Buckmore Park Kart Circuit Reviews Summary

Track and Circuit Quality

Pros:

• "Brilliant circuit been racing there for years, it's a good 1km long international circuit with clear and well defined kerbs and track limits."
• "Great kart circuit, well run and maintained, basically a race circuit in miniature with proper kerbs to run for the racing line, and fast flowing corner combinations."
• "An amazing outdoor track in Kent, with plenty of challenging straights, curves and hairpin bends."
• "Buckmore Park is a phenomenal track - the downhill section is incredibly fun, and each corner has its own particular challenge."
• "One of the best circuits in the country, elevation change, tight corners, fast downhill sweeps."
• "The track is challenging with different lines. Karts are suitable and they even catered for a friend who lost his leg with an adapted kart."
• "The track is cleverly designed for good racing and the first corner sweep is good, fun."

Cons:

• "Many of the karts having major steering issues or being significantly down on power leading to speed deficits of at least half a second if not more for some karts."
• "The surface needs sorting in places as it seems old and is bumpy."
• "Bit of a grueling track, uphill, downhill & lots of bumps (as seen by amount of Karts with cracks in chassis)."
• "Only problem is the the track itself. You just feel like you've been going round in circles the whole time."
• "At one of the turns, a pit awaits you and it is frustrating."
• "Only little gripe would be that there’s a nasty pot hole on the first bend."
• "extremely inconsistency between gokarts."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Professional and helpful staff on hand at all times."
• "The staff are absolutely brilliant. I've been here three times and cannot have been happier."
• "Staff were superbly organised."
• "The team were super helpful arranging food for the boys, getting merchandise sorted out which I ordered for party bags and serving and supporting on the day for them and their friends."
• "The instructors and staff are all very knowledgeable about karting and extremely friendly."
• "All staff were professional friendly and made the whole event great fun."
• "The staff are friendly and accommodating."

Cons:

• "Really ruined the whole experience for us. What happened to the rib padding too? Because now I'm really suffering for it & on my birthday."
• "Having travelled 2.5 hours to watch the karting that was disappointing."
• "Another thing Is one of the staff members was fairly rude."
• "When my husband raised this, he was told by a member of staff that there are not sufficient bookings to separate people on different levels."
• "The guy doing the safety presentation was a little grumpy."
• "Didn't get told the minimum age when booking. We had to drive an hour to get to this particular park, and when we started booking in my little cousin wasn’t allowed to get in."
• "Yesterday was absolutely diabolical, people have been replaced by their machines and so many mistakes were made and the lack of safety on the track was a massive concern for me & my group."

Facilities and Amenities

Pros:

• "The facilities were very clean and tidy very friendly and helpful staff."
• "The facilities are modern and clearly well looked after."
• "Facilities are clean and well maintained with a nice cafe to get snacks and coffee."
• "Provides race suits, balaclava, helmet and gloves."
• "All the kit - race suit, gloves and under helmet balaclava freshly laundered and nice and clean ready to go for your race."
• "Buckmore park has a very professional set up, with a full safety briefing and timing system."
• "The races are modernised by the marshals viewing everything through cameras along the course and displaying any penalties/warnings through custom digital displays that specify which kart the warnings apply to."

Cons:

• "One participant was hospitalised though with some minor issues, due to a heavy crash (and some over-enthusiastic participants)."
• "Thought on site cafe expensive compared to other tracks around the country."
• "Clubcard vouchers are now less welcome than they were before, and buy you less than they used to, with much less track availability in which to use them."
• "The food which was provided for the children and what us adults had was a little under par and over cooked."
• "Lovely staff but the mini cars were a total disappointment for the boys... Really unacceptable for the price charged."
• "The food is disgusting for that hamburger they charged 6 pounds and it did not have anything of what it said in the menu."
• "On a very cold day it was a shame the indoor cafe was closed."

Value and Pricing

Pros:

• "This time we actually had food too and I have to say it was great! Really good value and quality."
• "Also the food is very tasty!"
• "Got lucky and got a cheap price; £30 for 30 minutes straight."
• "Pricing is not obscenely high either."
• "The food served in the paddock was brilliant!"
• "You can book your drive, ride time now so no long queues."
• "Good little cafe, serving decent food and drinks for spectators."

Cons:

• "Prices have gone up. Noticeably."
• "Good day but safety is concerning. Numerous marshals staring at screen whilst crashes happened around them which did result in more incidents."
• "Definitely spoilt the event when it didn’t have to."
• "It wasn’t until the following day I found out that ‘plastic overalls’ should have been issued on wet days."
• "The outdoor burger chips kiosk was fine but the queue was long and the 2 poor girls working in it found it hard to keep up with the food orders."
• "extremely inconsistency between gokarts."
• "my son went onto the track in the 11 to 15 yr olds lower junior track and what a load of rubbish!"