Stanley Park — Attraction in Great Britain

Leaving a 1 star review because 0 stars isn’t an option! I have been to Stanley park many times before usually to the skate park or with family to the play park however, yesterday me and my friend thought it would be nice on our day trip to the otherwise lovely park, to have a go on the peddle boats on the boating lake, only to find the place is run by a child no older than 13. What we witnessed next is appalling! We paid £10 for our 30 minute peddle boat ride to then wait for over half an hour watching people who arrived after us go before us to then find that after they’d closed all the boats other than two motor boats that they’d forgotten us so we had to downgrade from 30 minutes to 15 minutes as we now had to use the motor boat and were told to hurry up on our ride and weren’t even offered a refund or an apology at all! Not to mention the abhorrent state of the boat that we were on as well, littered with rubbish and muck, you could just tell they never get cleaned. We also watched as this young boy gave a group of teenage girls free tickets for use of their e-cigarette. Overall I found the place to be extremely poorly run and would not recommend this experience to anyone. Aside from the boating lake we found Stanley Park to be a great location for a day out and it’s especially great for...

I take my 2dogs to Stanley park every day for walk/run for couple of hours. I always adhere to the rules keeping my dogs on a lead especially in the Italian gardens. Today, a guy was letting his dog run around in the fountain in the Italian gardens, 2 council workers were tending to the flower beds and took no notice. I sat by the lake a short while later and the same guy allowed his dog to jump into the lake in amongst the swans etc... He didn't care about the swans, ducks etc...and a 2nd dog was running along with him and i assumed it was with him, this other dog jumped into the lake, but couldn't get out and the guy had walked off. I had no way of leaving my 2dogs to give the dog in the water any help, luckily 2 women walked past saw the dog was having trouble getting out and helped him. Surely the council should do something about allowing dogs in the water, and start fineing ppl as the signs state if a dog is not on a lead then £1000 could be issued, but nothing about dogs in the waters. Please sort something before a...

I come to Stanley Park nearly every day with my dog,it's easy to park in the café car park although only small it's best come early if eating there but you can park just before the main entrance via the sports facility car park there is an overflow parking and it's inside the park right next to the café path .lots to do in if you bring your own picnic to sit and enjoy.there putting fir all and a crazy golf ,also the boating lake to rent a boat .there's the lake walk which is lovely fir spotting the swans and herons and the many large turtles,an enjoyable wildlife walk for the children and adults alike fir super photos.all parking is free .There's a super adventure course but please inquire re booking it online .there is a free children's big playground ,and if bring your bike or boards there's a free skate ramps also .You can ride the park if your on...