Dedham Vale National Landscape — Attraction in Colchester

Me and my family came all the way from Saudi to explore Colchester,and decided to visit this cutesy small village

The restaurant was great,we were a pretty big group when we came in ,but we got seated fairly quickly the food was amazing too.

To be honest the boat riding was a little overwhelming, the boat WASN’T tied to the deck when we tried to get on which tbh horrified me a little, when we started to row it was just to many people in the lake it became a norm to just row into people and vice versa And if you thought you weren’t going to get wet, you would.

Overall it was a nice and fun experience and the whole thing had a rustic atmosphere to it, so it was a great...

My comments apply to "Dedham", especially the river. I'm not sure which part is "Dedham Vale AONB". A lovely river but unfortunately you're not allowed to use an electrically propelled boat. It's purely rules for the sake of rules because the owners of the river have electric propelled boats anyway, no logic! The car park payment notice is very hard to understand mainly because the instructions contradict themselves but is a reasonable cost once we understood it. Tip: you need both the app and coins because the app doesn't always work, especially if you've already used it that day. Despite my negative comments I recommend seeing this place, both on the river and...

I love this place. Its getting too commercialised for me it use to be a lovely quiet place to sit and have a picnic but, no it's always busy and people leave their rubbish laying around. Unfortunately it's no.more a peaceful place to go. Even the water ways are like the m25 in rush hour. It is a beautiful place. I now go in the evenings when everyone has gone home or very early in the morning before others are awake and watch the...