A lovely, warm and sunny day and we drove for an hour to Wakehurst Place, a National Trust property that’s managed and used by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. We’ve been two or three times previously. The trees are wonderful, in fact the whole place is wonderful.
Minor(?) quibble. Whilst the main café was fine, today the small café in the entrance area was in dire need of additional staff, to clear tables as well as to serve drinks and snacks in a timely fashion.
We were somewhat taken aback when inserting our parking ticket in the machine prior to leaving to discover a charge of £13.50 (for over 2½ hours it’s the all day charge). Looking at TripAdvisor it appears we’re not the only ones left a little shocked. It seems that if you’re a National Trust member you pay a parking charge but if you’re not a member and thus having to pay the entrance fee to the gardens then the car park is free. Swings and roundabouts, eh!
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