The Bottle Houses and Gardens — Attraction in Cap-Egmont

Talk about a tourist trap. The only option to enter the grounds is through the gift shop. The staff only side entrance was not allowed. So since they force you to still wear a mask. Cheap paper blue masks are provided for free to those that care. I asked my wife to go back in and get a refund for my admission as I refuse to be forced to do anything. My wife has been talking about seeing these glass bottle houses for 13 years as we didn't make it here the last time we were on the island. They spent $20 to look for 15 mins. Funny how the rest of the island that we've visited this past week seems to got with the times and know that unless we are talking N95 masks. Anything else is a joke. I mean we played bingo at a legion on Monday night for 2 hours surrounded by maskless people. The 1 star review will stand no matter what the owner my reply with, unlike other reviewers here that have modified their reviews after a response. All you would have needed to offer is if I didn't want to wear a mask, you should have allowed me to walk around the side and remain outdoors. But, alas the tripe of forcing the visitors through the gift shop has earned this poor review. Warning to any other tourists if you have principles regarding being told how you must comply, I'd suggest skipping this location. Speak with your dollars. It's the only way forward for these types of businesses. This review was not done lightly. I also don't leave reviews unless it's a very positive or...

Pretty much a tourist trap that we visited with eyes open, willingly giving them our money for some photos and the ability to say we'd been there. Notably, they still request everyone to wear face coverings and had the blue paper masks available at the door for free. They were slightly dog friendly, agreeing that our Minnie could visit - if we carried her. Overall, it was amazing the amount of work the artist undertook to create these building, but we left shaking our heads that he might have been slightly crazy to do so. We had fun.

I originally gave this place a three star review, basically as I was grading on a curve and it seems impossible that every attraction we visit would get a four or five star review. After reading their extensive and well written comment I felt compelled to reconsider and kick it up a notch or two.

We visit almost every "tourist trap" we drive by, and don't consider that description a hard negative. Tourist traps can be fun, quirky, interesting, and many other adjectives - this one was at least those three. We are not gardeners, but did appreciate the gardens. Sorry for putting Minnie down a couple times - she is very well behaved and well traveled herself, and even 15 pounds gets heavy. Wish I had known about the doggy wagons!

Oh, it's actually amazing how many bottle houses there are. We've visited...

Beautiful little place to stop while touring Prince Edward Island. The light shining in through the glass bottles is quite lovely. You can see how much love went into building them. There are approximately 25,000 recycled glass bottles used to create 3 bottle houses. Cute little gift shop with a wide variety of souvenirs. Also a nice garden, a replica of the nearby Cape Egmont lighthouse and lovely views. This place would have received 5 stars if it wasn't for the price of admission. We visited in late May when there weren't many open attractions yet on the island. We were a party of 4 - 2 adults, 1 senior and one child. No other visitors on site. Likely a slow time of year. Instead of giving us the family rate of $20 (maximum 2 adults) we had to pay a whopping $28 dollars for the 4 of us to tour the premises, which honestly wasn't that big and we were only touring the bottle houses for 15 minutes or so. Pretty sure we spent more time browsing...