Alnwick Castle & The Alnwick Garden Reviews

Lovely afternoon at Alnwick Gardens, fantastic place to visit. Staff were courteous and helpful. Special mention goes to the young man in the poison plant garden, so knowledgeable and enthusiastic. A grand day out.

Beautiful gardens, interesting exhibits. Wish we could stay there for a whole day

Recent landscape in a historic castle. Nearby coast and town worth a visit.

Really beautiful garden with fantastic plants. Great tours in the poison garden and a brilliant fountain through the middle. Even good fun on a relatively rainy day!

Impressive undercover area with seating. Coffee, drinks, cakes available. A nice walk on the gardens finishing with a free guided tour of the Poison Garden, don't get any bad ideas!

Beautiful garden ... with very nice water features ... the poison garden was very special and a nice tour.

Amazing water features, flora and fauna. The poison garden tour was surprisingly educational.

Beautiful gardens and many mobility scooters available for those who struggle to walk

Lovely place to visit been several times over the years never disappointed

The gardens are extensive and mostly accessible for mobility scooters (can be hired from place if rung up before to book) bought in conjunction with Castle tickets, spent 5 hours there, it's amazing

Lovely large garden with different areas to see. Fantastic fountain. Superb in April during the week the cherry blossoms are out.

Beatiful garden. Also a fun tour in the poison garden is highly recommended

Absolutely amazing, had a great day with the family

Fresh modern Gardens with fascinating water features and enthusiastic guides

Great place beautiful and plenty to keep kids entertained too

Don't get me wrong the Gardens are beautiful, but why is nothing signposted? It would have made visit more enjoyable.

Very beautiful and lovely place to visit. I particularly enjoyed the tour around poison garden, where Jo was our tour guide and was informative but also added some humour to the tour. It would have been nice to visit the tree house but More

A great day out, well kept gardens with lots of interesting features.

First class entertainment for kids ( and adult "kids") go learn to fly a broomstick

Wonderfully relaxing garden and only wish we had more time here.

Alnwick Gardens are a great place to come and visit with the family. While there isn't a lot to see you can just as easily keep entertained by yourself. Kids have a lot of places they can run around and there's a lot of places where you can just lay down a picnic blanket and enjoy home made food. Definitely will be visit again.

Just walked past went in gift shop wasnt much there looked through the gates and saw a big waterfall thingy. Been there before when I was younger so no point in paying now.

I love Alnwick Gardens but their Christmas lights were very disappointing. We saw better displays on the houses on the way home!!

Just beautiful! Very well designed gardens with a few modern twists along the way!

Fab place for.all the family. We bought a yearly pass

The gardens are spectacular. The fountains and waterfall are unique.

It was closed, too renovations will be delighted to go back again would have been more stars but the staff at the restaurant spoke very degrading towards us, especially about availability exact words, "sorry but we can't let you in as we are fully booked, next weekend we are aswell and the following don't even think about it."

Well worth a visit. Combine with Alnwick Castle to make it a full day experience Great for all ages.

Fairly busy though there s timed entry. Good garden to take children, plenty of space to run about and fun water features. Cascades striking. Trees and hedging excellently kept. Perennial herbaceous plantings are a bit dull. Ample picnic More

This is just the loveliest, most individual garden, from inspiringly beautiful formal areas to completely wacky ones. So beautiful, in so many different ways. And the Poison Garden, only to be seen in small guided groups, is fascinating, great fun and very educational

Surprisingly gorgeous and relaxing. We went during the week in the afternoon so missed most of the crowds. The fountains, layout and everything is well thought out, and it looks like there's plenty of activities during the summer holidays for kids too! Definitely go for a tour of the poison garden, and look at the water sculptures in the serpent garden.

A beautiful place to visit, all the staff helpful and friendly.

Stunning. Such well laid out, gorgeous gardens. It's such a delightful place to just stroll around and sit and enjoy the beauty. Would highly recommend! My wife didn't want to leave.

beautiful well kept Gardens you can easily spend a few hours in. If you've got kids in the summer make sure they've got their bathers with them as they can play in the water attractions. And enjoy a guided tour through the poison garden. The water cascade operates at timed intervals

Wow!

We came for the castle, but the gardens are amazing!!

Great landscaping with lots to see, plants need some attention though

Expensive but you really can see what the money has been spent on.

I really liked Alnwick Gardens which I visited this month with my sister and friends. The gardens are beautifully designed and remarkably mature for such a young garden. The gated poison garden was surprisingly interesting and we all learnt something.

Afterwards we lounged in the sun on the grass at the site where Neville Longbottom's lost his remembrall and Harry Potter & Malfoy Lestrange took to the air: Alnwick Castle

Beautiful place. Loved the poison garden tour. Very calm and relaxing. I would recommend it only on a sunny day to truly appreciate it.

Beautiful place and lots to do. Perfect for a family day out or a wedding

Wonderful gardens with water feature, mazes, swings and poison garden. Worth going. Amazing. Xx

Wanted to see the poison garden but had to queue to be shown round. Time constraints prevented us so we're left disappointed. The rest of the garden was worth seeing.

Loved this place, tour of the pump Room was excellent

Best place ever. Everything about it is beautiful. I would go there with my family always.

The poison garden tour is worth the admin on its own, Raymond very informative and realised I had a Mis spent youth with dock leafs

Visited the gardens today as an annual pass holder, today was my first covid experience. A pre-booked ticket is required as they're limiting entry numbers to encourage social distancing.

On pulling up in the car park, I'm afraid it was a fail. We pulled into the car park and drove past a sign advising that you still needed to pay for parking. The Gent controlling the car park was friendly enough, told us how much to pay and only then advised that it was contractless payment only, great, well thought out, payment made... then the fail, the gloved, masked Gent then reached out and passed me a paper map.. all that work undone if he was contaminated passing it to every car visiting.

Walking into the park was easy, well sign posted, the only fault being that for some of the visitors "PLEASE WALK TO THE RIGHT" is too hard to understand, numerous times the one way system was destroyed by people not being able to read and follow simple instructions. The first hand sanitiser station was sadly stood loud and proud, but empty....pointless, staff were told and premised to report it.

There are sanitiser stations throughout the gardens, all well placed and foam sanitiser that doesn't leave you sticky, it was noticeable that there are no bins at all apart from the entry and exit areas, this was noticeable because people had disposed of paper masks on the floor, again, disappointing.

The toilets are clean and tidy and well maintained and although food was available we didn't eat there, but the food did look lovely and the staff were wearing visors, gloves and aprons.

Going into the shop does require masks to be worn, so don't forget them as you'll need to talk through the shop to actually exit the gardens.

An ice cream was bought and was nice to see the guy washing his hands between each customer, though sadly the ice cream cone is placed in a plastic stand, so again, if anyone else is infected and touches the stand... everyone else gets infected.

A nice, well distanced experience that seemed fairly well managed throughout.

The gardens and castle really are spectacular, lots of tactile water features that the children love. Cafe was very good with hot and cold choices.

We didn't visit the castle but the gardens were beautiful helped by the excellent weather. The roots and shoots garden we enjoyed as we too have an allotment and they have several small ones there for the community and education.

Very quiet in winter but should be glorious in spring

What an absolutely outstandingly beautiful place this is.
Kids 0-4 go free!!

The staff are great!
The grounds themselves are spotless, and the amount of things you can do and see is endless.
On a warm sunny day there is no better place!

Definitely visit the Gardens if you come to Northumberland. There's something for everyone.

Lovely garden with lots of water related action to see. The swing chairs were a pleasant suprise in the cherry Blossom woodland area. Grand cascade water fall a great centre piece.

The castle is ok, buy the garden is very nice. Need atleast 3-4 hours to visit the whole garden

Fantastic facilities, great for a family day out. Wish I lived closer I'd go all the time!

To make a beautiful place, put yourself under the plant tunnels on a bench and take the time .... Admire the fountains, plants, flowers .... enjoy the moment, it is perfect at this place.

As a coach driver i was appauled at the way little hitler was like with me when i was dropping a school group off and picking a group up to take along to the farm she had no customer skills what so ever to try and tell me i had to park in coach park and for the group off year 4 school kids to cross a busy road to come and meet me there