Tamar View Nurseries Reviews Summary

Garden Centre

Pros:

• "An independent garden centre with the usual mix garden and household goods alongside a wide range of shrubs and plants."
• "Its bigger than what you may think. But it still retains the feel of a small garden center."
• "Brilliant garden centre. Fantastic indoor and outdoor plants."
• "Popped into this beautifully laid out and well presented Garden Centre."
• "Good place to buy plants, gifts, garden accessories for reasonable prices."
• "A great nursery with a good variety of plants and pots."
• "Really good nursery and garden centre. Huge selection of good quality plants, lots of inspirational displays and very friendly staff."

Cons:

• "The main shopping area for gifts, furniture etc is tired looking, grubby and in need of a deep cleanse."
• "Display was very poor this year, not a patch on previous years."
• "The main entrance is not inviting and the whole place could do with an injection of cash and be upgraded."
• "Beware! The house plants are full of death plugs!"
• "I used to love Tamar View as a garden centre for gardeners with competitively priced plants and a comprehensive range of tools, compost, seeds, pots etc. I haven't been for a while and was disappointed to find it has turned into a far more mainstream 'run of the mill' 'afternoon out' place."
• "Also they do not supply coir Compost if you want to garden with a conscience and avoid peat."
• "Uneven paving around pot plant displays are a trip hazard."

Restaurant & Food

Pros:

• "A lovely restaurant on site and a few small shops make it a perfect place to spend a few hours."
• "Can highly recommend Tamar View for magical christmas and an excellent selection of gifts for all occasions."
• "A magnificent homemade scone served with real butter and jam was delicious as were the cheesy topped chips."
• "l want to give a massive thank to Mandy and her daughter who put on a lovely wake for us today in the restaurant. the cakes and sandwiches were filling and exquisite."
• "The food is so delicious and ample portions,the jacket potato meal was huge and exceptional extras on the plate."
• "The foods are yummy and reasonably priced."
• "Food was wonderful as always."

Cons:

• "The staff were rude and avoided our table when it was obvious we weren’t eating our meals!!"
• "Attractive Christmas displays in the shop but food not so good."
• "The sausage was black and looked like it had been cooked about five times."
• "Staff were annoyed that we ordered food close to their finish time. An unpleasant experience all round."
• "The bacon hadn't been freshly cooked and was not pleasant the hash brown was soggy and the sausage over cooked!"
• "One tiny jam with cream tea, despite large scone, had to ask for cutlery; staff seemed a bit stressed."
• "What a rip off! “Filter” coffee tasted like instant."

Customer Service

Pros:

• "We were made very welcome."
• "Staff are friendly, polite and helpful."
• "100% For customer service."
• "Always very polite, very helpful when items are not on show, staff took me to get my item I needed."
• "Staff very friendly."
• "Staff members are lovely, very polite and friendly."
• "The staff are friendly and knowledgeable."

Cons:

• "The inability of management to accept the possibility that there was a hygiene issue left us with no option but to provide stool samples to environmental health."
• "Staff was very ubrupt to my colleague but friendly to me."
• "None of the staff seemed capable of smiling."
• "The staff member of their shop outside, which does fish and reptiles, was rude."
• "The lady at the till tutted at me because I wanted to pay cash and she didn't have much change in the till!"
• "Unfortunately this visit was spoiled due to having a miserable, rude, abrupt, impatient waitress, named Sharon."
• "At the point of paying at the till some of the staff could try to be a bit friendlier when taking your payment."

Facilities & Cleanliness

Pros:

• "Toilets were clean and smelled lovely."
• "The car park is huge so no issues parking even at the busiest of times."
• "Laid out spaciously and plenty of room for wheel chairs which is a good thing."
• "Ample parking and good access for those with mobility problems."
• "Free parking and rest rooms available."
• "Plenty of parking and good toilet facilities outside."
• "Also, lots of parking structure for free."

Cons:

• "The tables looked like they hadn't been cleaned and very stained."
• "There were dead fish in the ponds look like been there a while, other ponds the water was dirty so couldn't see fish properly."
• "Chairs need a clean, tables not clean and the general maintenance around the place is not great."
• "The floor hadn't been swept under our table."
• "Windows and windowseel was dirty."
• "The shop was freezing."
• "Ordered food.....they got it wrong. Saw them filling sauce bottles up from other containers with no care for use by dates. Sweeping the floor whilst we ate so all the dust and floor grime were blew in the air and settled on everyone's food."