The Royal Mint Review

Did you realise the Royal Mint was located in a small town just northwest of Cardiff? Me neither, but that's where it is and it's a lovely afternoon out.
The admission prices are reasonable and the tour guide was very knowledgeable. One piece of advice - DO NOT TRY TO TAKE PHOTOS INSIDE THE FACTORY! This is made very clear at the start, but there's always on person who tries their luck; on the tour I went on, it was a guy who worked at the Royal Mint!

Just after this section of the tour you get to see cases of the new 12-sided pound coin; and yes, this does mean shopping trolleys will have to change.
There's then an opportunity to walk thorough an exhibition at your own pace where there are hundreds of coins from all around the world for you to see.
All in all, it's a very pleasing afternoon out.

Great trip out, very informative! Learned a lot and enjoyed reading about the history of the mint. Shame your ticket price doesn't cover a coin you can stamp yourself (this being an optional extra) but don't let that put you off! Great for all ages with stuff for the kids to do.

Short tour but didn't get chance to see production close enough to see the coins that were being produced during our visit and would have been nice to have seen a sample of the coins they were working on during our visit . However some interesting facts and information.

Its a must visit. Fantastic tour and tour guide. (Forgotton her name) glad we did it. Really fascinating !

Tour guide was informative, cafe is a bit expensive but the food was nice. The 50p you strike yourself is worth more than you pay for the trip on ebay so essentially its a free day out!

While the kids are on break from school the Royal mint will be trading up to 5 new 10p for each person who visits between 10am to 2pm. Good opportunity to get 5 lettered new 10p's.

Good day out where you can have a tour of the site and you can press your own coin at the end of the tour.

Really interesting tour with plenty of unknown facts and a wonderful museum to walk through after. Shop has plenty of coin related products to purchase!

More interesting than I expected. But shop very expensive and to mint your own coin.

Fantastic tour by Elouise.... super friendly and enthusiastic!

Very disappointed just received an order from the mint and a coin was missing.

Also a coin album had no sleeves inside I called up to question this as I had not recieved them and they said there picture was wrong but wouldnt do anything about this TERRIBLE

AVOID

Fabulous tour really enjoyed ourselves. Myself and my husband took our niece for her 9th birthday and had a great time. The tour guide Chris was brilliant the tour he gave was really interesting and informative

Excellent - we hadva wonderful and i formative afternoon.

Toyal rip off bringing so many coins out thete killing coin collecting due to there greed !!!

Excellent tour. Get your own coin stamped. Excellent gift shop. Fantastic and knowledgeable staff.

An amazing day out and well worth it. Was fun to learn all about the coins. Will be going back again xx

A very enjoyable visit, and interesting. Production of coins explained and witnessed from the observation window. Worth a visit.

We had a most enjoyable visit. We were perhaps fortunate that our tour numbers were small but our guide, David, was excellent. He obviously has a great knowledge of the Mint and it's history and he was able to impart this in a very easy going manner. At the end of the tour we could not believe how quickly the time had gone by. We spent some time in the museum afterwards and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Whilst David was our tour guide it would be wrong not to say how good and friendly all the staff on the site were. They were all ready and anxious to answer all of our questions.

Our first visit. Very interesting tour with very informative guide. Very well worth a visit and not over priced.

Great tour seeing coin production and museum section very intresting. Worth a visit

Lovely, a little boring but i didn't go for myself, my other half is fascinated with coins lately and I guess this cured his curiosity. Lovely blonde older lady who guided us around gave an in depth, detailed, informative description of the royal mint. I didn't really find much interesting about the process of coin making, It seemed to me common sense, as if I already had that idea in my head anyway so no WOW factor to it.
We punched 3 coins and had a browse around at the end. Also bought a colouring book for our 6 year old which I thought was educational. Guess it's a place to say "yes I've been there" also great to know how much money they make every week, year and not only for the UK they make for Thailand ect..
my partner really enjoyed it though and he wants to work there. *eye roll*

Very informative! But delivered in an interesting and understandable way. I would say not for kids under 10 unless in a school group. Layout is easy and you could spend as little or as much time as you needed here. A word to the wise - DO NOT drink the coffee unless you like coloured water (americano) or hot milk (latte).

I've had experience with the royal mint for a few years now and have purchased several gifts and memories from them. One of my favourite was the Olympic 50p collectors folder. It gave the chance for young and old alike to share in the joys that is coin collecting and socialise by swapping. Not only was it well put together and well set out folder the fact that it was free of charge with any order made was an added bonus. I was lucky enough to get one and i can whole heartedly recommend them if they were ever to produce any more.

Brilliant tour from start to finish. So many treasures, knowledgeable staff, friendly and professional. Well done to you all.

Amazing service and very friendly and knowledgeable

I am happy to pay a decent price for the folder instead of the rip off charges people are asking online such as ebay. I have nothing against making money but they have the folders for free and are making money at the Mint's expence.

Can the RM please create these folders even at a charge so that we know that we are getting a top quality product.

Had a lovely morning here. Our tour guide was informative, easy to hear & understand. The tour was fascinating but the exhibition after was really informative and great to see rare coins and medals. Shop was good too especially for collectors.

I went to the Royal Mint this time for the 10 pence coin swap. Where you give a 10 pence and you can swap it for one of the new alphabet 10 pences. Fortunately, this time the offer was each person could have 5 each, so with mam in tow we had ten. This offer was on for the week, so I went three days in a row and I now have a full set.
I have also done the Royal Mint experience and would highly recommend it. I found it very interesting /informative from start to finish.
Well done to the Royal Mint!!

What can i say that has not all ready been said, i to have all the 50p coins and nowhere to put them.
The Royal mint done us all proud just like a true olympian and done a great range of the 50p's and a great folder to put them in this will truly finish off what i would call a gold perfomance.
I was proud to a god farther only just a few weeks back and gave my godchild the 50p's what a keep sake i thougth untill i went to get a folderto put them in,i can not belive the world that we live in when it comes to get something that was free and to finish off a great collection is for sale on other sites.
So all i can say is well done for a great idea that helped friends and familys coming together on this special year.but sadly we all can't finish what we have started

It's a short tour for the price but a good time out.

Well worked there on a contract. Security right as in armed guards. The visitor experience is great

Well worth a visit, the tour isn't too long that children will get bored and our guide Theodora was excellent, knowledgeable, upbeat and controlled the group well without being too obvious about it. She had a great way with the punters and really knew her stuff.

Excellent and helpful guide, but not a huge amount to see for the price.

Good tour with alot explained but everything is way to expensive and they wont let you swap notes into coins s so you can pay for the oddly priced rubbish we came here for my mums birthday and it was ruined

Very interesting tour, and you can strike your own coin!

Me and my son go every year. Amazing and we never get bored. Halloween this year was fantastic, the activities and show was brilliant.