Stonehenge Visitor Centre Reviews Summary

Category: Visitor center

Address: Salisbury, SP4 7DE, United Kingdom

Phone: +443703331181

Rating: 4.4
based on 598 reviews.

Visitor Centre & Facilities

Pros:

  • "Great facilities including a lovely restaurant area. Prices are competitive and all items were fresh and tasty."
  • "Lots of informations, great help getting on and off the bus, accommodating for my assistance dog."
  • "The visitor centre is very informative."
  • "The facilities here are great, the exhibition and the visitors centre as a whole are really good."
  • "There's a lot more information at various points around the site that was very helpful."
  • "The Museum and Cafe are excellent."
  • "The interactive visitors experience and museum was very interesting."

Cons:

  • "The museum, pre stones, was just plain rubbish."
  • "Cafe while nice is very overpriced at £7+ for a soft drink and a sausage roll."
  • "The setup is top class, but the media content is very basic, like a screensaver to say the most."
  • "The exhibition entrance is included with the ticket price but the immersive show is very very poor."
  • "The exhibition was very interesting and educational but quite small and very crowded."
  • "The visitor centre is around 2km away from the actual stones, so you’ll either have to wait for a shuttle bus or take a walk."
  • "The visitors center was very crowded which reminded me of how London underground get’s in the rush hour period."

Accessibility & Transportation

Pros:

  • "A free shuttle bus takes visitors from the centre to & from the stones."
  • "There's ample parking spaces available, including disabled parking spaces, too."
  • "There is a shuttle bus service to the site, or you can walk there, your choice."
  • "Absolutely worth a visit. Plenty of parking spaces."
  • "Also shuttle busses running regular trips to and from the visitor center to the monument."
  • "Regular shuttles from the centre to the henge."
  • "Shuttle service to Stonehenge site every 15 minutes."

Cons:

  • "Toilets are available only at visitor centre."
  • "Parking was quite a challenge and the queue for the pre-ordered tickets was at least 20 minutes long."
  • "Using the shuttle bus will mean that you lose out exploring the wider area which is worth exploring."
  • "BUT be warned dogs are not allowed in the bus (except guidedogs) so you will need to walk nice and relaxing 2.5 km / 1.5 miles there and back through a well-trodden field."
  • "The café was very crowded and we ended up eating elsewhere."
  • "Shuttle bus to Stonehenge is overcrowded but is fine on the way back due to a time schedule."
  • "The lines to get on the busses were just too long and to stand and wait in the heat not an option."

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "In general, everything is very conveniently organized and quite reasonable prices."
  • "Gift shop is mostly very reasonably priced. One style of t-shirts are on clearance at £5 (the price of a second hand shirt) and jackets are at £40 (too high)."
  • "Clean bathrooms and range of souvenirs from simple to expensive."
  • "Free for National Trust and English Heritage members which is worth it otherwise it's like £26 per person."
  • "English heritage members go free."
  • "Entry was included in our National Trust Membership."
  • "If you are English Heritage member this place will be free to access."

Cons:

  • "You also have to pay nearly £60 extra per person if you wish to go into the stone circle."
  • "The price of the ticket was £26.30. In my opinion, it is too high."
  • "Entrance fee and gift shop was (expectedly) expensive."
  • "The tickets itself are really expensive and the pathway next to the touristy pathway around the stone circle is completely accessible for free."
  • "The overpriced Stones hoodie and biscuits felt a bit like poor taste and scamming tourists."
  • "The entry price is a bit steep and the prices shown in the gift shop are slightly dishonest."
  • "Stone Henge is inspiring but family ticket is expensive for what it is."

Overall Experience

Pros:

  • "I thoroughly enjoyed my visit this time. 5 stars."
  • "A wonderful and majestic experience."
  • "The stone circle itself is a must-see, bucket list-worthy experience."
  • "What a beautiful piece of countryside and these monoliths are beautiful."
  • "Whilst very busy, did not ruin the trip and if you have never been its worth the detour."
  • "Visited Stonehenge and was truly captivated by its ancient beauty and mystery."
  • "A fabulous experience."

Cons:

  • "Due to the crowds I did not have time to visit anything else, which was a shame."
  • "Word of warning as someone with epilepsy the 360 video did have strobe lighting, i asked if there would be any and was told there would not - this was obviously not the case."
  • "Very special part of history shame to see it is so commercial like most destinations now."
  • "It was worth seeing the place, but I have no need to see it again."
  • "All in all very disappointing."
  • "It's stone henge. Worth a look if you're near but not something I'd go too far out of my way to see to be honest."
  • "To be honest there wasn't much to see or learn that a good documentary couldn't tell you."

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