Kents Cavern Ltd Review

If you're down in Torquay and you don't visit this Cavern, then you're mad! This is one of the best places I've ever visited in the South West. Ok it's really come on over the years as it's now a Unesco world heritage site, but when I first visited 40 years ago there was hardly a thing there and you wouldn't have known it was there as it's surrounded by Flats n Houses.
You book onto a tour and your Guide gathers you round and takes you along the path through the caves. They give a really good basic history of the caves and the people that have lived there and those later that excavated and explored. There are some displays towards the end of the tour and they're easy to read and use for all.
On site the carpark is medium sized, then there's the cafe with a shop. Everything is well kept and clean, prices are reasonable and it's what you'd expect for Torquay.
Me n the Wife pulled up on our Motorcycles and there was nowhere for us to park, so I had a word with a staff member and she phoned through to the manager and asked where we could park, just don't park in the car bays and it's free for Bikes, Bonus! So yep just proves that it's well run and all are considered for a visit.
Give it a few years and I'll go back and do it all again, bloody pleasure to visit.

Fascinating experience highly recommended, Katie the guide was excellent

Simon was a fantastic Guide. I would highly recommend a visit.

Well done tour of the cavern. Lasted 30 minutes and was a nice visit easy walk around. Some demonstrations and talks about the cave that's very old.

Enjoyed the tour of the caves, not too expensive. There is a section in complete darkness so may not be ideal for smaller children.

Very nicely executed tour of the caves. I'm an avid cave explorer and compared to my last experience in Spain this was absolutely perfect. Lit well and narrated even better. Must see and great time!

Alan was an excellent guide!
He was awesome with the children who knew that there may be a gruffalo tooth down there.

Among different ways of discovering the kent's cavern, we had the pleasure of a theatrical performance by some talented actors with gave a tinge of history and a sense of discovery. Thanks !

Incredible caves with a great tour and friendly staff. Well worth visiting if you're in the area.

Amazing experience seeing the Caves. The tour guide we had was funny and informative. I would definitley reccomend though the food was a bit dissapointing.

We had a nice tour and the caves where well preserved which is the most important thing.

An outstanding natural wonder. This is a large and remarkable cave network. A great place to visit at all times of year. Very dark and enclosed however, so possibly not suitable for very young children. Most of the network is highly accessible, so the elderly or disabled may still be able to enjoy this attraction.

Nice little cave system to look around with knowledgeable staff

Great experience in the caves. An excellent place to take the kids too, with plenty of interesting features inside the caves. The guided tours are very interesting, informative and entertaining and the cafe is decent too. I would absolutely recommend this place if you are staying in Torquay.

I would suggest to have a special time for children. As we are trying to listen to the tour guide and kids were just screaming, making it less enjoyable.

Great place to visit and very interesting. Well worth the money.

Great family place, make sure you pick up one of the tourist guides for the area for money off vouchers, we booked online and got 10% back when we presented our voucher at the reception desk on arrival.

we had an incredible experience and strongly recommend visiting. the ticket includes an informative yet entertaining guided tour of a place which is truly historically unique. a mix of geology animal and human history from so many eras all in one place brought alive by the passion of our tour guid David.

My tour guide Elliot was amazing and very informative and interesting. He made the experience 10 times better and all staff were very helpful. They have adapted well to the COVID-19 situation. Definitely recommend going x

Thank you for an excellent tour of the cave today
David was informative and humorous with it
Well worth the money
Once again thank you

Fantastic visit here. Excellent guided tour around the caves that lasted around 55 minutes and was lead by a guy just like Harry Hill! Really funny and engaging and learnt tons about how significant the caves are. Fantastic cafe too with great selection of food and nice coffee!

Value for money, and the tour guide was very good with the children on the tour. Food in the cafe was lovely.

It's an interesting place with alot of history. For me it's not a place I'd visit regularly and when I say that I mean 10+ years.

Thoroughly enjoyed our visit to this amazing place! Considering we (me and my mum) only popped in to kill a bit of time before heading back to Kent, we enjoyed it way more than we thought we would. Our guide, Ursula, was very friendly, passionate and entertaining, and so knowledgeable. We came out an hour later awe inspired! Cannot recommend this tour, or Ursula the guide, highly enough. She really has got her best job the world, and it shows in her tours

Had a great day here with friends.

Restaurant was good with average prices.

It's covid rules are good and makes you feel safer while inside the caves. It's a nice bit of history as well as just an interesting place to walk around. Guided tour is informative and fun.

Very interesting and informative tour, definitely a must see!

Fabulous place for all ages, great tour, great cafe. Been before but long ago. Nice modernization, definitely recommend here

Amber was our guide very informative lovely young lady ... very pleasant tour ... highly recommended... Great atmosphere
Thank you for a great day

Amy escorted our group with tact, information, humour and charm. All ages were included and catered for making the experience most enjoyable.....Rainbow four

Amazing tours with fascinating objects, this is an amazing place to go!

We had a fascinating and educational tour of these caves, enjoyed by all. There is lots to see, and the guides are knowledgeable and friendly. The site includes a cafe and shop. Worth going there every year or so and a great place to take visitors.

Beautiful caves, Shame that you are only allowed to see so little of them. The "guided" tour is about 1 hr long and the guide we had on the day was informative Although his jokes were an acquired taste (pray he never does stand up). My biggest problem with this tour is just how little your actually going to see of the caves, The cave system is huge and has spectacular large open spaces but unfortunately these are not on the tour. I would love to see these caves completely opened up and without the guides there, Ideally the caves would be open to wander through with guides at special and significant places to answer any questions. All in all its a lovely place to visit just dont expect to be seeing the whole cave system as you will only see 15% of it.

What a great place to visit. We have been to a few caves but this had an excellent little addition in one of the caves...will save what it is for when you visit! Defo recommend. Our tour guide was Izzy, friendly, factual and throughly great guide. The exhibitions at the end was nice little touch. Food looked yummy in the cafe but price does reflect that.

Great tour. Very interesting and amazing to look at.

It was fun, our kids enjoyed it, the tour guide definitely made it, he was very amiable and quite funny. The caves were interesting, but your only in their for about an hour. Outside there's a nature trail where you can spot stuff and build a den. Cafe sells nice food too. It was a good place to go on a rainy day, but definitely book online and save a few quid, parking can be tricky as the car park fills up quickly and you have to park on the rd.

Amazing amazing amazing , tours are well structured and informative with friendly staff. Cream tea in the cafe is to die for.

Only managed about an hour and a half tops in the place. Wished there was more to see but our guide Ali was very informative and made it really worthwhile. Didn't get to see the outside area due to the rain. Saved a few pounds booking online that morning which made it a bit more value for money. All that history in one area - brill

Ursula, our guide was great. Very informative and had wonderful interaction with all of us. Caves are amazing .

Fantastic place to visit. Started in cafe which was good value for money then the tour which lasted about an hour. The guide was really good and made the experience even more amazing. The kids loved it.

Just had a lovely tour through the caves with Tom who was fantastic at making rocks interesting! They took social distancing and hygiene seriously which made it more comfortable from that aspect. It was great to learn about the long history of the caves from how nature made them, animals used them and humans blew them up with dynamite. Would definitely recommend as somewhere to visit during a trip to Torquay

Interesting place to visit if you re a local or a tourist. Tour was very informative and the guide was good and added to the experience. It would have been nice to be able to wander the caves by ourselves but understandably you can t as it s an obvious safety risk.

Great place to take the whole family
Good tour guide
And a brilliant cafe

Went there to see with our boys, it was brilliant, the caves really make it feel that you're somewhere totally different, the elves were amazing and was class,
Really well organized
The mulled wine and mince pie is a nice touch for the adults.
The games the boys received we're spot on, they loved playing them when we got home.
A great afternoon and one I'd recommend to families.
Great atmosphere.

Staff was amazing my little girls were scared to go in at first but after 1 of the staff said they could use her torch and go to the front and there would be lights on all way round we went in

I've always like history and I loved all the caves and the man who showed us around was very informative

Great visit! Really interesting tour of the caves, Joel was a great guide with lots if knowledge and funny too. Social distancing in place throughout and was observed too. Definitely recommend a visit

Very good place to visit! The tour guide, Steve was excellent and very engaging. I found the visit informative and interesting.

Total waste of time visiting. As instructed by the website as a single person I rang up to check about tours and was told there was plenty and that I wouldn't be able to book as a member of the TCCT. When I arrived the next afternoon was told as I was alone and no one had booked for 4 pm I would have to wait. Then at 4pm I was told I couldn't go. I was offered and accepted a ticket on the ghost tour as a replacement, which was then withdrawn by the management from what I can tell. Can't criticise the girl who served me but as a supporter of local business and the local countryside trust I can't recommend based on my experience. Not only that but I drove from Paignton so it cost me over an hour of my time and a couple of pounds in fuel.

It was utterly amazing and very interesting. If you like beatrix potter, Kent's cavern is the place to be. She named something there. I will not tell you what that would ruin the surprise.

My husband and I had a super Devon cream tea followed by a superb tour of the cavern by David. He made the history and Geology come alive and I would thoroughly recommend a trip here to enhance a holiday.

It had some interesting things to see in the caves. Wish it could have been longer!! I had a brilliant tour guide called David , who gave us loads of info and was so funny . Worth a visit.

Very nice cave. Interesting. The tour was brilliant with enough facts mixed into the humour and stories to be really fun. Can only recommend.

Must see in Torquay. Fascinating place with great guides. Very funny tour for children and adults.

We went to the first ever showing at the cave cinema and would highly recommend it to anyone! It was a great experience, you're seated in deck chairs which is a brilliant idea so everyone gets a good view of the screen and the sound was great. Well done to whoever decided to introduce the cave cinema and I hope it will now become a regular event. We for sure will definitely be back!!!

Had a great day out and learned lots of interesting things

Good place to go when its pissing down or when u want to I'd say do the tour

The cafe was lovely clean and staff were very friendly. The tour was in a small group and was able to social distance. Very well done to the guide who had a great wealth of information

Our tour guide Katie was excellent and funny.
Great experience and learnt a lot
Would definitely recommend to someone else.

Really interesting tour even my toddler enjoyed it!

Our guide Alan was really good. Interesting visit on rainy day.

Been there before and loved it. I go back occasionally to use the cafe as its good and reasonable. Nice views.

Amazing. A must see the history was of the caven was intresting and our guide had so much information

This was an amazing place to visit for all the family.

The caves are very interesting in terms of geology and history. They allow us to partially learn about the life of our prehistoric ancestors, their living conditions and the subsequent stages of human development.

These are the oldest caves in England. Dated 320 million years ago. Suggestive and particularly interesting. See how prehistoric people lived and how they had to adapt to survive. Stalactites and stalagmites have More

Wonderful staff, who presented a fantastic tour pitched beautifully for our aged children. Highly recommended.