking, but we didn't find the snowdrops we went to see or the walled gardens because they are not signposted."

Facilities & Accessibility

Pros:

• "Parking is free on Sundays but you can leave a small donation which is good as it goes towards keeping the grounds maintained."
• "Wheel chair access is good here too although some inclines to maneuver around."
• "Large field by a lovely stream to picnic by."
• "The estate opens between 10am - 5pm every day of the week, and there is a pay and display carpark that is free for National Trust members with a valid memberships card."
• "Great value for money (free entry, £6 parking all day, free parking for blue badge or National Trust members), and a really peaceful, relaxing day for all ages of our family."
• "National trust members free you just need to validate your membership card on the ticket machine in the car park, and display ticket in car."
• "Parking is free for National Trust members."

Cons:

• "Limited phone signal. No card only coin car park ticket machine."
• "There are toilets in site but not many other facilities."
• "I am a disabled 71 year old & was informed that Colby Gardens was scooter friendly. It definitely wasn't."
• "This is not a wheelchair accessible place really. There is a drop off place on the flat by the tea shop but the paths are deep gravel or grass."
• "One thing that really didn't impress us, especially as paid-up NT members, was a complete lack of bins, either in the car parks or within the woodland garden."
• "Could do with more picnic benches in the meadow."
• "The main woodland garden is free to NT members but around £8 per adult otherwise, and if you're not a member, I honestly wouldn't bother."