fabrice terrochaire

Review of Essex County Council / Marsh F...

A nice place but feel a little run down at start.

A nice place but feel a little run down at start.

The good and bad:

Good: f
1) Free parking and ample parking.
2) Tickets office to the job.
3) Entry through gift shop.
4) Lovely animals to see.
5) Nice external playground at end and indoor playground inside main building at centre.
6) Tractor ride included.
7) Staff are really nice and helpful.
8) I liked the shows during summer where children could touch the rabbits and the ferret: the two young men doing the show were funny; for Easter break there was none of this.
9) I liked also the halloween time with pick your pumpkin from the field and then learn to carve your pumpkin: my kid loved this and was proud to have been helped and succeeded and carving her own pumpkin.

The bad:
1) If it was not for the two playgrounds, I think my kid would be bored.
2) The little shows in the barn are sometimes ok some other times not funny at all. The three D films are ok i guess.
3) The tractor ride is ok but nothing to see apart from flat green land: I enjoyed it because it was a refreshing break for me; but my child did not particularly enjoyed and was cold.
4) inflatable tractor at start is totally run down and lost all its colours: need replacing.
5) the first playground is closed I think and run down: does not look nice to enter to such vision: a run down inflatable and playground.
6) along the far playground which is really nice, behind a fence safe, a tractor was used to dump what seems to be broken things: was noisy and does not give you the feel of top notch place for children and animals.