Calderglen Country Park and Zoo Reviews Summary

Park and Zoo

Pros:

• "The grounds in general are well maintained and the place is clean."
• "Great play parks for all ages, woodland walks."
• "Amazing park with excellent mini zoo."
• "It is wheelchair accessible and has clean amenities during business hours."
• "The admission is less than £2 per person and is one of the best kept zoo's I have been to."
• "The play park is amazing! Swings, slides, zip lines, climbing frames and all beautifully maintained."
• "Fantastic zoo with loads to look at and see."

Cons:

• "And I'm concerned with the squirrels, they look very overfed and obese."
• "Walks round the park not suitable for people with walking difficulties or wheelchairs."
• "Parking a nightmare due to works being carried out and general footfall to the park."
• "The walk through the park woods was nice but lots of used poo bags just left lying around."
• "The park has hardly any decent play equipment for my three year old. She was bored quite quickly."
• "Couldn't find the porcupine having been round a few times!"
• "If you're intending to see the animals in peace then maybe better not to go, for it is infested with families with ill disciplined wains."

Food and Beverages

Pros:

• "The food from cafe is nice but the price a bit steep, so picnic is best option for us personally."
• "Good cheap family day out here if you were to stay out of the cafe."
• "Fantastic Halloween event at the Courtyard Cafe!"
• "The cafeteria is small but great. Lovely staff."
• "Coffee was fantastic along with home baking."
• "The food was good, well priced and served with a smile."
• "The cafe has lovely cakes and biscuits!"

Cons:

• "As a finally we went to the courtyard for the worst hot chocolate I've seen."
• "Only thing that bothered me was the price of 2 ice creams £5 for a Cornetto and a Calypso."
• "The courtyard cafe is ridiculously overpriced and the food is sub standard."
• "The chips we ordered from the café were easily the worst chips I've ever had."
• "Absolutely disgraceful attitude from the staff went today with family 40 mins to wait on 2 kids lunches 5 each for them to give them half a sandwich each asked the staff if that was all the kids got for the price to get laughed at straight to my face will defo not be back staff are disgraceful 😡"
• "The cafe service is garbage. Take your order wait 30 minutes hand you a bag of cold bland food."
• "I would not recommend the cafe. I was in today, my friend and I had soup and an egg sandwich on brown bread. The bread was stale and had mould on it."

Accessibility and Facilities

Pros:

• "Plenty of parking most of the time."
• "Parking very near the park."
• "It cost absolutely nothing, beautiful walks, and gardens."
• "Free parking."
• "Wheelchair access in most areas, free car parking in main car park."
• "Entry to the park itself is free snd so is the parking."
• "Great parking for hundreds of cars."

Cons:

• "The parking can be a pain on warm days, as you'll end up in the overflow car park."
• "Too busy, 20 minute queue to get in, no parking spaces and one way system meant it was impossible to move around the car park trying to get a place."
• "Couldn't find a cash machine near by."
• "Got there only to not get a space for people holding them for friends and family! Staff not helpful stating there is nothing they will do about it!"
• "Poorly signposted in the middle of extensive roadworks, July 2021."
• "Watch the road leading into it though as it is riddled with large potholes."
• "Difficult to get to if you don't have a car."